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...Bello Horizonte, Brazil, after baking a cake for what she thought was her 115th birthday, Euflasina Maria died. Next day five of her children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren ate the cake, followed Euflasina Maria...
...McHenry, defender of Baltimore. Enraptured U. S. Citizen Francis Scott Key, a prisoner aboard a British ship, scribbled hastily: "Oh! say, can you see. . . ." Last week, citizens again saw the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, as fireworks went off and Baltimore in bunting celebrated the 115th anniversary of siege and anthem, also the 200th anniversary of Baltimore's city charter. The Navy sent to Baltimore the big-gunned battleship New York and five other ships to fire salutes. Squadrons of Army, Navy and Marine airplanes gyrated geometrically. Three soldierly divisions paraded with artillery, cavalry, tanks...
...criss-cross of streets that is Mexico City popped myriads of firecrackers, detonated cannon crackers as bulkily potent as an elephant's wrist. From the oozy slums half sliming into Lake Texcoco rose a clatter of revelry that carried even to aristocratic patios of the Colonia Juarez. Mexico's 115th Independence Day (Sept. 16) had arrived with the dealth-dealing rejoicings that marked an early Rooseveltian U.S. Fourth of July...
During the period preceding the war, Captain Amann spent much time in the United States and South America engaged in carrying on his business, and was living in Buenos Ayres at the out-break of war in 1914. He returned to France and joined his regiment, the 115th Infantry, which was sent to the Champagne front. He was at once promoted to a 1st lieutenantcy and in June 1915 was appointed a temporary captain...
Friday was the 115th anniversary of the founding of Phillips Andover Academy...