Marine Corps offers practical decoration and postwar life training
At Quantico a practical school teaches sea soldiers interior decoration to aid life after service. Curtis scores second world record at 173 words per minute, sparking challenges. Edgar Wallace mocks typists, cites pay and skill issues. In Ann Arbor, legal questions arise over aircraft landing damages, with law professors noting flying law gaps and trespass implications.
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Marine Corps
Quantico
Typist Sets World Record at 139 Words Per Minute
R G Curtis won the world typing title at the Agricultural Hall in London by typing 133 words a minute at a rate of 138 words per minute, beating the American record of 132 words per minute. Curtis claimed the championship with a high speed display. The event, reported by International News Service, highlights Curtis's achievement in a competitive field.
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International News Service
Ondon
R. G. Curtis
Agricular’Hall
Kidding the Chickens at Camp Funston
At Camp Funston Kansas on July 2 officers used weather dusters in brooders to replace hens in the school of agriculture. The device kept warmth for chicks and prevented the usual loss when many hatchlings huddle together, a plan that worked like a charm.
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International News Service
Camp Funston
Kan
School of Agriculture
Legless but thrifty Potawatomi farmer grows strawberries
Powhattapan Kan July 2 Legless but thrifty Bowmaster O P of this county runs an 11 acre truck farm and this year sold more than a thousand quarts of strawberries He is a former railroad conductor who lost his legs in a Wabash wreck nearly eleven years ago.
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Powhattpan
Kan
O. P. Bowmaster
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