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Weston died in 1918, but Wintz continued to serve as superintendent of the homes until her own death in 1929. She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 1920 civilian war honours. She was given a full naval funeral at Devonport Dockyard Church attended by four hundred officers and ratings of the Royal Navy ...
June 8 – The total solar eclipse of June 8, 1918 crosses the United States from Washington State to Florida. June 22 Suspects in the Chicago Restaurant Poisonings are arrested, and more than 100 waiters are taken into custody, for poisoning restaurant customers with a lethal powder called Mickey Finn .
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
William Jefferson Blythe Jr. (February 27, 1918 – May 17, 1946) was an American salesman of heavy equipment. He was the biological father of Bill Clinton, the 42nd president of the United States. [1]
John Purroy Mitchel (July 19, 1879 – July 6, 1918) was the 95th mayor of New York, in office from 1914 to 1917. [1] [2] At 34, he was the second-youngest mayor of the city, and was sometimes referred to as the "Boy Mayor of New York".
The Cloquet Fire (/ k l oʊ ˈ k eɪ / kloh-KAY) [2] was an immense forest fire in northern Minnesota, United States in October 1918, caused by sparks on the local railroads amid dry conditions. The fire left much of western Carlton County devastated, mostly affecting Moose Lake , Cloquet , and Kettle River .
Weston was born on 26 March 1840 in London, the daughter of a barrister.In 1851 she, her mother and siblings were living in Weston, Bath. [2] She was influenced from her teenage years onward by the Reverend James Fleming, [3] curate of St Stephen, Lansdown, in the parish of Walcot, Bath (1855–1859), an advocate for total abstinence, lack of ritual in religious expression, and living one's ...