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Our Liquorless Navy

Rum ration

There may be an honest difference of opinion regarding the utility and morality of the army canteen which is now no more, but the same arguments which were made against the abolition of the canteen cannot be made against the order of the secretary of the navy, abolishing wines and liquors from the officers’ mess, on shipboard or on naval reservations.

It was to be said in favor of the canteen that it stood in the way of the disgraceful dives which now hang like a dirty fringe just outside of and around our military reservations. To a large extent the canteen removed the enlisted man from the temptations which now allure him.

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The Jefferson Shoe

By a late order of the Secretary of War, the non commissioned officers, privates, &c. of the rifle regiments are required to wear the Jefferson Shoe — Without pretending to be judges…
Posted inUS Civil War

Thus Far

It is now nearly five months since treason first showed itself in South Carolina. What has it gained? The Gulf States have made common cause with South Carolina. They have…
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The War News

We refer our readers particularly to the telegraphic dispatches in our paper of today. We give them in full and to the exclusion of much other matter. As to their…
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To Dig Into Man’s Past

Yale University Expedition to Peru Will Try to Find Bones of the Ancients

The ruins of Machu Picchu

New Haven, Conn.—The next expedition to Peru, which will be made this year under the direction of Prof. Hiram Bingham of Yale, will not be geographical as in the case of the last expedition, It was announced at Yale, recently, but will concentrate its work largely in that region where the human bones were found under a glacial deposit which indicated a minimum age of 2,000 years.