Boy Scouts Aid Birds Through Conservation Efforts
Scouts nationwide run feeding stations and build bird houses each year to aid migrating birds. Projects include bird censuses, safeguarding habitats with Audubon groups, and planting mulberry and sweet cherry trees to sustain robins and other fruit eaters while supporting fruit crops. John M. Phillips notes benefits from March to June when robins assist gardens and orchards, arguing for more unmarketable fruit to reduce conflicts with farmers and protect feathered helpers.
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Audubon Societies
San Francisco
Golden City Park
National Council
John M. Phillips
Pittsburgh
Boy Scouts of America
Phillips
Lincoln motorman praises scouting for curbing prankish youth
A Lincoln Illinois motorman credits boy scouting with reducing car pranks by youths who once flipped cars. He argues the honor code and productive activities foster better behavior. An editorial from the Lincoln Star calls this a small matter that contributes to bigger gains, aligning with educational leaders.
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Lincoln
Illinois
Lincoln Star
Motorman
Three Times a Life Saver Paul Lerner Hero of Boston
Paul Lerner a twelve year old from Boston's west end earned renown as a life saver with three rescues. His latest dive into the Charles River pulled to shore Robert Cubilowich who fell in while chasing a ball from the Esplanade as bystanders watched in alarm.
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Paul Lerner
Boston
West End
Paul
Charles River
Rain-In-The-Face’s controversial legacy in Custer myth
A compact history of Rain-In-The-Face, Hunkpapa i n warrior, detailing rumors he killed General Custer and the heart tale, his 1873 Yellowstone killings, imprisonment, escape, later life on Standing Rock, and roles as police on the reservation, with notes on sources and poetry shaping the legend.
Crow King Chief Who Defied Medicine Men
Crow King of the Hunkpapa Sioux defied medicine men by burning their fetishes at a feast after High Bear died of tuberculosis. A famed warrior, he led the charge at Little Bighorn and later surrendered with Sitting Bull before settling on Standing Rock. His stand diminished the chiefs’ mystical power among his people.
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Sitting Bull
High Bear
Crow King
Fort
Phil Kearney
Little Big Horn
Custer
Canada
Buil
United States
Stahiding Rock Reservation
Memory Shocked Dieing Man Writes With Both Hands
Hayward Thompson, an ex service man in Denver Colorado, has a rare condition after a war head injury. One brain side directs one hand while the other controls the opposite hand. His memory only reaches to a hospital stay months ago and he recalls nothing of life before the war. Veterans bureau and the Colorado American Legion are aiding his search for his past.
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Hay Ward Thompson
Denver
Colo
Thompson
Veterans’ Bureau
Hayward Thompson
Colorado Department of the American Legion
The Real Unknown Soldier
A Baltimore street foundling named Edward John Evangelist Smith grows up in Mount Saint Mary’s School. He enlists with the Fifth Marines in 1917 and dies from a German bullet the day armistice nears. Wells Hawkes initiates a fund to honor “Smithy” as the real unknown soldier.
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Manders
Baltimore
Edward John Evangelist Smith
Mount Saint Mary’s
Mount Saint Mary's
Smith
Fifth Regiment of Marines
Wells Hawkes
WOUNDED ON ARMISTICE DAY IN WORLD WAR II
C Rolf of Toledo Ohio is noted as a unique naval wounded veteran after the Armistice as a lieutenant and ex executive officer of a merchant ship. He was severely wounded when his ship was fired upon by a submarine near La Palis France on November 11 1918. After months in hospitals in England and on the continent he returned to America and resumed law practice in Toledo. Soldiers classed with criminals and others gain suffrage rights.
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C. Rolf
Toledo
United States Naval
Rolf
la. Palis
France
England
America
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National Council of the Boy Scouta of America
BOY Scouts and Birds
Curley
Rain-In- The-Face
Tomagaju
Yellowstone
Tom Custer
Fort Abraham Lincoln
N. C
Captain Tom
Rain-In-The-Face
Longfellow
Gen
George Custer
Rain-In-The- Face
Fort Totten
N. D
Standing Rock
Buckeye
Fletcher's
He Yy
Eer
Mapa
Jaca Olle Sati
Wuosinie Sioa
Fletcher
Castoria
New
York Sity
Sillicus
Methuselah
Cynicus
New York Sun
Guriains Putnam
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