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...Draft horses and mules can be tested by the new invention as dairy cattle or race horses are tested?on performance...
...loads could be pulled, grading from concrete through brick and asphalt to dirt. The two horses weighed 1,725 and 1,905 pounds respectively. They could start heavier loads, move them faster, farther, and with less exhaustion than lighter teams, showing that weight is an important element in a draft horse. These tests proved that horses have more reserve power available than was believed. They can exert from six to ten times as much power for a short time as they ordinarily use, without injury. The horsepower was defined by James Watt, inventor of the steam engine, 150 years...
Following the attack on Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, American draft evader in Baden, Germany, (TIME, Aug. 20) his assailants have been held in jail. One of them, wounded, was in a hospital, but was kidnapped, Bergdoll himself driving the kidnappers' auto...
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, millionaire American draft evader (who escaped in 1920 from Governor's Island by plying his guards with liquor), shot dead one man and wounded another when they attempted to seize him in his apartment at a hotel in Eberbach, Baden, Germany. Out side the hotel, in an old U. S. army car, waited Lieutenant Griffith, U. S. Army, and "Prince" Gargarin, a Russian. After the shooting a crowd menaced the two in the car, who promptly started for Heidelberg and were arrested en route, charged with attempting to kidnap Bergdoll. Bergdoll went free of any homicidal...
Major General Enoch H. Crowder, V. S. A., retired, Ambassador to Cuba, was ordered by Secretary of State Hughes to return to Washington to confer on the Cuban situation. General Crowder, former Judge Advocate General of the Army, author of the details of the military draft during the War, has in several capacities been the protecting genius of Cuba ever since the Spanish War. Lately he has been responsible for the financial rehabilitation of that country. His instructions to return to Washington indicate serious concern on the part of the State Department over the financial course adopted by the Cuban...