Army Pay Roll Near Billion Dollar Mark in a Year
Wide expansion of the army complicates pay logistics as the Quartermaster General outlines a system to disburse salaries for officers, enlisted soldiers, nurses, and clerks. Enlisted pay scales from $30 to $71 monthly vary by grade and service length, with additional enlistment-period increases and special ratings in coast artillery, field artillery, and other branches. Officers receive rank-based monthly pay, with initial lieutenant pay listed as $141.67 and lieutenant salaries rising with rank. (Continued on page 2)
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Quartermaster Department
Military and Naval Insurance Act
War Risk Insurance Bureau
Treasury Department
Army
Quartermaster General
Secretary of War
Quartermaster Corps
Washington
Office of the Quartermaster General
Interior Administration
Fifteenth and
M Streets
United States Army
Officers Quartermaster Corps
France
United States
Coast Artillery
Engineers
Ordnance
Signal Corps
Medical Department
Medical
Casement
Cavalry
States Milit Academy
Leutenant
Elephants and Vases and a Congressman Quote
A collage of odds and ends from a historic page describes decorative vases for flowers, elephant life spans from a book titled The Elephant, plus a humorous Hammfatt Hammfat quote about politics. The clippings mix science notes and a Richmond Times Dispatch remark on political jobs.
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Hammfatt
Richmond
Times-Dispatch
No Time Left War of Words in Marion Dialog
Fragmentary dialogue shows Dorothy and Warione debate relationships with a harsh insult laden interjection that breaks into garbled text. The snippet reflects a tense emotional exchange and social pressure on Marion.
Will of Engelbert Metzger Created Public Probate Record
The St Louis barber Engelbert Metzger who was found dead in his shoproom has left a will filed for probate. Bequests include 1000 to Pope Benedict XV or successor, 700 for a clock at St Henry church tower, 300 to the church pastor for masses, and legacies of 1 to his children and 1600 to his daughter-in-law Catherine Metzger with the remaining estate to his sister Verena 114 of Springfield Tl's heirs.
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Engelbert Metzger
St. Louis
Benedict XV
St. Henry
Elizabeth Moser
John
Frank
Joseph
Henry Metzger
Catherine Metzger
Verena
Springfield
Fish Bites Back as Freshwater Piscine Attacks Man
Nicholas Kolo of Wilmington, Del., was preparing a freshwater fish for the table when the creature turned on him and bit his wrist. He rushed to Delaware Hospital, where doctors found no airway danger and that he was not in immediate danger of death. This was reportedly the first known case of a patient bitten by a fish.
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Nicholas Kolo Wilmington
Del
Delaware
Udvsteians
Smileage books promise 100 good times for soldiers
Camp Devens Massachusetts issues smiling booklets for soldiers in cantonment. The Smileage book guarantees 100 good times for each recruit who buys one, priced at $5, as part of camp amusements program.
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Devens
Ayer
Mass
Captain Howard Clarke Returns to Chicago After Ten Years
Howard Clarke, heir to a renowned Chicago family, returns home after a decade of silence. Dressed in a U S Army uniform he is now Captain Clarke and after a brief visit he departs to rejoin his regiment at a Pacific port en route to France.
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Chicago
Howard Clarke
United States
Pacific
France
Friendly Scuffle Over $2 Sparks Court Dismissal
Two Black men appeared before a local magistrate on fighting charges and claimed the incident was a friendly scuffle over $2. The court dismissed them after noting the humorous height difference, with the tall man stooping to pass through the doorway as the other barely cleared it.
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New York
Vassar Undergraduates Send Letters to Fight Propaganda
Vassar College undergraduates organize to flood Russia Germany and Austria Hungary with personal messages. The letters describe American girls homes tastes and amusements and explain what the United States really stands for. Messages are sent to Europe weekly.
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Poughkite
Russia
Vassar College
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Europe
United States
Stessee
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