Princess Pats Last Stand at Ypres in Poison Gas Attack
Corporal William Kush recalls the Princeess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry at Ypres in May 1915. The regiment faced heavy shelling and gas, suffered heavy losses, and held a crescent trench before the attack ended with many deaths and the unit's disbandment.
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Pats
Paris
Princess Patricia’s
Canadian Light Infantry
Quebec
Ypres
Pat's Own
George
Lord Kitchener
Salisbury Plains
Princess Pat's Own
McGill University
Canada
William B. Kush
Kysh
William Kysh
United States
Europe
Far East
England
Princess Pat's
Own
Hightieth
India
Kcing
Havre
Bleiinghen
Dickelbusch
Hell
West- Outer
Hill 60
West-Outer
Farquhar
C 10
King’s Royal Rifles
Battle Scarred Aviator Recounts Gas Attack and War Deaths
Corporal Kush recalls intense frontline fighting with Lee Enfield rifles and German gas attacks. He narrates rescuing comrades, the ghastly gas cloud, and his own injuries leading to six months in Beechbury Park hospital before discharge to Quebec. He also shares the death of his friend Slim Perry and describes life after the trenches.
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Pat
Dickelbusch
Beechbury Park
Quebec
Kush
Slim” Perry
Slim
New York
Ypres
Mickey’ Welsh
Egypt
Perry
Mickey
Minneapolis Dogman Knucks Buys Meat On His Master’s Bill
Knucks the bull terrier shops at a Minneapolis butcher with a charge account. Owned by Ray Boyd, a hotel proprietor, the dog selects meat and has it billed to his master. The butcher confirms Knucks accepts no refusal and charges are run to Boyd’s account.
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Minneapolis
Knucks
Ray Boyd
Boyd
Butcher
Red Heads Proclaimed Good Citizens in Evansville
Evansville coroner Neal Kerney weighs testimony on red headed citizens praising good character. He notes none are jailed locally or involved in divorce courts and recalls no red headed person here has died by own action.
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Evansville
Ind
Neal Kerney
Stray Bullet Kills Deer in Iron Mountain Hunt
In Iron Mountain Michigan a stray bullet during a hunting practice killed a deer. John Fry fired at a stump with a small rifle and a deer suddenly appeared, dying from a bullet to the heart.
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Iron Mountain
Mich
John Fry
Willing to Oblige in Neighborly Exchange
A new resident asks for a stove lifter and receives a witty reply. The neighbor suggests her husband is a piano mover, offering a humorous solution to the furniture moving need.
Boston Boy Enlists in French Army Returns Home After Eight Months
Robert Vincent aged sixteen, son of Dr. John Vincent a Boston physician, ran away to join the French army. After eight months at the front he came back fearing a spanking despite his experiences and his newly grown mustache.
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Robert Vincent
John Vincent
Boston
Physician to the President Cary Grayson VA Navy Doctor
Dr. Cary T. Grayson, Virginian, 37, physician to the President since Taft's term, served in the navy as Paymaster, seven years at sea, and traveled widely. He studied at the University of Virginia and is known for a gentle demeanor, cross country riding, and fox hunting.
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Cary T. Grayson
Navy
Medical School
University of Virginia
White House
Taft
How She Cured Him Reforming Husband Through Extravagance
A witty exchange notes Katherine married to reform her husband. She succeeds completely by outspending him so he cannot afford even his smallest former vices. The Boston Evening Transcript frames the joke as a light cultural observation.
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Katherine
Boston Evening Transcript
The Common Feeling About Finance And Maps
A brief remark on women underestimating their own abilities in finance and navigation. The speaker notes that once explained, the woman understood the war loan terms and time tables, challenging the assumption she could not grasp such matters.
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Britain
W. L. George
The
Atlantic Monthly
Delicate sound-ranging gadget aids navy distance by propeller sound
Reports describe a new postwar device using microphones to measure ship distances or aircraft heights by propeller noise. Australia, state and commonwealth agree on Murray River locking system to open a 1000 mile navigable waterway. A St Louis inventor builds a unicycle with a seven foot diameter wheel and aerial propeller reaching 75 mph. Cuba seeks new markets for sugar tobacco leaf cigars bee products and hides. A Vermont inventor introduces a sanitary disposable paper shaving cup with built in soap.
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United States Navy
Commonwealth
Murray River
Australia
St. Louis
Cuba
Vermont
Model Eunuch as a Model Seeker and Christian
A sermon treats Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch as exemplary seekers and Christians. It highlights four seeker qualities earnestness, persistent study, teachability, and obedience, then shows the eunuch’s joy in new faith, relationship with God, readiness for service, and heavenly inheritance.
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Philip
Jerusalem
Africa
Tailing Tondt
Christ
God
Urbano
Usher
Lord Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ
Candace
Christ's Kingdom
Real merit will outshine concealment and deception
The quote asserts that true merit cannot be hidden and will emerge, while only a person who shows cheating exposes themselves. It emphasizes integrity over deceit and implies merit remains valuable regardless of attempts to downplay it.
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Cheaterfield
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William B. Rush
Nagle Farson
America
Thessaloniki
Patris
North Atlantic
Kinanen
Ohio
Youngstown, O
Lifotoun
Youngstown Shoet and Tube Company
Bernstorff
Count von Bernstorff
V. Macchidi Cellere
Brooklyn
Postscripts
Model Christian
R. M. Russell
D. D
Moody Bible Institute of Chicago
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