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...Scout headquarters at Evanston, Ill., announced the formation of a new troop. The members had long played with each other and with some other boys who would join the troop as soon as they should become 12 years old. Until enough of the playmates to start the troop became 12 years old, all had played under the personal direction of Vice President Charles Gates Dawes...
...Black Horse Troop March Harvard Banjo Club...
...years a member of Troop B of the First Squadron of cavairy, and when the World War broke out Dana wanted to go abroad in that division of the service. There was little call for cavalry; however, and he enlisted instead as a private in the Chemical Warfare department...
...terror of darkness is the first and so the deepest of all fears. It was a thing that made a little three-year-old girl in Juliette, Ga., lie shaking in bed at night, kept awake by a troop of crying phantoms and wild dreadful faces. Every closet was to her a nest of horrors; great cats crouched on the shelves, snakes writhed among the shoes on the floor; if you put your ear to the keyhole when the door was shut, you could hear them mewing and hissing, but no matter how suddenly you looked in, the wise, hungry...
...victories, defamed for drunken outbursts of atheism. Son of a Congregational minister, the future spellbinder was taken from Dresden, N.Y., to Wisconsin at 10, in 1843. The Illinois bar admitted him in 1854 and soon the juries were his almost before he addressed them. He organized his own cavalry troop in 1861 but led it into Confederate captivity in 1862. His political fame followed his election as Attorney General of Illinois in 1867. His oratorical prowess became nationally known when he arose to nominate James G. Blaine at the Republican presidential convention of 1876. Thereafter his career became a succession...