District Guard Drills At Colonial Beach Encampment
District National Guard units held drills and word of mouth dispatch tests at Camp Ordway Colonial Beach Va Aug 21. Training featured verbal message relays sanitation reviews and a field inspection under Capt Horace P Hobbs with officers and civilians witnessing a cavalry drill and battalion inspections.
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District National Guard
Potomac River
Colonial Beach
Washington Post
Camp Ordway
Clatriet National Guard
Willow Creek
Eam
Third Infantry
Horace P Hobbs
Regular Army
Testa
Hobbs
Washington men learn the trade of the soldier
Reports from Colonial Beach and the instruction camp detail army talks by Capt Smart and Maj Summerall. Trench making joins the curriculum as Gen Harvey orders equipment. A near drowning thrills the camp while soldiers save a young lady. Maj Gen Harries due with Lieut Col Cook. salute planned and a launch from the Sylvia arrival. Signal corps strings 20 miles of wire. 67 men trained for any task. Battery A guests and medical staff noted. Crab festival at Colonial Beach and a discussion of the National Civic Hall closing remarks.
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Smart
Regular Army Medical Corps
Army Santathon
Charles P. Summerall
Division of Military Affairs of
Army
Harvey
Harries
District Miliia
George H. Harrier
Third Infantry
Haines
Washington
Fred Cook
Toca
Rock Point
Wicomico River
United States
Sylvia
Thompson
Maja
Alfred P. Robbing
Joseph C. Castner
Harry Coope
Signal Corps
Europe
Harry” Lee
Tate
Oliver P. Terry
Terry
Cook
Monros Bay
Farma
Colonial Beach
Ing
Louis C. Voght
Geo. G. Wilson
Geo. Bannet
Harry Shelling
Elwood Moorehead
Eugene Btephenaont
Medical Corps
Hardahell Crab
Gets-It Corn Remedy Advertises Easy Removal
An old time ad touts Get-It as the simplest painless method to rid corns. It claims fast action, painless removal, and easy use without tape, knives, or razors. Sold by druggists and stores in Washington and advertised as the world’s best corn remedy by Lawrence & Co. Chicago.
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Ana
Waita
KE Lawence & Clo
Chicago
Washington
O'Ponnell
Peoples’ Ug
Cardinal Gibbons backs Memorial Hall for George Washington
Cardinal Gibbons endorses the George Washington Memorial Association plan to erect a memorial hall in the city. In a letter replying to the prospectus, he states any move to honor Washington will meet his hearty approval and that he supports the undertaking in honor of the Father of His Country.
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Bishop Carroll
Baltimore
United States
National Civic Hall
Cardinal Gibbons
George Washington Association
George Washington Memorial Association
Gent
George Washington
Parcel Post Rule Change Lets Insurance Hit 100
A new postal regulation effective September 1 raises parcel post insurance to 100 dollars from 360. Valuations from 50 to 1000 dollars incur a 2 percent fee plus postage. The update expands coverage and cost details for insured parcels.
Weather and tide table with regional forecast notes
District Columbia Maryland and Virginia forecast remains partly cloudy with morning showers Sun, fair Monday. On storm activity centered in Ohio Valley and Mississippi basin with rain in New England and lower Great Lakes. Flood warnings issued for lower Illinois and Mississippi rivers and White River Arkansas. Temperatures mid 60s to low 80s with warm trend Sunday and Monday.
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Dept. of Agriculture
Weather Bureau
Washington
District of Columbia
Maryland
Virginia
Ohio
Mississippi
Upper Lake
Wantara Tower Lake
Middle Atlantic Keaton
New England
South Atlantic
East Golf Statés
Mississippi River
Rocky Mountain
Northwest
Middle Atlantic States
Lower Lake Region
Ohio Valley
Minois River
Minaiasippi
Ulinois
Kaskaskia
White River
Arkansas
Praeger delays on downtown postal station request
Postmaster Otto Praeger avoided comment on a letter from the Citizens' Committee on Postal Facilities urging reestablishment of a Postal Service Department building station by September 15. The downtown merchants say current mail service, moved to crowded drug stores, harms business and urge the Post Office to resume operations in its own building with experienced staff.
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Postoffice Départment
Otto Praeger
Citizens’ Committee
Postofice
Isador Grosner
Praeger
Prager
Seventh
Fifteenth Streets
Farresia
PeatoMce
Tr Tm
PonsteiMfics Department
Postoffice Department
Eleventh Street
Pennsylvania
Avanus
Parker Company Seeks Tracks Through Potomac Park for Building
The Jong H Parker Company of New York asks to lay railroad tracks through Potomac Park to deliver supplies for the Interior Department building project. Brig Gen Kingman previously refused a similar request. The second appeal was filed with Col W W Harts, superintendent of public buildings and grounds, for a site on the block bounded by Whitehead, Nineteenth, and E 12th streets northwest.
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Kingman
Jong H. Parker Company
New York
Interior Department
Potomac Park
Army
Col
W. W. Harts
Moses to Keep Scout Camp Open One More Week
A. C. Moses will fund keeping the Boy Scout camp on Chesapeake Bay open for an additional week to provide an out-of-town vacation for eight boys whose parents cannot afford summer trips. The plan aims to keep the facility available and extend the program for eligible youths.
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A. C. Moses
Chesa- Deake Bay
Mer
Arthur C. Moses
Ioea! Scout Council
Associated Charities
Klosex
Boy Scout
Corcoran Building
Re Pan
Grottoes Prophets Plan Busy Militia Encampment
Grottoes 60 to camp Almont 300 prophets and families travel from Washington on steamer St John for Colonial Beach Virginia to celebrate Grotto Day. Past Monarch Edward Schmid chairs the committee with A C Mayer L Goldsmith Charles M Keefer and Joseph W Curran guiding events and festivities include religious services, concerts, and athletic contests for boys with scout officials arranging meals and travel.
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Eallipolis Frotto
Washington
Colonial Beach
Hugh T. Stevenson
Bernie Wefers
Guy W. A. Camp
Charles Zurhor
E. C. Woods
Ros Fulkerson
Peter Latterener
The Right Word and The Value of a Slogan
A writer earned escalating sums for slogans and brief phrases arguing the right word sells. Short, distinctive phrases travel fastest from eye to brain, with Roosevelt’s square deal standing as a timeless example of effective phrasing. Stores gain by advertising with memorable wording that builds product individuality.
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Theodore Roosevelt
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