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Word has been lately received that the Medaille Militaire, the highest honor bestowed by the French government for valorous conduct, has been awarded posthumously to Ronald Wood Hoskier '18, an ex-member of the Lafayette Escadrille. He fell in action at San Quentin, France, on April 23, 1917 after a heroic battle against three enemy plans...
...same year by act of Congress she was given letter franking privileges. Since her husband's death (January 6, 1919) she has been abroad three times. Just one month after her husband died she sailed for France to visit the grave of her son Quentin. Nine months later she went to Brazil with her son Kermit. In January, 1922, she went to Europe intending to go to South Africa, but returned to this country three months later without carrying out her plan. Her home is at Oyster...
...Angeles, 27 members of the Industrial Workers of the World were convicted of criminal syndicalism and sentenced to from one to 14 years in San Quentin prison. Seventeen other " wobblies," as the I. W. W. are known, had previously been convicted...
...faculties. When a patient in this state is plied with questions, Dr. House claims, the auditory centers "set off" the chain of memory, and the replies disclose what actually happened, because the patient is powerless to contrive any deception or rational defense. Dr. House used the drug at San Quentin, the California penitentiary, on three prisoners, convicted of murder, grand larceny and various crimes. The stories told under the influence of scopolamin " proved" the alleged murderer innocent, gave previously concealed evidence of identity in another case and secured a confession of a third. The drug also was used...
...still more astonishing escape, her wanderings in foreign lands and her recapture in Honduras " through the efforts of the Hearst newspapers." . . . The story will continue, presumes the blurb, "from day to day until the whole startling narrative ends with the clanging of the prison doors behind her in San Quentin prison...