New Gzar's Winter Palace Becomes People's Museum in Russia
Louise Bryant reports from Petrograd as the Winter Palace is occupied amid chaos after Kerensky's flee. Junkers and Bolshevik troops clash. delegates from rival parties stage a late night march, while soldiers disarm prisoners and guards. The palace becomes a makeshift museum as crowds seize souvenirs and observers note the upheaval.
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New Gzar’s
Winter Palace
Russia
Ula
Smokney
Wild Division
Petrograd
Nevsky Prospect
Smotney
Military Revolutionary Committee
Duma
Althother
Prokopovitch
Red Area
Peter and Paul
Tereschenko
People's Palace
Waterloo Red Cross Nurse in Hospital Service in France
Miss Mildred Williamson, Waterloo's sole Red Cross nurse in active service, serves at a Red Cross hospital in France. A letter to Mrs. J. W. Weatherill notes she managed three wards of ten beds, had time for letters, knitting, and reading as most patients were improving.
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Red Grogs Hospital
France
Mildred Williamson
Waterloo
Red Cross
J. W. Weatherill
Miss Williamson
Williamson
Health Nurse Miss Williamson Recounts War Field Notes
In a letter from early in the war, Miss Williamson praises the courtesy of French British and American soldiers toward injured. She notes language barriers and gestures used during patient visits, and recalls touring battlefields with cemeteries and graves of French German soldiers in fair order. She grew up with Mr and Mrs Weatherill in Waterloo where their son Orrin enlisted, and now they are about 30 miles from the park in France.
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Ule
Kimg
Miss Williamson
Geri Greaves
Williamson Reparty
Wiliantson
Waterloo
Mra. Weatheril
Orrin
Rance
What Pat Would Do
Pat and Ina discuss knowledge of Taam’s destination as a funeral procession halts their cart. Ina asks Pat why knowing the place matters. Pat replies that knowing would not help him, adding he would avoid going near the location.
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Pat
Vat
Mika
Taam
Atte
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Louise Bryant
Public Ledger Company
Canada
Council of the Russian Republic
Cronstadt
John Reed
Albert Rhys Williams
Kerensky
Junker
Qbabushka
Provisional Government
Doys
Melishoff
Junkers
Smolney
Mensheviks
Right
Social Revolutionists
Left Social Revolutionists
Bolsheviks
Menshevik Internationalists
Aurora
Menshevik
City
General Assembly
Miigims
Waterloo Red Cross
Benjamin Franklin
Caira
LendHim Allang
Enjamin Franklin
Franklin
Tom Moore
Eda Hearted
Havana
Myers-Cox CO
Dubuque, Iowa
C.J. Miller
The
U.S. Food Administration
Calumet Baking Powder Co
Finore St
Chicago, Illinois
Wrigleys
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