Diplomat Soldier Gen Hugh L Scott A Noted Indian Fighter
General Hugh L Scott combines diplomacy and military skill as a longtime Indian fighter who befriended tribes and learned their folklore and sign language. He helped quell western disturbances, aided negotiations during Villa’s raid era, met Obregon to seek peace, and now leads the American mission in Russia.
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Hugh L. Scott
United States Army
Inter
Scott
Villa
Carranza
Mexico
Funston
Obregon
Russia
Head of Army Transportation Faces Vast Mobilization Task
Maj. Gen. Henry G. Sharpe, quartermaster general, oversees the United States Army's logistics in mobilization. The department must move recruits to points of assembly and embarkation, expand a transport fleet to support up to 3,000,000 troops in Europe, and supply food, clothing, vehicles, horses, and equipment. Shelter fortraining troops is expanding from scarce tentage to wooden barracks as cantonments are established.
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Henry G. Sharpe
Europe
War Department
Sharpe
United States
National Guard
Admiral Gleaves Wins Naval Honors On War’s First Front
At the outset of World War I the Rear Admiral Gleaves commanded the convoy that escorted transports with Vice Admiral Sims sending destroyers to protect ships in the submarine zone. The fleet faced heavy damage yet no enemy hits marred American vessels, and submarines suffered losses. The story recalls the July Fourth triumphs tied to naval battles and the Cervera engagement with minimal American casualties and ongoing rescue efforts.
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Albert Gleaves
William 8. Sims
Cervera
Commodore Schrey
Gleaves
Weyler Firebrand in Spain Portrait of a Turbulent Leader
The article describes Spain in turmoil as constitutional guarantees are suspended and martial law is declared. It links Captain General Weyler of Teneriffe with pro hundamientos, notes his Cuban brutalities memory, and mentions German ties and sympathy with Germany in the war.
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Kingdom
Spain
Weyler
Tenerifty
Cuba
Weylerta
Germany
Maximilian Hohenlohn
Maura
GOOD EARTH ROADS From Standpoint of Road Building They Depend on Texture
A United States Department of Agriculture bulletin explains that earth or dirt roads rely on soil texture and structure, permeability, and capillary power. It covers clay sand loam gravel marl gumbo types, their wetting and drying behavior, slaking vs nonslaking clays, and how mixing sand with clay improves stability. It discusses clay drainage, dust and mud, and the roles of sand and loam in road crust, including topsoil roads and subdrainage needs.
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United States Department of Agriculture
United States
Protect Plants From Cutworms With Wrapping And Berlin Poison
Damage from cutworms can be prevented by paper wrappings around stems. Let paper extend below surface and above ground. In cornfields use paris green bait mixed with bran syrup and water to make a crumbly mash. This can cover two acres. scatter late afternoon over affected areas.
Handy Harrow in Gardens Impress Classic Gardener
Last summer I saw a peatest and cleanest home garden with vegetables in straight rows and no weeds. The owner kept it tidy by pulling a small homemade hand harrow along the rows, a simple device of few boards with spikes.
Harrowlike Wheel Tool Eases Weeding In Garden Rows
A Farm Progress writer praises a wheel harrow that fits between narrow rows, weighs down to mulch and kill weeds, and makes weekly use simpler than frequent hoeing. Once soil is prepared, the wheel hoe or harrow keeps weeds down with minimal hand weeding.
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Farm Progress
Flirtation by a Baby on a Bus Leads to Job Talk
Two women in a car with a lace swaddled infant allow the baby to flirt with a shabby man seeking work. The infant's bold advance and the passenger’s responses unfold amid amused observers as the man muses on Tidewater Virginia and potential employment, hinting at a chance encounter born of the child’s initiative.
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Ashington
Juliet
Romeo
kiMer
Tidewater
Virginia
Speaker Receives Related University Degree
A Kentucky speaker, once fired from the university, finally receives an honorary LL D degree after decades. He earlier earned a Bethany College diploma with near perfect marks but a midterm indigestion cost him two-tenths of a percent. The delayed degree arrives at a late commencement, completing a long academic journey.
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Hamp Clark
Kentucky University
Beauchamp Clark
Clark
University
Bethany College
Lesson in Poor Widow's Gift to the Red Cross
Mrs Mary Katherine Hansbrough recalls a Tampa Red Cross effort contrasting Morgans million dollar donation with a poor Tampa widow giving two cents The story parallels the biblical widow and stresses even small gifts can profoundly affect soldiers and inspire generosity across classes.
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The
Red Cross
Mary Katherine Hansbrough
Tampa Tribune
Morgan
Red Cross Fund
New York City
Tampa
Woman's
Red Cross Committee
America
Jerusalem
President's Wife Leads Women's Red Cross Gift Effort
Mrs Woodrow Wilson and Miss Helen Woodrow Bones donated four dozen pajamas and equal sheets and pillowcases, handmade, to the American Red Cross. The article notes cabinet wives and prominent women organizing sewing circles and first aid classes, urging broader participation in mercy and relief work.
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RS. Woodrow Wilson
Helen Woodrow Bones
American Red Cross
Thomas Rh. Marshall
Champ Clark
William G. McAdoo
Treasury Department
Franklin KE. Lane
Interior Department
Home Club
Eliot Wadsworth
War Council of the Society
White House
Wilson
Red Cross
United States
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Army Transportation
Admiral Gleaves
Cushing
Weyler Firebrand
Mars
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