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53526’1' GEORGE RICHARDSON, THE: DAY ARMIS‘HCE WAS SEGMED
‘OLDéS‘l' HOLDER op VICTORIA CROSS _.
November 11 of this year means much to ever. American. It marks the third anniversary of the sign‘
ins o1 the armistice, declaring the war with Germany at a close. It is also the day of the arms parley at
Washington. when representatives 6f many nations Will meet to discuss the Question oi disarmament. The
. pictures are just a reminder of those days when the fighting boys and nursing girls startedthe homeward
_ trek. One or the photographs shows the railway stamm at Tours, France. which was thefirinclpal trans‘
561‘ point for American troops on their way toseveral fronts. Another shows part ofthe crowds that gath-
ered at the Flatiron Building in New York city. when the news of the signing of the armistice was made
public. The third shows Sergeant George Richardson. 9!) years old, who will represent Canada at the burial
(if the Unknown American Soldier in Washington. by placing a wreath on the grave He was the first to
wrecelve the Victoria Cross having receixed the decoration from Queen Victoria, who instituted the order
.gaowcs AT FLATIRON BUILDING~
THREE YEARS‘SINCE T111: BOYS CAME HOME.
every town and hamlet.
Another shows the headquarters
;Escholiers. The third shows the
pity, Iowa.
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Three years have passed since the armistice. marking the close of the world war was signed on Vo-
vemher 11,1918. That daym was the greatest in our history, and parades and demonstrations were held in
These pictures will help bring back to mind that eventful day. One or the pictures _
shows a group 01: office workers celebrating the c103e of the war with a coffin designed to hold the Kaiser: '
gkifl‘he castle is known as Chateau Val des
new commander of the American Legion, Hantor‘d MacNider, of Mason 3 I
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Although the “drawing" power of
Connecueot High schools is as._gco~i
or better than the avers. :59 in the
United Sta‘us, “our holding power is
not up to the average," was the state-
1‘ inen't of 3.13. Davis: super‘nsor of
secondary education of the State
_,- Board of Education; in his surrey of.
the High schools at the State. Refer-
ring to the stndént body in the
schools. Mr. Davis said:
. "micro are nine mg]: schools in
Gonnécticut, each having an enroll—
ovex: “700 pupils; The total
these few schools 1s 55': '
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ing their spfimdid opportunities to
more than half or the High school pu-
pils of Connecticut, in
schools enrbllin‘g less than 100 pupils
each. we find onlv four per cent. of
the total nnmbo Tasman enroll~
meat of these {W tar—four SchOols is
less than that of a. sing! ’ average-
sized city High 8611001., C: nsélidation
twanty four 1
venr to \ear is due to many caus‘és
investigations that have been made
from time to time show that a certain
.amount of elimination from the High
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School is to be expected as a. result of
death. nansfer economic conditions,
demanded for promotion.f “Thesis
mauses however do not £51:me sati '
afac‘torilv the amount of elim’
éin our high schools. “I1 com
those of the United States showsathat
in the first and scoond year we hold
practicallyr Fthe same percentage as
the c
and of failure to meet the standards_
of the returns from Connect ut With;
gfintry‘ at large. ,i‘ In the ~hird'
“this beautiful new- altar will be erected in St. Jean Baptist.
and is a masterpiece or 50111111111 beauty. ““‘
precious 81:01:93. bronzes and mosaics will be utilised in the
building, and it will be thé most costly in the world;
chm-1:11.111 New York city.
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- JUDGE ALBERT B. ANDERSON ‘ . a.
. 111111111 the next week or ten days it is estiinated that more than
80 000 miners will be idle as :1 result of the decision by Judge Ander-
son restraining the unions from taking any tnrthensteps to unionizo
the miners in thé Williamson field. It is estimated 50 000 have already
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1igh school grad‘1ntes4rom 1890 to
3918 Wns,8‘25 per cent 1111 other
words. “9 are now tiirnin g out ten
times as many graduates as we did a.
quarter of a. century: ago. About one—
tenth of the people of the (Snitir‘d
States are1 now receiving the benefits
ofea complete high school eduéation.
"Connecticut stands
11.111ng the (States 111 the pea cent of
population cig'h’tee" yeérs .of age
graduating from a four—year Public
thigh school. Vermont stands firm
wk}: 20 02 per cent'
seventeenth. _
Maine second "
Massachusetts ‘
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Aannidpal burial at 11 war hero will titre place on armistice day;
in Martins Ferry, Ohio, at 11 o’clock the hour the armistice was signed;
The serflce is patterned after the national burial in Arlington Na;
- ; clonal Cemetery of an unknown soldier. The man to be interred is
. ‘ ' Sergeant John. RHHarris a native of Piushurgh and a resident of the
‘ , , V Ohio town.
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An American girl is right in the hefirt all the Hnngary turm: ii
mgrked by the unsuccessful coup of Charles to regain his throne. She“:
isithe Countess Anton Sigray tormerlawriarriet Daly, daughter of the
late Marcus Daly, the American copper Rina. James W. Gerard. forms:
Ambassador to Germanv, a bro’ther—in-law of the Count, says that it 1s
probable that she is a prisoner with her husband. He isxrying to get.
1 ' , into commumcation with the unfortunates
$2,500 999 LIBERTY MEMORIAL DEDICATED IN ISANSAS CITY.
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