Athletic world notes span clubs and coaching plans
A roundup covers Nick Cullop’s stance with St Louis Americans, Western league schedule wins and losses, a six week athletic coaching course at the University of Illinois, Lieut Robert Simpson's track feats, A Rankin Johnson’s Army enlistment aim, and boxing bouts in Racine Milwaukee and Chicago with proceeds for a injured boxer.
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University of Illinois
George Hugg
Zuppke
Harry Gill
Ralph Jones
Columbia
Robert Simpson
Simpson
Milwaukee
Bob Moha
Gus Christie
Moira
Eddie
Jock Malone
St. Paul
What's in a scout head second class and first class duties
The guide outlines ten second class head skills including using a knife to cut firewood building a fire with two matches and cooking with open fire. First class adds twelve items such as preparing camp meals with utensils cooking multiple dishes and teaching methods and includes fire building and baking bread.
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Dad
Scouts War Savings Campaign Drives Boy Scouts Momentum
The yearlong War Savings stamp drive by the Boy Scouts of America gains momentum as local committees report strong cooperative action. Many scouts earn the Achievement button for 25 sales and the Ace medal for 250 in sales. Government printing plants have issued 12 million postal cards already with 8 million more in progress and projections show 20 million additional cards needed in the first four months. Cards arrive at national headquarters at about 12 000 daily.
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Boy Scouts of America
Treasury Department
Soldiers Insurance Information Readily Available
Sec Riley of the county board has obtained literature on soldiers insurance and family allowances. He urges every young man planning to join the service to obtain and read it now. The policy is cheap and protects beneficiaries or provides disability coverage. Ida Landers of Ardmore Oklahoma is jailed on murder charges in the deaths of her former husband William Landers and his father C T Landers at a camp near Clinton schoolhouse six miles east of Ardmore.
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Riley
The
County Board
Ardmore
Okla
Ida Landers
William Landers
C. T. Landers
Clinton Schoolhouse
Scout Oleson Becomes Airman At Young Age
Clifton Penn Oleson the youngest birdman in the service earned a commission after Curtiss school aeronautics training at Miami Florida and Fort Sam Houston Texas He followed Beachey’s sensational flight as a boy and vowed to fly someday proving nerve can drive an aviator.
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Clifton Penn Oleson
Oleson
Curtiss School
Miami
Fla
War Department
Fort Sam Houston
Tex
Beachey
Dubuque
Scout Rubbish Drive in Portsmouth Report
Portsmouth Ohio scouts conducted a sanitary survey at the mayor's request. Two hundred twelve scouts surveyed one city block each, reporting on alleys backyards and gardens while earning school exemptions. They then led cleanup campaigns to remedy bad conditions.
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Scouts of
Portsmouth
Diamonds Made in Iron Plan Seen by Engineer
London reports Sir Charles Parsons outlines a method to form diamonds inside iron by heating a metal alloy then exposing the solidified mass to carbon monoxide at high pressure. He notes the cost is high but predicts future chemistry and engineering may produce diamonds cheaper than mining.
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Associated Press
London
British Institute of Medals
Charles A. Parsons
Sir Charles
Jack
Fritz
Bill
British Aviator OBrien Escapes Injury In Flight Over Kelley Field
Lieutenant Pat Alva O'Brien of the Royal British Flying Corps nearly fell two thousand feet today over Kelley Field in San Antonio but sustained only cuts and bruises. He was alone in the plane, conscious when aid arrived, and worried about his trousers being ruined.
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Associated Press
San Antonio
Texas
Pat Alva O’brien
Royal British Flying Corps
Kelley Field
O’brien
Prohibition Senate Committee Meets With Limited Attendance
The Senate committee convened with five members present, amid debate on prohibition measures. Officials indicated plans to advance agricultural provisions as part of the broader prohibition agenda, signaling cautious progress despite a sparse attendance.
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Washington
Senate
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J. W. Shelton & CO
Athletic World
St. Louis
Nick Cullop
St. Louis Americans
New York Americans
Quinn
Cullop
Kansas City
E. W. Dickerson
Dickerson
Urbana
Wis
A. Rankin Johnson
Milwaukee Club
American Association
Johnson
France
Chicago
Eddie McGoorty
Oshkosh, Wis
National Army
Camp Grant
Phil Harrison
Racine
Harrison
McGoorty
Wens
United States Government
War Savings Ngs
Stanfield’s Grocery
National Council of the Boy Scouts of America
Scouts W. &. S. Campaign
Ford
W. E. Harvey
Ada, Okla
Scout
Canton
Atlanta
Omaha
Neb
Poilu
Sam
Tommy Adkins
Foch
Frits
Rhine
Air
Kelly Field
Esther Lovejoy
Portland
Ore
Mexical Women’s National Association Today
England
America
Dr. Lovejoy
Germany
Southland
Esthers
Amo
Committee For Prohibition
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