Park campers and scouts honor state park progress in summer
Children and others swelled park attendance with an average of 29 group camps last summer. Scouts census stood at 1600 daily. A notable donor group funded park improvements transforming wild forest land into a fairy land of pavilions and comforts for New Yorkers and visitors. The commission lists George W. Perkins as president and includes Richard V. Lindabury Franklin W. Hopkins J. Du Pratt White Edward L. Partridge W H Porter W Averell Harriman Frederick C. Sutro Charles W. Baker John J. Voorhees and Myron W.
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E. H. Harriman
Arden
Palisades Park Commission
Bear Mountain
Hessian Lake
Centain
Jersey
George W. Perkins
New York Commission
Richard V. Lindabury
New Jersey Commission
Franklin W. Hopkins
J. du Pratt White
Edward L. Partridge
W H. Porter
W. Averell Harriman
Frederick C. Sutro
Charles W. Baker
John J. Voorhees
Myron W
Boy Scout Special— Thru Express
State Armory
White Plains
Big County
John R. Boardman
H. A. Gordon
National Headquarters
Rye
Gordon
Westchester County
J. Marshall Perley
C. S. Stagdon
New District Committee
New Rochelle
Irvington
Frederick Trevor Hill
Westch
E. M. Berrien
Owever
Early morning desert band offers child to orphanage
A band of Arabs arrives at the Near East Relief orphanage in Kars Armenia with a five year old boy, saying he has no parents and requesting the shelter. The scene includes names from Troop No. 2 Dobbs Ferry and Stouts Join Rich, with other figures like Nathan Sappitt and William Graham mentioned in a fragmentary text.
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Tom Honan
Indiana
Indiana University
Honan
Kars
Armenia
Scout Employment Bureau
Haseen
Port Chester
Roy Taylor
Pelhams
Jack Kemble
Seymour Kin
Geo. Swain
Wharton Lyman
Col
Columbia University
Telphone County
Willams
Morocco
Hia
Ade
Resigned to Fate and Wartime Auctions at Fort Myer
An early war tale recounts optimistic trainees at Fort Myer VA who auction off their gear as pink slips spread. Captain Blank presses Candidate Jones to drill, but Jones falters and asks what his locker is worth, amid a mock auction of his equipment.
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Fort Myer
Blank
Jones
King Alfonso and the first cigarette tale in history
An eclectic historic column notes King Alfonso’s legendary first cigarette after enthronement, a scattered mix of snippets on rainfall projections for Palestine, a New Jersey boxing match, and notes on superstitions and industrial Dundee. The fragmentary text also references touching wood as an old safeguard against boasting and iron as a charm in Scotland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfonso
Spain
Undefined financial note fragment
A fragmentary line mentions payment and a small amount of money, including a figure of 2.76 dollars and the year 19, but no clear event, entities, or context is discernible.
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Robert Dashwood
Tarrytown
Ommercial Body Corp
Depot Square
Tarrytown, N
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Scarsdale Golf Club
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Newark
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