Acres of lilies and uniform graves in American cemeteries
Miss Elsie Goddard recalls army rules banning flowers on graves in American cemeteries in France. Flowers may be placed on nearby beds and rest huts are operated by the YWCA and Red Cross at Romagne, Belleau Wood, and Pere‑en‑Tardenois. The sight of the field of graves overwhelms visiting families.
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France
Elsie Goddard
Wellesley
Miss Goddard
YW. C. A
Red Cross
Romagne
Bony Belleau Woods
Pere-en-Tardenots
Made Good with Camera In Roosevelt Africa Expedition
Kermit Roosevelt became official expedition photographer after a late start. He produced a standout elephant scene with five tuskers in the lead, shot from a tree perch despite poor light. Col Theodore Roosevelt and Scribner editors praised the image as a top achievement.
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Roosevelt
Africa
Kermit Roosevelt
Kermit
Willliam Hornaday
Scribner's
Col
Theodore Roosevelt
Scribner's Magazine
United States Leads Civilian Airplane Efforts in 1920
Several American commissions report the United States can lead global civilian aeronautics in 1920. They cite more civilian aircraft orders, growing air transport lines, active aerial mail service, and high mail volume. They note military planes can be converted to mail carriers to meet urgent demand manufacturers cannot yet satisfy.
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United States
Destroyed the Illusion at a Parisian Style Café
A regal looking woman enters a restaurant, wearing brown from head to toe and refined attire. She orders in a high pitched East Side voice and the dining room hushes as she speaks, prompting attention from diners and a waitress.
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Fleure
Meorin
New York Evening Post
Youthful Cattle Raiser Delivers Bull Calf Message
Seven year old Edwin on a Grant county farm told a neighboring farmer that their bull has a new calf and to save it tomorrow. The message, delivered with convincing pomp, followed the family custom of selling calves at about three days old.
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Little Edwin
Grant County
Indianapolis News
Had Genius for Invention Walter Turner the Prairie Shepherd Inventor
Walter Turner rose from prairie shepherd to a leading railway inventor after discovering a Westinghouse brake fragment. He improved brakes, led the engineering department, and Westinghouse credited him with many inventions. His work reportedly valued at over thirty five million dollars in gold upon his death.
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Walter Turner
Turner
Westinghouse
Shepherd
Prairies
Forget Past Achievements and Focus on the Next Job
Jamies J Hill cites Forbes Magazine urging readers to ignore past triumphs and failures and concentrate on useful tasks. He argues memory favors what interests us and stresses discarding yesterday’s glory to apply effort to future work.
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Forbes Magazine
New York
When Thunder Roars Guidance on Lightning Safety
Cautionary guidance explains avoiding tall isolated objects during storms and preferring grouped shelters to single trees. It warns against running in rain and favors staying indoors away from open windows and fireplaces. Wet clothing may be struck by lightning more than dry clothes, advising soaking rain instead of umbrellas.
The Calling of Wild Geese Echoes in a boy’s memory
A reflective piece recalls a runaway boy in a gray twilight hearing wild geese. The distant trumpet calls awaken a remembered dream of an otherworldly hilltop, linking childhood fear to lasting, haunting melody across years.
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Midsky
Clover Field
Wonderful Balances Revealed by Salviioni Microbalance
Italian physician Salvioni devised a highly delicate microbalance to weigh musk loss by volutativation. A glass thread supports microscopic weights observed under 100x magnification, with a mote of one thousandth of a milligram bending the thread.
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Salvioni
Boundary story highlights crossing the Great Lakes canal dream
A National Geographic Society bulletin notes hearings in U S and Canada on linking the St. Lawrence River to the Great Lakes by canals. The piece discusses joint border waters development, historical misunderstandings, and the vast boundary from Fundy to Puget Sound with many geographic features and disputes overcome.
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United States
Canadian Joint Commission
St. Lawrence River
Great Lakes
National Geographic Society
America
Panama
St. Lawrence
Canada
Seven Seas
St. Croix
Maine
Lake of the
Woods
Lake Superior
Lake of the Woods
Alaska
British Columbia
Arm of Fundy
Bay of Titanic
Straits of Fuca
Puget Sound
Niagara
Rockies
Pacific
Mexico
Unequal Losses: Frederick Mourns Collie Major
Frederick sits on the curb crying over his collie Major’s death. Billy compares grief to his own grandmother’s passing, and Frederick laments that Billy did not raise his grandmother from a pup, highlighting a child’s blunt, humorous take on loss.
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Frederick
Billy
Harper’s Magazine
Forest land area in United States reaches 468 million acres
A report states that all classes of forest land including culled burned and cut over areas total 468 million acres in the United States, equaling a little more than half of the original forest area.
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United States
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