Fort Douglas Life Sketch from a Soldier’s Letter
Private Lee W. Ottaway of the 20th Regiment writes home about daily life at Fort Douglas Utah. He describes reveille drill chow and barracks routines plus hikes parades and a concert with the 109th Engineers and notes changes in unit assignments and personal reflections on service. He signs off with news of letters and a neighborly farm sale notice.
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A. Ottaway
East Third
Treet
Lee W. Ottaway
20Th Regiment
Fort Douglas
Utah
Revellle
Regenie
Wight
Liberty Park
20Th Reg
Douglas
Bugle Corps
Salvation Army
Sixth Nebraska
109Th Engineers Corps
Phil Hall
Webb
109Th U. S. Engineers
Godsel
Seiut
Cochran
State University
Iowa Cavalry
Neal Danley
Sam
Harries
County roads get patchwork care amid high cost grain
County commissioners struggle to maintain a sprawling network as two major highways, north to south and east to west, split the western area. Limited funds leave rough roads in Alliance and Box Butte counties, with tourists abandoning the north south route and the Alliance community seeking relief.
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Morrill County
Bridgeport
Alliance
Bom Butte County
Your
Sidney
Angora
Alliance Commercial Club
Oery
W. D. Fisher
Brother Fisher
Bayard
Redington
Red Cross
Liberty
Western Am
Box Butte
Letters From Camp Cody Reveal Soldier Life
Western Nebraska readers learn from Paul W. Thomas a Chadron graduate and Camp Cody recruit. He describes transit from Chadron to the camp via Missouri Pacific and Santa Fe lines, passing Eldorado Kansas oil fields, and a rocky desert landscape near Deming New Mexico. He notes altitude around four thousand eight hundred eighty three feet and quiet days of drill en route to the front.
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Herald
Nebraska
Paul W. Thomas
Camp Cody
Alliance
Chadron
State Normal School
J. W. Thames
Missouri Pacific
Omaha
Santa Fe
Kansas City
Eldorado
Kans
Deming
Jerry on the Job for the Public Good
A tribute to a town booster named Jerry described as the life of the town and the driving force behind subscription papers to raise funds for local causes. The piece lauds his energetic public-spirited work and notes the community would be poorer without him.
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Jerry
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Fort Douglas, Utah
Hemingford
L. L. Price
First National Bank of
Kidghport