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Northern Illinois University
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| Series: |
Good News
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v. 9 no. 221
— page 3534 |
| Alternate Title: |
Our Military and Naval Service Part III |
| Subject / Tag: |
Sketch |
| Part of: |
Good News, v. 9, no. 221, July 28, 1894 (Issue) |
| Author: |
Lounsberry, Lionel
(pseudonym used by multiple people)
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| Date: |
July 28, 1894 |
| First Sentence: |
There are afloat and on board receiving ships at the present moment fifteen hundred American lads known as naval apprentices. |
| Last Sentence: |
The seaman with his knowledge of sails and complicated rigging is no longer required, and in his stead has risen a new class of intelligent, alert men, with a fund of information concerning the mechanism of breeching-loading cannon and a fair smattering of other mechanical knowledge at his fingers' ends. |
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