Prison doors and darkened rooms in a tense escape scene
In a dim closet, Verity Campbell and Mr. Renshaw struggle to free themselves from a heavy door. They improvise with hairpins and tales to calm nerves while the house remains silent. A long night of fear tests their resolve and a budding bond forms.
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Renshaw
Verity
Verity Campbell
Heart Massage as a Surgical Marvel
The article explains heart massage by a surgeon squeezing the heart to restore blood flow, potentially reviving a dying patient. It notes historical resistance to touching the heart, contrasts wartime feats of removing bullets and repairing heart rents, and warns the heart’s nervous system is easily disturbed.
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London Times
Bamboo's Short Life and Finite Bamboo Cycles
The text notes that most bamboo species live four to thirty years, produce a single seed crop at the end, then die back to the root crown. It highlights the plant’s monocarpic life cycle and periodic mass seeding events observed in many bamboo varieties.
Statistician Ayres Joins American Legion Finance Committee
Leonard P. Ayres a renowned statistician and vice president of a Cleveland trust firm becomes a member of the American Legion National Finance Committee. He organized wartime statistical divisions and served as statistician and economic adviser to peace commissions. Ayres born 1879 Connecticut holds degrees from Boston and Columbia.
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Leonard P. Ayres
Cleveland Trust Company
National Finance Committee
American Legion
Ayres
John R. McQuigg
War Department
General Staff
Pershing
Chaumont
Service of Supply
Washington
Legion Committee
United States Peace Commission
Woodrow Wilson
Commission
Charles G. Dawes
Dawes
United States Service
Mr. Ayres
Allied Statistical Board
Priorities Board
War Industries Board
Interallied Purchasing Commission
America
Legion
National Organization
Connecticut
Boston
Columbia Universities
Irrepressible Willie and the misheard vacation tale
A short humorous anecdote from American Legion Weekly where Willie misunderstands his mother’s bridge club rumor about a long vacation at Swords Points. The child quibbles on the word vacation versus being away.
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Willie
Bridge Club
Swords Points
American Legion Weekly
Feverish broker screams sell amid heated market rush
A doctor reports the broker’s fever has hit 102 and the patient, barely conscious, yells Sell! Sell! amid the profit driven panic.
Sleep-Walker Shot by Father Mistaking Burglar
In Jersey City Anthony Carbone shot his sleep walking nine year old daughter Rose wounding her seriously after mistaking her for an intruder. The incident occurred as Rose wandered from the apartment and knocked on a neighbor's door. The family and others were asleep nearby.
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Jersey City
N. J
Rose
Anthony Carbone
Carbone
Anthony Sorrentino
Fishes for Living Profits Fifty Dollars Weekly
Detroit man George Cahoon seventy one years old lives on four dollars a week, drags his self built house to new locations via the Detroit River, and nets a living from fishing, firewood, and trapping with health and contentment. His wife is dead and his children are grown.
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Detroit
Mich
George Cahoon
Detroit River
Cahoon
Being a Hero Costs Duke His Pocketbook
The Duke of Manchester stopped a thief who broke a jeweler’s window and helped police capture him. A cheering crowd formed as the duke rode away, later learning a pickpocket had stolen his pocketbook containing many gold notes.
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London
Manchester
Television Claimed by French Inventor Belin Demonstrates Device
Edouard Belin, a French inventor, claims to have realized television. He presented a machine to the French Photographic Society using a 20 sided mirror spinning at 40 000 rpm before an electric arc light to transmit and reproduce the image.
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Paris
Edouard Belin
French Photographic Society
Man Hangs Self After Checkers Loss to Wife in Pittsburgh
William Kapler of Helmsstead hanged himself after losing to his wife at checkers. The couple reportedly played for two hours with Kapler repeatedly defeated. Neighbors found him in the bathroom after the board was thrown down and calls went unanswered.
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Pittsburgh
Penn
William Kapler
Helmstead
Kapler
Fisher proves keen eye in double rabbit kill
Warsaw Indiana after shooting two rabbits with one shell from his gun Fisher aimed at a cottontail and hit a second rabbit that ran into the line of fire Both rabbits were killed in the field near Warsaw testimonies note his accuracy and quick reflexes for the Warsaw Maroons baseball team
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Welland
Charter Lake
Warsaw
Ind
Fremont Fisher
Warsaw Maroons
Fisher
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