Military Training Camps schedule for eastern central southern and western departments
The Military Training Camps Association announced civilian training camps for next summer across eastern central southern and western departments with New York Fort Terry and Portland Maine hosting junior camps. Fort Snelling Fort Riley and Fort D A Russell will host senior camps while Fort Benjamin Harrison Des Moines and Fort D A Russell host junior camps with dates set for June through October 1917 and plans to enroll 50 000 men.
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South
Fort Terry
N. Y
Portland
New York
Military Training Camps’ Association of the United States
Nassau ‘Street
War Department
Plattsburg
Ort Terry
Central Department
Fort Snelling
Minn
Fort Riley
Kan
Fort D. A. Russell
Wyo
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Ind
Fort Des Moines
San Antonio
San Francisco
Remarkable Stomach Lecture by Dr Cole in Baltimore
Dr Louis Gregory Cole of Cornell University presented to about 800 medical students in Baltimore on the stomach’s workings. He used moving pictures to illustrate reflex movements and radiographed the pyloric region, praising Prof John G Hemmeter of Maryland for pioneering X ray diagnosis of heart and stomach abnormalities.
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Baltimore
Oa Vachs
Maryland
Louis Gregory Cole
Cornell University
Cole
John G. Hemmeter
University of Maryland
Hemmeter
Stevenson and the metier of art and writing
Birge Harrison recounts a walk with Robert Louis Stevenson in which Stevenson explains the motto metier for both painters and writers. He compares painterly study to literary craft, noting Balzac as a model and naming masters like Scott Smollett Fielding Dickens Poe Beaudelaire as influences.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Fontainebleau
Velasquez
Rembrandt
van Dyck
Corot
Stevenson
Balzac
Great . S
Pere Gorlot
Grarde
Sir Walter Scott
Smollett
Fielding
Dickens
Poe
Beaudelaire
Birge Harrison
Century Magazine
Tiny Jethou Island the Channel's Quiet Micro Nation
The London Mail notes Jethou as the smallest inhabited Channel island and Europe’s smallest inhabited place with seven residents and one house. It lacks roads and post, has no large vessels access, and relies on a tiny sailing cutter for outside news, with Guernsey only a couple of miles away.
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Jethou Island
Channel Islands
Europe
Retuuu
Cnernsey and
Sark
Jethoo
Guernsey
London Mail
A Scandal Averted
A Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph item notes Gertrude punished by nurse and mother for naughtiness. She vows to tell family secrets to neighbors but changes course and remains indoors.
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Gertrude
Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph
What She Asked For
Uncle Jack visiting from the west seeks Eliza beth's father at his office but cannot find the phone directory. Three year old Elizabeth helps with a question about what mother asks for when she talks to daddy. Her answer, money, shows her early wit.
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Jack
Elizabeth
Daddy
Following Their Example
A Detroit Free Press quotation about borrowing money from friends. The speaker notes friends are pressed for cash yet offers to be counted among friends, praising their judgment.
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Detroit Free Press
Lenient Governor Pardons Hundreds of Criminals in Arkansas
Hot Spring Arkansas reports former Governor George W Days pardoned 889 criminals since 1913, including 252 with grand larceny, 39 with both grand larceny and burglary, and many murder, manslaughter, arson or bootlegging offenders. His successor Charles U Brouch plans a pardon board bill.
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Hot Spring
Ark
George W. Days
Schhere
Dacarters Teremen
Charles Uikman Brouch
The
State University
Care for Mining Children Eyes and Teeth Program
Denver reports a mining company to provide medical care for children in camps. A traveling dentist will visit each mine twice yearly to clean examine and fill teeth and supply brushes free of charge. An oculist will test vision and sell glasses at cost. The program covers steel plant employees' children as well.
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Denver
Fuel and Iron
Train stops for dog near Huber on Big Four line
A passenger train on the Carey Findlay branch of the Big Four halted near Huber to remove a stubborn dog from the track. Passengers alighted and looked for the town but could not see it. The stoppage caused a brief delay.
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Upper
Sandusky
Carey-Findlay
Big Four
Huber
Possible Substitute Echoes in Staged Nuptial Quip
The bride voices a playful line about not being replaced, followed by a puzzled reply. The Kansas City Journal notes a witty exchange about adequacy and mimony in a wedding setting, reflecting light humor amid ceremony details.
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Kansas City
Cats Parade Gathers Along Chelsea Piers During War
New York reports cats from all nations gathering at the Chelsea piers from West Fourteenth to Twenty Third Street ferry. Rats have largely vanished and the hardiest dogs on West Street avoid entering the gates. The sea going cats hunt in bands of fifteen to twenty, feeding on boner dried prunes and raw rubber to help sprint between piers at night.
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New York
Chelsea
West Fourteenth Street
Twenty-third Street
West Street
Pocketbook Hurt by Beauty Doctor Visit
A dialogue notes a man’s wife seeks cosmetic treatment. the punchline reveals the speaker’s pocketbook suffered, not the complexion change, as a streetwise quip from a Balmorean piece.
Opportunity Leads to Marriage Choice
A fragmented note suggests choosing partners based on opportunity and the one who created it. It reads as a personal reflection on marrying the source of one's chances.
Police Dogs Aiding War on Crime in Brooklyn and Riverdale
New York police dogs play a major role in cleaning up crime in Flatbush Brooklyn and Riverdale. The force trains the dogs, maintains kennels near Parkville station, and assigns a dog to each patrolman under Sergeant Joseph Hickey to patrol nightly with muzzled, powerful animals.
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New York
Flatbush
Brooklyn
Riverdale
Voster Avenue
Ocean Parkway
Parkville
Joseph Hickey
Gaillard Sells Goose Creek Farm for 500000
John Gaillard of Goose Creek Texas sold his Goose Creek oil farm for 500000 dollars. The 267.7 acre property excluded one half acre burial ground and was purchased by Gulf Productions to stop royalty payments from a one eighth royalty Gaillard earned since Goose Creek oil field opened. Gaillard, dubbed the silent magnate, has watched decades of oil development while avoiding public attention.
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Houston
Tex
John Galllard
Goose Creek
Gaillard
Gulf Productions Company
Ieason
Gaillard Place
John Gaillard
Texas
Gaillard Familly
John
Novel Accessories and Rural Church Story Blend
New York fashion notes say hats with straws dominate this season with high crowns and bright trims. A rural North Carolina church story describes a pastor building a thriving community by linking church to schooling and agriculture, creating prosperity and high member rates.
An American Position on Neutrality and Rights
The piece argues for strict American neutrality while preserving essential rights. It criticizes pro entente and non resistance positions and asserts that war should be used only to enforce rights. It rejects aiding allies without clear benefit to U S sovereignty and urges focus on halting German submarine attacks.
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Lenroot
Wisconsin
United States
Gardpers
Baileys
Jlenrod
Poland
Italy
Germany
Wolf Attacks Girl Near Penn Yan, Is Killed
A gray timber wolf about eighty pounds, emaciated and near Penn Yan, attacked Lucy Ballard twelve near Benton Center on the way to church. She screamed and fled as farmers surrounded the woods and killed the animal after a search by rifle fire.
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Rochester
Penn Yan
Lucy Ballard
Benton Center
Adam Babcock
Colonel Baylor Sues for 50 Cents in Atlanta Court
Colonel Henry Bedinger Baylor files a suit for 50 cents in a city court, naming the Georgia Railroad, Atlantic Coast Line Railway, and Tide Water Power Company as defendants. The action says the half dollar is due for excess baggage charges from Atlanta to Wrightsville Beach, July 17, 1986.
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Baylor
Atlanta
Henry Bedinger Baylor
How One Young Man Made Good in Hard Times
A young man with a seminary diploma returns to Drake county NC to farm and preach. He endures a harsh rural portion where land sells for ten dollars an acre and ramshackle tenant cabins are common. he sustains himself by hard work and perseverance.
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Olive
North Carolina
William S&s. Olive
Louisville
Drake County
Ava
Hiltelde
Forgetters and borrowers lead in the forgotten items
A brief note describes forgetters and borrowers who take books and umbrellas, while even doormats bearing welcome may not be as friendly as they seem. The piece weighs property, labels, and social quirks in a wry tone.
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Booka Cnd
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