The Songs Our Soldiers Sing
A review of soldier songs from American wars, tracing origins from the Revolutionary era to World War I. It notes how tunes and lyrics reflected daily camp life, humor, and morale, highlighting Yankee Doodle as a core thread and Binky Dinky Parley Woo as a World War I emblem.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmo Scott Watson
Cosmopolitan Book Corporation of
New York
Lieut
Edward Arthur Dolph
United States Military Academy
West Point
Wto
Philip Exner
Goany
Lawrence Schick
Draiving
Instrath
Peter B. Eyne
John Brown
Gamps
Captain Love Wall
Pigawacket
Anthony Wayne
Paulding
Iti
Dolph
Richard Shuckburgh
America
Abercrombie
Madelon
Francis Scott Key
Dixie
Republic
Maryland
Alany
Zodiac Signs and Body Parts in Middle Ages Belief
A discussion of how zodiac signs were linked to body parts and disease in medieval belief, detailing Aries through Pisces with corresponding anatomy. It also notes the first British subject to pilot a heavier-than-air craft, Col. J T E Moore Brabazon, whose flight between April 30 and May 2, 1909 rose 30 to 80 feet, traveled a quarter to half a mile, and ended in a noninjurious crash per the Royal Aero club committee report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aries
Tam
Taurus
British Isles
Royal Aero Club
J. TE. G Moore Brabazon
M. P
Dn Jackson
Forest O'Brine
St. Louis
Equator
Arthur Nutt
St Louis
Jackson
O’brine
Charles A. Lindbergh
Minneapolis
Owen Haughland
Preston L. Crichton
Harold Bramley
Wtacoma
Wash
Tokyo
Roger Q. Williams
Lewis Yancey
New York
United States farmers unite for national agricultural co operatives
News Review of Current Events reports a meeting in Baton Rouge where wheat cotton cord and livestock groups formed a plan to create a Farmers National Chamber with Washington headquarters to represent farmers before Congress and in public matters. The move aligns with the Farm Board’s push for a large farm marketing corporation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward W. Pickard
United States
American Institute of Co-operatives
Baton Rouge
Washington
Federal Farm Board
Chicago
Big Concern
William H. Settle
Indiana Farm Bureau Federation
Farmers’ National Grain Corporation
Legge
Hoover
Samuel R. McKelvie
Nebraska
McKelvie
Nebraska Farmer
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Pauvre Madelon
Gemini
Cancer
Leo
Scorpio
Sagittarius
Capricornus
Aquarius
Myo
United States Lines
Franklin Fort
New Jersey
Senate
Edge
France
Air View
Auburn Prison
New York State
Convrets
Ghn W. Garrett
Baltimore
Italy
Henry P. Fletcher
Rome
Garrett
Theiplomatic Corps
Netherlands
Venezuela
Rescent Hoover
Navy Yards
Paul V. McNutt
American Legion
McNutt
Great Britain
Congress
Cavalry
Coast Artillery
Bingham
Connecticut
Fort Benning
rGa
General Service
Fort Leavenworth
Lamport
Russia
China
Manchouli
Chinese Eastern Railway
Manchuria
Manchurian
Khagarnovsk
Vladivostok
Chita
ALF
England
Lancashire
Margaret Bondfield
Hile
Pert
Tacha
Ari
Bolivia
Pacific
Acean
Colombia
Europe
Auburn
Clinton
Dannemora
Roosevelt
MN Poincare
Aristide Briand
Briand
Hague
London
MacDonald
Henderson
Snowden
William Graham
Board of Trade
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