Slavic Legion to Be Enlisted Under War Dept Order
Colonel W A Mercer announces War Department offers to form a Slavic Legion from Czecho Slovak Jugo Slavic and Ruthenian or Ukrainian troops. Enlistment is voluntary for non US citizens not subject to draft. English not required. Mobilization at Camp Wadsworth North Carolina with officer training at Camp Lee Virginia. Enlistment stations listed in Connecticut and nearby cities. Several men were deemed physically qualified and sent to Fort Slocum for enlistment in various branches.
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W. A. Mercer
Connecticut
War Department
United States
Camp
Wadsworth Spartanburg
WN. C
Camp Lee
Petersburg
New Haven
Hartford
Bridgsport
Waterbury
New London
Fort Slocum
Albert J. Ahern
Seymour
Raymond G. Hamel
James A. Keenan
Field Artillery
James H H .Bradford
Rey A. Philips
Stamford
Quartermaster Corps
Howard F. Williams
Plot to Kill Lenine and Trotsky Reported
Swedish press reports of a plot to kill Lenine and Trotsky were received at the State department. Lenine’s Moscow route was blocked by police as he met the new German minister and Russia-Bolshevik private communications with England were suspended. Also noted: Marconi’s cousin Hugo Marconi arriving at an Atlantic port on route to Japan to present a decoration to the emperor, with Wilson to be visited in Washington. The piece lists names of several enlistees and departments in the U S Army signals and medical services.
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Washington
Lenine
Trotsky
State Department
Moscow
Berlin
Sweden
Russia
Jingland
Treuy Marconi
Atlantic
Hugo Marconi
Royal
Halian Dragoons
Victor Emmanuel
Guglielmo Marconi
Japan
Marconi
Wilson
Tokio
Arthur F. Huber
New Haven
Roy J. Cornwell
Litchfield
Alfred B. Cuthill
South Norwick
Ernest Zollet
Astern Point
William A. Davis
Signal Corps
Ivert Banks
Mass
Boston
Edward J. Corcoran
Norwich
William @. Harlow
Derby
Maxwell H. Goldstein
Engineer
Education Board to Fix Date for Resuming Schools
The Board of Education will decide next week at its August meeting whether to open schools on the Wednesday after Labor Day or the Monday following. Teachers’ contracts are dated for the Wednesday after Labor Day to help those on vacation return in time. Members are split on the timing with some preferring Monday after Labor Day and others supporting the Wednesday opening to allow teachers time to resume duties.
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Board of Education
Bridgeport
Stammering and Stuttering Insights by a Patient Writer
A bylined discussion on stammering from Dr Andrew F Carrier outlines causes including nervousness habit and head injury. It contrasts stammering with stuttering and notes education and patient teaching as effective in many cases with speech defects.
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A. P
Yais
Upson
New York City
Board of Education
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