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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1919
Page
6
Uncle Harry Glover an aged Black man from this city was tried Saturday morning before Judge E. W. Senff on a lunacy charge and adjudged insane. Sheriff Roberts transported him to Lexington to the State asylum.
Walter Moreland aged 63 died at his Jeffersonville home Saturday morning from heart failure. Funeral services were held Sunday with interment in the family burying ground. Ellen Gibbs twelve year old daughter of Mrs Pete Gibbs, formerly of this city, arrived from West Virginia last Thursday and was buried at Machipelah cemetery. Funeral services were held at the grave.
Chicago reports Frank M. Van Epps, a Y M C A worker wounded in the Argonne, shared frontline experiences. He survived a torpedoed voyage, served in Alsace and the Argonne, worked as a stretcher bearer, slept in a shell blasted barn, and led a Sunday service from a stretcher aboard a hospital train.
Paris reports rapid progress in army education as General Rees arrives from Washington to head the effort. The Y M C A army education commission led by Prof John Erskine says textbooks are arriving overseas and post schools are forming at 40 per division with officers and men joining French and British universities.
Brig. Gen. J. P. O'Neil of the Ninetieth division defends the Y. M. C. A. in Paris while noting a few fools among its workers. He recounts one man who behaved bravely amid front line shells and Bowie projectiles, urging continued effort. Howard B. Merrill of New York is cited for cool conduct during a surprise attack in northern Russia.
English universities prepare to host American officers and men for collegiate special or postgraduate courses under the army educational commission scheme conducted by the United States Army and the Americans.
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