Milt’s Narrow Escape Under Soochow Creek Fire
A February dawn patrol by Marine Milt along Soochow creek ends in a mob attack by Chinese refugees and sampan crew. A tug rammed the boat, blinding Milt briefly, as bamboo and a nightstick battle raged. English police and fellow Marines restore order and offer aid at the International Settlement.
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China
Spain
Milton Weaver
New York City
Milt Weaver
United States Marine Corps
Shanghai
Milt
Soochow Creek
International Settlement
WNU
Old English Cathedrals Magnificent Structures
Canterbury York Minster Durham and Winchester among England s oldest and finest Gothic cathedrals. Salisbury Cathedral praised for pure early English design and the loftiest spire, completed 1220 to 1260.
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England
Europe
New York Herald Tribune
Canterbury
Kent
St. Augustine
Thomas A Becket
York Minster
York
Durham
Old
Winchester Cathedral
Salisbury Cathedral
Anne Hutchinson: Puritan rebel who shaped Civil Liberty
The article recounts Anne Hutchinson’s 1637 trial for heresy in Massachusetts Bay, her banishment, and her role as an early defender of religious liberty and feminism. It notes her influence on later women’s gatherings and links her legacy to constitutional ideals of civil liberty and tolerance.
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Statehouse
Boston
Massachusetts
Athaliah
Devels
Lathan
Anne Hutchinson
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Joan of Arc
Rouen
America
Women’s Clubs of America
Rhode Island
Roger Williams
New York
United States
Artemus Ward the Nation's Jester A Maine Native’s rise to fame
Charles Farrar Browne known as Artemus Ward rose from a Maine birth in 1834 to a Cleveland Plain Dealer reporter shaping a traveling persona. His comic writings in Artemus Ward His Book and stage appearances delighted readers nationwide and even impressed Lincoln, influencing a moment before the Emancipation Proclamation. Ward died in 1867 leaving a lasting American humor legacy both at home and in England.
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Charles Farrar Browne
Artemus Ward
Maine
Browne
Cleveland
Ohio
Cleveland Plain Dealer
New York
Vanity Fair
Ward
Lincoln
White House
Stanton
America
England
Frocks to Bloom with Stitch Flower Fashions
Fashion decree invites spring dress embroidery. Learn to renew dresses with large and small needlework motifs in wool floss or chenille. Pattern 5801 includes transfer motifs and stitch illustrations. send 18 cents to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept. New York for details.
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Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept
W. Fourteenth Street
New York
N. Y
Quotations on sacrifice and progress from notable figures
A compilation of aphorisms from Countess de Gasparin Sir Arthur Keith George Bernard Shaw David Lloyd George and David Sarnoff. The quotes span self doubt sacrifice perseverance gender views pacifism and the purpose of scientific progress.
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Countess de Gasparin
Sir Arthur Keith
George Bernard Shaw
David Lloyd George
David Sarnoff
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Alfred E. Smith
New Turf Champions of America
Pimlico
War Admiral
Man of War
Charles Kurtsinger
Samuel D. Riddle
Margaret Meek
Margery McMaster
Sewickley
University of Pittsburgh
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Rochester
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Charleston
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