Red Cross Duty to Aid Veterans Newscard
The Red Cross reports extensive aid to ex service men and families, with 73,700 definite services to 84,500 ex service men in hospitals and institutions. It details monthly case counts, home service expansions, and postwar legislation increasing veteran rights and Red Cross involvement nationwide.
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Washington
Red Cross
Is &S
Argas
United States
Jast
Red I‘roas
Alll
Congress
American Red Cross
Army
Navy
Naval
Odd Instrument used as Roof Pitch Finder
A folding instrument measures roof pitch by aligning a spirit level on a radial pie shaped frame. The device rests a edge on the surface and the pointer centers the level to reveal pitch in degrees and inches along a one foot baseline. When folded, the level is protected by surrounding metal parts.
Inventor of Locomotive Trevithick’s Pioneering Steam Engine Achievement
The claim that George Stephen son Invented the locomotive engine is false. Cornwall's George Trevithick built a steam locomotive, drawing a loaded tram from Merthyr Tydvil to Abercynon in February 1804, after a bet by ironmaster Willand Cranhny. Trevithick had earlier hauled passengers by road in 1801 and tested a street vehicle in London in 1808. Canada saw 47 pairs of twins and a set of triplets recently. Peter Brooks of Grand Rapids sold an 1804 silver dollar to a New York collector for 4900 dollars.
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George Stephenson
George Trevithick
Radla
Merthyr Tydvil
Abercynon
Glamorganshire
Merthyr
Willand Cranhny
Trevithick
Cornwall
Peter Brooks
Grand Rapids, Mich
New York
Cow for a bill and a ride home tale of a mountaineer
The story features Dr Henry Drury Hatfield former West Virginia governor serving as a mountain doctor. He saves a mountaineer's wife from pneumonia and the grateful man offers payment with a cow. Hatfield later learns the man walked miles with the animal and gives $5 to settle the debt, sending the cow home.
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Henry Drury Hatfield
West Virginia
Hatfield
Doc
Hatfeld
Late Clerk Adolphus Annim Seeks Alarm Clock Joke
Adolphus Annim, a routinely late clerk, tells his boss a wife’s newborn son caused the delay. The boss quips the wife should have given him an alarm clock. The exchange ends with Annim’s quick retort implying the joke at work.
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Adolphus Annim
Adolphus
Hosa
John Quincy Adams Life Praised By Seward
William Henry Seward lauds John Quincy Adams for beneficent labor and personal contentment. He notes Adams avoided wealth and partisan pull, yet served mankind and died in affluence, distinguishing himself beyond any other citizen in a long career.
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John Quincy Adams
William Henry Seward
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Dominion of Canada
Nau
Natu’ Brothers
Vindicator
Republican
Vindicator & Republican
Estherville
Iowa
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