Bravest Fool of the Regiment: Jimmy Murphy V C Story
In the Seventh Royal Irish Fusiliers Jimmy Murphy earns the Victoria Cross after saving a captain in Sudan. Four years later in a desert campaign he and his twin Tony fight side by side. Jimmy saves another officer before dying brotherly, and Jimmy survives to carry the cross with a quirky memory that he himself was Tony.
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Jimmy
Tony
No. 4 Company
Seventh
Royal Irish Fusiliers
Picquet
Murphy
Jimmy Murphy
Conyers
V.C
Jigimy
the Seventh
Svakin
Osman Digna
Mount Dingerab
V. C
War Office
England
Bekase
Father Kelly
Maloney
Tony Murphy
Laukin
Our Sympathy and the Call to Subscribe to Local Paper
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Frees Sweetheart From Prison to Wed in Beatrice
Inga Andersen wins commutation for her fiancé John Martin, jailed for a padlock game. After six weeks of appeals to Gov. Sheldon, she pleads her case personally, obtains clemency, and the couple marry on Valentine's night in Beatrice Nebraska after a Lincoln office plea and a chilly return carriage.
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Lincoln
Neb
Inga Andersen
Sheldon
John Martin
Beatrice
Nebraska
Martin
Idaho
Inga
Tuga
Alaska
Dawson City
Placer Mining
John
Seattle
Miss Andersen
Gov. Sheldon
Ingaing
Migg Kang
New York
Penitentiary
Lincolnn
Burlington
Vineland Pioneer William Dawson Married at 82
William Dawson, Vineland’s pioneer, aged 82, announced his wedding to Mrs. Mary Carley. The home ceremony was performed by Borough Recorder Browne, with Dawson saying marriage sets a good example for the young men.
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Vineland
N. J
William Dawson
Mary Carley
Browne
Nine Children at Four Births in Wolverhampton
Mrs. Howell of Bridgenorth road Wolverhampton has given birth to triplets two boys and a girl all well. An application will be made for the king's bounty. She has previously given birth to twins on three occasions totaling nine children across four births.
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London
How Astronomers Fix Exact Sky Positions With Telescopes
Modern astronomy automates star position fixing. Transit telescopes register precise times as stars cross wires. Equatorial telescopes photo the sky for 24 hours, moving clockwork to trace stars. Sixteen observatories coordinate to map five to six million stars to eleventh magnitude. The photographic gun reveals far more than the naked eye.
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