Navy paymaster general reshapes bureau for efficiency
Changes at the U S Navy Bureau of Supplies and Accounts in Washington streamline operations. Rear Admiral Samuel McGowan, age forty five, leads a clean up cutting clutter, standardizing furniture, removing roll tops, and centralizing desks to foster unity. A new record book tracks officer duty status with auto updating slips, speeding paper flow and boosting oversight.
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United States Navy
Washington
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The
Navy
Jack
Brooklyn
Charleston
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AlcGowan
Sammy McGowan
Admiral McGowan
Bureau of Supplies
State, War and Navy
Pennsylvania Avenue
White House
Navy Annex
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Walla
McRes
Navy Department
Naval Library
Bia
Aga Express
McGowan Cuts Bureaucratic Letter Writing to Streamline Navy
Admiral McGowan reduces unneeded letter drafting and enforces intrabureau orders to minimize contentious correspondence. The pay corps overhauls accounting and supply, using charts, cards, and punch machines to track stocks, costs, and readiness across ships and navy yards, creating a fast, error resistant system.
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Uncle Sam
Navy Yard
Pay Corps
Santo Domingo
Utah News Roundup Highlights Deaths and Developments
Utah story notes include deaths of Mra Nephine ZGroberg Fowler and James Cotton, factory plans for Utah Sugar at Delta, removal of Salt Lake’s Valley House, Park City mine fatality, and a drug theft case. Also mentions water and road improvements, electric line plans, livestock profits in Wanatch county, and Beets seed company formation.
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Nephine Zgroberg Fowler
Salt Lake Hospital
James Cotton
Ogden
San Francisco
Delta
Utah Sugar Company
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Salt Lake
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Orville Call
Silver King Coalition Mines Company
Park City
Ogden Wholesale
State Road Commission
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
Provo Canyon
Utah County
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Tave
Bingham
West Jordan
Orem
Heber C. Smith
Buster Porter
George P. Cronk
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
Franklin
Daniel Hamer
United States District Court For
Utah
Tillman D. Johnson
George M. Scott
San Mateo
Cal
Scott
Arizona
California
Eastern Utah Telephone Company
Mountan States Telephone & Telegraph Company
Salt Lake City
Uinta Basin
Joseph Hulstrom
Hilda Erickson
Murray
I.W
William Spry
Joseph Imstrem
Herman H. Green
Salt Lake County
Joseph Hillstrom
True Friendship Test on the Estate Pond
Two boys fishing on an estate pond were chased by a gamekeeper. One boy with a fishing permit ran to distract the pursuer, proving the other had no permit. The lookout admitted the trick after the chase.
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Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph
Stock Exchange Husband Mystery In Domestic Gossip
A young wife learns her stockbroker husband has a problem with drinking and excess. In a neighborly crossover, the professor's wife corrects a misstatement as the wife reveals he is upstairs in bed with red eyes and a raging headache, prompting questions about where he was tonight.
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Stock Exchange
Jack
Could Fill the Bill Medicina Man Moment
A dramatic exchange unfolds as a man seeks fate turning on a simple question about drinking. She asks if he drinks before granting a response. He sighs with relief, then proclaims he will do anything and embraces her, declaring his willingness.
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George
Medicina
Quotations on Success and Pessimism
Collection of aphorisms noting irony in ambition and attitude. Key lines include avoiding a creed of worry, genius as talent for making zoo, and envy as a by product of success, with reflections on failure and misery.
Freddy’s Frustration At School Spelling Changes
A child laments school after a week, claiming he will never learn to spell because the teacher changes the words daily. His mother asks why. The Chicago Herald notes the boy’s belief in inevitable failure.
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Little Freddy
Chicago Herald
Shakespeare's New Play Prompts Manager's Comedy Request
In a backstage exchange the manager critiques the new Hamlet for its gloom. The author counters that the comedy will come from the actors interpreting the lead role, promising contrast through performance. The remark signals tonal balance as actors bring out lighter facets of the tragedy.
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Hamlet
Why don't you get married, old top
A quip about marriage and unsuitable matches prompts a comical exchange. One man jokes about finding a wife with an unhappy home, while the other laments difficulty locating someone willing to leave a Happy home. The exchange plays on social expectations and humor.
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Old Top
The Bright Side Joke Between Pessimist and Optimist
A brief exchange shows a pessimist complaining of rheumatic pain and every bone aching while the optimist counters with a quip about being glad not to be a hero. The cheeky back and forth captures a lighthearted contrast in outlooks.
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Herriog
Attentive Ig Watson Courting Widow Now Married
In a brief note a local observer recalls Ig Watson’s long courting of a widow two years ago. The couple is now married and he reportedly pays close heed to every word she speaks.
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Ig Watson
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