Haym Salomon the Forgotten Patriot Behind Yorktown Victory
The article details Haym Salomon’s pivotal yet underappreciated role in financing the American Revolution. It chronicles his escape from British prisons, his work as intermediary and financier in Philadelphia, and his crucial loans to Robert Morris that helped avert bankruptcy. It notes his death in 1785, his family’s later poverty, and delayed efforts to honor his legacy with a monument in New York.
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Fo Scott Watson
Thaddeus Kosciusko
Casimir Pulaski
United States
Tole
Haym Salomon
Charles Edward Russell
Cosmopolitan Book Corporation
Salomon
Lissa
Poland
Kosciusko
Pulaski
England
America
New York
New York City
Pole
Sons of Liberty
Washington
Long Island
Lord Howe
Cunningham
Sir Henry Clinton
Philadelphia
France
Continental Congress
Treasury
Pennsylvania Line
Morristown
Congress
New Jersey
Robert Morris
Morris
Russell
Paris
la Courteulx and Company
Bank of North America
Cornwallis
Yorktown
Nosciusko
Paine
Republic
Capitol
Haym
Heroic Greek Immigrant Dilboy Fights at Belleau Wood
Private George Dilboy of H Company, a Greek immigrant from Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont. He charged a German machine gun, silenced two guns, and was wounded fatally after ensuring his platoon could advance. His bravery endures in WWI lore and Army history.
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Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Vermont
George Dilboy
H Company
Dilboy
Concord
Bunker Hill
One Hundred and Third
Belleau
Uncle Eben Praises Shift From Shovel to Jazz Job
A Washington Star quote highlights Uncle Eben stressing hard work and pride in a son who left manual labor for a paid job in a jazz orchestra. The remark frames success as earned through effort and opportunity.
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Eben
Washington
Childlike remark on Cinderella tale from Louisville Courier-Journal
A reader named Dorcas comments after hearing Cinderella, noting a glass slipper would be uncomfortable and reveal holes in stockings. The line reflects a practical, humorous reaction to a classic fairy tale.
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Little Dorcas
Louisville Courier-Journel
Forfeited Baseball Game Score History
The article notes that a forfeited baseball game uses an arbitrary score to stand in for the actual result, a convention dating back to the sport’s early days.
Expert Claims World Is Happy
A Chinese based psychology study led by Dr Randolph Sailer and Dr Goodwin Watson reports most people view themselves as happier than average. The survey links happiness to health, attitude toward the future, religion, temperament, and marital status, noting finances and family size have limited impact.
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New York
Randolph Sailer
Yenching University
China
Doctor Sailer
Goodwin Watson
Teachers’ College
Bodies of Soldiers Found in Ice in Dolomites
Two Austrian soldiers killed in World War I were found preserved in ice on the Marmolata glacier in the Dolomites. One body has been identified, with reports that four soldiers had been discovered earlier that summer under the snow of a high mountain pass.
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Rome
Marmolata
Dolomites
Driver reaches 50 years without a crash in Cincinnati
George Beicher, a longtime employee who began on a horse and finished in a motor truck, completed fifty years of accident free driving for the same company. His feat, celebrated with a banquet, a watch, and full-pay retirement, is highlighted by Collier's Weekly for a nationwide safe-driving campaign.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
George Beicher
Collier's Weekly
New Fangled Ideas Upset Logan Ohio Farmer
A Logan area farmer visiting the town ignored traffic controls. He rode his buggy through two red lights, executed a U turn on the main street, and tied to a theater entrance light standard near a fireplug.
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Logan
Ohio
It Was Just an Osprey Not a Vicious Eagle
Alfred Hoehle of Grandville fought and killed a large bird he believed to be an eagle. He returned home triumphant, but experts said the bird was a rare osprey and not dangerous.
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Grandville
Mich
Alfred Hoehle
Michigan
Indians Start Turkeys On Walker River Reservation
The historic practice of turkey farming is revived on the Walker River Indian Reservation in Nevada. Workers raised and sold 3,000 birds in 1929 and expect to market about 4,000 this year. The Aztec era in Mexico valued turkey production as a major food source.
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Walker River Indian’ Reservation
Nev
Mexico
Hitler the German Leader A Man Without Country
Adolph Hitler, seeking to rival Mussolini, mobilizes a 6.5 million strong party through direct beer garden appeals. Born in 1889 in Austria, he lost Austrian citizenship and cannot sit in the Reichstag, while youth rally to his fervent, self controlled oratory and nationalist glare.
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Hitler
New York
Adolph Hitler
Mussolini
Germany
Europe
Reichstag
Munich
Car Crank Left on Tracks Ends in Wreck
Nels Bervin of McLeod attempted to restart his stalled flivver on railroad tracks after moving it off the rails. He cranked it but did not notice the rear portion was missing, and a westbound passenger train struck the vehicle, leaving the remaining crank intact.
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American Intelligence Service
Western Newspaper Union
Lefe Wapheton
N. D
Nels Bervin
McLeod
Bervin
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