Army Pay Nearly Billion a Year Highlighted in War Report
Washington reports the Army pay roll nears 1 billion annually as expansion pressures the Quartermaster corps. Details show monthly disbursements around $78.6 million for enlisted and officers, with family allowances and certain insurances excluded.
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ARMY
United States
Anly
Englix Ald
Femy
Quartermaster Department
Inititary Fund Now Insurance Act
War Risk Insurance Bureau
Treasury Department
Quartermaster General
Secretary of War
Quartermaster Corps
Washington
Niance Uke
Office of the Quartermaster General
Interior Administration
Fifteenth and
M $Treets
Smileage books cheer soldiers at Camp Devens
Camp Devens in Ayer Mass issues Smileage books to soldiers. Each book promises 300 good times for the recruit who owns one and costs a dollar.
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Devens
Ayer
Mass
Army Pay and Allowances Including Ranks and Quarters
The article outlines officer pay by rank from second lieutenant to general, longe vity increases, and foreign service boosts. It details quarters allowances by rank, heat and light subsidies, retirement pay rules for enlisted and officers, and hospital subsistence policies. It also covers aviation pay raises for signal corps officers and certificates of merit for valor.
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Coast Artillery
Casement
Feld Artillery
Cavalry
Engineers
Infantry
Medical Department
Signal Corps
Aviaton Mechanician
Ina
United States
Porto Rico
Hawaii
Papameneana
Congress
Leutenant
Signal Corpa
Chicago Soldier Returns After Ten Years to Family
Howard Clarke, heir to a prominent Chicago lineage, returns home after a decade with no contact. He travels in U S Army dress as Captain and soon departs to rejoin his regiment at a Pacific port, heading for battlefields in France.
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Wanderer
Old Home
France
Chicago
Howard Clarke
United States
Ie Ig
Pache
Washington Sidelights on Army and Navy Service Club
Washington forms United Service Club of America to meet wartime officer needs. Captains Ellison Messer and Lieut Irion spearhead with War Baker backing. Westinghouse mansion on 1500 Twentieth St serves as headquarters with plans for additional buildings and fourth floor barracks for transient officers.
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Ashington
Washington
Army and Navy Club
War and Navy Departments
United Service Club of America
L. Hl. Ellison
T. TH. Messer
U. S. It
F.C. Irion
Infantry
N. A
Baker
Army
Navy
Westinghouse
Twentieth Street
Dupont Circle
James G. Blaine
Joseph Leiter
George Westinghouse, Jr
Freaks Found in the Patent Office
A Boston era piece mocks Washingtons patent office for housing bizarre inventions. It cites models from a box trap nest for nonproductive hens a luminous harness for night driving and a concealed pistol pocketbook with bravado about securing safekeeping for lawbreakers.
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Patent Office
Mao
United States
Washington
Brent
Old Bony and the Good Samaritan on Slippery Street
An old horse named Old Bony slips on a slick street wagon ride. A driver in a fur cap loses control as two women ride along. a Good Samaritan stops, untangles the reins, and steadies the horse. The scene ends with gratitude and moral reflection on neighborly aid.
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Rome
Pink Nuby
Old Bony
Washington Composer Designs Flag of Allies
Washington composer and artist Wilmuth Gary designs a Union of Purpose flag symbolizing the United States and its allies in World War I. The flag features a circle of 17 allies plus the United States, a white field, and a shield with the motto Liberty Humanity Democracy, with the eagle and blue field background. The arrangement honors allied entrants by order, completed August 1917, with Brazil later joining to 18.
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Washington
United States
Wilmuth Gary
America
Brazil
Wilson
Lansing
Alvey Adee
Serbia
Russi
France
Enghand
Montenegro
Japan
Belgium
Italy
Portugal
Roumania
Greece
Cuba
Panama
Siam
Wittin
Turin
Real farmer letters laud Western Canada land riches
Letters from Tarris of Audubon Iowa praise Alberta farming prospects with Makepeace land holdings. They describe high yields, land values, and the strategy of breaking and farming half the ground each year to retain moisture and pay for land. Readers are urged to consider arriving in late spring after fall work.
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Messrs
Tarris
Audbon
Iowa
Audubon Advocate
Canada
Makepeace
Alberta
Peder M. Jensen
Hansen
Garfield Tea Ad Encourages Dyspeptics to Try Health Boost
An advertisement touts Garfield Tea as a steady, pleasant path to regaining health for dyspeptics. It claims others have found benefit and urges readers to follow a calm, steady approach rather than fear.
Knickerbocker Dialogue on Coal Conservation and Pazo Treatment
The item notes a humorous exchange about coal conservation with Knickerbocker asking for market ideas and Bocker suggesting shaving an inch off the shovels. It includes an advertisement blurb for PAZO treatment claiming relief for itching and bleeding and a six to fourteen day cure.
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Smith
Bocker
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CSB
Ingligers
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Minuurermaster Corps
Widh Bittalion
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Jeluss
Mutual Department
Jublor &Ride
Bard
Sikanl Electricians
Maester Hospital
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Rat Hole
Kanany City
Ralph Woldbank
Arthur Leppert
Rex
Wildbauin
Leppert
Allies
Hill
Atany Drug Store
Davin Hoses
Erie
Grand Avenue
Waukosha
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