National Botanic Garden Faces Relocation To Rock Creek Park
A Washington Star report urges Congress to move the National Botanic Garden to a 400 acre Rock Creek Park site. The garden’s crowded conservatories strain glass, and rare exotics need space while visitors, teachers, and researchers flock to see flora from Mexico, Central America, and beyond.
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Europe
Hold 100 Miles of Front Nonstop From Verdun to Ypres
Frederick Palmer reports from British Headquarters France on unprecedented Allied and German manpower front line buildup. The article notes new army units, rapid promotions, and the continuous trench war. It highlights British aid to civilians via army doctors, and local stories in Findlay, Ohio, including a fourteen-year-old divorce case amid wartime headlines.
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Heroes Grove for Germans Helmdenhain proposed memorial grove
Berlin editors largely oppose more Krieger Denkmale after prior wars. A popular new idea is Heldenhain, a Heroes Grove, to honor fallen soldiers with a nationwide grove rather than scattered monuments to the Kaiser and generals.
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Wan derer Thorin in France and Chile Saga
Paris report chronicles Billy Thorin American legionnaire born in South Dakota who ran away to sea, fought on a Chinese gunboat and with Price and Mosby, was wounded in Mexico, Shanghaied to Chile, jailed at Arica, and finally joined the French Foreign Legion at Bordeaux in 1915. He was fatally wounded in the Champagne region but survived to continue fighting.
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Wounded Corporal Richard Tannous Fought at Parral Mexico
Corporal Richard Tannous of the Thirteenth Cavalry was wounded in the Parral fight in Mexico. He led a squad of men through the engagement and sustained injuries during the clash at Parral.
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European War Roundup Twenty Fifth Week June 1915
A midweek summary of World War I actions. French gains north of Arras and near Labyrinth, Italian advances on the Isonzo, Austrians retreating Russians in East Galicia, and new submarine and air raids. Troop landings at Gallipoli, battles at Tolmino and Lemberg, and naval engagements including a Zeppelin destroyed by Lieut Warneford.
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Worth Knowing Facts from a Historical Almanac
A collection of brief items notes social and scientific curiosities. It cites studies on sanitation and schooling, a comparison of quicksilver density, global fish estimates, and lists countries by blindness rates. It also mentions national hymns, asphalt beds in Honduras, and U S public health service efforts in New Orleans.
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