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‘1HS MUSCATINE JOURN,e?ofmlie;FOB BIG GUNSA -Muscatine soldier invented eyes for the guns of theh army that prom-BOOZE SELLINGJ'VaG01J213a1-eLssfc^ isos to play a winning part in endingon the war,, according to a story brought !y from Camp Cody, DemLng, N. M., by lie -T. A. Bond, who recently visited his n- son, Clarence Bond of Battery C. on The inventor o£ the new device is Lieutenant Stewart Narvis, son of ch. W. «M. Narvis of this city. TUe: in-h© strum ent was manufactured by the •e- Barry Manufacturing company of ite this city,he If all that is said of the invention is true it is one of the most import-a- a.nt war mechanisms since the perns? fectiori of the 4*2i-centimeter gun. to Heretofore in shooting at longn- distances or over the bow of hills,-al it has been necessary to use the Ite flying machines a.s target finders. The 'h- aeroplanes have been the eyes of the ;i 28-' army. a-ly The Narvis device can locate the ctarget and demolish it with the sec-of end shot it is claimed. The instni- t le meat is ibelng tried out at Camp lt;'•*0 Cody and has proved quite success*- ( le- ful.i1tb
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Muscatine Journal

Muscatine, Iowa, US

Thu, Jan 31, 1918

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