Pat Crow's Potatoes and St. Louis Glitz
A World War era style column by A. M. Brayton from Wisconsin Headquarters details Pat Crow's Potatoes grown near La Crescent and John Thompson of La Crosse. The piece narrates Burns and Thompson touring Thompson's St. Louis residence and summer retreat, noting wealth, Grand Cathedral, and the novelty of a potato patch at the end of a rural estate.
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A. M. Brayton
Wisconsin
Maryland
ST. Louis
Pat Crow
la Crescent
John
C. Burns
Thompson
the Tribune
Dr. Evans
Burns
Mr. Burns
Pat
Bill Crow
la Crosse
John Thompson
Central West To Have Training At Indiana Camp
Chicago June 16 At least twenty one states will be represented on the roll call when the first military training camp under the central department of the war department opens at Fort Benjamin Harrison Indianapolis July 5. To date 806 men have applied to give their vacations to their country. Illinois leads with 194 men from outside Chicago and 159 from the city. Indiana follows with 105 men. Wisconsin 26 Ohio 23 Missouri 21. The central department covers 14 states though enrollees come from outside the district. Business groups form enrolling committees in major cities to aid the camps with employees volunteering and many firms paying expenses. The Jeffery Motor company supplies four trucks for civilian soldiers encampments. Congress may not provide uniforms maintenance and expenses yet. An appropriation bill is pending but unlikely to pass in time. Colonel D A Frederick heads the training camps division in Chicago. A second camp opens August 7 with possible third on September 8 if enrollments allow. Instruction will cover infantry but medical and engineering work also offered.
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Chicago
Central Department of the War Department
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Indianapolis
Ind
Ilinois
Iinois
Indiana
Wisconsin
Ohio
Missouri
District of the Central Department
Central Department
Michigan
Minnesota
North
South Dakota
Iowa
Kansas
Nebraska
Colorado
Wyoming
Connecticut
Pennsylvania
Virginia
West Virginia
Idaho
Montana
Oklahoma
Arkansa
War Department
Jeffery Motor Company
Congress
Secretary of War
D. A. Frederick
Federal
Illegal Marriage Bars Compensation in Wisconsin Case
The Wisconsin industrial commission dismissed Mae Hall’s complaint against the city of Barron after she wed in Indiana before a one year wait following her divorce. Indiana law recognizes divorces from other states only if a year has passed, and thus her Indiana marriage was deemed invalid. The case involved Mae Hall, her deceased husband who worked for the city and died by electrical accident.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
Mae Hall
Walter B Rose Faces Suffrage Prank at Country Home
The article describes Walter B. Rose, a protégé of William F. Wolffe, as he mingles with suffragist women. Rose accepts greeting from many women forty and younger, borrows a delegate badge, and taunts it on his chest as part of a suffrage-related prank. The scene unfolds at a summer country home where he is staying.
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Walter Walter B. Rose
William F. ‘Wolffe
Rose
Walter
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Legette Myois
Sebascco
Fifth
New York
John. Burns
Hal Johnny
St. Louuis
America
Thomp- 800
St. Joseph's Cathedral
la Crosge
King’s Highway
Mr. Thompson
Losey Boulevard
Coliseum
Haderway
Frisco
Central West
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