Haiti Gendarmes Win National Rifle Match Honors
Haiti's first national rifle match near Port au Prince showcased the gendarmerie’s shift from improvised aim to trained marksmanship under American Marines. Maj. James J. Meade and Lt. Col. MacDougal led a program teaching winking, windage, and steady firing as Astrale Rolland of Jeremie won the President’s match with 227 points, earning a gold watch and a month’s pay. The south department claimed the team title with 1,788 points, and Rolland set the high individual score at 284. A ten-day leave and medals followed for all winners.
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Port Au Prince
James J. Meade
Department of the North
U. S
United States
Natute
Meade
Douglas OC. MacDougal
Haiti
MacDougal
Marine Corps
Champ de Mars
Winking
Cayerne
Borno
John H. Russell
Department of the
H. L. Smith
Feathernecks
Perry
Sergt. Astrale Rolland
Jeremie
Smith
Mme. Borne
Haltian Cabinet
Council of State
Russell
Theodore P. Kane
Rolland
Department of the South
Astrale Rolland
Fadael
Fadner
Woman Inspector Appointed in Reading Township
County Judge Ray Lesler named Mrs. Lulu G. Reed as inspector of Reading township near here to succeed her late father William Burrell marking a first for women in the county Oll Livingston. The Streator area lies within the township in I-Livingston county with Reed to oversee local inspections before goods pass to retailers.
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Pontiac
Livingston County
Ray Lesler
Lulu G. Reed
Reading Township
Here
William Burrell
City of Streators
Fox worth near two thousand dollars shot in Bruce Wis
A black fox that escaped from Pease Williams in the Town of Crow was shot by a Bruce hunter who did not recognize the animal. The fox was valued at nearly 2000 dollars.
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Bruce, Wis
Pease Williams
Crow
Denmark Opens Way to Baltic Trade Channel
Copenhagen's Drogden channel upgrade will deepen Baltic trade access, enabling larger freight steamers and a shorter route from the Baltic to northern ports. The shift marks Denmark's postwar detachment from distressed Europe as American exporters eye the Copenhagen gateway for distributing goods to Sweden, Denmark, and beyond.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Drogden
Baltic
Russia
Seeland
Smelland
Amager
Saltholm
Europe
Kiel Canal
Council of Ambassadors
International Court of Justice
The
Hague
Lithuania
Poland
United States
Sweden
Germany
United States Shipping Board
New York
Hoover
Magnus Swensson
Scandinavia
Baltic Countries
Baltic Sea
Finland
Hsthonia
Latvia
France
United Kingdom
Dardanelles
Fatal railroad choice in Three Points tale
In a boxed yard at Three Points Carter faces a moral crisis when the Westbound Limited must take a siding and risk a collision to save lives. His daughter Minnie plays with a toy rail, but a white dress signals danger as a real train bears down. Carter chooses duty over rescue, only to learn Minnie is safe, trapped by clockwork rails that pin her boot.
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Carter
Little Minnie
Minnie
Father's Box
Ella
Lla
Mythological Helen and the Trojan War Spark
Helen, daughter of Zeus and wife of Menelaus of Sparta, famed for beauty, triggers the Trojan War after Paris abducts her. Some say Aphrodite influenced her departure, leading to Troy’s fall. She returns to Sparta with Menelaus after Troy’s defeat and lives out life with him.
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Helen
Zeus
Menelaus
Sparta
Greece
Paris
Priam
Troy
Aphrodite
Parlo
Ilven
Wife Gets First Spanking on Fifty-Eighth Birthday
Los Angeles woman Mary Pope testified that her husband J M Pope spanked her with a razor strap after she asked for money to buy herself a birthday present. She was granted a divorce by Judge J W Summerfield.
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Los Angeles
Mary Pope
Pomona
J. M. Pope
J. W. Summerfield
Many fox furs in Alaska on Prince William Sound islands
Axel Lind reports a record fur harvest season looms as 100 plus Prince William Sound islands prepare trapping. Fox farming grows as a major minor industry with blue foxes bred in southeastern Alaska. Islands host large ranches where foxes swim to freedom. winter feeding stations and Christmas pelting drive pelts to U.S. markets. Government leases prevent sale or homesteading.
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Axel Lind Island
Alaska
Prince William Sound
United States
Alligators as Pets Stir St Petersburg Social Scene
Mrs Herman A Dann wife of a Philadelphia clubman showcases an alligator pet at Florida social events in St Petersburg. The four year old reptile weighs under three pounds and is described as harmless while other exotic animals were discarded for the fad.
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St. Petersburg
Pla
Mra
Herman A. Dann
Philadelphia
Dann
Florida
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Western Newspaper Union
Ao Simnile Signstore
Eee
Castoria
Bears
United’ States
Honey Creek Coal CO
Phil Bishop
Mer
W. C. Verploeg
Ames
Farmer's Produce Building
Georgia Chalfont
Fowler Telephone
Main Street
C. I. Fox
Main and Liberty Bts
J. J. Sybenga
Puritan Drug Store
Aschenbrenner
Lye
Har
Geelhoed
A. P. Fankhauser
Vander Zyl Bros
Iowa
F. F. Carpenter
Wagner
W. F
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