Six Weeks at Fort Ethan Allen Artillery Camp
Fr Ethan Allen Vermont July 18 1931 diary notes describe Harvard and Yale cadets undergoing six weeks of artillery officer training at Fort Ethan Allen Vermont. The text details the post’s layout with barracks riding hall stables gun sheds and a 160 acre drill field where infantry cavalry and artillery drills occur. Sixteen pyramid tents house the trainees on a corner of the drill field.
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Fort Ethan Allen
Vermont
Harvard
Yale University
Journal
the Post
Polo
Pyramid Army
Embarrassing Moments from a Birthday Prank
A five year old girl recounts a birthday prank by her sister and cousin. They hid candy bars and corncobs in papers, embarrassing her when her father revealed the joke. She attends Heights School in kindergarten and recalls the moment with humor.
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Dear Evening Journal
the Heights School
Arrival at Army Life Begins With Uniform Trials
The narrator describes arriving at the camp and facing a grueling, heat soaked routine. He meets Major Jones, endures a long walk to the hospital for a physical, and endures a miseries of uniform fittings at the depot. The day ends with the speaker exhausted and strapped with gear as he returns to Tent 13.
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Burlington
Sam Brown
Major Jones
Elder
Half Mile
Tent 13
Daily Lessons in English Word Usage and Pronunciations
A compact note on commonly misused words and mispronunciations. It lists terms like often mispronounced clandestine and enunciates proper pronunciations, with a focus on precision and vocabulary growth.
Nonsense notes and travel tidbits from a small town
Bea Wilson sends a teddy bear from Yellowstone Park and shares a lighthearted greeting. A Rock Island depot scene features a one way ticket to New York with a quirky Cleveland transfer question. A hardware store chase for a mouse trap ends with a humorous train joke about Scots golfers.
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Rock Island
New York
Cleveland
Seminary humor and Latin quotes echo from school days
The article jokes about church roles and curats becoming rectors, explains semicolons as punctuation quirks, and recalls old Congressional Records. It quips that four years of high school Latin produced the quoted phrases about times customs and morals and gold, ending with a boast.
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Cicero
Fragmented Readings Mix Poetry and Jumbled Notes
A collage of verses and stray quotations includes lines about the ocean and sands, a school football and basketball coaching analogy, a salesman pitch, and last words attributed to Nathan Hale and Daniel Webster with odd word forms.
Doctor Masson Hosts Angel Food Cake In Journal Building
In a humorous self described account, Doctor H. F. Masson baked an angel food cake using kitchen gear from the Journal Building crew for a celebratory moment last Friday. Locals recall a prior prank involving a kitchen shower and South Marion residence move.
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H. F. Masson
South Marion
Masson
Journal Building
Journal Building Gang
Doc
Passion Play at Fairfield Three Night Performances
The Chautauqua Association of Fairfield brings the European Passion Play for three nights at Chautauqua park auditorium beginning Wednesday Sept. 16 with a school matinee at 3 P M on the final day. The cast includes twenty two actors with local participants in key ensemble scenes and a large angelic and water carrier group. A regional choir will be formed from Fairfield and nearby towns. Tickets may be obtained from the new headquarters on the west side of the square.
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Fairfield
Chautauqua Association
Chautauqua Park Auditorium
Passion Players
Christ
Jerusalem
Pilate
Dempsey Fights Four Opponents In Portland Stop
Former world heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey resumed his barnstorming tour in Portland Oregon by fighting four opponents in a single appearance. The event drew crowds seeking a chance to see the legendary fighter in action.
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Dempsey
Portland
Ore
Jack Dempsey
Akron airship strength proves superior in rigid tests
The Akron airship, built for the US Navy, with Goodyear Zeppelin says it withstood Hogging and Sagging tests better than any Zeppelin type. Over ten tons of ballast were used as weights were applied to simulate severe flight conditions. Dr Karl Arnstein, VP and chief engineer, called the hull rigidity surprising and deflection small under load.
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Akron, CO
Navy
Akron
Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation
U.S. Navy
Karl Arnstein
Wheat barters admission to Indiana State Fair on Farmers Day
The Indiana State Fair announces that one bushel of wheat admits one adult or one automobile on Farmers Day, September 9. Children under 12 need half a bushel. Regular adult admission is 50 cents and children 25 cents, with farmers noting the wheat could be sold at around 40 cents to raise funds.
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Indianapolas
Fair Board
Farm Board
Auto Death Toll Hits 31 273 in Last Year
The American Motorists' Association announced 31 273 automobile deaths for the prior year, averaging 118 fatalities per 100 000 registered cars. President J Barton Weeks urged stronger traffic safety legislation and education as auto fatalities rise since 1926.
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Washington
American Motorists’ Association
J. Barton Weeks
Association
Navy proposes National Defense Day to replace Armistice Day
Acting Secretary of the Navy Jahneke announced plans to counter pacifist propaganda by renaming Armistice Day to National Defense Day and by adding elements to the November 11 ceremonies. The move aims to emphasize military readiness and national defense.
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Washington
Jahneke
Dog spared from execution in Illinois insanity plea
Uncle the terrier, who bit several people in Evanston, is saved from being put to death after Mrs. William Lundahl of the Anti Cruelty Society challenges the ruling. Judge Harry W. Porter granted a stay to decide if the dog was entirely to blame for the bites.
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Evanston
William Wlundahl
Anti- Cruelty Society
Harry W. Porter
Oklahoma oil fields under martial law set to price crude at $1
Oklahoma Governor William H Murray wages battle on unemployment while Phillips Petroleum posts $1 a barrel price for crude. Martal law shuts wells in Oklahoma Texas and Kansas until all firms agree to pay the price and follow new conservation rules. Incendiary fires prompt East Texas patrols as militia enforces field shutdowns.
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Oklahoma City
William H
Mid-Continent
Sinclair
Oklahoma
Texas
Phillips Company
Kansas
State Public Service Commission
Cicero I. Murray
Oil States’ Advisory Committee
Phillips
Murray
Memphis
Mississippi Valley States Unemployment Relief Conference
Tenn
William H. Murray
Phillips Petroleum Company
Kilgore
Tex
East Texas
Japanese silk importer spent vast funds before disappearance
Hisashan Fujimura, the Japanese silk importer who vanished from the Bergenland, used money at a rate of nearly $70,000 each month during the five months before he disappeared, federal investigators disclosed.
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New York
Hisashan Fujimura
Bergenland
Toohey Wife Seeks Divorce Over Husband’s Public Talks
Florence Toohey petitions for divorce from Michael Toohey in Muskegon Michigan alleging he opposes hard work and uses public addresses on capitalism and labor to support his stance, making joint life burdensome.
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Muskegon, Mich
Florence Toohey
Michael Toohey
Explosion in Pocket Burns Boy at Yale Fairgrounds
A violent explosion occurred in the pants pocket of 14 year old Lyman Murray at the Yale fairgrounds, followed by a fire. Fireworks salvaging operations were conducted by small boys. Lyman sustained serious burns.
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Yale
Mich
Lyman Murray
Lyman
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