Colleges Prepare War Training Programs Across Nation
American colleges plan comprehensive war readiness as the United States boosts military training on campuses. The Bureau of Education and the Council on National Defense coordinate plans to train hundreds of thousands of students for wartime service and future national needs.
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the Star
Washington
United States Burea of Education
Committee On Education
The
Council of National Defense
Educational Institutions of America
Samuel P. Capon
United States Bureau of Education
Reti
Pit Closet Fates Seen Shaped by Health Board Ruling
Citizens debate pit closets and sanitary dry closet rules as City Council reviews an ordinance. Health officer can approve fly proof pits within ten days or require new closets built to board plans, with fines for noncompliance.
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H. H. Hable
Board of Health
Health Board
Napoleon’s First Flight Attempt as a Cadet
A young Napoleon visited a balloon ascent at the Champ de Mars and requested a ride into the car. Refused for safety, the cadet drew his sword, cut the balloon, and destroyed the craft, marking his first and last ascent attempt.
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Napoleon
Champ de Mwiars
Aeronaut
Earth
Bonaparte
Market Report from Local Prices and Baltimore Markets
The Star lists daily quotations for grains, feeds, butter, potatoes, poultry, and livestock. Prices include winter wheat flour retail 11.50, spring flour 13.50, corn and middlings, butter at 35 44, potatoes 1.00 1.25, live chickens 20, Baltimore butter and hay ranges, and cattle hogs figures with steers at 12.00 and pigs 3 to 4.
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Hhratt Croce
Baltimore
Choice Creamery
Virginia
Los of
Martinsburg Winchester Turnpike Repair Delayed by Shortage
Lack of material and labor halted repairs on the Martinsburg and Winchester Turnpike from the Martinsburg tollgate to the Virginia line. A meeting at P. R. Harrison's office decided to order oil to Tablers and Inwood and hire men to lay oil and sifted stone, improving three miles already completed.
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P. R. Harrison
Martinsburg
Frederick County Virginia Sheriff Admr. sale order heirs
In the Clerk's office of the Circuit Court of Frederick County Virginia in vacation on August 30 1917 Luther Pannett Sheriff Committee Admr of Richard Wells decd and George Parker versus Wm Wells Clara Robinson and Clarence Parker the court orders sale of Richard Wells real estate in Middletown and distribution of proceeds with future court direction. The absent defendants must appear within fifteen days of publication to protect their interests. The order to publish weekly for four weeks in The Evening Star Winchester Virginia.
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Virginia
Circuit Court
Frederick County
Luther. Pannett
Richard Wells
Deec
George Parker
Wm. Wells
Clara Robinson
Clarence Parker
Middletown
Clara Binson
Evening Star
Winchester
US ships program ends wooden vessel effort
Washington reports the Federal Shipping Board has approved completing 86 contracted wooden ships with no new orders for more. The move supports Goethals and Denman after their ouster from the Emergency Fleet Corp amid plans to replace sunk vessels. The wooden ship program is abandoned for now as the board views wooden vessels as unnecessary makeshifts.
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Federal Shipping Board
Reorganized Board
General Goethals
William Denman
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Strange patent office creations show genius as insanity
The exchange notes that the patent office holds freak inventions reflecting the astonishing workings of the human brain. It suggests that the inventors’ enthusiasm kept them from thinking clearly, explaining some odd devices and appliances patented.
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Patent Office
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