Escape from Germany to England and Buckingham Palace
A pilot recounts his nine month odyssey from escape in Rotterdam to service again with the Royal Flying Corps. After evading capture, he reaches London, is welcomed by King George V in a private audience, and returns home amid banquets and relief, detailing near-misses, naval escorts, and his mother’s cable.
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Woril
Cnnstil
Chile
Gan
Dewald
England
Sonal
Rotterdam
Holland
Nuvi
Beteshun
Antwerp
Hollen
Helel
SCC
Howe
Germany
Pat
Wrudes
Berlin
War Department
Helal
Uie
Luxembourg
Belgium
London
Royal Flying Corps
O'Brien
Leutenant O'Brien
Pat O'Brien
Fullownut
P. A. O'Brien
Regent's Palace Hotel
Buckingham Palace
Cromer
Karl Cromer
Bobby
Enguurd
Earl Cromer
Thad
Fort Cromer
Leftenant O'Brien
Carl
America
Leftenant
Your
France
Italy
Salonton
Teun
Egypt
Ing
Hotel Savoy
Louis Grand
Abe
Atlantic
Lascelles
Kept Busy in Camp Roles Across Duties and Danger
In a New Jersey Y camp a preacher blends duties from firefighting to canteen duties. He builds fires, handles laundry, coaches basketball, stage-manages a circus, writes letters, teaches English, and guards Liberty bonds. On a stormy night he shelters a detonator box of high explosives, sleeping with danger under his cot.
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New Jersey
Miliary
Red Triangle
Name of America origins traced to Vespucci myth
The article recounts how Amerigo Vespucci, a Florentine merchant in Seville, participated in early voyages and claimed to reach the mainland in 1497. It explains the 1507 St Die university error naming the continent America, the later correction recognizing Columbus and Cabot, and notes the house in St Die tied to the misnaming attracting tourists.
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New World
America
Amerigo Vespucci
Seville
Spain
Medicix
Columbus
Vespucci
University of St. Die
Lorraine
Columbu
West Indies
Martin Waldseemuller
Khown
Wes Pucci
John Cabot
St. Die
North
South America
Road Building Ideal Convict Camp Demonstrates Humane Methods
A Fulton County Georgia honor camp operated for ten months under U S government oversight without armed guards or shackles. Convicts, mostly black, worked near Atlanta with positive discipline, comfortable quarters, and liberties like reading and baseball. Punishments were limited to demerits and tobacco rationing. no escapes occurred and morale remained high.
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Fulton County
United States Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering
United States Public Health Service
Atlanta
South
Just a Flower in a Market Basket Portrait
In a Columbus Cato State Journal excerpt a market basket brims with mest potatoes turnips onions cauliflowers radishes and a flower peeks from among the produce. The scene celebrates a mother's care and beauty she brings to family life and the moral light she adds to humble labor.
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Columbes Cato State Journal
Network of Roads Needed for Towns All Year
A report argues for a continuous road network to connect towns year round. It notes that dry roads require more power to pull machinery and that dry, dusty surfaces crack after rains, making maintenance worthwhile despite higher effort.
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Lieutenant Pat O’brien
Wright
Bngland
Iast
Aml
Mia
O'Relen
Momence
Gurtmany
Sing
Henry Case
Chun
Paul Suney
Cox & Co
Courtrai
Flying Corps
Canada
St. John
New Brunswick
Kankakee
Terion Av
Office
Vale
Hang i
Tnomae
Ere
Serarrerrey
Lieutenant O'Brien
King George
Georgia
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