Reserves of the Future Train Youth for Army Service
Great Britain prepares for expanded forces by organizing youth battalions across the country. Boys under eighteen are educated and conditioned with graded drills, physical work, and games while ensuring safety. The program includes education, hygiene, interior economy, discipline, and route marching to ready noncommissioned officers and officers for future military needs.
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London
Great Britain
Robertson
Archie” Rowland
Sheridan
Secret Service
Valley of the Shenandoah
H. H. Young
Rowland
Ike Harris
Ike
Young
Secret Service Chest
Congress
Archibald H. Rowland, Jr
John Beall
Burley
Maxwell
Potomac
Chesapeake
Mosby
Beall
Toronto
Canada
Michigan
Johnson Island
Sandusky
Cleveland
Buffalo
Harry Young
Edwards
Bowie
William
Landegon
Phillips
Timothy Webster
Baltimore
Lincoln
Allan Pinkerton
Long Walk Ends as Woman Writer Arrives in Washington
Miss Genevieve Alexander traveling from Berkeley to Washington writes the Chicago Tribune about her journey on foot. The article also covers President Wilson signing a $640 billion navy air program, Italian triplanes tested in Italy, and U S plans to build large air fleets to combat submarines and support allied air forces. It notes rapid aviation expansion, joint allied cooperation, and envisioned training camps like Camp Wilbur Wright near Dayton with 144 biplanes and 110000 aviation personnel.
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Genevieve Alexander
Berkeley
Cal
Washington, D. C
Henry M. Hyde
Chicago Tribune
Wilson
Italy
Caproni
United States
Air Army
Wilbur Wright
Dayton
United States Forces
Signal Corps
Army
The Secret Service Roots of the Civil War Era
A historical account notes espionage in ancient and modern times, highlighting Pinkerton's Civil War work, early U S secret service origins, and key spies and scouts like Van Liew Greenhow Rowland and Webb. It details female spies, Confederate and Union networks, and notable incidents around Lincoln’s era.
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Philadelphia Record
Joshua
Solomon
Caleb
Canaan
Abraham Lincoln
Washington
Independence Hall
Philadelphia
John Allen Pinkerton
Baltimore
United States
Secret Service
McClellan
Federal Secret Service
Pinkerton
Maj
E.J. Allen
America
Cook County
Illinois
Chicago
Adams Express Company
Pinkerton National Detective Agency
Lincoln
Union
Mosby
Young
Confederate States
Europe
Bordeaux
Army of the Potomac
Edward’s Ferry
Leesburg
Work Begins on Vast Air Fleet
Washington reports giant airships with three 700 horsepower engines each, able to carry over four tons, speed up to 100 mph. Plans envision a navy of huge battleships of the air protected by swarms of faster, smaller planes as part of United States war planning.
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United States
Rhine
Howard E. Coffin
Aircraft Production Board
Congress
Washington
France
Italy
England
Washington, D. C
The Golfer's Criticism Halves Too Many Holes
A light exchange between a new minister and a golfer turns on sermon length and golf terms. The golfer teases that the preacher halved too many holes, implying the sermon dragged on and needed pruning.
Primitive Decorations of Sac Indians Describe Painted Dress
Townsend, an early Western traveler, recalls meeting about a hundred Sac Indians dressed primitively with shaved heads, red and black face paint, elk hair, and feathered headwear. many bare to the waist and some clothed in calico. Squaws resembled the men, and one elder used a broken umbrella as a crude ornament. The account contrasts Babylonian sun dried bricks with Nineveh kiln fired bricks.
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Townsend
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Britain
Antietam
Lee
van Liew
Richmond
Greenhow
Jefferson Davis
Bull Run
North
General McDowell
Beauregard
Cape Fear River
North Carolina
Condor
Confederacy
Adjutant General’s Office
War Department
Army and Navy Journal
Payne
Seward
Surratt
Belle Boyd
South
Virginia
Nineveh
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