Twin Officers Can Almost Swap Their Service Records
Two sets of twins in the U S Army share strikingly similar service histories. Herbert E Baker and Claude T Gunn serve in field artillery and coast artillery, with brothers stationed from Fort Sheridan to Manila. The Bakers enlisted in 1917, fought in Meuse Argonne, and both became lieutenants with similar records and serial numbers 0-11591 and 0-11392.
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Army
Herbert E
Goa DP. Baker
The
Field Artillery
Claude T
Clem C. Gunn
Coast Artillery
Baker Brothers
Gunn Brothers
Herbert E. Baker
Fourteenth Field Artillery
Fort Sheridan
Ill
Second Field Artillery
Fort Bragg
N. C
Manila
Clem
Fifty-ninth Coast Artillery
Claude
Waltonville
David Baker
Medical
Marist College
Atlanta
Regular Army
Second Cavalry
One Hundred and Forty-seventh Field Artillery
Third Officers’ Training School
Fort Oglethorpe
Meuse Argonne
Field Artillery School
Bach
Herschel
Turkish Women Still Favor Old Marriage Code
Turkish girls, educated and westernized in many ways, still prefer arranged marriages chosen by parents. They now ask to see future husbands before wed. The piece contrasts Western divorces with Turkey where marriages are arranged without brides’ consultation.
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Associated Press
Constantinople
Turkey
Town Spends $40,000 To Lure Physicians
Oxford Maryland, April 28, a small village of about 900 on the Tred Avon river planned to spend 40,000 to attract a resident doctor. The town lacks water and sewage, prompting bonds for a water system and disposal plant, after which the village would again spend about 40,000 for a physician.
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Oxford
Student Again After 35 Years at Penn Medical School
Dr. Charles H. Miner of Wilkes-Barre returns to study at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School after 35 years in medicine. Once a general practitioner, army surgeon, and tuberculosis specialist, he now tackles electrocardiographs and related instruments to catch up with modern medical advances.
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Associated Press
Philadelphia
Charles H. Miner
Wilkes-Barre
The
Times
Hea
Miner
Medical School
Univsity of Pennsylvania
Heidelberg
Urges Business Men Rest Three Months
Hollywood April 28 Three months vacation every year is the prescription for the business man to live longer and be more successful says Dr. George H Simmons editor of the American Medical Journal for 25 years A man should be satisfied with ordinary successes take time off to live and not be always scrambling for more gold Every man is due a vacation if he has worked steadily for nine months
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Associated Press
Hollywood
Fie
George H. Simmons
American Medical Journal
Little Jack Tavener Ready to Lead Off for Tigers
Detroit april 28 Jack Tavener Tiger shortstop five five inches tall will lead off. Tavener has not led off in two major league seasons but was often first in college ball at Columbia. He is a capable hitter with a .256 average over his two American League seasons.
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Associated Press
Detroit
Jack Tavener
Tiger
Hortstop
Tavener
Columbia
Roosevelt's Godson To Fight Phil Scott
Ted Wina born in Sioux City Iowa and raised by his circus family is slated to meet British heavyweight champion Phil Scott in London late in May. Sandwina the American German Jewish fighter has won all eight of his fights in Britain, most recently stopping Tom Norris, the Welsh champion, in the second round. Norris now serves as Sandwina's sparring partner. Sandwina is not yet 19, and his godfather was the late Theodore Roosevelt.
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Associated Press
London
Tedwina
Sioux City
Iowa
Mam
Bailey
Phil S
Britain
Sandwina
Tom Norris
Norris
Theodore Roosevelt
Hunter outwits predatory wolf in Billings Montana
In Billings Montana on April 28 a hunter named Bar ney Brannin a government employee trapped and killed a wolf known as Old Snow Slide after an eight month chase. The wolf had killed stock valued over the years and finally died from poison bait Brannin devised. Brannin used a decoy tactic leaving his horse on the highway and covering his shoes with sheepskin to escape the trail and bait the wolf.
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Associated Press
Billings
Mont
Old Snow Slide
Bar*ney Brannin
Wrolf
Snow Slide
Brannin
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