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...annual convention of the Milling Association will elect the national flour. With the aid of the radio this rumor was broadcasted throughout the land. The convention's judiciary committee has been deluged with recommendations from local granges and Audubon societies. So far, from forty-eight states and one territory (Guam), forty-nine suggestions have been received. The ylang-ylang was Guam's choice for the national flour, while that of Massachusetts was the dandelion. Apparently the radio, being audible and not visible, has mixed flower with flour. In ordinary circumstances a thorough mixing of flour is essential for good results...
...miles of territory, but in the fact that the island is the key to telegraphic communication with the Far East. "All messages for the Dutch Indies," President Mackay of the Commercial Cable Company has testified, "were sent via Yap under normal conditions; and during interruptions of our cable between Guam and Manila, which cut off all communication with the Philippines and China by our route, we diverted traffic via Yap to Shanghai over the German-Dutch system." American commercial expansion demands communications with Asia that will not be under the control of a competing power. The United States disputes...
Hostile Submarine Action and the American Seaboard, Contre-Admiral Degouy; Sources for the History of the Mexican War, 1846-48, Justin H. Smith; Fort Donelson, A. L. C.; the Question of Guam, B. H. Richard; Financing the "Armed Nation," Professor O. M. W. Sprague; Editorials: Our Programme; Admiral Degouy; National Defense; The Records of the War of the Revolution; Frontage and Depth. Economic Notes; Tactical Notes; Book Reviews; The Journal of Major-General D. S. Stanley...
...enrolment from the foreign possessions is as follows: Hawaii, 9; Philippine Islands, 2; Guam and Porto Rico none...