Old Timers View Camp With Alarm
A reflective piece contrasts World War II era guardsmen camps with modern National Guard setups. Veterans recall tents, ground sleeping, and simple meals, while today camps resemble summer resorts with cots, concrete floors, large mess halls, china, and occasional ice cream. Local units add inventive amenities and even a tailor-made valet in a humorous take on evolving comforts at drill camps.
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Army of the
United States
National Guard
Mdern
Army
Camp
Ling Peoples Harried as Bush Burns and Villages Die
Reports describe terror in the bush with hundreds of native villages burned and families driven into the jungle where exposure and starvation kill many. Children are found abandoned while others die of hunger. Cholera and disease spread along the frontier as villages relocate under French authority. Chiefs' warriors near Sasstown reportedly kill or wound government soldiers.
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Ortson
Roc Aes
French Guinea
Horoe
Ares
Sasstown
American Stamp Lickum Comes All Way From Java
A Washington report details the U S Bureau of Engraving and Printing testing stamp dextrine. Norman Underwood explains Java derived cassava root dextrine provides the sticking quality while 1936 output used 600000 pounds. Experiments with American corn dextrine are planned to replace or supplement current gum.
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Washington
Uncle Sam
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Norman Underwood
Bureau
Underwood
Java
Alvin W. Hall
Hall
Philippine Farmer Must Accept New Deal's Check
Don Maximo Carbongeo of Guagus Pampanga faced a government payout of 7500 dollars from sugar processing funds under the New Deal crop control plan. He opposed the payment, arguing it violated religious law, yet his heirs urged acceptance as his cane crop had been destroyed by fire and the Pampanga sugar mill was authorized to issue the compensation.
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Manila
Maximo Carbongeo
Guagus
Pampanga
Theidon
New Deal
Antarctic Ark voyage sparks court action over funds
The Sailor and Puffy launched their craft as Johnny lauded the South Pole trip. When funds were refused, a court ordered payment to heirs. An aged don refused responsibility for acts of divine providence as the check was handed to his sons. Separate notes mention Nazi leaflets in Vienna and Frank Fowlie, 85, working threshing season and crane bundles.
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Puffy
Johnny
South Pole
Don
Texan Jersey cows pampered in Sugarland model dairy
Sugarland Texas a Jersey cow queen at Benjamin Clayton's model dairy is pampered as a hobby operation with 160 registered Jerseys. Cooled private rooms with fountains feed and grooming facilities. cows are milked by mechanical milker into sterilized piping to a cooler and bottle. Milking occurs twice daily between 1:30 and 4:30.
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Sugarland
Texas
Benjamin Clayton
Madame Jersey
Jersey cattle queen wins national title with butterfat lead
The late Queen Rose, weighing under pounds, exceeded 900 pounds of butterfat yearly to capture the national championship of the Jersey Cattle Club of America, reflecting exceptional production and dominance in the breed.
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Queen Tie Rose
Jersey Cattle Club of America
Lister Dams Furrows To Save Rain Version
Charles Peacock in Guymon Oklahoma has devised a ponding furrow device that damns soil ridges 12 to 15 feet apart to form water basins. He demonstrates the method claiming drought has not stopped his wheat yields in nine years with as little as four inches of rain annually.
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Guymon
Okla
Charles Peacock
Lister
Peacock
Drouth
Army weighs land gifts in Argentina overpricing costs
Buenos Aires reports the Argentine army will hesitate to accept further real estate gifts after calculating that a property donated in 1922 cost the government about 25 times its assessed value. The land cost donors 30 000 pesos, roughly 23 600 dollars, highlighting ongoing cost concerns.
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Buenos Aires
War Office Rejected Offer for Cordoba Land
A wartime note states a prior offer for land in Cordoba province was rejected while another deal involved two million pesos spent on improvements including barracks gymnasium and rifle range. Mimeograph paper typewriter band scratch pads tooling leather and a phone number 22 appear from The World Co Adv.
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War Department
Cordoba
the World Co
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