New Army Will Be University in Khaki
The War Department launched a nationwide education system within the army, with vocational schools at camps and posts offering full courses in surveying, typing, music, stenography, bookkeeping, engineering, carpentry, plumbing, sheet metal work, electricity, telegraphy, radio, gas and steam engines. Instructors come from civilian colleges, and while winter schedules add six hours of school daily, summer reverses. Leading businessmen back the program. offers of civilian jobs and tuition support are anticipated for graduates. The 4th Division, known as the Ivy division, includes Wisconsin units and Camp Dodge, with pathways to enlist in various branches for three years, while the program remains open to all soldiers.
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The
War Department
Army
United States
I. W. Huff
Western Union
Signal Corps
Ford Co
Dodge Bros
Wisconsin
F. A
Engineers
Field Artillery
Uncle Sam
Chateau Thierry
St. Mihiel
Meuse Argonne
Camp Doige
Sweet Poultry Farm advertisement from Wisconsin
Twenty Breeds, standard bred land and water fowls for eggs and hatching available. Varieties include Rocks, Reds, Wyandottes, Orpingtons, Cochins, and Leghorns with geese and ducks for farm range. Sweet Poultry Farm RF. Sweet, Grand Rapids, Wisconsin.
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Grand Rapids
Wisconsin
Attorney D. D. Conway Returns From Milwaukee Visit
Neil Conway junior, recently ill at Trinity hospital Milwaukee, is steadily improving. His father Attorney D. D. Conway and Neil plan to receive friends at their home on Third Street South.
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D. D. Conway
Neil
Milwaukee
Trinity Hospital
Added to Roll of Honor amid war mystery of missing men
The Home Sector notes 250 to 300 American front line troops still unaccounted for, carried on rolls as missing in action or presumed dead. It explains how the war department now lists them as presumed dead to ensure war risk benefits, reflecting on the demobilised army’s lingering gaps and the fate of those lost at sea or unknown paths.
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Ex-Soldier's Magazine
Aerlon
Flelang
A. B. BP
War Department
Iati
Slept Among The Departed In Transit Through City Names
A fragmented report notes a family from Milwaukee traveling with two children toward Indianapolis. They left home early, reached Gary near dusk, then departed after refueling. A heavy rain disrupted their progress and halted details.
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Miwaukee
Indianapolis
Gary
Couple Finds They Spent Night In Cemetery Gate
An Indiana couple and their children mispace travel and awaken at daybreak to realize they spent the entire night sleeping in a cemetery gate after losing their way. A broken gate and a tree outline guided them to shelter, with a tense tale of wandering in darkness. The family endured cramped quarters and fear as dawn broke.
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Meir Gate
Indianapois News
Island Dreamers Seek New England Winter Roots
A couple once lured by a Caribbean paradise return to New York after seven years, carrying their parrot and belongings. They declare the tropical splendor faded and vow to seek a harsher New England winter, returning to Connecticut to rediscover rougher landscapes and rocks.
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Aman
Caribuean
Tropica
New York
Caribbean
New England
Siberian W C A workers build girl education efforts
In Vladivostok area workers report growing interest in girls education and welfare. About 20 associations form slowly amid tough conditions. Sewing classes and writing and spelling lessons are underway as organizers push outreach despite obstacles.
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Sierian Y. W. C. A
Siberia
Vladivostok
Prize Fighter Congressman Ambition Reported
The report notes Carpentier the prize fighter aims to join the French parliament, recalling past assaults on Toho Moprisee ta Gon.
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Carpentier
Notable 1835 Springfield fight and notorious pugilist
The passage recalls Morrissey’s famous Oct 28 1835 bout in the no man’s land near Boston Corners Berkshire County. It notes a long criminal record for assays and burglary, nine months in prison for breaches of the peace, and a political career with a later reelection.
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New York
Springfeld
Morrissey
Liventin
No-Man's Land
Boston Corners
Berkshire County
Massachusetts
Congress
Imports of Precious Stones Show Record US Demand
The year ending recently saw the highest value of precious stones imported into the United States, with pearls growing in popularity though scarce due to wartime fishery disruption. South Africa diamond producers are unloading stock built up during the war, while the National City Bank of New York notes that about half the world's diamonds are owned in the United States.
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United States
South Africa
Neisonal City Bank of
New York
Japan Embraces Western Sports Markets for American Goods
After the war Japan shows rising interest in sports with baseball as the leading western game and tennis gaining appeal beyond student circles. Tennis courts appear in major cities as Western games spread.
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Japan
Demand for House Cat Fur Hits London Market
Alfred Nutting reports in London on fur sales showing C. M. Lanpson & Co. sold 35,954 housecat skins in the current year, nearly double 1918 sales, as housecat fur prices rose about 50 percent since spring.
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London
Alfred Nutting
C. M. Lanpson & Co
Pete 8B Kyne Cappy Ricks Author of Many Works
California writer Peter B Kyne rose from a country store clerk to fame after a San Francisco magazine published his short stories and asked readers to identify him. His Cappy Ricks sketches won wide praise and were adapted for stage, film, and serials, with The Valley of the Giants among his notable novels to appear serially.
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California
San Francisco
Pete
Cappy Ricks
Furnace Comets in Pittsburgh Light Up Skies
Intense blast furnace activity and low temperatures have produced striking furnace comets over Pittsburgh, bright yellow shafts seen against a murky sky. They fade with spring but may return next winter, scientists say, as frost crystals reflect furnace light high above the city.
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Pittsburgh
Allegheny Observatory
My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir review
A nostalgic literary note praising John Muir's My First Summer in the Sierra. The piece highlights Muir's nature descriptions of the Sierra Nevada including Tuolomne Yosemite and Merced country, his humorous personality and painterly illustrations, and the spiritual as well as naturalist appeal of his travelogue.
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Sierra
John Muir
Janther
Scotland
United States
Fortage
University of Wisconsin
Muir
Mercedes
Tuolomne
Yosemite River
California
Itu
Hallus
Cathredal Peak
Nature
Billy
Yassmile
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