Third Brigade Passes in Review at Camp Alger
The Third Brigade review at Camp Alger Dunn Loring Va follows a brisk day of drills heat and a formal review by General Gobin with praise for the Pennsylvania volunteers led by Colonel Hoffman and Colonel Coursen. Debates over mustering out intensify as officials plan a body discharge while troops wonder who goes home and who stays for garrison duty in Cuba or Porto Rico.
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Pennsylvania
P. 8. Strong
United States Forces
Dunn
Adjutant General of the Army
Usia
Hlc. Corbin
Thirteenth Among Them Camp Meade Strives for Retention
At Camp Meade in Middletown Pennsylvania on April 21 military circles expect the Sixth Pennsylvania to be mustered out and the Second Ninth Twelfth Thirteenth Fourteenth Fifteenth Eighteenth will be ordered home. The Eighteenth Pennsylvania Tenth Ohio and Second West Virginia may be brigaded and kept at Middletown then sent to Porto Rico to join earlier battalions. The Red Cross plans to move a six ambulance field hospital from Philadelphia and other units may transfer or reenlist. There are 18 patients in the corps hospital at Camp Meade, many with malarial fever from Thoroughfare Gap and Camp Alger. Washington August 24 the Camp Alger review concluded with the Third Virginia First Connecticut and Elev nth Signal Corps parade before General Gobin. Mustering out officers await orders and likely disbanded units include the Seventh Ohio Thirteenth Pennsylvania Twenty-second Kansas and First Rhode Island. Thirty convalescent soldiers from the Eighth Twelfth and Thirteenth Pennsylvania regiments will ride a hospital train to Philadelphia tomorrow.
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Sixth Pennsylvania Regiment to be Mustered Out
Major General Graham issued orders naming Colonel William P. Duvall as chief mustering officer of the corps. The Sixth Pennsylvania Regiment will be the first slated for return home from Camp Meade. It will be consolidated there with a detachment until muster rolls are prepared, then sent to Mt. Gretna.
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Graham
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War Department
Mt. Gretna
Man Rescued In Weak Condition From Washington Ave
Police found a emaciated man on south Washington avenue and admitted him to Lackawanna hospital. John Fahey, a lead miner from Colorado, said hunger and exposure caused his condition. He had exhausted funds since last Friday and slept rough until admission. Doctors expect recovery soon.
Sailors on the Presidency A Question of Naval Candidates
The Hartford Courant notes no sailor has become U S president despite many wars yielding land generals. Admirals like Farragut shine publicly yet never attain the White House, while sea service remains distant from political ambition. readers are invited to ponder why.
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Hancock
The
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Farragut
Areas of Philippine Islands Compared with U S States
The passage analyzes the Philippines size from Luzon to Mindanao, estimating total area between 400 and 115 500 square miles. Luzon equals Virginia in size, Mindanao rivals West Virginia Maryland, Panay and Mindanao totals match New Jersey, and about 1 200 islands exist with roughly one third inhabited. Population figures are unreliable due to no careful census.
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Philippine Islands
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Manila
Virginia
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Potomac River
Mindanao
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Hollo
Samar Island
Lehigh Valley Coal’s Centralia Starts Up in Ashland
Ashland Pennsylvania August 24 Lehigh Valley Coal companys mammoth Centralia started up today, giving employment to five hundred men and boys. Four hundred more men will be added within the next few weeks.
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Lehigh Valley Coal Company
Mammoth Centralia
Baseball scores across leagues report multiple results
In the National League games Brooklyn defeated Pittsburg 9 to 1 while Cleveland beat New York 4 to 2 and Chicago routed Louisville 14 to 1. In the Eastern League Ottawa topped Springfield 12 to 1 and Wilkes Barre 12 to 1 over Buffalo 1 Providence 6 and Syracuse 2 Montreal 4. Atlantic League games Lancaster 0 Richmond 7 Hartford 5 Newark 4 Allentown 6 Norfolk 1 rat game Norfolk 4 Allentown second game.
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Toronto
Lancaster
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Hartford
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Norfolk
South Side Jumbow Challenge City Line Maroons
Amateur baseball note reports South Side Jumbow challenging City Line Maroons for a Sunday game at Minooka grounds. The contest lists M. J. Nowton as comin and J. J. Durkin as manager.
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City Line Maroons
Minooka Grounds
M. J. Nowton
J. J. Durkin
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