Missionary recounts bandits famine and bombings in China
Mrs Glittenberg and her family describe 18 years in China amid anti foreign uprisings, famine, and bombings. The voyage home aboard the President Colidge nearly met disaster in a typhoon while they sought Shanghai for onward travel.
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Shanghai
President Coolidge
Carl Littenberg
China
Cedar Rapids
Glittenberg
Fow Yong
An Hwei
Ann Way
Glittenbergs
Tsing Tao
Ching Dow
Shan Tung
Shan Dong
Crossword Puzzle Across and Down Clues
Puzzle list includes numerous clues with numbers and letters, mixing foreign terms and definitions, plus author attribution Lars Morris. Readable grid appears fragmented with missing answers and inconsistent punctuation.
New Elevator Operator At Courthouse Dodges Arrows In Philippines
R D Wood 46 new Linn county courthouse elevator operator traces World War I service from Iowa Falls to the Philippines and Siberia. He earned a wrist watch as a volunteer, served with Rainbow division and U S Coast Artillery, later became a theatre musician and radio pianist. He succeeds Leonidas H Griffin. married with two children.
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Philippines
A.E.F
France
R. D. Wood
Tenth Street
Linn County
Ray Wood
United States Coast Artillery
Islands
Wood
Honolulu
Hardin County
Iowa Falls
Iowa National Guard
Tropics
Arctic
Siberia
Vladivostok
United States
Camp Dodge
Eldora State Training School
WGL
Leonidas H. Griffin
Fate Takes Hand as Brothers Die in Separate Cities
In Denver relatives arrange a double funeral after brothers James Gunn 73 of Denver and Patrick J Gunn 75 of Cheyenne Wyoming died within days of each other. James was identified at Denver morgue after a man found dead downtown was linked to him. Patrick died after a brief illness in Wyoming. The Gunn brothers had lived in Colorado for 50 years.
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Denver
INS
Denver County
James Gunn
Patrick J Gunn
Cheyenne
Wyo
Colorado
Paroled Woman Returns to Prison to Finish Life Term
Emma Marshall, 70, who had been paroled twice on health grounds and for innocence, insisted on returning to Wetumpka prison to guide other inmates. She told the parole board she loved the girls, taught Bible stories, and acted as peacemaker among inmates.
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Wetumpka
Ala
Alabama
Emma Marshall
Morgan County
B. M. Miller
State Pardon and Parole Board
Staten Island
New York
Edwina Mitchell
Charge Nazis Use Women As Shields On Leningrad Front
Izvestia reported a dispatch accusing German elite troops preparing to cross a river on the Leningrad front of using women and children as a shield. The claim framed the tactic as a deliberate civilian pleas trap amid the siege.
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Moscow
Izvestia Satureday
Leningrad
Newcastle 28th Allied Ship In U. S. Yards
The British cruiser Newcastle has docked at Boston navy yard for repairs. The U S navy department says it is the twenty eighth British and Free French vessel to use American repair facilities.
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Washington
INS
Newcastle
Boston Navy Yard
Navy Department
Suspect Held in Slayings on Oregon Farm
John Soto alias John Johnson, 23, held for Oregon authorities as the confessed slayer of an elderly mother, her son and a nephew on a small turkey farm near Hermiston Thursday.
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San Francisco
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Ruth
Chungking
Kenyon
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Milton
Carol
International Settlement
An Hwel
H. Kane
Montreal
Ah Hwei
Pekin Union Medical College
Lois
By Lars Morris
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West Indies
Ito
Crandic
Iowa City
WMT
Cedar Rapids and
Iowa City Railway
Orient
Fort Winfield Scott
California
Pacific
Atlantic
Af Vladivostok
U. S. Yards
Pomc Wives
Pontiac
Areum
America
Partta
U. S. Navy
Wndec
Culver Motors
Second Avenue SE
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
McLaughlin Pontiac CO
Cedar Street
Monticello
Iowa
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