Army and Navy Notes on Gunnery and Personnel
Artillery targets at Fort Pickens Fla show 100 percent hits with 10 inch rifles, mean ranges 3855 yards and 3.65 yards for moving targets. Contract Surgeon Werrick tipped for promotion. Army tests on physical fitness and a walk, and maritime prep expands at Fort Mason San Francisco. Widespread relief work follows a storm in Mississippi with Ashford Bailey coordinating hospitals. Budget moves include clothing stockpiles and Manila post improvements with tests of new cookers and a push for higher service pay.
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Coast Artillery
Fort Pickens
Fla
L. 3. Chappelear
Navy
Samuel TL Werrick
Werrick
Army
Congress
Medical Department of the Army
Miliary
Eutherires
War Department
Ashford
Floward H. Bailey
Army Medical Corps
Hat
Mose
Evera
Corpa
Balley Kee Uiey
Bussssipp
Hila Wera
San Francisco
Fort Mason
Cal
Pacific Coast
Pacific Insular
Euip
Navy to retire up to fifteen officers under law this year
The Navy plans compulsory retirement for as many as fifteen officers by June 30 to clear room for promotions, with potential voluntary retirements already filed. A board of rear admirals will review records in secret at the Navy Department to decide who can be spared from active duty, while speculation centers on Casper F. Goodrich leading the board.
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General Staff
Army
Willery Corps Medical Department
Judge Advocate General
Aiiment
Ordnance Department
Quartermasters Department
Subsistence Department
Militia of
Michigan
the Treasury
War Department
Wurgeong
Army Medical Museum
Valery Havard
Tee Lwad
Army Medical Corps
Beny Mn
Quatermaster's Department
Congress
Philippines
Navy
jRear Aemiraevans
Casper F. Goodrich
Navy Department
W. Rae
Engineer Corps
Albert F. Dixon
Bureau of Steam Engineering
John K. Barton
Department of Steam Engineering
Navy Yard
League Island
John R Edwards
Porttsmouth
N. H
Hugo Osterhouse
Joseph B. Murdock
Rhode Island
Thomas C. McLean
Board of Inspection and Survey
Washington
Post
Anny
Edshier
IMT
Naval Hospitals
United States
Canacao
United States Naval Hospital
Yokohama
Japan
B. L. Wrigh
Naval Hospital
New Port Lyon
Colo
Naval Suricans
Naval Station
Pearl Harbor
Hawaiian Islands
C. W. Parks
GS. Burrell
Hawaii
Seaton Schroeder
Honolulu
Puget Sound
Wastt
Marine Hospital Service station changes and duties May 13 1908
The Public Health and Marine Hospital Service updates include leave for several officers, details to Chicago and New York for AMA sections, and moves to Boston and New York for temporary duty. Also announced are cadet engineer examinations, port and vessel movements, and ship arrivals at multiple stations including League Island and Cavite.
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Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
J. W. Kerr
J. H. White
American Medical Association
Chicago
M. J. Rossnall
Oncago
Mathewson
G. M. Corpud
H. J. Hamilton
H. B. ©. Reimer
Doston
New York
W. L. Royster
Will camp on dead volcano at Jorullo in Mexico
Special to The Washington Pret. Dr Hana F Gadrow of Cambridge University arrives in Mexico to study the extinct Jorullo volcano in Michoacan. She plans a five to six month expedition with Indian tribes, examining volcanic formation and the surrounding flora and fauna to estimate the volcanoes age through life comparisons.
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Mexico City
Hana F. Gadrow
Cambridge University
England
Mexico
Jorullo
Michoacan
Joruilo
Gadrow
Jorutio
Gadron
Milk Conference Urges Pasteurizing Milk For Children
Warning to parents from the Milk Conference appointed by the District Commissioners. It advises pasteurizing newborn milk by heating to the boiling point, then cooling and keeping cold until used. The Society for Prevention of Sickneks supports this for children, countering belief that pasteurizing harms digestibility or nutrition.
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Tistrict Commissioners
Library shelves hold Sudermann Magda and Cyrano in town
In a Southern Worcester County town the public library expands its classics with Sudermann Magda and Rostand Cyrano de Bergerac, along with Shakespeare and world drama. The piece discusses reader demand for modern fiction and biographies, noting the near 6,000-volume collection and naming reader reactions to Megda and the misbookings around Megda.
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Worcester County
Mass
Sudermann
Rostand
Shakespeare
Bernard Shaw
Tolstoi
Mansfield
Magta
Megda
Theary
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Kinley
Manila
Rock Island UM
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Warh
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Tex
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Utah
Presidio of
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Madison
Johnson Hagood
Coast Artillery Corps
Arthur Murray
Senate
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A. H. Bmtery
Wer
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W. M. Gurlon
South Carolllna
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Delaware
Wolverine
Great Lakes
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Sandusky
Ohio
Erie
Toledo
Detroit
Port Huron
Mackinac Island
Muskegon
Milwaukee
Sheboygan
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
G. F. Freeman
Portsmouth
Marine Corps
George F. Eiliott
Richard Hooker
Eiliott
Hooker
Russell B. Putnam
Eliott
Araft
Rufus H. Lane
David BD
Porter
Charles L. McCawley
William B. Lemly
Edina
Jones
Frank Halford
Walter B. Nea
Seth Williams
Edward. W. Banker
Charles’ A Luts
Calhoun An‘crum
David M. Randall
Holland McT. Smith
John R. Henley
Tempiin M. Potis
Rarph
Keyser
John D. Nevin
Henry
Green
Ralph L. Shepfard
Howard W. Stone
Julian P. Willcox
Bennet Puryear, Jr
William W. Buckley
Wiliam Wise, Jr
Marine Hospital Service
Beans
Louisiana
J. K.tansalg
Norfolk
R. B. Ingersoll
Connecticut
P. W. Mdonnold
H. N. Fisher
KE. Swenson
Colorado
K. Dod. Gould
Alabame
Idyte
Porte
Blakely
DeLong
Thornton
Tingey
Savannan Sioux
Gradford
Preble
Perry
Farragut
Fox
Davis
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Dale
Cavite
Galveston
Mongkong
Uneas
Gantlago
Buffalo
Panama
Birmingham
Hampton Roads
Nelong
Taerator
Brunswick
Savannah
Jorutlo
Society For Prevention OF Sicknekgs
B. Berliner
Prince Albert
Horn
Magda
Meg
Ethel Lawton
Bool
Forretme
Emma. Dunham Kelley
Boston
Chicago New
Baltimore American
Saportane
Pus
Leoure
di Lowe Comerdy
J. & W. Eiseman
Seventh Street
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