Boy Scout Heroism Praised by Visitor in Seattle
Mrs. A C Blackall recounts British WWI boy scouts guarding railways and buildings. She recalls a unarmed scout signaling a train to stop and another shot through the heart to stop a spy. She urges broad support for the movement as training for heroic service.
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A. C. Blackall
Seattle
Woman’s Liberal League
West Australia
England
London
Channel
British Isles
Scouts Aid Soldiers In Off to France Exercise
Boy scouts at Swayne field Toledo collected funds to supply troops not issued by the government. The emergency fund provided medicines tethered horses and food when needed before departure to France. some units even bought supplies from rail stations. The effort aims to keep home soldiers comfortable while in France.
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France
Swayne Field
Toledo
Ohio
Boy Scout Ushers Decline Tips at St Louis Show
A twelve year old scout usher at a Municinal theater performance in St. Louis refuses a tip saying scouts do not accept gratuities. The piece praises the Boy Scouts as teaching truth, honor, self-reliance, self-respect, and the nobility of service.
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St. Louis
Scouts as Vets Orderlies at Grand Army Encampment
At the last annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic Commander William J. Patterson thanked the boy scouts for their many helpful services. Scouts now outnumber the veterans and serve as guides and aides to aged attendees during reunions in large cities. Old soldiers praise the display of young Americans.
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Grand Army of the Republic
William J. Patterson
Grand Army
Scouts Run Lancaster City For An Hour In Mock Reign
Boy scouts of Lancaster Pennsylvania filled all city offices from mayor to police during the hour in the city’s busiest period. Scout Edward Moyer served as mayor while officials performed duties including traffic control. Parents may have worried during this reversal of authority.
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Boy Scouts of
Lancaster
Edward Moyer
Germany seeks control of Scandinavia and Baltic to press war
Washington reports that Germany aims to establish sovereignty over Scandinavia and turn the Baltic into a German lake. The claim cites a Finnish treaty and German pressure on Norway, Denmark, and Sweden, with Pan German plans seen as provoking conflict and expanding coast access for a naval base.
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Washington
Scandinavia
Scandinavian
Norwegian
Germany
North Sea
Sweden
Stockholm
Berne
Amsterdam
Norway
Denmark
Entente
Baltic
Wolff Bureau
Finland
Refenstag
Red Guards
Komische Zeitung
Ruggia
Aland Islands
Labor delegates coming for talks on democratic peace aims
A Franco British Belgian labor delegation travels to the United States to align with the American labor party on democratic peace and postwar working-class measures. Marcel Cachin says they will seek labor representatives at the peace conference and will present a memorandum to President Wilson in Washington. 61 year old James Gillette of South Dakota is the state’s oldest enlistee, joining a motor transport unit after service in Pipestone.
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Paris
France
England
Belgium
United States
Worstien
Inter-Allied Labor Conference
Associated Press
Marcel Cachin
Socialist Party
American Labor Party
Wilson
America
Washington
Sioux Falls
James Gillette
South Dakota
Pipestone
Minn
Gillette
Moody County
Flankeau
Wimple kin confront aid needs with California plan
Elinor Wimple faces pressure from Grace Wimple's kin as they weigh helping Gary Wimple's widow. Grace reveals a generous father offers support and a move to California for Elinor, after Tod Hunter Wimple's wartime service connects two family lines and reshapes local duties.
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Tod Wimple
Seth Bashfield
Wimple
Gary Wimple
Ted
Mrs. Abidiah Greene
Relief Committee
Housewives’ League
Elinor Wimple
California
Tod
Skee
Todhunter Wimple
Elinor
Grace
Ella Randall Pearce
Chicago
Leg for Less Than a Dollar
Major W A Chapple of the British Army Medical Corps describes a hollow fiber board artificial leg as comfort lightness and low cost. It fits any stump length and weighs nineteen ounces below the knee or two pounds four and a half ounces for thigh stumps and can be made and sold for under one dollar.
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W. A. Chapple
M. D
British Army Medical Corps
Major Chapple
Cornmeal Muffins With Dates
A dated recipe for cornmeal muffins combining white cornmeal brown sugar salt and butter with milk flour baking powder egg and chopped dates. The mix is cooked in a double boiler then beaten and baked in muffin pans. dates may be cooked with the cornmeal for longer shelf life.
Long Distance Voices Across Great Canyon Record
An 18 mile hearing of a man shouting the name Bob across the Grand Canyon of the Colorado is noted as the record longest voice distance. The text also mentions Gibraltar hearing voices up to ten miles and comments on calm, substantial people.
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Grand Canyon
Colorado
Bob
Gibraltar
Tricks of Worms Mimicry Explained by Hassan Maxim
A North American Review piece by Hassan Maxim explains worm and bird mimicry. A worm imitates a puff adder to deter birds after detecting host hesitation, transferring the bird’s decision process to the worm’s nervous system. Subscribe for the Record.
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Hassan Maxim
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BOY Scouts
National Council of the Boy Scouts of America
Kaiser
Scandinavian Peninsula
Atlantic Ocean
LABOR
Aunt Grace
Mrs. Greene
Grace Todhunter
Gary
Alwaye
THE
First State Bank
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