Signal Corps training camp planned at Monmouth Park
New York report details U.S. Army signal corps training camp to be built at Monmouth Park near Long Branch New Jersey with 881 acres leased for reserve battalions. Lt Col Hartmann oversees cantonment and instruction for officers and men as recruiting expands in New York City Wall Street district and other regions.
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New York
Carl F. Hartmann
Eastern Department
Signal Corps
Plattsburg
Monmouth Park
Long Branch
N. J
United States
Sig
Naling
Quartermaster’s Department
Hartmann
New York City
Philadelphia
Buffalo
Syracuse
Albany
Baltimore
Henry G. Opdycke
F. M. McClintie
Wall Street
Old Mortgage Discharged in Buffalo N Y
A 97 year old mortgage negotiated in 1820 was discharged of record at the county clerk's office. Attorney M C Bartholomew said the mortgage of $450 to Abraham Smith from Daniel Smith was on farm property. County Judge Laing granted the discharge after substantial efforts to settle the matter.
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Buffalo
N. Y
M. C. Bartholomew
West Falls
Daniel Smith
Abraham Smith
Laing
Bartholomew
Survivors of Zeppelin L-48 Downing Reach Hospital
London reports that after the June 17 L-48 crash in an eastern country, one officer uninjured and two crew members severely hurt survived. One man reportedly escaped by an overcoat parachute as the burning airship descended diagonally, burning for five minutes after breaking from 13,000 feet. A naval petty officer described seeing a pale, fur clad crewman approach for papers and indicating about twenty men aboard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Wealthy Countess Sophie Panin Named Assistant Minister
In Petrograd Countess Sophie Panin, 45, in a workman blouse and leather skirt, becomes assistant minister of social tutelage overseeing charitable and social institutions and child care. The first woman minister, she plans a female staff and hopes to inspire global transfer of social institutions to women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Petrograd
Sophie Panin
Department of State
Constitutional Democratic Party
Raven Forces Coins From Crowded Cardiff Barracks
A raven at Cardiff barracks avoids a khaki sergeant with three stripes, hopping twenty yards away when he approaches. The bird tolerates the sergeant only during meals and eagerly snatches dropped coins, then hides them after pocketing the money.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Cardiff
Former Congressman Enlists as Private to Corporal in Marine Corps
Edwin Denby aged forty seven, former congressman from 1904 to 1911, and prominent attorney, was promoted from private to corporal at Port Royal. He headed the company exam list after enlisting at first call to arms, saying he could serve best as an enlisted man.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Edwin Denby
United States Marine Corps
Denby
Congress
Board of Commerce
Corporal Denby
Port Royal
D. C
Marine Corps
Monahan Dies at 110 in Watertown Mass
James Monahan born in Ireland in 1838 died at his Watertown home aged 110. He immigrated to the United States in 1848 and was 41 when he arrived in this country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Ruskin
Oxford
Monahan
Watertown
Mass
James Monahan
Ireland
Puget Sound Development and Regional Projects Span Washington
Spokane reports a 1917 apple crop of 23 000 carloads. Everett gains a 25 mile highway from Index to Scenic. Arlington gets a light power plant from Coast Utilities Co. Touchet awards a 21 215 bridge contract over the Walla Walla river. Winlock nears operation of a new sawmill three miles away. Bremerton federal funding of 5 to 7 million dollars for Puget Sound Navy Yard development. Walla Walla roof over natatorium. Okanogan plant storage capacity to triple at 4500 cost. North Port Interrupter installed at the telephone office to raise efficiency.
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Arlington
Coast Utilities Co. Touchet
Walla Walla River
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