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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1919
Page
6
A 50 man American platoon fights through heavy machine gun fire to hold a street in Sergy. After losses, James Hyland of Brooklyn and another survivor keep faith, delivering a message as shellfire, mustard gas and danger intensify.
Two flyers in a British flying boat face fog and a dead engine. The pilot orders the observer to abandon ship and sacrifice himself to destroy the craft with a wrench to prevent German capture. The observer dives away as the plane explodes. the pilot dies with his ship. In a separate note, John Mackenzie of the U S Navy earns a Medal of Honor for shielding a depth charge on a Remick destroyer, saving the ship and crew. Mackenzie hails from South Hadley Falls Massachusetts.
Charles Klein once a Brooklyn clown joined the American Expeditionary Forces as a dispatch rider. In May he rode through shelling to deliver a critical message, proving courage beyond his circus past.
In Detroit Free Press, J Paul Chandler recalls Henry Clay’s 1840 warning and celebrates the modern canal now seen as world class in importance, surpassing expectations and rivaling major waterways. The piece notes past doubts and 12 years later congressional approval funded Michigan’s canal excavation through public support from Michigan and New York citizens.
The rural group of the American Y M C A in Russia unveiled a floating exhibit to educate Volga region communities on sowing, production, and conservation. An 85 member staff demonstrates seed selection, cultivation, dairying, horticulture, animal husbandry, beekeeping, and child welfare through models, lantern slides, and lectures, backed by government support with a steamboat and barge.
A judge notes Grace may vote depending on weather with an option to vote in a Mackintosh if rain comes. The remark highlights voting logistics tied to conditions.
Dr Paul Fitzgerald chief of an eastern insurance bureau says Kelleys Island Ohio in Lake Erie has the lowest death rate in the U S and Canada The island with about 5000 residents and a large stone quarrying industry has long been insured by the company yet has never paid a death claim and is dubbed the head of the fountain of youth.
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