Eleven-Year-Old Irene McKenna Sends Valentines
An orphan girl living with Aunt Margaret Campour at the Phoenix hotel Winston Salem on Valentine’s Day 1916 begins school for the first time. Irene, once ill with St Vitus dance and spinal meningitis, now gains health and strength and pens a Valentine to those suffering. Hart Drug Store distributes reconstructive Vanic tonic in the city.
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Valentine
Irene McKenna
Miss McKenna
Thes Little Giro
Margaret Campour
Phoenix Hotel
Winston, Salem
Miss Me Ioenpa
Irene
Miss McKenma
Hammer Faces Unanswered Charges From Butler
Washington officials seek response from District Attorney W C Hammer after charges filed by former Senator Marion Butler. Department leaders warn a prompt reply is needed or further action may be considered to satisfy President Wilson.
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Washington
Department of Justice
W. C. Hammer
Marion Butler
Hammer
Wilson
Overman
Stedman
R. J. Reynolds
Winston-Sa- Jem
Gregory
Ners
Reynolds
College student held for murder in Lambert death
William H. Orpet, a University of Wisconsin junior, is jailed in Waukegan on murder charges for the death of 18 year old Marion Frances Lambert at Helm's Wood Lake Forest. He reportedly admitted an affair and planned marriage to Celestia Yonker, with details of the day of the crime and attempted alibi.
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University of Wisconsin
Marion Frances Lam
Bert
Helm’s Wood
Lake Forest
Orpet
Ralph J. Daly
Waukegan
Miss Lambert
Madison
Citl
Celestia Yonker
University
Sacred Heart
Chicago
Milwaukee
Josephine Davis
K. Orpet
Cyrus McCormick
James H. Wilkerson
United States
Strikers Return to Work in Waist and Dressmakers Union
New York February 14 10 000 of 40 000 striking waist and dress makers will return to work in unionized shops after a meeting of the general strike committee.
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New York
The
Waist and Dressmakers’ Union
Waist and Dressmakers’ Association
Repudiates effort to demote Kitchin in Congress
Washington dispatch reports Speaker Clark denounces moves to replace Claude Kitchin as Democratic floor leader amid a dispute over the preparedness program. Clark defends Kitchin, asserts the Ways and Means chair is ex officio leader, and urges unity while criticizing rival insinuations. Berlin notes the Russian Vestnik in Berlin will inform prisoners of war with impartial coverage and will be the only Russian paper they may receive.
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Kitchin
Clark
Rainer
Ilinois
Ways and Means Committee
Claude Kitchin
Ways and Means
House
Fluence
Berlin
Russkii Vestnik
Graham White Wounded in French Air Mission
In France on February 14, the British aviator Graham-White sustained grave wounds while serving with a squadron assigned to a lieutenant last month. Further details remain unavailable.
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Tazebrouck
France
Lland Graham-White
Taseen
Hle
Toutenant Last Pionth
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Theodore Roberts
Paramount
Greensboro
Mutual Master Picture
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Lydia Gilmore
Mary Miles Minter
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Miss Farrar
Geraldine
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N.C. Public Service Co
North State Phone
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