Rifle contests at Camp Perry drive national pride and prizes
The Camp Perry range in Ohio hosted August events from the National Board for Promotion of Rifle Practice to the National Rifle Association and Ohio leagues. Thousands of competitors, army officers, guardsmen, and civilian rifle clubs filled the site as prizes topped large sums and a perpetual press trophy emerged from Sea Girt contests.
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Camp Perry
Ohio
National Board For Promotion of Rifle Practice
National Rifle Association
Ohio State Rifle Association
Department of the Lakes Rifle Association
Ohio National Guard
Ohio State Rifle
Association
Department of the Lakes
U. S. Army
National Guard
Army
Congress
National
Ciation
National Board For
National Rifle Association of America
United States
National Board
Sea Girt
New Jersey
Leslie R. Fort
Governor Fort
Lakewood Journal
Governor’s Mansion
Sea Girt Range
John Taylor Humphrey
Bird W. Spencer
Humphrey
New Jersey Rifle Asso
Lica
Sea Girl
Illinois State Rifle Association
Are Blondes Inferior in Chicago Debate
Chicago judges and asylums heads rejected Maj. Woodruff’s claim that blondes are morally and physically inferior to brunettes and overrepresented in jails and hospitals. Officials noted similar or equal blonde representation in local institutions and prisons, challenging the U S Army surgeon’s New York findings.
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Chicago
Charles E. Woodruff
United States Army
Woodruff
New York State
New York
America
Dr. Woodruff
Theodore Brentano
Criminal Court
George Kersten
Supt
Wilhite
Dunning
Podstata
State Hospital For the Insane
Elgin
Ill
Clinton Prison
Elmira Reformatory
Harriman Plans Grand Sun Room at Fifth Avenue Home
financier E H Harriman commissions a full top-floor solarium atop his Fifth Avenue mansion in New York. Architect Grosvenor Atterbury and Julius Peabody design a 48 by 35 foot sunroom with two bedrooms, two baths, a sitting room, interior porch, skylight, movable shades, and climate control to create an open air living space high above Central Park.
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E. H. Harriman
New
New Harriman Home, At Fifth Avenue and Sixty-ninth Street
New York
Grosvenor Atterbury
West Forty-third Street
Atterbury
Julius Peabody
Cally
Fifth Avenue
Central Park
Sixty-ninth Street
Harriman
Steel plants secure large orders and spray benefits noted
The Pennsylvania Steel Co. secured orders totaling about 1.5 million dollars from the New York, West Chester and Boston Railroad Co. and the New York Central for steel frogs and switches, boosting work for workers at Steelton and Sparrow’s Point. State letters praised spraying fruit trees for San Jose scale and codling moth, with sprayed orchards yielding 70 percent of average apples and full plum crops, while unsprayed trees produced far less. Residents report thousands of dead fish along the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio rivers, blamed on industrial waste. authorities investigated filtration gaps and plan to address Health Commissioner Dixon as sewage conditions remain only fair.
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Pennsylvania Steel Co
New York, West Chester and Boston Railroad Co
New York Central
Steelton
Sparrow's Point
Green Township
Franklin County
San Jose
Lawrence County
Meehan
Allegheny
Monagahela
Ohio
Board of Health and Civic Authorities
Vandergrift
New Kinsington
Oakmont
Fish Commission
Fishery Department
Dixon
Railroads in Pennsylvania Cause 551 Deaths and 5427 Injuries
The state railroad commission records show 551 deaths and 5 427 injuries on Pennsylvania railroads and street railways in the first six months of the year. Steam roads accounted for 472 deaths and 3 679 injuries with trespassers the largest death share.
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Pennsylvania
State Railroad Commission
Labor abuses cited in press steel car strike case
Federal investigators documented peonage charges at Pressed Steel Car Co stockade. Workers were beaten and threatened with guns, kept without food for two days, and locked up when disobedient. Appeals were made to state constabulary for help punishing strike breakers.
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Pittsburg
Pressed Steel Car Co
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D.morson
State Hospital For Insane At
Sun
Keystone State Jets
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