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Brimfield News

Location

Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Mar 09, 1933

Page

3

The Most Expensive Thing in the World War

Elmo Scott Watson argues war is the costliest burden, marking March 12 as the hundredth anniversary of the U S pension system. The article surveys pension totals from 1790 to 1932, outlines postwar relief programs, and traces the evolution of federal veterans administration under Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines.

United States Pension Bureau Uncle Sam Treasury Congress United States Veterans Administration Pension Bureau Frank T. Hines Hfe Continental Congress America United States of America Monroe House Senate Republic Navy Secretary of the Navy Commission of Pensions Department of Interior Pensions Bureau United States Veterans’administration Washington Grover Cleveland Cleveland Oby Wtatern Union

Learned Man Debunks Groundhog as Weather Prophet

Dr George E Johnson of Kansas State College zoology reports experiments on woodchucks and hibernating animals. He says groundhogs wake and emerge before or after February 2 depending on warmth, making them unreliable weather prophets.

Groundhog Woodchuck George E. Johnson Zoology Kansas State College Doctor Johnson

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