Knows No Drift Battery: Yank Sticks With Car In Baltic Snow
Richard Kelly of El Paso Texas recalled from Baltic duty nurse frost bites in Paris hospital after a lone vigil with his car in a Riga snowdrift. He drove for a British officer left to seek aid. Kelly slept in the car and smoked to endure the cold while awaiting rescue. The officer never returned and Kelly later traveled to Paris via Berlin hoping to reunite.
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Paris
Richard Kelly
el Paso
Tex
Baltic
Kelly
Riga
Berlin
Virgin Shadow Mystery Quelled Near Metz
In the village of Noveant near Metz an apparition of the Virgin was debunked after Father Bentz observed sunset shadows from two trees creating a Madonna outline on a villa steps. Bishop Ruch noted the event as a miracle tempered by no great claims, praising Lorraine’s return to France.
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Metz
Noveant
Bentz
Ruch
Lorraine
France
Anther
Blood price strike at Flower Hospital ends with wage restored
New York blood sellers walked out at Flower hospital demanding 55 dollars per pint, up 80 dollars from two weeks earlier, while student nurses acted as strikebreakers. Ten minutes into the strike a transfusion proceeded and the nurse allegedly received no free pint. The strike was broken and professional donors returned to the old wage.
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New York
Flower Hospital
Little Maid in the Moon Door Symbol of the Hope of New China
Interchurch World Movement surveys show Ginling College for Chinese girls in Nanking transforming the old gung-gwan into a modern campus. The plan includes an administration building library chapel and recitation rooms for 600000 dollars to educate a vast female population across five provinces in a mix of old architecture and new laboratories dormitories and classrooms.
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New
China
Nanking
Ginling College
Interchurch World Movement
Dransits
Athletics to rebuild after famed success fades
The Philadelphia Athletics, once the top club in the American League, are described as a wreck of their former self with stars like Eddie Collins and Chief Bender gone. Connie Mack plans a 1920 rebuild around Danny Murphy as coach and Harry Davis as captain, including a long Southern training trip to develop new talent.
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Philadelphia Athletics
Connie Mack
Fender
Eddie Collings
Frank Baker
Danny Murphy
Eddie Plank
Jack Coombs
Harry Davis
Jack Barry
Chief Bender
Athletics
Ors
Connie
Murphy
Dan
Coast Guard
United States
Ca i
the Guard Academy
Newton
Engers
Vitare Esc
Atlantic
St Indies
Midshipman S Navy
Iemy
Army
Navy
Eughu Ts
U. S. Coast Guard
Washington, D. C
Coast Guard Academy of the
Servce
H. G. Hamlet
US. Coast Guard
Interchurch World Movement aims for Protestant unity
A Christian leader sought to unite American Protestant forces in Palestine before war. the Interchurch World Movement formed in December 1918 with Southern Presbyterian backing. Within a year it gathered most North American Protestant groups to promote cooperative effort for global salvation.
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Palestine
Sea of Galilee
America
Southern Presbyterian Church
New York City
North America
Interchurch World
Hobo Now Scorns the Breadline
A 1910s study notes the breadline dwindling as wartime labor shifts the hobo from lodging houses to steady work. In Kansas City and Lincoln, aid figures fall, reflecting new migrant labor conditions and Protestant church involvement through the Interchurch World Movement.
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Salvation Army
Kansas City
Lincoln
Neb
Interchurch World Movement
Interchurch
Enthusiastic Crowds At Oxford Cambridge Radio Match
Spectators packed the ground despite fog as Cambridge won 7 goals to 5 and King George attended. Oxford supporters outshouted Oxford horns while clergy and army chaplains joined the crowds in a vivid display of partisan zeal.
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Oxford
Furns
Last American in England Defends Heavyweight Title
Tommy Burns, the last American heavyweight champion to contest internationally, went to England in 1907 and defeated Gunner Moir, the British champion, in ten rounds. The next year he stopped Australian champion Bom Lang in Melbourne in six rounds.
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Tommy Gurne
Gunner Moir
Tommy Burns
Burns
England
Bu! Lang
Mel Fourne
Manchester to host two Thousand Hurdle Race
Manchester England opens a new hurdle race billed as the best ever offered in Great Britain. The event carries 10 000 added and an entrance fee as low as one percent, with plans for it to be run annually in March.
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England
Manchester
Britain
Changes in car design mark shift to lighter builds
The article notes ongoing mechanical updates in 1920 automobiles showcased in Boston, including elimination of periodic engine vibration, heated intake manifolds, higher capacity oiling, lighter rear axles with aluminum use, and smaller wheels. It highlights the era's push for efficiency and new body styles while preserving key transmission and chassis.
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Boston
Arch 13
Mechanics Building
Irvington Street
Long Sausages Lead in Mysterious Fostoria Contest
In Fostoria a sausage contest awarded first prize to Mrs W L Bates of Rising Sun for a sausage over ten pounds and 18 inches long. Mary Wolford of Fremont won a prize for a single sausage of notable length.
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Fostoria
Sausng
W. L. Bates
Rising Sun
Mre
Aree
Mary Wolford
Fremont Crate
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Prop
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