Civilian soldiers learn trench digging at Camp Lyon Texas
About fifty civilian trainees at Camp Cecil A Lyon Texas undertake their first field engineering lesson digging squad trenches of twenty four feet by three feet by four feet under Lt Cook. The class later expands to signaling horsemanship and swimming with mixed results, while advancing to more complex drill and combat formations as the two week period continues.
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Camp Lyon
Camp Cecil A. Lyon
Texas
Cook
Dimen
W. B. Tuttle
San Antonio Traction Company
Tuttle
The
Traction Company
Gas & Electric Company
Trackenridge Park
Noth
San Antonio
Salado River
Fort Sam Houston
Camp
Cecil A. Lyon
British officer describes air battle and escape from death
A British flying corps officer now a German prisoner recounts a dogfight in which his observer was killed as their plane plunged from 6000 feet. He escaped by climbing over the seat to reach the controls, landed safely, and afterward met the German pilot he engaged, who was wounded but survived. He notes the time loss of two days and reports a later raceboat achieving 30 mph using a water-jet engine with blade props.
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London
British Flying Corps
Germany
Terra Firma
Three-Gun Turrets to Be Tested on U S Dreadnoughts
Navy officials prepare the first afloat test of three-gun turrets on new American dreadnoughts starting with the Nevada California and New Mexico. The plan aims to concentrate fire while addressing center gun disturbance and weight concerns.
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Washington, D. C
Nevada
California
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
Navy
Daniels
General Board of the Navy
Arkansas
Wyoming
Objection Overcome in Board Study on Practice
A board considers the subject and plans a study of actual practice to resolve the objection, with a special group to oversee the work and report findings.
Doorkeeper at White House Is a Diplomat
Washington report profiles Patrick Edward McKenna a diplomat extraordinary who guards the White House door for fourteen years He screens visitors to the president treats all applicants with equal courtesy and keeps order on busy days passing on credentials and accepting cigars for secret service staff The piece notes McKenna knows many prominent Americans and asserts every visitor must first see him before the president
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Victor Elliott
Washington
Patrick Edward McKenna
United States
Pat
White House
Secret Service
Seen one I married one Houston Post line
Fragmentary note references a witty phrase about marriage and instruction manuals, attributed to the Houston Post. It captures a lighthearted newspaper quip rather than a events item, suggesting a columnist or editor witty aside. The readable text centers on humor about domestic life.
Muzzled Dogs Parade in Brussels Mocks Prohibition Order
Governor General von Bissing’s leash rule for dogs drawn protests as a man paraded greyhounds and other breeds with painted muzzles to ridicule the decree. Police arrested him. he paid $40 to reclaim the animals amid the crowd.
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Paris
von Bissing
Belgium
Brussels
Free to asthma sufferers new method promises cure
A newspaper offer claims a new asthma treatment can relieve all forms of asthma including hay fever quickly. It asks sufferers to mail a coupon for a free trial at the provider’s expense and insists no money is required. The message targets hopeless cases who have failed with inhalers douches opium preparations and patent medicines.
Free asthma coupon offer from Frontier Asthma Co
Advertisement offering a free trial of a method by Frontier Asthma Co located at Room 262A Niagara and Hudson Streets Buffalo New York. The ad invites readers to obtain a free asthma coupon by sending for a trial.
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Frontier Asthma CO
Niagara and Hudson Sts
Buffalo, N. Y
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