Reserves of the Future Training Youth for Army Service
In Britain the wartime draft is expanding to include a half million more troops. Across the country boys under eighteen are being trained for soldiering with careful safeguards to prevent physical or mental strain. The program blends drills, games, education, and discipline, with emphasis on interior economy, hygiene, and route marching as youth are prepared for future military age.
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London
Great Britain
Robertson
United States
Rhine
Howard E. Coffin
Aircraft Production Board
Congress
Air Army
Wilbur Wright
Dayton
United States Forces
Signal Corps
Army
Miss Genevieve Alexander Takes a Long Walk to Washington
Miss Genevieve Alexander, from Berkeley, arrives in Washington to write a book on Woman's Age. The report notes the journey mostly on foot, as Henry M. Hyde describes in the Chicago Tribune.
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Genevieve Alexander
Berkeley
Cal
Washington, D. C
The Secret Service in Civil War Era Spies
The piece recounts the rise of the Pinkerton agency and the Civil War secret service. It details how Lincoln narrowly escaped assassination after Pinkerton warning, early US secrecy gaps, and how both Union and Confederate sides used spies, scouts, and women operatives. It highlights figures like Miss Van Liew, Mrs. Greenhow, Belle Boyd, Archie Rowland, and Timothy Webster, noting the era’s espionage methods and dangers.
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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
van Liew
Richmond
Greenhow
Jefferson Davis
Bull Run
North
McDowell
Beauregard
Cape Fear River
North Carolina
Condor
England
Confederacy
Adjutant General’s Office
War Department
Army and Navy Journal
Payne
Seward
Surratt
Belle Boyd
South
Virginia
Archie” Rowland
Sheridan
Valley of the Shenandoah
H. H. Young
Rowland
Ike Harris
Ike
Secret Service Chest
Congress
Archibald H. Rowland, Jr
John Beall
Burley
Maxwell
Potomac
Chesapeake
Beall
Toronto
Canada
Michigan
Johnson Island
Sandusky
Cleveland
Buffalo
Harry Young
Edwards
Bowie
William
Landegon
Phillips
Timothy Webster
Allan Pinkerton
Vast US air fleet plan features multiengine airships and planes
Washington reports a ambitious air fleet concept featuring enormous airships with three 700 horsepower engines capable of carrying over four tons and speeds near 100 mph. The plan envisions a navy of giant airships protected by swarms of smaller, faster aircraft.
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Henry M. Hyde
Chicago Tribune
Wilson
Italy
Caproni
Washington, D. C
United States
The Golfer's Criticism Quip
A new minister asks if his sermon was too long in a joke where a golf player replies that the minister halved too many holes. The exchange humorously blends church and sport through wordplay.
Primitive Decorations by an Early Western Traveler
Townsend recalls meeting about a hundred Sac Indians with shaved heads, red and black facial paint, elk hair in scalp tufts, and varying dress including planks and calico. Squaws appeared similar. a crone wore a broken umbrella repurposed as earrings. Babylonian bricks and Nineveh kilns are noted alongside sun dried Egyptian bricks.
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Townsend
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Britain
France
Antietam
Lee
Nineveh
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