Maquis Women Helped Shape French Resistance Efforts
A wartime feature highlights the crucial but underrecognized role of French women in the Maquis. Women organized aid for families, sheltered evacuees, acted as couriers, forged papers, and aided sabotage, sometimes facing death or deportation. They kept arms shipments moving, supplied food and drugs, and guided Allied operatives, illustrating a broad civilian army contributing to the Battle of France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eqsqette Bargrove
Bomewheree
France
Mancfeld
Vilage
Germany
Madame A
Sbe
Jabe
French Forces of the Interior
Moose Invades Victory Garden In Hamilton Montana
In Hamilton Montana a young bull moose moved into the Cash family's victory garden as it matured, eating all crops down to the roots. The moose stayed about a week. game laws prevented the Ceghs from removing it, leaving harvests uncompromised by labor issues.
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Hamlton
Mont
Frank Cash
Young Bull Mone
Cegh
Kilbane the Featherweight Legend and Late-Cage Boxing Trail
Kilbane held the featherweight crown 11 years, fought across classes, and beat stars like Rivers and Welsh. He lost the title to Criqui in 1923 at the Polo Grounds, later faded from boxing but remained a public figure in Cleveland politics and health ventures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billy Roche
John Patrick Kilbane
Eugene Cruqtt
Johnny Kilbane
Pier Six
Joe Rivers
Patsy Cline
George Chaney
Y Kilbane
Charyn Pions
Kid Willams
Bhutadelphia
Freddie Welsh
Pontypridd
Benny Leonard
Kilbane
Leonard
Philadelphia
Caqui
Cleveland
Tommy Kilbane
Johnny Killbane
Attell
Abe Attell
iVernon
Calif
Danny Frush
Kalbane
Criqui
Polo Grounds
Pollu
Marriage a queer thing says Dorothy Dix
Dorothy Dix notes marriage is a brave gamble amid divorce trends and domestic troubles. She observes women seek marriage despite it often ending poorly for them, while men drift into wedlock unexpectedly, yet both sexes pursue second chances, and widows abound as society ponders the elusive prize of matrimony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vinen
Librarians Unearth Centuries Old Humus On Victory Gardens
Pasadena librarian discovery reveals 16th to 18th century English kitchen garden treatises. Richard Gardner and John Evelyn translated works show early vegetable growing and garden provisioning during sieges and peacetime. Historical notes on the challenges of starting gardens, from 1568 to 1771, including Thomases and era figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victory Gardens
Howard C. Heynap
Pasadena
Calif
Melont
Victory Garden
Huntington Library
Richard Gardner
Shrewsbury
John Evelyn
J de la Quintinue
Gardener Advice From Rev John Laurence 1631
In 1631 the Rev John Laurence criticizes self appointed experts on gardening. He notes that gardening seems not difficult and that any man who can handle a spade can give instructions, describing idle or lazy behavior among some gardeners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Laurence
Ohio Sailor Starts Aleutian Barnyard
An Ohio sailor-turned-seaman returns to duty in the Aleutian Islands where a US Navy unit establishes a tiny farm. A small Ayrshire dairy cow, two dozen chickens, and a sow with litter arrive, with Red claiming he’s better at farming than swabbing decks.
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Ohio
Aleutian Island
APY
Navy
Red
Wounded Yankees Treated In General Hospital In France
The first general hospital in liberated territory cares for wounded Americans in France. Operated by the University of Michigan staff under Lt. Col. Walter Maddock, it provides full hospital services locally instead of sending patients to England. Nurses and enlisted men transform a former German hospital into a clean, functional facility for engineering and mine explosion injuries, with ongoing influx of battle casualties and a demand for orderly, modern care.
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Rosette Waegeoyen
Fat Nes
Frace
Peng
Ins
Unt
England
Liberated Territory
University of Michigan At
Ann Arbor
Walter Maddock
Maddock
Germany
France
Maxwell G. Keeler
Depaaing shape Cement Door plan transports 200 tons hospital load
A frail OCR fragment describes a power plan and a 200 ton transport to a French hospital. It references wounded, greeny cure and a route with a new hospital, mentioning Amences and American boys. The text is garbled and lacks clear names or dates.
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Agg
Frence
Denef
Amences Uy
Poirchie Boys
Real Ira
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Teeland
Ranta
Orem
Atate
Gray
New York
Universal Budget Systems
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L. Harris Roofing CO
Williams
Dorothy Dix
Donna Senecal
Alexandra Bay
Thousand Islands
General
St Joseph
Pilcher Whse. and Gin CO
J. L. Harris Roofing CO
Troy
U.S
Ford
Volasteer Wack
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