Sigshee to lead body retrieval voyage to France
Rear Admiral Charles I Sigshee will command an armored cruiser squadron including Brooklyn Chattanooga Tacoma and Galveston to Cherbourg to bring home John Paul Jones remains from Paris. The mission honors Jones’s Revolutionary War legacy, with his remains found after a long search and burial in an unknown Paris cemetery in 1792.
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Horneeg Porter
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Bouchomme Richard
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Stars and Stripes
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Mobile Bay
Maine
Butvana Harbor
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Metcalf and Secretary Hay in Quiet Court Moves
Reports indicate Victor Howard Metcalf has prepared important outhrust cases in court while Secretary Hay contemplates continuing in the state department. Hay, recovered in health, plans years of public service, while Metcalf, a New York native long resident of Oakland, entered Congress in 1894 and twice won re election.
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Victor Howard Metcalf
Commercce and Labor
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Department of Commerce and Labor
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Massachusets
Hay
State Department
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New York
Oakland
Cal
Household Tips From The Chicago News For Everyday Care
Practical era tips cover plumbing maintenance with boiling water to clear grease, mouse control methods, and common measures for kitchen and home tasks. Also includes tips on nursery care, cooking hints, a novel tripod ladder design, sewing machine care, and simple remedies for corns and summer fabrics.
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Chicago News
Beethoven Appreciation Sparks Amusing Exchange
In a New York Weekly item a speaker praises Beethoven as refined and soulful, noting its incongruity with modern talk. A Yonkers State editorial quip compares social norms, remarking on women’s age disclosures in wartime Japan and in the United States.
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Beethoven
New York Weekly
Japan
Yonkers
Simpleton and Wise Snippets in Classic Jokes
A collage of comic quips from old magazines and papers. Conversations about perception, resilience, and everyday humor feature exchanges between Simpleton and Miss Wise, a cow milk anecdote, and the running gag of neighborly poultry mischief.
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