0TH REGIMENT JOINS CAMPERS AT WHITMAN CAMP
Camp Whitman Beekman NY June 29 brigadier general John G Foldy takes command over 10000 New York militia as Col Lucene steps down. Poles form the famous Company G with 425 men led by First Sergeant Woytkowski. Water plant details and guard duties disrupt camp life as soldiers from multiple counties assemble.
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Whitman
Beekman
N.Y
John G. Foldy
New York
Brooklyn
Headquarters Hill
Ctiff
Eddy
Buffalo
Gith
Uncle Sam
Woytkowski
Barcaykowsk
Grzenkowski
Daled-Zink
Krysstafklexler
Wojnicke
Wojcie-Chowsk
Kon. Tomenik
Kaw
Lienterant Stnaisinus Schoen
Kalen
Postdam
Baron Aucustue Schorn
Serkeant Woytkowski
Peter von Pawlowski
Warsaw
Sehtora
Seboon
Russia
Germany
Sikoen
John F. Riein
Flushing
Mount Vernon
Yonkers
New Kenelle
White Plaine
Ormsby Golden
Westchester
William Fivekman
Troy Soldiers Receive City Support Before Mexico Duty
Lieutenant Smith forwards names of needy recruits to HM Baldwin who offers to advance funds for each man’s needs. Mayor Burns visits the Troy battalion of the 2d Regiment, presenting a carton of cigarettes and urging the men to give their best if sent to Mexico, as Troy depends on them.
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Thomas Tracy
Albert E
Smith
HM Baldwin
Broadway
Mayor Burns
Troy
Andrews
Mexico
Barns
Aero Club plan for $28,975,000 air defense urges funding
Washington reports a committee from the Aero Club of America urged a $28.98 million aerial preparedness plan. It calls for 12 militia aero squadrons, four regular aero squadrons, six coast artillery squadrons, and training for 900 aviators across ten aviation schools. It also recommends 2,000,000 for dirigibles and 1,000,000 for safety and research.
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Washington
Aero Club of America
Allan B. Hawley
Henry Woodhouse
George Murray Hulbert
New York
War and Navy Departments
Tumulty
George E. Chamberlain
Committee On
Baker
George I Scriven
George C. Squier
Army Aeronautics
Daniele
War Department
Coast Artillery District
Nero
Saya
Miontha
Thiel
Father Objects to Official Neglect Endangering Guardsmen
David Weason protests after his two sons Harry and David of Kanex troop NG report cruel train conditions en route to Mexico. They describe crowded day coaches, a single meal, a ten hour wait while horses fed, and a warm blanket from their mother. Harry warns Congress to wake up and suggests the War Department may be undermining soldiers health to force disease risk.
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David Weason
Harry
Davi
Kanex
NG. J
Mexico
United States Congress
Telbune
Wesson
W. Department
Excited rookies invade Canada in mock war drill
A New York rookie regiment encamped near Champlain joins the Military Training Camp Association for universal military training under Federal control. After a day of drills and a staged border incursion into Canada, Lt Waldo led a retreat to Mooers and Plattsburg, with 100 men sent to hospital for sore feet as the unit forms into a “soft foot brigade.”
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Mooers
Fighd
Canada
Doundis
Rhinelander Waldo
New York
Montreal
Smpktes
Dominion
Olt
Rutland
Plattaburg
Chozy
Weet Chazy
Plottsburg
Champlain
Plattsburg
Soldier resumes command with sling at front line
Lieutenant Sutherland of Company 1, though wounded by a rock fall during a charge, insisted on resuming command today and led his company at the front all day with his arm in a sling.
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Colume
Sutherland
Girls Wed Troopers At Camp Whitman
Mary Ahearn and Margie O'Shaughnessy married Corporal Michael Grant and Private Eugene McTuiness of the 69th after meeting at Camp Whitman. The weddings followed a New York arrival and a brief farewell to the two Guardsmen. Father Duffy officiated, and the couples planned a twenty four hour honeymoon in New York.
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Aries Reteteres Cosmane
Camp Whitman
Mary Ahearn
Margie O'Shaughnessy
National
Michael
Mary
Ines
New York
Eugene
Margie
Gene
Father Duffy
O'Shaughnessy
Michael Grant
Ahearn
Fugeno Ste Guinews
Gunners Study Spanish First Lesson For 1st Field Artillery
Eighty eight officers and men of the 1st Field Artillery received their first Spanish lesson in a large tent. A Bronx Branch instructor taught common words with definitions and origins on a blackboard while Rev John Ridley chaplain organized the plan and led the session. A phonograph was used to conclude the regiment’s instructional program.
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Second Field Artillery
1D Field Artillery
Bronx
M.C
John Ridley
Ridley
Navy bill pushes big ships with six month start
Washington June 20 eight capital ships must begin construction within six months after passage of the bill. The Senate naval committee endorsed a single large program for the next three years, with no minority report. The House moved to reorganize the naval militia and set pay scales for officers and warrant officers.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Naval Committee
Senate
General Board of the Navy
United
Aod
Senator Lodge
Gardner
Regan Hm
Congress
Wilson
House
Hay Army
National Guard
Army funding surge prompts Senate panel to seek more
Washington reports an ongoing push for large extra Army appropriations beyond 182 million, with Senate Military Committee weighing requests including 20 million for artillery and 12 squadrons of aircraft, while hearing new War Department demands tied to militia service and equipment costs.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Senate Military Committee
Sena
War Department
National Guard
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