Marines Ready for Duty Semper Fidelis Across Conflicts
Washington dispatch extols the United States Marine Corps as always prepared and ready for duty. It traces the corps from its 1775 organization to notable actions in the Revolution, War of 1812, Mexican War, Spanish American War, Boxer Rebellion, and to postwar engagements in the Philippines and Central America. It highlights their versatility, shipboard duties, and readiness to serve with either army or navy.
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Washington,d. C
Army
Navy
United States
United States Marine Corps
Washington
Marine Corps
Esek Hopkins
Naval Establishment
Samuel Nichols
Commodore Hopkins
New Frovidents
Bahamas
Tripoli
Sumatra
West Indies
Mexico
Spain
China
Pekin
Vera Cruz
Formosa
Fiji Islands
Central
South America
Philippines
Honolulu
Panama
Cuba
Haiti
San Domingo
Rose Tomorrow: Helen Holmes in A Lass of the Shorty Hamilton
A brief note previews the film featuring Helen Holmes in a Shorty Hamilton adventure. The piece highlights the era star and the silent western style.
Engineer Jumps From Derailed Train Near Draper
Danville Virginia April 6 P O Fulcher veteran engineer on the Danville and Western railway was brought to General hospital with a broken leg after leaping from a derailed engine near Draper He jumped from the 45 foot trestle when the engine left the tracks and threatened to plunge Fulcher fell about 20 feet and traffic was halted for five hours The trestle and derailed engine required towing to clear the line and repairs were rapid
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Danville
P. O. Fulcher
Danville and Western Railway
General Hospital
Draper
Fulcher
Leakaville
Bankhead Highway Meeting Aims to Shape Route
High Point via Commercial club urged to send delegates to the Bankhead Highway association meeting in Greensboro on April 13 to decide the northern route through Virginia North Carolina and South Carolina. The association plans town and county branches with one delegate per ten members and a possible state branch.
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High Point
Commercial Club
Bankhead Highway Association
Greensboro
Atlanta
Greenville
Spartanburg
S. C
Charlotte Concord
Salisbury
Lexington
Reidsville
Danville
Lynchburg
Charlottesville
Durham
Raleigh
Richmond
Birmingham
Ala
J. A. Rountree
Memphis
Tenn
South Carolina
North Carolina
Virginia
Fortunes of Fifi a Marguerite Clark film portrait
The Fortunes of Fifi follows a conceited French actress who travels to Paris. Cartouche, a retired Napoleonic veteran, guides her rising career at the Imperial Theatre and rewards her with a government lottery ticket that wins a fortune.
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Fifi
Dainty Marguerite Clark
Paris
Cartouche
The
Imperial
Julie le Brun
Dignity of Doing One's Bit in Navy Enlistment
Ewing Speed Duke, grandson of Gen Basil W Duke, has enlisted as an apprentice seaman in the U S Navy. The piece recalls Civil War Kentucky soldiers who valued every rank, framing service as a knightly duty amidst romance and tragedy.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Ewing Speed Duke
Basil W. Duke
United States Navy
King Opens School For Oriental Languages In London
King George opened a school for oriental languages in London signaling official support for a revived prewar movement to study foreign tongues. The first of its kind in the British empire, it aims to expand language knowledge amid a wartime lesson that Germans often knew more languages than Britons.
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King
Associated Press
London
George
British Empire
Mexico grants April duty free entry for autos
Autos and other vehicles may enter Mexico without duty during April per a government order. The move aims to aid farmers with urgently needed vehicles and restore automobile links between areas cut off from rail traffic. Sonora state orders 300 cars for this purpose.
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Associated Press
Mexico City
Mexico
Sonora
British Born Sons of German Parents Must Serve
English courts rule that British born sons of German parents cannot renounce British nationality during wartime to evade military service in Britain. The decision upholds loyalty obligations despite parental nationality.
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London
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Continental Congress
Congress
Bryant Washburn
the Prince OF
Graystark
Hank Mann
Foxfilm Comedy
Bushman and Bayne
the Great Secret
Helen Holmes
Lumberlands
Shorty Hamilton
Shorty
Bankhead Road
Liberty
High Point Motor Company
Foley & Co
Sheffield Avenue
Chicago
Foley
Mann Drug Co
R. E. Andrews
High Point Marble and Granite Works
D. R. Raper
South
N. C
H. Gordon & Son
C. E. McManus
Bank of Commerce
Financiering
Morris
High Point Morris Plan
Bank Commerce
Ragan
High Point N.C
J. E. Boles & Son
Our Savings Department
Achousa Bank & Trust
Compa
Wescott Roberson
W. C. Idol
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