Landing at Mole Disaster Highlighted in Bacon Memoir
London review of Admiral Bacon's Dover Patrol memoirs details the perilous 1915 17 period with scarce ships and crews. It notes the small force of four inch guns and the bold plans for Zeebrugge and Ostend while condemning the Mole landing as a failed effort.
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Admiral Bacon
Dover Patrol
London
Great Britain
England
France
Admiralty
Scapa
Dover
Straits of Dover
Marshal Ney
Sean
Poral
Bacon
Tary
Middlekerke Sea
Passchendaele
Zeebrugge
Ostend
Mole
Society to Probe Shipping Animals in Zero Weather
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will investigate how animals are shipped in freezing conditions. The probe follows 15 horses frozen to death after being sent from Delaware to Philadelphia in open lattice stock cars bound for a Greenwich Point plant, but diverted to the Pennsylvania Railroad yards at Thirtieth and Race streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Delaware
Greenwich Point
Pennsylvania Railroad
Thirtieth
Race Streets
Convict Hangs Self in Eastern Penitentiary Cell
Philadelphia reports William Stehlik a 27 year old convict serving two to three years for highway robbery and assault hanged himself in a prison cell Wednesday night. His body was found from a rope he tied himself.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
William Stehlik
Eastern Penitentiary
Paraphernalia Used by Moonshiners in Making Gasoline Whisky
The report describes tools and items used by moonshiners to brew gasoline whisky. Details include pieces of shirt and tin torn from a mess pan. The narrative mentions a convict demonstration protesting food quality. Also announced is a birth in New Cumberland, a daughter born December 11 to Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Sherman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gether
New Cumberland
Rufus Sherman
Fifth Street
Sherman
Ida Lutes
New Market
New York
Mother Kill ed Buddy Blake in Mental Aberration Verdict
A coroner inquest found five year old James Buddy Slake was killed by his mother Esther Miller Blake while she was mentally deranged. The jury will hold Mrs Blake for grand jury action as doctors testified to her mental irresponsibility and the father detailed a history of separations and prior hospitalizations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
N. J
James
Buddy) Slake
Ventnor
Stoddard
Blake
Esther Miller Blake
Baltimore
Philadelphia
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C.ulrore
Harrisburg Gas Company
Middletown
Harrisburg
Steelton
Buddy’ Blake
McNell
Tyrine
Capital City Products Co
Columbus
Ohio
Capital Ay Ity Products CO
S. Delaware Ave
Adelphia
Bell
Keystone
Miller and
Kades
Columbia
Ole
North Market Square
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