Legion of Honor popularity grows in France
Paris dispatch outlines how the Legion of Honor gains prestige amid war ceremonies and civilian honors. It details the order’s origins under Napoleon, ranks, pensions, and the Chancellerie palace, plus its role in educating daughters of members and the symbolism of the medal.
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Associated Press
Paris
Legion of Honor
Region of Honor
Order
Republic
Corps of Legionaries
Palace of the
Chancellerie
Seine
Tuileries Gardens
Rousseau
Frederick of
Salm-Kyrbourg
Madame de Stael
Germany's Submarines Not Involved in Persia Sinkings
Washington January 19 Secretary Lansing says German submarines in the Mediterranean have reported no involvement in the destruction of the British liner Persia. The Berlin foreign office informed Ambassador Gerard of the denial.
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Raleigh
House
Calude Kitchin
Gertrude
Rex Hospital
Washington
Kitchin
Roosevelt
Wilson
Witchin
Germany
Wll
Lke Roosevelt
Lansing
Berlin
Gerard
Mediterranean
Persia
Aged Morse Operator Dead at LaPorte
Alfred Weller a pioneer in sound Morse code reading died in LaPorte Indiana at age 60 after sixty years of service with the Western Union Telegraph company. The veteran operator was among the first to interpret Morse by sound and spent six decades connected to telegraph service.
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Laporte
Alfred Weller
Western Union Telegraph Company
Vicks vapors and salve promoted for asthma and hay fever
An old advertisement touts Vap-O-Rub salve and Vicks inhalation as remedies for asthma catarrh and bronchitis. It advises external salve use and vapor inhalation, plus rubbing the spine to ease nervous tension, priced at 25c to 1.00.
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Vicks Wronus
Vick
Kaiser's Visit to Vilna Echoes Napoleon Era
Emperor of Germany rode through Vilna in mid December to a church service and troop review. Residents watched from shaded windows then spilled into the streets along the Schlossberg path, a silent crowd of old, young and curious locals confronting their conqueror.
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Vilna
Russia
Kaiser
Vrina
Napoleon
Schlossberg
Americans Bought Their Lives in Mexican Camp Shootout
Dr. E R Petskey of the National Lines and Smelter company recounted that he and six other Americans were lined up for execution by Bracamente loyalists near Durango, a week earlier. Wires to Parral were cut, no aid arrived, and the group was saved only after paying 1000 pesos.
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North Carolina National Guard Association
L. W. Young
National Guard
San Francisco
General Young
North Carolina
Grand Lodge
Hobgood
Andrews
Raleigh
Fabius T. Busbee
Tarbore
H W. A. Gudger
Panama
el Paso
Tex
E.R. Petskey
National “Lines and Smelter Company
Magistral
Durango
Bracamente
Parral
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Les Loges
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J. A. Hart Drug Co
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Chichester
Chicheater
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