Cowpens Victory: Morgan and Howard Defeat Tarleton in 1781
The Cowpens battle, a pivotal early American victory, halted Tarleton's advance and aided Cornwallis's later defeat. Morgan's forces used coordinated militia and Continentals to repulse the British, earning congressional honors and foreshadowing Yorktown.
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Cowpens Battleground
South Carolina
Cornwallis
Yorktown
Kings Mountain
North Carolina
Virginia
Ferguson
Battle of
Cowpens
Congress
Cowpens National Monument
Army College
Charlestown
Charlotte Town
Coleone Ferguson
Wynnesborough
Gate
Canden
Greene
Tarleton
Ninety-Six
Morgan
Trleton
Friends of the Crown
Morran
Mill Gap
Spartanburg
Broad River
Howard
Maryland
Mill Gap Road
Beatie
Triplett
Tate
Buchanan
Augusta
Georgia
Pickens
Major McDowell
North Carolina Volunteers
Major Cunningham
Georgia Volunteers
McDowell
South Carolina Volunteers
Brannon
Thomas
Cunningham
Hayes
Major Hammond
McCall
Washington
Camden
Roduv
Army War College
Delaware
Miergan
United States
America
Rhode Island
Guilford Court House
Dumbbell club formed at Kelly Field in honor of daring officers
San Antonio reports the creation of the Dumbbell club at Kelly Field to honor air corps officers whose feats include bold stunts such as targeting a mule powered plane and surviving a mid air engagement. The club awards its members the dumbbell banner and preserves a photo record of each initiation.
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San Antonio
Texas
Kelly Field
Wrigit Field
Air Corps
Dallas
Kelly
Dumbbell Club
Kellyfield
Committee On Awards
Collegians Offer Aid to Paraguayan Army in Chaco War
Letters from United States students volunteer to fight for Paraguay against Bolivia reached President Guggiari after the Chaco quarrel faded. Ernest from Texas asked to join with 200 trained companions, while Comanche native James Madison offered to serve as aviator with two sergeants.
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Asuncion
Paraguay
United States College
Bolivia
Guggiari
Chaco
University of Texas, Austin
Ernest Joseph
Comanche
Texas
James Madison
Act to Remove U S War Dead from Russ Soil
Kansas City Kansas Veterans of Foreign Wars announces plans to repatriate American war dead buried in northern Russia and Siberia. Eugene P. Carver Jr. says the Russian foreign affairs commissariat will cooperate in locating graves and moving the bodies from the Eastern Front during World War I.
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Kansas City
Kan
Russia
Siberia
United States
Eugene P. Carver, Jr
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Carver
Russian People’s Commissariat For Foreign Affairs
Veterans’ Organization
Freshman Class At Northeastern Sets Size Record
A sensational feature notes the largest freshman class in Northeastern history. It also highlights Eugene Rock of Malden who weighs 810 pounds and stands 6 feet 6 inches tall, described as the school’s heaviest entrant.
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Boston
Northeastern
Eugene Rock
Malden
Castoria advertised for infant remedies and soothing baby ailments
A Castoria marketing blurb promotes the product as a safe vegetable remedy for children. It claims five million homes use it daily and urges mothers to keep a bottle for colic, constipation, and diarrhea, noting doctors often advise Castoria for infants.
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Castoria
Twins Remain Together in Connecticut Robbery Terms
James and Robert Kelly, identical twins, were jointly arrested for robbery and are now serving state prison terms in Connecticut. Their indistinguishability led to mutual arrest and shared sentence according to the Indianapolis News.
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James Kelly
Robert
James
Connecticut
Indianapolis News
Unclear Family Dialog on Hearthstone and Bridges
The fragment asks about a family hearthstone seen as a precursor to a fireless cooker and questions a father about a mother’s bridge game. It ponders nature’s provision preventing chin baldness and remarks that lacking intrinsic sense of good prevents progress.
Phillips Milk of Magnesia ad promotes gentle relief
The advertisement touts Phillips Milk of Magnesia as a universal sweetener that neutralizes stomach acid for children and adults. It claims the product is pleasant to take, more effective than harsher remedies, and endorsed by physicians as the genuine prescription brand since 1875.
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U. S
Charles H. Phillips Chemical Co
Charles H. Phillips
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Scott Watson
George Waehtomton
Cfarletown
Col Johnn F. Howard
Cowpens Battlefield
Parrer
Col. Jorgan
Col Pickens
Col
William Washin
Fton
Army
Quartermaster Air Force
Park Laboratories Co
Npor
Spurlock- Neal Co
Nashville
Tenn
PAE PS of
Naynesia
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