Reminiscences, 1918-1919.

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Reminiscences, 1918-1919.

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Reminiscences of Baumgarten who served as a private in Signal Corps Co. E., 402nd Telegraph Battalion, U.S. Army, 1918-1919, including a description of his enlistment, training, and trip across the Atlantic during World War I.

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Baumgarten, Harry L., 1895- .

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Congress passed a resolution creating a national weather service on February 9, 1870, and it was signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. This new law directed the Secretary of War to take meterological observations and provide warnings of approaching storms. The Brevet Brigadier General Albert J. Myer and his Signal Service Corps were assigned this duty on February 25, 1870 by the Secretary of War. Weather observations began on November 1, 1870. In June 1872, Congress extended the weather...