Yale to train officers in military tactics on campus
The War Department assigns Lt. Charles A. L. Totten to Yale University for a three year stint to teach military engineering tactics. The program emphasizes student driven course work rather than a full military school, with optional drilling and a focus on substantial tactics instruction.
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War Department
Washington
Charles A. L. Totten
Yale University
Yale
Totten
The Oriental Woman and Views on Women’s Roles
The article critiques women’s rights gaps in nonWestern societies, citing Egyptian life and child neglect, then contrasts Eastern and Western views on female education and status. It mentions travelers’ accounts of female neglect, haremlife, and the impact of education, with stray quotes from Edison on phonographs.
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Egypt
Allah
England
Serd Ahmed Khan
G Rl
London
Stranded on the Tracks a Cow Causes Near-Disaster
A Bellefonte Pennsylvania engineer heroically cleared a culvert by firing full steam after a cow on the rails blocked the five o'clock Bellefonte LaMont train at speed. The engine jumped the culvert, the engine wrecked, one car overturned, but no injuries.
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Connecticut
Hartford
Granby
Ellington
Canton
Morris
Havana
Tolland
Hartanud
Simsbury
Bloomfield
Windsor
Kent
Bethlehem
Conneticut
Bellefonte
Bellefonte and
Lamont Road
Samuel Cherry
Indian Family Lived in Mountain Cave with Giant Rattlesnake
A Stockton party exploring Sierra Characo encounters an Apache man and his family living in a mountain cave. They describe a strange home built with mats of grasses and a woman nursing a rattlesnake, snakes hanging in the cave, and a man sharing powder and shot before retreating. The group learns the man, part Apache, part Mexican, fled from authorities and supports his snakes as companions.
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Ragusa
Austria
United States
Riest
America
Corfu
Lloyd
Europe
Paris
Vienna
Trieste
Secord
Cariaco
Mr. Brown
Henry Srmumax
Woodstock
Conn
Windham County
Wiggins
de Voe
David A. Cabell
Stillman
George Peacock
Winton County
Ala
Peacock
Stockton
Texas
Lopes
Sierra Characo
Mr. K
Tira
Greance
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New England
J. W. Richardson
Batist
Stamford
Richardson
Connecticut Tobacco
Growers
Army and Navy Journal
F. A. Pratt
Pratt
Whitney Machine Company
Belgium
Speini
Brwziish
Lee
Pratt & Whitney Company
Germany
France
Pratt & Whitney Co
Pratt « Whitney Company
Navy Department
Park River
Orphan Asylum
W. W. Kimball
U. S.N
Elm Street
Shepaug
Wauremaug Lake
Mr. Edison
Warrensville
Penn
Lycoming County
F. M. Wilson
Bridgeport Conn
Julian H. Sterling
Housatonic
Cotoxet Grance W. Scorr
Decatur
Yorne
Chicago
Jaran
Earth
Carrom. Becxwrrn
Onteora
Catskills
Beckwith
Wnat Ue
Aearme Thet
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