Army Reserve Taught By Mail
The Army operates a vast correspondence course system for citizen soldiers with an enrollment expected to exceed 40 000 this year. Since 1924 the program has grown to about 85 000 students over five years, training reservists across infantry artillery intelligence coast artillery engineers and more. The system aims to keep reserves ready for wartime duty and plans to reach 10 000 enrollments annually within two years.
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Washington
Army
Army University
United States
National Guard
Uncle Sam
Congress
West Point
Fort Sill
Fort Riley
Camp Benning
Command and General Staff School
Fort Leavenworth
Army War College
General Staff
Columbia
Cornell
National Guardsman
War Department
Command and General Staff
Reserve
Field Artillery
Coast Artillery Engineers
Air Service
Chaplains
French Seeress Predicts Year of Agitation and Loss
Madame Fraya the French seeress foresees 1020 as a year of great agitation with the death of a king and two French political figures. She predicts airline, mine, railroad, and ship accidents, scandals in society and finance, rising crime and divorces, and possible French involvement in a war without bloodshed.
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Paris
Madame Fraya
Alfred Loewenstein
America
France
Weight Brings Trouble New York
Mrs Hannah Melman wife of a dress manufacturer sought separation saying marital troubles began after she weighed 250 pounds.
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New York
Hannah KR. Melman
Motorman Karl Bornsen Takes Six Week Vacation At Sea
Karl Bornsen, a Motorman from New York, after nine years at sea without a vacation, secured a six week break and immediately embarked on a transatlantic voyage.
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New York
Karl Bornsen
Faster Mariner
Radio Set With Personality Found In San Francisco Case
A San Francisco man who claimed radio sets have personalities guided police to a local apartment where a stolen radio receiver was located. The owner identified its voice as he passed. Police seized three sets in the apartment being operated simultaneously on different programs. Three boys and four girls were arrested.
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San Francisco
Escaped Convicts Scale Heat Pipe To Flee Prison
Washington report describes three inmates Joseph Daniel Oswald Patrick O Toole and Roy Hanford scaling a hot steam pipe to escape from Lorton Virginia. Guards fired when the trio slipped through a window. two sentenced for grand larceny and one for receiving stolen property.
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Brenna
Cook
Massachusetts Avenue
Lorton
Man’s Heart Is Broken by Daughters' Neglect
An elderly man William Tuever, sixty, starving and ill, pleads for support from two married daughters in family court. They promise four dollars weekly, but payments fail. After weeks of delays and another visit, Tuever collapses and dies when the cashier reports no funds arrived.
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New York
William Tuever
Tuever
Big Cod Yields Up Water Jug Handle
Boothbay Harbor Maine reports a curious tale from veteran fish packer Luther Maddocks. He recalls a schooner captain stowing a broken water jug handle that later matched a pig cod found by two crewmen on a return trip to the western bank. The jug handle fit perfectly, confirming the strange coincidence.
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Boothbay Harbor
Luther Maddocks
Western Bank
Dory
Orlas Pinkham
Maddocks
Trolley Wire Harms Four in Milwaukee Car Crash
A trolley wire snapped and fell on a moving automobile driven by Louis Kaplan in Milwaukee. Inside were his wife Sarah, and their son Max aged eleven, and Mrs Dora Barstow. Mrs Kaplan leaped from the car during the shock and sustained injuries.
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Milwaukee
Louis Kaplan
Sarah
Max
Dora Barstow
Thieves Steal Prize Cow From Vincetown Farm
A prize cow was carted away by thieves using a motor truck from the Joseph Brown farm near Vincetown New Jersey. No suspects are named and no motive disclosed in the brief report. Property loss is reported by Brown who offers no further details. The incident highlights farm theft concerns in the area.
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Vincetown
N. J
Joseph Brown
Here
Old Beliefs Cling Yet We Move Beyond The Inherited
A reflection on inherited beliefs and the persistence of dead ideas. The speaker notes there are lifeless notions that haunt us, despite not having tangible form, urging a move beyond traditional inheritances.
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Ibsen
Pastor Koenig's Nervine Offered Free Sample
An old time remedy tale describes Pastor Koenig's Nervine, a nervousness epilepsy and sleeplessness treatment. The ad claims factories worldwide and offers a large free sample by writing to Koenig Medicine Co., 1045 No. Wells St., Chicago, asking readers to mention their local paper.
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Pastor Koenig
Koenig
Koenig Medicine Co
No. Wells St
Chicago
Illinois
Five Hour Cold Remedy Promises Quick Recovery
An advertisement touts Pape's Cold Compound as a five hour remedy for colds and grippe in tablet form. It claims pleasant taste and rapid relief, asserting common sense as a warning against wasted effort.
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Pape
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