West Point Cadets Embrace Duty Honor and Country
An article describes West Point life during Beast Detail and Plebe training, detailing the honor code no lying no cheating no half truths and the meaning of All Right. It highlights discipline texts from Bugle Notes and case of Cadet Red Cagle showing accountability. The piece emphasizes how duty and honor form the core of West Point’s officer and gentleman ethos.
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Elmo Scutt Watson S Junels
United States Miliary Academy
Tnt
N. W
William J Smith
United States Army
Academy
United States
United States of America
United States Corps of Cadets
West Point
Tactical Department
Kaydet Stang
Plebes
Corps
United States Military Academy
Tittle
Howry
Eivery
Bugle Notes
Tae
Code of Honor
Cagle
Red” Cagle
New York City
Military Academy
Duty Honor Country Verse by James B Briggs 28
A poem praising West Point as duty and honor, asserting lifelong loyalty to the academy and country. The speaker pledges to guard the institution as life, linking West Point to Motherland values and personal identity. References a 1928 signature.
Plans For Census Takers Under Way
Washington reports preparations for the fifteenth decennial census as 100 000 enumerators prepare to canvass the country. Bureau clerks will transcribe data from double faced sheets to punched cards and use a 60 item recording machine to print totals, facilitating the final government report.
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Washington
America
Congress
Census Bureau
Bureau
Government Printing Office
Palace of Hospitality to House Rome Guests
The Palace of Hospitality to be fitted with kitchens restaurant baths and reading rooms for provincial students workmen and agriculturists visiting Rome as guests of the city. The building near the Tiber by the Temple of Vesta will provide dormitories and recreation spaces on occasions when hundreds require accommodation.
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Palace of Hospitality
Rome
Tiber
Vesta
Hithe
Close School Because It Has but One Pupil
Poole Dorset reports the Brownsea island school closed after only one pupil, Dorothy Bat trick ten, the island’s sole schoolchild. Dorset county council voted to shut the school, citing insufficient pupil numbers. the nearest school is five miles away requiring a channel crossing each day. Dorothy’s sisters and father were educated at the island school.
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Poole
Dorset
Dorothy Battrick
Dorothy
Brownsea Island
Poole Harbor
Dorset County Council
Schoo
Old Bears Head Carved From Sandstone Found
Archeologists study a two foot square sandstone bear head discovered on an Ozark farm near Warsaw Missouri. Dated as potentially over 1,000 years old, it may have served as an idol for prehistoric native peoples. The artifact has been placed in Drury College museum in Springfield.
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Springfield
Ozark
Warsaw
America
Drury College
Best Loved Man in All the South
Major General J. F. Clinkscales, commander of Forrest's Cavalry Western Division and head of the Confederate Veterans in Texas, extols Nature's Remedy NR Tablets at his San Antonio home. He claims the 25¢ box cures stomach souring, bowel tightness, indigestion, and sick headaches, noting millions use the product daily.
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J. F. Clinkscales
Forrest
Texas
Clinkscales
San Antonio
New Aunfels Ave
Larks Sent From Oregon To Hawaii For Pest Control
A bulletin from the American Game Protective association notes Hawaii lacks many birds found on the mainland and reports plans to ship 50 pairs of Oregon meadow larks to the islands. The birds will provide cheerful song and help control insect pests.
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Hawaii
Hawaiian Islands
North America
American Game Protective Association
Don’t Go Around With Your Bristles Up
An admonition against keeping a tense or combative posture in public life. The advice urges calm behavior, self-control, and considerate interaction to avoid unnecessary conflict. It frames attitude as a daily choice affecting social harmony and personal effectiveness.
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James BE. Briggs
U. S
Curat
England
Dixie Curat CO
Galveston
Hanford
Nevada
Popular Mechanics Magazine
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mrs. A. Michalk
Mitchell Ave
Detroit
Michigan
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