Haunting Boer War Grave Unearths Moving Skeletons
Mart Colbert and fellow soldiers in the Fifth R I Lancers uncover a wide grave while removing Boer War dead near Naawport Cape Colony in 1902. As dirt shifts, a line of buried corpses rises, terrifying the team until a bed spring under the earth proves the haunt was a collapsed grave. The men recover the two unconscious diggers and reburial is ordered.
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Martin J. Colbert
Chicago
Mart
Mart Colbert
South Africa
R. I. Lancers
Naawport
Cape Colony
Lancers
England
Cooper
Matt
Kirby
Teir
Dressed for War Balloon Uses Silk Garments
Richmond women sacrificed their silk dresses to build an observation balloon during the siege. The patchwork craft, too poor to buy a balloon, took shape from varnished garments. The balloon ascended, was captured by the Federal army, and a fragment is kept at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.
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Richmond
Virginia
Smithsonian Institution
Washington
Noted Leaders and Fiery Figures Highlight This Week
A portrait of enduring figures spans geopolitical стерotypes and national legends. George Sutherland, aging Supreme Court stalwart, defies political shifts while Jacques Doriot reshapes radical France from St Denis. Finland’s Justus Mannerheim looms as a national icon, military and political legend.
Pies for the Poor Explained Phrase Origin
The article traces the saying to an old expression umbles pie meaning a pie made from inferior deer portions given to the poor. It notes the shift in spelling and usage over time.
Grandmother's Flower Quilt Pattern Promises Easy Patchwork
A description promotes pattern 5802 The Block Chart shows an actual size finished quilt with one patch colors from scraps. It offers three color schemes and step by step directions with exact yardage. requests 15 cents for pattern from The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept New York.
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Sewing Circle
Arts Dept
Fourteenth St
New York
N. Y
Better Improve the Other Foot
A wry column on personal effort and image urges balancing self-improvement with honesty. It argues that trying to impress others by pointing out faults in strangers undermines character and that travel reveals home nuisances.
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Floyd Gibbons
Twurkala
U. S
West Point March
Werner von Blomberg
Mussolini
Rome
Italy
Mikhail Tukhachevsky
NEW A. M. A. President
Irvin Abell
Louisville
Southern Medical Association
Southern Medical
American Medical Association
Atlantic City
Pepper Martin
St. Louis
National Electric Products. Company
Ambridge
Pittsburgh
American Federation of Labor
Homer Atkinson
Harry Rene Lee
Nashville
Dorothy Alcorn
St. Paul, Minn
St. Paul
By Lemuel F. Parton
George Sutherland
Wells Fargo
Blackfoot
University of Michigan
Harding
Supreme Court
France
Acques Doriot
Parti Populaire Francais
S. Dam
Jacques
Doriot
Moscow
St. Denis
Paris
Jacques Doriot
Finland
Ustus Mannerheim
Homburg
Justus Mannerheim
Salvation Army
Republic
Russia
Consolidated News Features
Dias NU Service
Waite Petroleum
Rayacy
MEIC
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