Victoria Cross Recipients From the Great War
Nearly 200 British and colonial servicemen earned the Victoria Cross in the war. The article profiles private James Miller, Private Veale, Thomas Turnbull, Donald Simpson Bell, James Phetchinson, Private Baxter and others, recounting acts of valor and sacrifices that defined frontline heroism. It also notes John Travers Cornwell, John Jacks, and Lieut Warneford, among the many who displayed extraordinary bravery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
World's Richest Boy Tom Shevlin in Youthful Grace
Thomas L. Shevlin Jr son of the late Thomas L Shevlin millionaire yachtsman financier and Yale athlete smiles in knickers during a stay in Hot Springs Virginia He is from Minneapolis and inherits around 66 million dollars from his father while his sister Elizabeth accompanies him The fortune places him well above the typical youngster yet he appears as an ordinary young person enjoying leisure.
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Scales
Hill
Kamerad
Jutland
H. M. B. Chester
England
London
John Jellicoe
Cornwell
Thomas L. Shevlin
Thomas’l. Shevlin
Yale
Elizabeth
Shevlin
Minneapolis
Hot Springs
Tom
Engineers Discuss Flood Control in Texas Rivers
Austin officials describe a conference between Colonel J C Sanford and Arthur S Stiles on levee construction and river valley reclamation. They plan a joint report to Congress and seek federal aid, noting extensive surveying in the Trinity River Valley and similar plans for other Texas rivers.
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Austin
Tex
Texas
J. C. Sanford
United States Corps of Engineers
New Orleans
Arthur S. Stiles
Sanford
W. J. Barden
Dallas
E. N. Johnston
Galveston
Congress
Stiles
Barden
Trinity River
State Reclamation Department
October prison escapes and population rise reported in Texas
Austin report shows twenty eight convicts escaped in October while total inmates on November first reached 3 981, an increase of 27. October pardons 46 and new admissions 146, with 13 re captured and 55 discharged. Distributed across Huntsville Rusk Ramsey farm Wynne Imperial Catop GoreeN A Shaw Harlem Eastham Jim Ferguson farm Clemens asylums Morton Bradshaw Rogers Blue Ridge Retriev Blakeley Weetbrook.
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Austin
Tex
State Prison Commission
Huntsville
Rusk
Ram-sey Farm
Wynne
Imperial
Catop Goree
N. A. Shaw
Harlem
Eastham
Jim Ferguson Farm
Clemens
Asylums
Morton
Bradshaw
Rogers
Blue Ridge
Retrieve
Blakeley
Weetbrook
Captains Describe Detention aboard German U-Boat U-49
Captain Frederick Curtis of the American steamer Columbian and Captain Arthur Patterson of the Seatonia report they were prisoners on the German submarine U-49 after their ships were destroyed. They endured days in confinement and heard gunfire and the torpedo explosion that sank the Balto, with Norwegian Captain Velugsen later joining them.
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Corunna
Spain
Frederick Curtis
Arthur Patterson
Seatonia
Balto
Velugsen
Fordalen
Curtis
Texas Cities Secure Rate Reductions From Memphis and St Louis
Marshall and Jefferson Texas win lower inbound first class rate reductions from Memphis and St Louis effective February 1 after ICC opinion delivered May 9. No further bearing requested. St Louis to Marshall shows 16 cents differential, to Jefferson 17 cents.
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Washington
Marshall
Jefferson
Texas
Interstate Commerce Commission
Memphis
St. Louis
President Blames Middlemen at Grange Convention
President Wilson in Washington blamed middlemen for high food costs during a National Grange convention speech. He urged farmers to raise more crops to prevent future shortages and to avoid letting middlemen dictate prices.
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Washington
Wilson
National Grange
Farm Loan Board Begins Southwest Hearing Tour
The federal Farm Loan Board with Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo started its Southwestern itinerary. They will hold hearings in Fort Worth on November 15, Houston on November 18, Amarillo on November 21, and Oklahoma City on November 22.
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Farm Loan Board
Washington
Fede
Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo
Fort Worth
Houston
Amarillo
Oklahoma City
$3,000,000 School Bonds Voted for New Buildings
St. Louis residents approved a $3 million school bond issue in an election held Saturday to finance new school buildings with a reported vote margin around 44 to 1.
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St. Louis
Drinking of Water and Health Benefits
The article promotes drinking large amounts of pure water with and between meals for health. It cites X-ray tests on healthy men and links backache rheumatism and kidney symptoms to urine issues. It also advertises Anurie tablets available at drug stores for kidney related symptoms.
Prominent Man Credits Anuric Tablets Cure for Rheumatism
A Seagoville peace officer, aged 46, describes lifelong rheumatism worsened by severe winter weather in 1910. He says he found a permanent cure with Dr. Pierce's Anuric Tablets after about ten months of use and praises the remedy highly.
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Seagoville
Dallas
Texas
Dr. Pierce
Days of Luxury
A columnist riffs on indulgence and opulence by recalling lavish past lifestyles and extravagant habits, including talk of celebrity tastes and antique cookbooks, as a window into changing social values and appetite for extravagance.
Bond's Liver Pill Adventure in 19th Century Health Claims
If you suffer dizziness headaches biliousness constipation or sour stomach take one Bond s Liver Pill at bedtime tonight You will wake up well without any unpleasant after effects Bond s Pills are sold on their genuine merit and never fail to please those who use them for malarial troubles They are small mild safe inexpensive 25¢ All Druggists.
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Bond
Captain Deutschland headstand riddle fuels nautical quips
A pun laden spoof notes the Deutschland captain once stood on her head and asks why. The piece then pivots to a patent medicine ad for Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills claiming quick relief from stomach issues. An aside repeats a social stereotype about female intelligence.
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Wright
Pearl St
New York
Capudine Headache Remedy Ad Promo
A vintage advertisement extols Capudine as a liquid headache and body ache remedy that assists nature to stay right. It highlights ease of taking and notes women speaking less, implying social constraints. Also mentions grackles and bluejays harming other birds' eggs and nestlings.
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Ady
Prominent Philosophers Recall Hidden Baby
A messenger and a prominent female philosopher debate a forgotten baby in a provocative exchange about eugenics. The nurse and a future thinker probe ethical implications and social implications of selective reproduction.
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Messenger
Cone
Slaughter-sale Prices Haven't Struck Meat Markets Yet
Witty exchange hints at lingering meat market prices as buyers wait in London. The humorous banter contrasts sweetness with appetite while noting market hesitancy in pricing.
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James Miller
Royal Lancashire Regiment
V. C
Veale
Devonshire Regiment
George
Thomas Turnbull
Worcester Regiment
Yorkshire
Donald Simpson Bell
Harrogate
Lancashire
James Phetchinson
Somme
No Man’s Land
Goveral
Baxter
Liverpool
McClelland
Kid
Grante
Albert Hul
V. S
Hopers
John Jacks
Fourteenth Battalion
Australian Infantry
Gallipoli
Jacka
the Somme
Pozieres
Warneford
Wuarneford
Mal
State
V, M. Pidrce, M. D
T. J. Allen
L. Douglas
W. L. Douglas
San Francisco
America
Brockton
Mass
Los
W. T
Douglas Shoe
Maas
Prazier
Binkley Medical Co
Clark St
Nappanee
Ind
Watersmiths
Chill Tonic
Capudine
Gertie
Panhandle
South Plains
Nutting
General Hardware and
Sup
Butchers Hardware
Peden Iron & Steel CO
San Antonio
McCane’s Detective
la. Ave
Washington, D. C
Winchester
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