Merchant Marine Rules Ease Entry For Sailors
Boston July 29 The U S Shipping Board Recruiting Service issued a statement detailing minimum sea experience for entry to deck and engineering officer tracks in the Merchant Marine. Rules broaden access, with seven New England schools and others coast to coast to train qualified sailors.
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Mobile
New Orleans
Galveston
Los
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Portland
Echols
Lake
Bay
Sound
Tirman
Franks Lillie Birth Birthday Echoes Career in Brief
Frank Fr. Lillie a zoology and embryology professor at the University of Chicago and former Woods Hole Marine Laboratory director celebrates his forty seventh birthday in Toronto today. He has argued that evolution is a proven natural process in face of religious critiques. The piece notes his long career and public controversy over evolution.
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Frank ‘Rattray Lillie
University of Chicago
Marine Biological Laboratory
Woods Hole, Mass
Toronto
Universalty of Toronto
Lillie
Allies Order Here 25 Winged Whales From Curtiss Co
The British and French navies place a major order with Curtiss Aeroplane Co for 25 large flying whale aircraft. The craft, a flying boat derivative, features a 90 foot wingspan and 46 foot hull, with ballast fuel tanks and capacity for heavy armament. Prime concerns include pilot training and domestic production to match Allied needs.
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Buffalo
Curtiss Aeroplane Co
Glenn H. Curtiss
Curtiss
Mr. Curtiss
Greatine
France
Aircraft Production Board of
United States
America
Training machines for aviation praised for ruggedness
The piece argues American industry has not only produced toys and emphasizes training planes must be tougher than combat aircraft. It notes amateurs operate them and they require slow landings and resistance to breakage, with refinements outweighing speed concerns for training use.
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United States
War and the Mail Delays Across Vast Distances
A columnist recalls mail mix ups during war and peacetime. An officer’s envelopes misdelivered reveal letters traveling thousands of miles, including a certificate ending in India and a return to England after many months. The piece compares mail routes from Yaquitos to Lima and the vast Andes barrier.
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England
India
Yaquitos
Lima
Peru
Andes
Yquitos
Amazon
Liverpool
Panama Canal
South America
Ima
Princess in Mufti Delights Windsor Munition Workers
Princess Mary visits a Windsor Castle garden and munition plants, discreetly serving hot midday meals at a factory canteen. Clad in a blue overall, she greets workers and sells chocolates and buns, delighting the cheering crowd of munition girls. The scene is noted as boosting morale and public interest in youth education.
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London
Mary
Windsor Castle
Rienzi the Tribune of Rome Ends in Assassination
Rienzi, last of the Tribunes, rose to power in 1347 and briefly restored order in Rome before nobles and the mob toppled him. He declared himself Tribune, ruled as absolute master, and was killed on October 8, 1354 after a counter revolt led by Stephen Colonna.
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Rienzi
Rome
Wiss
Stephen Colonna
Caesar
Idaho’s Borah Emerges as Eminent Statesman
The article profiles Senator William Edgar Borah of Idaho born June 29, 1865 in Fairfield Illinois. It traces his legal start in Lyons Kansas, return to Boise, political rise and multiple terms in the U.S. Senate from 1907 to 1919 with a note on his enduring influence. It also mentions a German leather shortage prompting cat and rabbit skin requisitions.
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Idaho
William Edgar Borah
Borah
Fairfield, DL
Southern Illinois Academy
Enfield
University of Kansas
Boise
Lyons
Kans
United States
United States Senate
Thomas Dunn English Author of Ben Bolt
Thomas Dunn English born June 29 1819 in Philadelphia was a physician turned lawyer and politician who served in the New Jersey legislature and the U S House. Ben Bolt remains his best known work though he died in 1902. Garfield Otis a Boston fisherman was found afloat in a New York dory 600 miles southeast of Cape Cod after a voyage from St Johns New Brunswick. Captain John C P Bartholf and Lieutenant Stevens flew to Mineola New York in four hours covering 300 miles.
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Alice Ben Bolt
New York Mirror
Nathaniel P. Willis
Nelson Kneass
England
United States
du Maurier
Trilby
New Jersey
National House of Representatives
Ben Bolt
Garfield Otis
Boston
New York
St. John’s
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Cape Cod
John
C. P. Bartholf
Stevens
Hampton Roads
Mineola
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