Medal of Honor Bravery Recalls Storied Valor Across Wars
This overview honors the Medal of Honor as the nation's highest bravery award awarded without regard to rank. It recounts Civil War and modern-era recipients, including Corporal Glowin, Sergeant Winans, Maj. Gen. Bell, and others, and notes the act oriented criteria and postwar legacy.
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War Department
Philippines
Roswell Winans
Joseph A. Glowin
Marine Corps
Guayacanes
Santo Domingo
Gettysburg
Marne
Board of Investigation
Navy Department
Twenty
Guayatanes
Joseph Glowin
Sergt
Glewin
Winans
Winan
Corporal Johnson
Priestieg
Frazee
Thirteenth
Benet-Mercier
Ralph
J. Franklin Bell
Governor's Island
Thirty-sixth
San Antonio Porac
Ninth Infantry
Guagua
Santa Rita
Bell
William R. Grove
Straub
Colonel Bell
Nes
Santalth Santes
Nemied Raat Teil To & Coppersmith
Iowa
Cuban
Tata
Robert Penn
P. B. Keefer
Tan
Penn
Keefer
Stockney
Smith
Paul H. Weinert
Wounded Knee
Bernard Taylor
Fifth Cavalry
Arizona
Nelson A. Miles
New York Volunteers
Fair Oaks
William R. Shafter
Shafter
Francis D. Baldwin
Leutennant
Fifth Infantry
McClennan’s Creek
Tex
Maine
Army
Navy
Marines
Minerva
United States of America
America
Red Cross Ball Blue Ad Promises Superior Whitening
An old advertising notice asserts Red Cross Ball Blue makes clothes whiter than snow with no adulteration. It emphasizes the product’s effectiveness and urges purchase from all good grocers for the next washday.
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RED Cross
Red Cross Ball
Fulton Story Sparks History Lesson and Laughter
A teacher leads a history class on Robert Fulton and the steamboat. Johnny humorously suggests Columbus might not have discovered America without steam power, ending with a quip about patent smoke consumers.
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Fulton
Robert Fulton
Little Johnny
Columbus
America
Freckles Gone With Guaranteed Double Ethine Treatment
This ad promises removal of freckles with a guaranteed double ethine prescription. It claims rapid results, urging readers to ask their druggist about the treatment and to seek a full refund if it fails.
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Acconanion
Wight
Naturally Handicapped and the Golfing Obsessed Inmates
A fragmented dialogue notes subjects including golfing enthusiasm among inmates and a time labeled asylum. It references figures Kidder Kidd-Does Goode Keeper and mentions religious intensity and strong opinions about the new facility.
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Kidd
Goode
Kidder
Castoria as a safe remedy against infant mortality
An advertisement argues that infant deaths are high in civilized nations and promotes Castoria as a safe, non narcotic alternative, claiming many syrups contain opium or morphine. It emphasizes Castoria’s lack of opiates and its use by noting the signature of Chas. H. Fletcher on genuine bottles.
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Chas. H. Fletcher
Ups and Downs
A brief comic line exchanges a boast about a risky move to impress a girl. The response reveals the girl rejected the sacrifice and knocked the speaker down revealing a humorous reversal.
Dandruff and Itching Remedies Demonstrated
The ad promotes Cuticura ointment for scalp itching and dandruff with daily use. Rub on the scalp, then shampoo with Cuticura Soap and hot water. A free sample by mail is offered with a booklet from Cuticura Dept L Boston. Sold everywhere.
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Dept. L
Boston
Donkey Race Hints At Odd Sports Meeting
In a country town a man studying a discarded event program meets a stranger who asks about the next event. The old man looks up and says a donkey race is listed and asks if the stranger plans to run.
Rubber consumption boom and new rubber shoe plant plan
Rubber use per person has more than doubled in 25 years. A company plans to make uppers and soles from rubber and run its own merchant fleet to import crude rubber from Sumatra and export finished goods worldwide. The firm employs 28 621 people and produces 218 930 pairs of rubber shoes daily, with over a million Sumatra trees tapped.
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Sumatra
Choosing His Words
Humorous exchange shows miscommunication as a husband answers sharply to keep a word in edgeways. A quip highlights talking style and wit in domestic banter.
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Wifle
Edgeways
Reichsrath in Eight Languages Mirrors War of Tongues
The Reichsrath in Vienna is described as a parliament playing a minor role in the Austro-Hungarian peace process while expressing itself in eight official languages. The piece notes a Slovenian voice dominating with self-assured speech, framing others as “dumb dogs” in a pointed critique of national self-regard.
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Reichsrath
Babel
Empire
London Daily Chronicle
Alter ego defined by pupil as other I in Latin class
In a Boston Transcript note a teacher asks beginners for the meaning of alter ego. A pupil replies it is the other I and a student uses the phrase in a sentence saying he winked his alter ego.
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Bostom
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