Blind Soldiers Learn Trades at St Dunstan’s London
The Blinded Soldiers and Sailors Care committee opens St Dunstan’s Regent Park with blind instructors teaching trades to blind veterans. Poultry farming, market gardening, carpentry, Soot repair, mat and basket making, bootmaking, massage, and Braille are taught to help blind men earn a living. The large house spans 15 acres and hosts a vibrant workshop scene with Belgian pupils and notable staff led by Captain Pierson-Webber.
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London
St. Dunstan’s
Regent Park
Otto Kahn
Pierson-Webber
England
Body Identified After Seven Years in Muskogee Morgue
Charles Williams ranchman of San Antonio Texas lay unidentified for seven years in a Muskogee Oklahoma morgue until his sister Mrs Henry Mills and her young son visited the local undertaking place. The boy exclaimed the identify and a careful examination confirmed it. Williams was found in the Katy stockyards on the night of March 22 1908 with a revolver belt and a fatal gunshot wound. His wife and daughter reside in San Antonio.
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Muskogee
Okla
Charles Williams
San Antonio
Tex
Henry Mills
Caddo
Mills
Charlie
Katy
Williams
Bees Suffer Paralysis Disease In Oklahoma Study
Oklahoma entomologist C. E. San of the A and M College reports a paralysis disease afflicting honey bees in the state. He examined dead bees and conducted infection tests with their bacillus, observing similar paralysis in the exposed live bees.
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Oklahoma
Oklahoma City
Okla
C. E. Sanborn
A. & M. College
Woman pensioner 108 qualifies for first class pension
Esther Dees of Montgomery county aged 108 and widow of a Confederate veteran is placed on the first class pension roll by Auditor M C Allgood. She is among the first beneficiaries under the recent law granting first class pensions to widows of Confederate veterans over seventy. The auditor sent for a bouquet to honor her when the application was approved.
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Montgomery
Fla
Esther Dees
Montgomery County
M. C. Allgood
Dees
Courtney
Built a town for wheat in Breton Kansas
Ben Foster, a large land owner, raised 150000 bushels of wheat in 1914 and built Breton to market it nearby. He erected an elevator, lumber yard, coal yard and store plus employee housing but now others move in. He won’t sell lots, renting them on long leases as the town grows.
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Colby
Kan
Ben Foster
Breton
Foster
Twenty-Child Mother Chooses Name Juan Ollar Jr
Calexico California mother Alvira Oliar Owens decides to name her twentieth child, a boy born weeks ago, Juan Ollar Jr, after the father. The father, born on a Mediterranean island, is fifty. The mother is a native of Guaymas.
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Calexico
Cal
Alvira Oliar
Juan Ollar
Mediterranean
Guaymas
First Steamship Across Atlantic in 1833
A historical record notes that the first steamship crossed the Atlantic in 1833 marking a milestone in transatlantic travel. The event highlights early steam propulsion changing ocean navigation and commerce.
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Atlantic
Prepared flours offer nutritious study in thrifty cooking
The article describes prepared flours from oats rice lentil cornmeal and dried beans as easy to use nutritious alternatives to whole grains. It details split pea soup loafs peas meal and soy bean flour for muffins and cakes noting costs and simple preparation methods from exchange columns.
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America
Homemade prepared mustard recipe
A simple mustard mix uses three tablespoons ground mustard one tablespoon flour one teaspoon salt one teaspoon sugar one third cup boiling water two thirds cup vinegar. Combine dry ingredients add boiling water to form a paste boil until thick then stir in vinegar. When cooled the mixture resembles French mustard.
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Galicia
Lem
Penter's Bench
Aisne
Texas
Kanean
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