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Daily Evening Bulletin
Maysville, Mason County, Kentucky
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The Secretary of the Navy designates the USS Michigan to enlist boys aged 14-18 from the Great Lakes for naval apprenticeship training at Newport, RI, involving cruises to Europe and the West Indies, preparing them for warrant officer roles.
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Washington, Aug. 15.—The secretary of the navy has designated the United States steamer Michigan, the only American war vessel on the great lakes, to enlist apprentice boys for the navy. Heretofore all such enlistments have been made on "the seaboard," and young men along the lakes and the neighboring country have been virtually debarred from the privilege of such enlistment. Boys must be from fourteen to eighteen years of age, and are sent to the vessels of the training squadron at Newport, R. I., where they are instructed in English studies as well as in seamanship. The squadron makes a cruise to Europe each summer and to the West Indies each winter. After the course of training is completed they are sent to other men-of-war until they are twenty-one, and it is from this class that it is proposed to appoint warrant officers.
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Aug. 15.
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The secretary of the navy has designated the United States steamer Michigan, the only American war vessel on the great lakes, to enlist apprentice boys for the navy aged fourteen to eighteen years. They are sent to the training squadron at Newport, R. I., for instruction in English studies and seamanship, with summer cruises to Europe and winter to the West Indies. After training, they serve on other men-of-war until twenty-one, from which warrant officers are appointed.