Flag Day Tribute and Patriotic Verse Reflections
A 1922 Flag Day commemoration blends Francis Scott Key memorial remarks with poetry on the American flag. It lauds national heritage, unity, and the enduring symbolism of the banner as a living record of liberty and duty.
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John Dickinson Sherman
United States of America
Earth
Henry Hotlcomb Bennett
Department of the Interior
Washington
Franklin D. Lane
Secretary of the Interior
Harding
Francia Scott Key
Fort McHenry
Baltimore
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Young Republic
Bret
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Kay
Francis Scott Key
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National Capital Housing Crisis Prompts Centralized Plan
President and cabinet back a centralized federal building program to house war workload departments in Washington and nationwide needs. Officials describe deteriorating, unsafe rented structures impeding efficiency and demand better post office facilities amid a surge in federal business.
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Ashington
Congress
Washington
White House
Fine Arts Commission
Mall
Pennsylvania Avenue
Secre Mellon
The
Treasury
Mellon
New
Washington Wedding Postponed Amid Family Scandal
The engagement of Miss Nancy J Hoyt to Lieutenant Wiseman Clarke was indefinitely postponed amid sudden illness in the Hoyt family. Rumors tie the break to the marital troubles of Miss Hoyt’s sister Mrs Horace Wylie, with past marriages and a death by suicide cited as context. Wiseman Clarke and his parents returned to England after the cancellation, shocking Washington society and ending the planned nuptials.
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Henry M. ’ Goyt
Taft
F. Wiseman-Clarke
R. N
Hoyt
Wiseman-Clarke
W. E. Wiseman-Clarke
England
Miss Hoyt
Horace Wylie
Philip Hichborn
Pridal
James W. Wadworth, Jr
Hvelys
Elinor Hoyt
Philip Hickborn
Admiral Hichborn
Leavinim
Eldren
Forest Fires Urge Care to Save Timber this Summer
A wave of forest fires in Maryland Virginia Pennsylvania and New Jersey near Washington prompts warning from the forest service. Officials say 84 000 fires are likely this summer if past trends hold, with 80 percent caused by carelessness or ignorance. Government fire-prevention lessons target automobists campers hunters and landowners to reduce losses and support reforestation efforts.
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Maryland
Virginia
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Washington
Forest Service
Col. .W. B. Greeley
The
United States
Desk requisitions and the slow grind of government
A wartime anecdote shows General Dawes observing a clerk request a desk by submitting a requisition after taking the item. Decades later, the lesson remains: the go getter who acts earns pay and praise, while the formal process lags, yet often yields the needed outcome despite delays.
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Will Ushd
Department of Government
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