Memorial Day tribute to unseen war dead and coast guard
The piece recalls Memorial Day origins from Civil War remembrance and honors all war dead, noting chaplains, Army coast guard members, and a 1928 stone obelisk in Arlington for 152 coast guard casualties. It explains Semper Paratus and the Coast Guard’s 1915 merger, tracing lineage to the Revenue Cutter Service dating to 1700.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmo Scott Watson
Atlantic
Arlington National Cemetery
United States Army
Albert D. Bell
Auronus J.howard
John G. Boone
Michnetty, Keith
John G. Sieden
John C Kerr
Thomas M. Gulla
John J. McCarthy
Patrick P. Carey
Arthur H. Marsh
H. A. Chouinard
Timothy A.murphy
Wiliam L.cornish
C. BE. O'Flaherty
Walton S. Danner
Charles D. Priest
Wiliam B. Davitt
Wilbur $. Sewell
John 4. Deaver
Daniel S. Smart
United States Coast Guard
Coast Guard
Acteof Congress
Revenue Cutter Service
Mhfe-Sarving &Crutce
Alexander Willmilton
Treasury
New Republic
United States
Coast Guard through War Years and Nurse Corps Tribute
The piece covers the Coast Guard and its precursors from the War of 1812 through World War I, noting engagements, blockades, and rescues. It highlights the Tampa disaster casualties, the 27 heroic Army Nurse Corps members, and 24 women awarded the Distinguished Service Medal with birthplaces listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coast Guard Service
Atlantic
England
Gibraltar
Tampa
Coast Guard
Army Nurse Corps
New
Machines That Are Almost Human
A 1931 Western Newspaper Union feature describes a vast device named the Great Brass Brain built by the NTSE coast and geodetic survey. It predicts tides for 4,300 ports a year ahead, handles 37 factors, and can answer historical math questions with absolute accuracy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ntse Office
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
Washington
Great Brass Brain Docathia
Great Brass
New York
New Orleans
San Francisco
Paul Stevere
Minute Men
Paul Revere
Poston
East Cambridge
Mass
Calonista
Coren Kenry W. Longfellow
Concord
Weatern Newspaper Union
Arlington memorials honor Coast Guard and Army chaplains
A wreath is placed at the Arlington National Cemetery monument honoring Coast Guard members who died in the World War and the cenotaph commemorates 23 army chaplains of all faiths who lost their lives in the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
League of Coast Guard
Arlington National Cemetery
United States Coast Guard
Army
Indians Ban Medicine Man
The Alaska Native Brotherhood meeting in Ketchikan adopts resolutions opposing fortune tellers and witchcraft among Indians. It declares the profession of Indian doctors and medicine men as fake and bans members from visiting such fakers even for fun or curiosity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alaska
Alaska Native Brotherhood
Ketchikan
Crickets Show Speedy Musical Feats Captured by Researchers
In Popular Mechanics a note praises crickets as more skillful than violinists in rapid notes. Dr. Frank B. W. Lutz and W. B. E. Uiehs of the American Museum of Natural History helped produce a cricket chirp and learned surprising facts about this natural musician.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Popular Mechanics Magazine
Frank BW. Lutz
W. BE. Uiehs
American Museum of Natural Listoery
Thinker Statue by Rodin Exhibited in 1889 Paris Gallery
Rodin's Thinker was shown at the Georges Petit gallery in 1889 among 38 sculptures. It was intended for the Porte de l'Enfer gate and linked to Rodin's Italy visit in 1875. Commissioned by M Turquect, the work became part of Rodin's Marble Noted series and, after a 1904 salon display, was bought by public subscription for Paris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rodin
Georges Petit Gallery
Porte de l'Enfer
Italy
M. Turquect
Palace of Decorative Arts
Gate of
Hell
Paris
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Rif
Ter Service
Great Britain
Navy
McCulloch
Dewey
Manila Bay
Iludson
Cardenas
Cuba
Bludson
Congress
Winslow
Wilson
Lighthouse Service
Secretary of the Navy
Germany
Little, Grown and Company
William Bell Clark
America
York Harbor
Iere
Afiss Heten G. AicClelland
Base I Hospital No. 10
British Area
France
Beatrice Macdonald
Miss McCleeland
Austinburgh
Onhio
Miss Macdonald
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Miss
Sabei] Stambaugh
Staif of Gase
Hospital 10
Pennsylvania
Amlena
Lilian Aubert
West Baton Rauge
Cecelia A. Brena
Branchdale
Katherine Brown
Philadelphia
Sophy Mary Baras
St. Francia
Wosatorn Newspaper Union
E.c. Taylor
Sally Sex
Senton
Evay Jensep
Intermountain
RR Aeport
Branda
Elda Mortenson
Ephraim, Utah
Eberhardt
Salt Lake Mattress and Mfg. CO
Intermountain Made
Intermountain Products
P. G
Salt Lake City
Thomas Electric Co
South
Utah
Utah Agricultural Experiment Station
Logan
George Stewart
D. W. Pittman
Logan Station
Forest Dale
Citty—Telefly
Mercy
Longfelow
Claude Neon Lights Electrical Products Corporation
Spa
Main
Ealt Lake
D Everblooming
Porter Walton CO. Seed & Nursery Specialists
Joseph Addison
White Salt Lake Stamp CO
Bale Lake City
P. O
Lake City
Blue Seal Cleanser
Theart Lake c Hardware Co
North Carolina
Hay Derrick
Builders Steel & Iron Co
West 6Th
California
Spere Tent & Awning Mfg. CO
W. Templa Salt Lake
Sterne
Omelet
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