The Death Rain on Baja California Front
A soaked battlefield memoir recalls Mosby’s men fleeing Mexican rurales under machine gun fire. A wounded American boy begs not to be left behind as the narrator carries him through sun baked hills toward the border, dodging dying comrade and pursuing fire.
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Mosby
Mexico
Stars and Stripes
Mother Earth
Eiverybody
Pellmell
Tecate
Alamo
Cactis
Baja California
Pal
Wanderlust and a nameless battlefield grave
A veteran recalls fleeing battle in Mexico with a maimed boyhood burden. He buries a nameless child on a hillside, reads a mother’s last note, then crosses into the United States and reflects on the price of war and wanderlust.
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Alamo
Tecate
Federal Soldado
Rural
Jim
States
Mexico
Jupungu
Basongi
Congo
Lupungu
Quilting Industry Surges in South and New England
Old fashioned women craft silk and cotton quilts to meet wealthy buyers demand. The scene depicts a southern family’s home illustrating this growing industry and high prices paid for fashionable creations.
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South
New England
Magnificent Baroda Pearls Panel Sent to Victoria and Albert
The Gaekwar of Baroda lent one of four renowned pearl panels to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The panel, created in Khande Rao Gaekwar’s reign, features an arabesque of pearls, glass beads, gold bosses, and precious stones. Flood damage in the United States is estimated at about $100 million annually.
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Gaekwar
Baroda
Victoria and Albert Museum
South Kensington
Khande Rao Gaekwar
Mohammed
Madina
United States
Lesson On Exod Plagues And Israel’s Humbling Triumph
The text outlines Psalm 105’s summary of Israel in Egypt and the Exodus, noting Pharaoh’s pride and God’s warnings. It tracks the eight plagues mentioned, Moses and Aaron as leaders, and the final death of the firstborn as the decisive act that freed Israel.
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Israel
Srael
Egypt
Jehovah
reHel
Moses
Aaron
Land
Ham
Hekt
Pharaoh
Earth
Pharaohh
R. V. Marg
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Uncle Sam
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Puget Sound
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Moody Bible Intstitute of Chicago
the State Bank
Otterbein
Capital Stock & Surplus
J. H. VanNatta
B.H. Bolt
Sidney Smith
Ass’t Cashier
H. Vi Natta
F. J. Maddox
Abe
Reevetts
Moore
Fis Bolt
John W. VanNatta
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Farmer's & Merchant's Bank Otterbein
Indiana
Jeremiah Edwards
Pres
Chas
L. McKinnis
V. Pres
J. S. Ward
U. Ghenoweth
Dr. L. Learning
Main St
Ward A. Smith
Health & Accident Insurance
Benton County
Fred F. Killin
Templeton, Ind
Cc. R. Mather, D. V. M
Vetrimary
Lumber Yard
Ind
J. W. Franklin
Green Hill
James S. Wagner
Medina Township
George T. Emerson
Bolivar Township
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