The Worlds Greatest Naval Training Station Opens July 1 1910
Three thousand embryo Jackies daily maneuver on the lake front as officers train raw recruits into sailors. Half a dozen gunboats and vessels anchor near the city being built by Uncle Sam at Lake Bluff. Completion expected July 1, 1910 with about 3,500,000 spent on the project including 2,500,000 for buildings and 182 acres of surrounding land.
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Uncle Sam
Imsl Aky EG Jcs
Lake Bluff
Evanston
Lake Forest
Highland Park
Wilmette
Winnetka
Milwaukee
Waukegan
Chicago
Lake Front
Great-Lakes Naval Station
Secretary of the Navy
Lake Bluff Naval Station of Illinois Aims for 2000 Recruits
Illinois naval militia project cost millions for buildings equipment and maintenance with bids for officers houses medical facilities and hospital dry. Site near Lake Michigan at Lake Bluff chosen after survey of dozen sites, aims to train 2000 to 3000 recruits annually and open by July 1 1910 under Rear Admiral Albert E. Ross with Nashville as training vessel and Chicago recruiting office growing to the second largest in the nation with about 20 enrollments weekly but high rejection at the medical exam stage.
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Congress
Great Lakes
Lake Bluff
United States
Navy Department
Great Lake District
Navy
Lake Michigan
Licely
Albert E. Ross
United States Navy
Washington
Naval Institute
James ‘Corse
Racine
Aundry
Noel Consstruction Company
Baltimore
Nashville
Chicago
Illinois Naval Tallitin
Michigan
Yeavel
United
States
Middle West
Chicago Naval Recruiting Office
Independence Hall Fourth of July Celebrations Through History
A historical review of Independence Hall as the cradle of American liberty. Notable speakers such as John Nixon Edwin Forrest Grover Cleveland and Wu Ting-fang are cited along with communal ceremonies, dignitaries, and public readings that shaped the nation’s July 4th celebrations.
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United States
Independence Hall
Jefferson
Continental Congress
Liberty
Philadelphia
Charles Thomson
Congress
Thomson
King
George
Thirteen Colonies
John Nixon
Committee of Safety
Nixon
Fifth Street
Edwin Forrest
New York
Conrad Alexandre Gerard
France
John Marshall
State House
Daniel Webster
Dom Pedro
Brazil
Independence Square
Wu Ting-fang
Grover Cleveland
America
Samuel de Randall
Kelley
Cassidy
Warwick
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Naval Training Station
Walde
Illinois
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