Boys as Sailors to Make It Country Wide
New York launches the Junior Marine Scouts to train boys aged twelve to eighteen in seamanship and U S Marine duties. Major General George Barnett has accepted the honorary post of chief marine scout, pledging support to spread the program nationwide as a two in one naval and military training plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Barnett
United States Marine Corps
Marine Scout
Boye
New York
New York City
Junior Marine Scouts
Manhattan
I. W. Irving
United States Marines
Irving
Navy
Barnett
Dexter’s Barber Glum
Dexter Maine tales of a town barber and a dry goods man who killed a tame deer owned by Samuel Brown with a game permit. They paraded the head and feet in the buggy to Main Street and drew attention at a hardware store. The moose incident in Sault Ste Marie involved mill workers roping and exhibiting a captured animal before release.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dexter
Barber
Dry Goods
Samuel Brown
Inland Fish and Game Commission
Hazeltine’s Corner
Garland
Main Street
Sam Brown
Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
St. Mary's River
Haunted House Snakes Defeated by Local Family
In Barboursville West Virginia Green Simpkins his wife and six children moved into the hilltop house long believed haunted. Mrs Simpkins heard nightly noises and found a dozen black snakes occupying the upstairs area. Two passersby joined the fight and killed all the snakes with clubs and stones after an hour of battle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barboursville
W. Va
Green Simpkins
Logan County
Simpkins
American Teen Enlists in British Army in France
Norman Bruce Wallis an 18 year old American from New Orleans enlisted as a private in the British army and fought in France with a Scottish regiment. Despite three attempts by his family through the American embassy to repatriate him he remained in uniform after switching regiments and was briefly arrested for desertion before being renamed Norman Macgregor Bruce and reuniting with his unit in France.
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London
Norman Bruce Wallis
New Orleans
United States
France
America
Wallis
Wall
Norman Macgregor Bruce
Diamond Jubilee of Mother Mary Gertrude of Mount Carmel
In Dubuque Iowa Mother Mary Gertrude of Mount Carmel marked seventy five years as a Sister of Charity and seventy three years of service in Dubuque born in Ireland in 1827 she entered the sisterhood in 1841 and arrived in Dubuque a few years later clergy from across the middle west joined the celebration noting her active work and clear vision despite her advanced age
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Dubuque
Mary Gertrude
Mount Carmel
Sisters of Charity
Sister of Charity
Ireland
Middle West
Explorer Stefansson Learns of World War II War Start Weeps
Explorer Stefansson, returning from the north pole, wept when told by the Bear's crew near Point Barrow that Europe was at war. Leonard Gerlach sent wireless requests to Nome and deciphered dispatches to convince him.
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Redwood
Cal
Stefansson
North Pole
Point Barrow
J. G. Gerlach
Leonard
Gerlach
Nome
Orders Chain of Churches in Will of Charles K. Smith
In Philadelphia the will of oil man and art patron Charles K. Smith directs half his estate valued at 5 million dollars to fund mission churches in the United States and Mexico after his son's death under Presbyterian supervision. His 1 million dollar art collection will be shown in a public museum at his Philadelphia home. Smith, 70, once worked as a wagon driver.
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Philadelphia
Charles K. Smith
United States
Mexico
Presbyterian Church
Smith
Fife
Harvard Medicos Form Commission to Study Infantile Paralysis
The Harvard Medical School has organized a commission on infantile paralysis to investigate causes and seek a cure. Dr. R. W. Lovett chairs the body with Dr. Milton J. Rosenan Dr. Francis W. Peabody and Roger Pierce as secretary. The group invites volunteers to donate limited blood for serum experiments and notes free services while also addressing paralysis causes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Harvard Medical School
Harvard
R. W. Lovett
Milton J. Rosenan
Francis W. Peabody
Roger Pierce
Rosenan
Pensacola Town Uses Only Company Scrip
Pensacola a single owner town in North Carolina travels entirely by company scrip not United States currency. The Aldridge empire controls mines lumber lands farms railroad and stores where earnings take the form of negotiable scrip. Movie crews paid cash and received change in scrip prompting a Tennessee bank trip for cashing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pensacola
N. C
United States
Aldridge Company
Tennessee
Aldridge Interests
Peanuts Sustain UC Coeds In Month-Long Test
Two University of California coeds survived three months on a diet of peanuts under Professor M D B Jaffa guidance to test peanuts as a concentrated food. The experiment proved a scientific success with the students reporting good health though vowing never to eat peanuts again. Costs were 15 cents daily per girl or 1.05 weekly, totaling about 4.20 a month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berkeley
Cal
University of California
M. DB. Jaffa
Department of Nutrition
High Cost of Living Tied to Export Trade
Government export figures for 1914 1915 and up to Oct 1 1916 show rising demand abroad driving prices. The piece argues speculators are not sole culprits, detailing how millers buyers and exporters push up futures and spot prices as war demand reasserts itself.
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Becaus
United States
Minneapolis
Chicago
Electric Fans Keep Fowls Cool At Missouri Poultry Plant
At the A. B. Cole & Sons plant in California Missouri fans and running water are installed in the large feeding station. Ducks and geese shelter under a fountain spray as birds enjoy cooling breezes. The system saves lives and helps fatten fowls faster in hot weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
A. B. Cole & Sons
Wolf Bounty In Superior Goes For Gasoline
Charles C. Wright of Amnicon Lake shot a timber wolf on a Douglas county road near Superior. He ran it down with his car and finished it with a ratchet after striking it with the front axle. Wright received a $20 bounty he plans to spend on gas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Superior
Wis
Douglas County
Charles C. Wright
Amnicon Lake
Cougar Shot on Highway Near Chehalis
A seven foot three inch female cougar was shot by George Blattner from his Chehalis porch as it crossed the Pacific highway near Jackson Prairie, eleven miles southeast of Chehalis. The rifle shot near the heart felled the animal after a lunge. officials note hunger may have driven it from cover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chehalis
Wash
Jackson Prairie
George Blattner
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Explorer Stefansson
Orders Chain OF Churches
C. K. Smith
Harvard Medicos
Nolan
Thos. Nolan
W. W. Elmer
Leavenworth, Wash
G. W. Hoxley
DR. J. Stillson Judah
Leavenworth Hospital
Omoe
Attorneys AT Law
Wenatchee
O. B. Hughes
Sam Sumner
J. A. Adame
Columbia Valley Bank Bldg
Wenatchee, Wash
Fred Kemp
B.L. Baker
Geo. G. Hannan
Crollard & Crollard Lawyers
Washington
B. J. Williams
AN. Corbin
Willams & Corbin
Lewis J. Nelson
FOX Lawyer
Eight St
Weeler
Leavenworth, Washington
John E. Porter
Attorney At Law Notary Public
Columbia Valley Bank
Wen
Atchee
Leavenworth
Rutherford Mercantile Co
Knights of
Pythias
Eery Warner
D.C
A.R. Brown
R. End
Zarthan Lodge No
Masonic Temple
E. Mohler
W.M
A. G. McKeown
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