Victory’s cost burnishes French resolve in war’s end
A wartime narrator reflects on French sacrifice as Bulgaria, Turkey, and Austria-Hungary capitulate. He recalls a captain’s conversation with a grieving French soldier, whose brother died in a sacrifice battery. The writer predicts a few months before returning home, after Bulgaria’s surrender and the allies’ waning resistance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brown
Bulgaria
Turkey
Austria- Hungary
States
Cow Sale Terms as Usual T H Ryan
Auction notice lists terms for a cattle sale conducted by Hal He Keler as agent. T H Ryan serves as auctioneer with no specific date or location provided in readable text.
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T. H. Ryan
Hal HE. Keler
Outwits German Airdrop: Aviator Ted Haight Escapes
New York aviator Ted Haight landed behind enemy lines after his plane was shot up by machine guns. Pretending the craft was disabled he drew the German position in close, then clipped a severed battery wire, reascended, and slipped back to American lines dodging German ground and air units.
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Yank
Ted Haight
New York City
Haight
Soldier's wife sacrifices skin for Civil War veteran
Dr J H McCormack of Marton Washington performs a skin graft after I N Presson an octogenarian Civil War veteran is injured in monument work. His daughter in law Mrs A C Presson volunteers the donor tissue and about ten inches are transferred to graft the hand and arm.
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J. H. McCormack
Marton
Wash
I. N. Presson
A. C. Presson
Finest Palouse corn on Latah county poor farm
Five acres of yellow Dent corn on the Latah county poor farm near Moscow Idaho yielded a promising harvest under superintendent E J Meek. The ears are uniform and mature with an estimated at least 30 bushels to the acre. A substantial fodder supply also accompanies the crop.
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Palouse
Latah County
Moscow
Idaho
E. J. Meek
Never Rode on Street Car
Israel Davison of Harrisville West Virginia recently turned 100 and has never ridden a street car or a car. He declined a ride saying he promised himself never to. He concludes that any man can give himself much good advice but rarely follows it and notes education is mitigated ignorance. It is useless to advertise for a lost opportunity.
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Israel Davison
Harrisville
W. Va
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