"A battery commander with the 5th Army in Italy, Capt. Herbert M. Vines, of Bessemer, now at Northington General Hospital, lost his left leg in the battle of Cassino. 'I heard the shell coming and dove under a truck. And, of course, that's where it...
"'They were swell.' That's what a bronze-star wearer from Northington General Hospital, Tuscaloosa, Ala., said about a couple of USO shows he got to see at the front lines in Italy. With those three words he also praised the motion pictures, games...
The 1918 influenza pandemic was one of the earliest, and perhaps the most traumatic experience to date, in the life of Mrs. Williams, age 91, of Selma, Alabama. That's because her father, a jeweler, contracted the disease and became very ill. Even...
This article by George Dixon discusses Boykin's desire to find a dog for President Truman, and it describes his hobby of rescuing dogs from the pound and sending them to friends and constituents. From the Times-Herald.
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