Young Woman and Her Part in War
Mary Austin urges educated women to create specific roles for national service. She promotes skills training in clerical work, bookkeeping, drafting, telegraphy, motor transport, and food commissary duties, urging apprenticeships with skilled local workers and self education to free men for front-line duties.
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Mary Austin
Committee On Public Information
Washington, D. C
Tle House
Red Cross
France
England
America
Belcony
Warren
Sword
Guy
Government Remount Plan Expands Stallion Breeding
The U S Department of Agriculture in cooperation with the War Department places 200 stations to breed army horses. Stallions from Thoroughbred American Saddle Standardbred and Morgan lines are used in Vermont New Hampshire Virginia West Virginia Kentucky and Tennessee with favorable breeding terms for mare owners and no service fee unless option is exercised.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Department of Agriculture
Wart Department
Congress
Vermont
New Hampshire
Virginia
West Virginia
Kentucky
Tennessee
Beef cattle breeding focus on prized cuts in selection
Agricultural guidance stresses breeding cattle to improve the body parts that yield high priced beef cuts. Emphasis is on selecting animals that accentuate these valuable areas for greater quality and market value.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Song director Hawkins chosen for AEF duties
General Pershing cabled for the best song director and Washington selected W. Stanley Hawkins of Albany. He previously led music at Camp Dix with the march "Keep the Glow in Old Glory" and before Wrightstown served as song director at the Plattsburg officers training camp.
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General Pershing
Washington
W. Stanley Hawkins
Albany
Camp Dix
Wrightstown
Plattsburg Officers
Talismans Amulets Mascots Through The Ages
The piece notes mascot use spread from Provence and Gascony to Britain in the last 80 years, tied to Audran’s La Mascotia. It traces talismans to ancient times with Egyptian amulets shaped as gods, men, animals and insects, including beetle stones and frog figures for courage and prestige.
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Provence
Gascony
Britain
Edmund Audran
la Mascotia
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de- Thanda Ail
Wne
Patriotic Service
Department of Agriculture
Yonen Wich
aSee
Piave Front
Royal ‘Marines
Piave
Military
Bowie
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