Word: firing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...headquarters company of the field artillery falls the important duty of keeping intact the communication lines between the battalions and the necessary reconnoitering before the appointed batteries begin their fire. Men who intend to enlist in this branch of the service are to report at the State Armory at Lawrence tonight at 8 o'clock. The applicants will be given their physical examination, and if accepted will be sworn into national service. The men taken will drill once a week until July 25, when the regiments will go into intensive training. It is practically understood that this division will...
Humbly we beg to submit that the times have somewhat changed. The sturdy farmer so longer defends his one man castle. The flintlock has been superceded by breech loading machine guns which fire four hundred shots at a clip. To defend his home a man may have to defend a trench some four thousand miles away, over seas and foreign soil. From our expert and trusted correspondents in Berlin we learn also that the German general staff has not included in its plan of war a campaign against Fitchburg, or an invasion into becastled Quincy. The home guards might well...
Yesterday at ten of the morning, near Memphis, Tennessee, a mob of five thousand white men burned with fire a negro to the death. The negro had been accused of the commission of a capital crime. Under the law he deserved death according...
...bars strong, they tortured him; the mob, with the fiendish tortures which from time immemorial have been the pastime of savages. And when he was near to oblivion from pain, they applied the torch to the oil-soaked fagots and aroused his spirit to a terrible death in the fire. It is noted that a few urged that he be shot. They should be honored, for they were merciful...
...copy of the Hawaiian volcano is circular in form, with a scale of one foot to 1,500 feet. Thus the complete model is about 15 feet across, and shows in relief Kilauea, Kilauea-Iki (little Kilauea), Halemauman (house of big fire), and the surrounding volcanic plateau...