Missing in World War I Corps Still Hunted by Mystery
The Graves Registration service in France continues the quest to locate and identify American WWI dead marked as reported missing. Since 1923 the program has recovered 125 identifiable bodies and 29 unidentifiable remains, with hope rising for completing the missing soldiers’ accounts.
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Namm
New York Herald-Tribune
America
War Department
Europe
American Graves Registration Service
Graves Registration Service
Paris
Tribute to Heroic Dead at Arlington Cemetery
The last ceremonies honor overseas dead of the navy and marine corps laid to rest at Arlington Cemetery. The photo shows the colors dipped and the notes of Taps echoed in tribute to wartime heroes.
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Navy
Marine Corps
Arlington Cemetery
Majorca described as island paradise with Moorish past
The article portrays Majorca as a famed yet little known island in the Mediterranean. It details its geography from marble peaks to the Huerta plains, Palma’s historic harbor district, the Moorish era and Jayme I’s 1229 siege, Majorcan navigation prowess, the famed 14389 map, and its current quiet role as a regional hub with notable caves on the southeastern coast.
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Washington
Europe
Mississippi Valley
Majorca
Barcelona
Mediterranean
Italy
National Geographic Society
Pyrenees
Spain
Huerta
Palma
Carthage
Mobile
Ala
Portland
Mallorca
Jayme I
Aragon
Jayme
Sicily
Sardinia
Corsica
Malta
Balearics
Amerigo Vespucci
Great Britain
Jutland
Near
Persian Gulf
Red Sea
Venice
Genoa
Kentucky
Virginia
Carlsbad
New Mexico
Swedish Population Totals and Outlying Nationalities
Sweden’s population is 6,000,000 with 9,000,000 Swedish nationals overall. About 780,000 native Swedes live abroad, including 625,000 in the United States, 80,000 in Canada, 50,000 in Norway, and 86,000 in Denmark. The Finnish Swedish stock totals 850,000, while the U.S. total Swedish stock and descendants reach 1,457,882 in 1920. Foreign born Swedes are 57,832, under 1 percent of the population.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Royal Bureau of Statistics
United States
Canada
Norway
Denmark
Finland
Centenarian Kathrine Sutphin Celebrates 102th Birthday
Mrs Kathryn Sutphin of Point Pleasant New Jersey marked her 102nd birthday with a prayer to reach age three more years to match her grandfather's age. She remains in excellent health and reads daily without glasses.
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Point Pleasant
N. J
Katherine Sutphin
Prisoners Learn by Mail Course in New York
Officials of the National Society of Penal Information report high completion rates for inmate correspondence courses. The Welfare League funds and coordinates programs at Clinton, Dannemora, Auburn, Sing Sing, Great Meadow, and Fort Leavenworth with Columbia and Massachusetts courses. The aim is social reeducation and post release job help, with 1,916 helped and 504 securing jobs.
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New York
National Society of Penal Information
William B. Carver
Welfare League Association
New York State
Carver
Clinton
Dannemora
Auburn
Sing Sing
Great Meadow
Comstock
Fort Leavenworth
Massachusetts State Division of University Extension
Department of Education
Columbia University
la Salle University
Chicago
West Forty-third Street
Welfare League Association For Action
Columbia
Massachusetts
James A. Moyer
Thomas Mott Osborn
Mutual Welfare Leagues of
Frank Marshall Knight
Paul W. Garrett
John Jay Schieffelin
George W. Kirchwey
Spencer Miller
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Belleau Wood
Aisne
Marne
Belleau
Phoebe Cary
France
Beautiful Arlington
Island Paradise
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