Navy recruitment push urges enlistment and training paths
The article outlines a Navy manpower shortage with about 5 100 sailors short toward a 52 000 maximum, despite a 4 000 boost authorized by Congress. It describes enlistment standards, training schools in machinist electrician and clerical tracks, and merit-based promotion from seaman to warrant officer with examples of Ford and Linsley becoming ensigns.
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Navy
Congress
Navy Department
Naval Service
Yeoman
Washington
Newport
R. C
L. BR. Ford
L. N. Linsley
Bear in Maine Woods After Ill Friend 50 Miles Carried
W. S. Cowing a Philadelphia teacher and Charles Claxton Jr suffered exposure and illness in a Maine and Canadian woods. Claxton, delirious and feverish, was carried roughly fifty miles to a St Pomphile settlement in Quebec where they found aid after abandoning their canoe and most provisions. Claxton stands six feet tall. Cowing, 36, has exploration experience in Canada.
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W. S. Cowing
Charles Claxton, Jr
Charles Claxton
Philadelphia
Maine
Canadian Woods
Claxton
St. Pomphile
Quebec
Cowing
Canada
Cowling
Germantown
Is a Herring a Sardine Or Just Itself
Treasury experts face a tariff question on herring. The act levies 14 cents per pound for herring while canning fish pay 30 percent ad valorem. The customs court ruled herring qualifies for 44 cents per pound, raising whether sprats and sardines share the same duties.
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Treasury Department
Curtis
Ting
Customs Court
Guns to Fight Aircraft on British Armored Ships
Four British armored ships to be begun this year will bear overhead armor against aerial attack and carry high elevation guns attacking aircraft. The weapon blends anti torpedo craft and anti air functions with surface fire ranges up to 13 000 yards and 31 pound shells. It elevates to about 80 degrees to reach 9 000 yard height. At four and a half miles a shell can reach 13 000 feet. A new shrapnel shell is used for aircraft work.
London Society Adopts Tea Through Straw Fad
Society in London embraces a new habit as women sip tea via straw inserted through veil holes to keep hats and pins balanced. The practice arises from large hats and tightly tied veils making conventional sipping unsafe.
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London
Wright Memorial in France by Aero Club of France
The Aero Club of France will open a subscription to erect a memorial for Wilbur Wright. A marble block near his early workshop at Hunaudières and Le Mans would bear his name and key flight dates. The committee notes France owes Wright a debt of gratitude and admiration.
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The
Aero Club of
France
Wilbur Wright
Wilbur
Hunaudieres
le Mans
Wright
Princess Victoria Louise to Marry Prince Ernest August
Berlin reports Princess Victoria Louise Kaiser's daughter will wed Prince Ernest August youngest son of the Duke of Cumberland The match would end the Cumberland Hohenzollern feud by absorbing Hanover with the Duke renouncing Hanoverian throne and Ernest named Brunswick regent
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Berlin
Victoria Louise
Ernest August
Duke of Cumberland
Kaiser
Edward
Prince of Wales
Cumberland
Hohenzollern
Kingdom of
Hanover
Prageta
George V
Prince Ernest
Brunswick
Bandit Slays Merchant in Newark After Mugging Attempt
Thomas F. Coulter was struck from behind as he put on his coat in his Newark shop. He fell through an open elevator shaft to the cellar twelve feet below. The robber fled without taking the money Coulter held. Coulter remains in serious condition.
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Newark
Thomas F. Coulter
Coulter
Stingless bee produced by English apiarist Burrows
Philadelphia reports the arrival of a stingless bee after two years of experiments by English apiarist Burrows. The hybrids, produced by mating Cyprian drones with Italian queens, are described as splendid workers and less prone to disease than ordinary honey producers. The new bee possesses a sting but cannot use it offensively.
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Philadelphia
Burrows
Roberts Enthroned as Eightieth Birthday Hero of Empire
London marksField Marshal Roberts turning eighty as empirewide tributes pour in. Newspapers publish praise of his career and poems honor him while leaders send tributes to the famed commander known for Kandahar.
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London
Lord Roberts
Bobs
Kandahara
Papera
Married in a cornfield elopement in Johnson Kansas
Judge Robert R. Friend joined G. B. Buck ner and Goldie A. Gregor in marriage in a broom corn field near Johnson. The eloping couple arrived by automobile and, due to a field hand shortage, the judge worked in the field and, refusing payment, required the couple to help pull broomcorn to cover the fee.
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Johnson, Kan
Robert R. Friend
G. B. Buckner
Goldie A. Gregor
King Honors Amundsen in Stockholm Lecture Tour
Roald Amundsen, the South Pole discoverer, received warmly in Stockholm after leaving Norway. The lectures were modest and sympathetic, boosting his popularity, and King awarded him the grand cross of the North Star, the highest honor outside royalty.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Roald Amundsen
Norway
Bubonic Plague Found on Ship in Newcastle Harbor
Oct 2 health report says the Bella Isle, trading Newcastle Hamburg, has bubonic plague aboard. One apprentice died and two crew members are ill. Authorities quarantined the ship and the wharf to halt spread.
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Newcastle
Hamburg
Bella Isle
Textile strike ends in Lawrence after 24 hours
The IWW strike in Lawrence Massachusetts lasting 24 hours ended as 12,000 textile workers returned to mills. Some reported disruptions were noted and the protest aimed at Ettor and Giovannitti’s imprisonment.
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Lawrence, Masa
Industrial Workers of the World
Ettor
Giovannitti
Gihor Dieturhduces
U S and S Urges Mexico to Stay Carson Execution
The state department urged Mexico to postpone the execution of J. N. Carson of Kingland Texas who faces a shooting sentence in Tampico pending a full inquiry into the charges he faces. Officials do not know the offense alleged.
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U. S&s
Mexico
Washington
State Department
J. N. Carson
Kingland
Tex
Tampico
Mex
Carson
Extradite Thief Suspect to Chicago After Identification
St Louis October 2 James W Stacey a bank robber suspect was taken to Chicago following identification by Police Lieutenant Bernard J Burns of Chicago who says Stacey assaulted him in a Chicago saloon William Fish Stacey's attorney made no effort to fight the extradition after personal justification of his client
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St. Louis
James W. Stacey
Chicago
Bernard J. Burns
Stacey
William Fish
Brieger Explains Poisons And Africaine Arrow Poison
Berlin professor Dr Ludwig Brieger, at the Washington hygiene congress, disputes being called the ptomaine bacillus discoverer and explains ptomaines as chemical bodies. He cites toxins from bacteria, African arrow poison made from local plants, and notes ongoing tests against tsetse fly and sleeping sickness with prypasatrol. He cautions a possible link between the Kansas and Nebraska horse deaths and African plague, pending further study.
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Ludwig Brieger
University of Berlin
Washington
Brieger
Professor Brieger
Africa
Koch
Dr. Brieger
Kansas
Nebraska
Famous Civil War Frigate Lancaster Retired From Navy
The old wooden frigate Lancaster, once a flagship of Rear Admiral George F. Pearson on the Pacific Fleet, leaves active naval duty for a Public Health Service detention ship role. Once patrolling California in 1864 she seized the Confederate steamer Salvador and men, and served during Mexican Maximilian upheaval and Peruvian events. Now a 3200 ton screw armed with twenty two guns, she marks the end of an era.
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Public Health Service
Otlivio
George F. Pearson
California
Salvador
Thomas E. Hogg
Maximilian
Mexico
Callao
Lancaster
Memorial planned for William Henry Harrison grave
A memorial association in Cincinnati has obtained state incorporation papers to purchase and erect a monument at Harrison’s grave in North Bend Ohio. The plan includes transferring the grave to government and surrounding it with a park near the Ohio Indiana boundary along the Ohio River.
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William Henry Harrison
Ohio
Cincinnati
North Bend
Ohio River
Indiana Boundary
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