Barons Schorfheim Named Professor After War Deafness
Berlin report Prince Baron von Schorfheim, major in a Prussian infantry regiment, takes a professorship at the University of Jena. Wounded on the Yser front, he was deemed hopeless and left deaf after recovery. He studied Germanic languages in service and later mastered lip reading at Hamburg to teach.
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Berlin
Berliner Tageblatt
Baron von Schorfheim
University of Jena
Yser
Institute For
Hamburg
Dodson's Liver Tone Promises Safe Liver Aid
An advertisement touts Dodson's Liver Tone as a harmless vegetable substitute for calomel. It claims calomel causes cramping nausea and salivation while Liver Tone purports to restore energy, ease bilious symptoms, and be safe for children, with a money back offer.
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Dodson
Rotary Delegation Heads To Cincinnati for International Convention
A San Antonio Rotary Club delegation sails July 18 on the Rotary Special to Cincinnati for the international convention July 16–20. About twenty from San Antonio attend, with planners urging the election of Robert Cornell of Houston as international president. The club will perform a luncheon stunt adapting their Newcomers Day program.
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San Antonio
Cincinnati
Rotary
Queen City
Buffalo
Imperial Shrine Council of North America
R. Clarence Jones
San
Texas
Robert Cornell
Houston
Cornell
Louisiana
Oklahoma
Tingle
Cincinnati Rotary Club
Rotary Code of Ethics
Rotarians
British Officer Rescues Crew in Harwich Whaleboat Rescue
Lieut Robert Startin RN receives Albert Medal for second class for night rescue of a whaleboat crew during a violent gale near Harwich. He waded through deep mud for hundreds of yards, dragged a crewman ashore, conveyed survivors by rope to shore, while the others perished from exposure. The act exemplifies service and humanity.
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Albert
Robert Arthur Startin
R. N
Parkstone Quay
Harwich
Startin
German War Ambulance Dogs Multiply and Save Wounded
Berlin June 16 report shows the German army enlarged its ambulance dog corps from eight to over 1600 since the war began. The dogs have saved more than five thousand men by locating wounded soldiers left for dead. Training takes four to five weeks with a tag system guiding the dogs to the stretcher bearers.
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Berlin
Ambulance Corps
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