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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...born in England in 1884, joined the colors as drummer boy at the age of 14, served 21 years in the British and Australian armies. His campaigning carried him to the Occupation of Crete, 1898; the South African War, 1900-02; the Tibet Expedition, 1904-05; the North West Frontier Expedition, 1908-12; Australia; Egypt; Gallipoli; France...
Decay. Nineteen out of 20 school children in North America, England, Germany and Switzerland, have decayed teeth, an estimate indicates. In some places every child is suffering...
Died. Louis Adams Frothingham, 57, Representative from Massachusetts, onetime Harvard baseballer, Major in the U. S. Army, onetime (1909-11) Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts; of heart disease; on his yacht at North Haven...
Died. Capt. Wilhelm Mueller, 63, of the Hamburg American liner Reliance, friend of countless West Indian tourists; of heart failure; on shipboard, returning to New York from a cruise to Iceland, Spitzbergen & the North Cape, during which he sent relief supplies to the Nobile expedition...
Unique was the profession of a Polish woman which met its abrupt end last week. At a marriage ceremony in Grodno, North Poland, a priest asked his oft-repeated routine question, added "Let him speak now or forever hold his peace." A woman spoke, "The groom is not a man," she said. Investigation followed. The groom explained that it was her custom to dress as a man, marry wealthy women, get their money...