First Woman to Enter Verdun Fortress Tells War Stories
Miss Kathleen Burke, honorary organizing secretary of the Scottish Women's Hospital, became the first woman allowed into Verdun's besieged fortress. She recounts meeting Generals Joffre, Castelnau, Petain, and Nivelle, dining with Nivelle, and receiving heavy praise for her hospital work.
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New York
Kathleen Burke
Verdun
United States
Robert Nivelle
France
Miss Burke
Papa Joffre
Castelnau
Petain
Nivelle
Edmund Burke
Scottish Women's Hospital For
Foreign Service
William K. Vanderbilt
Miss Burke Recalls Verdun Visit and Nivelle Talks
In her new book The White Road to Verdun Miss Burke recounts meetings with General Nivelle at his Verdun HQ and praises Nivelle as a refined Frenchman. She notes Petain’s Verdun defense and his role, cites Verdun logistics, including 15 000 motor cars and gun transport by train and wagon.
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Anna McFadyen
Harry Skeenan
George Haney
John Haney
Fea
Miss Burke
General Nivelle
Republic of Courage
Henry V
Agincourt
Nivelle
Douaumont
France
Verdun
Mademoiselle
White Road
Murray Hill
Christmas Planting and Community Happenings in Whistler
Whistler reflects a busy holiday season with Sunday school Christmas exercises featuring a long list of pupils led by Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church. Local guilds meet, elections are announced, and residents attend church events, fundraisers, and social gatherings across Whistler and nearby Mobile and Birmingham areas.
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Saint Paul's Episcopal Church
Fraser Bowman
Tudor Farmer
Hattie May
George and
Theodore Jones
Winona Martin
Jacques Bennett
Robert Henry Allman
Mark
Bert Therrell
Cyril A Swillens Givens
Oe Ee Ilard
Alames Bu
Elizabeth’ Hudson
George Sar Ot
Bernard ‘Wicke
Elizabeth Fleanor Farmer
Lacile Lyle
Fide Therrell
Hester Bennett
Allman
John Lyle
Paul Roy Jones
Lynne Wicke
Dolores Alvarez
Helen Mary Jones
Emma Kate Hudson
Whistler Lodge No. 261
Odd Fellows Hall
J. Henry Seabury
H. R. Summergill
William J. Gambrell
Writtene McCarty
Harry Harford
John Martin
Clarence Tate
H Gurganuus
H. R. Summers
Eugene, Bagot
Willie McCarty
Eugene. Bagot
W. L. Hatchell
St. Petersburg
Fla
L. W. Hatchell
Ronie Bowen
Mobile
Mc. and
C.’s
Whistler
Walter Garr
Jackson
Tenn
Borderland
Baraca
Bethany Baptist Church
Ollie George
McElroy
Ascension Lumber Company
T. Frank Robert
Carmen of the
Mobile and Ohio Railway
Okolona
Meridian
Miss
Martin Holland
Memphis
Carmen of the Southern and Allied Lines
Atlanta
M. & Oron
Carmen
Franklin Renicke
Rowena
New Orleans
Edward Hagler
Marie Louise Hagler
Tuscaloosa Lowe
Surprising wrinkles show among young women
Beauty advice notes premature neck wrinkles in sixteen year olds from bad posture and sleep. Tips include back sleeping on a flat pillow, nightly ice massage, and avoiding neck exposure. Readers’ questions address hair growth at the neck and bleaching options.
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Daily Reader
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Ieee
Aioe
Home Economics Club
Hagan
H. A. Stanton
Alice Frazer
Elizabeth Fonde
Havhan
Pearson Mill Co
Knott High School
Christ Child Society
W.C. A
Baker Graded School
Council of Jewish Women
Leinkauf
W. W. McGuire
M. L. Bixer
J. D. Trammell
H. S. Walker
J. Conway
Cage le Noir
J. K. Glennon
C. W. Stokely
Henry Pillichody
Mary Werneth
Paul Smith
Poinsettias
Charles Lagman
Chautauqua
Miss Duffee
Hdith’ Duffee
Natalie Simison
Republic
Indedent
de de Bussy
Dame Curie
William B. Delchamps
Catherine Street
Misa Ursula
Onitevallo
Sophiatomb College
Did
Unit of
Alabama
Modern D’artagnan
Nixola Greeley-Smith
Miss Sparrow
Browning and Shakespeare
Sacial
BELL
Horlick
D'Artagnan
Amer
Ray Norville
Carrie Givens
Mrs. Mermann
Gregory Finch
Daisy 500 Club
Harry Fowler
George Rhodes
Mothers’ Club
B'nai B'rith Hall
Mothers’ Club of the Council
Cawthon
Rebecca Herndon
Stanley Herndon
Howard Walker
Gardiner Tucker
W. D. Muller
Faulkner
W. D. Miller
Houston Street
Adele Faulkner
J. Julian Bartee
City
George Carpenter
Butler, Ala
Carpenter
Fenee
Charles Anderson
Axis
Ala
Haygood Jordan
Montgomery
Ernést C. D'Olive
Phares Coleman, Jr
W. L. Murdoch
South Twentieth Street
Birmingham Age-Herald
Edward Atkins
Harrison Atkins
Savannah
WY. B. Atkins
Montgomery Advertiser
J. W. Phelan
Robert Cameron
East St. Louis
W. E. Jones
Meridian Dispatch
Frank Milhouse
Aplaf
Selma
J. C. Hobart
F. W. Reinecke
George Marks
Cary Bauer
C. A. Hawkins
Monterey Place
Lavine Bauer
Inge-Bondurant Infirmary
J. EB. Casey
Broadstreet
Mrs. Snow
Birmingham
Edna Kent Forbes
Lulu Cassidy
Adele Gertrude Faulkner
Gertrude Cody
George Matthews
Santa Claus
Ethel Ellis
Polymnia
Polymnia Circle
C. B. Hervey
James Hagan
Lucile
Zel
Smith’s Cakes
Smith’s Bakery
Wood Printing Co
St. Michael Street
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