Training Girls in Health Care Amid War Effort
Government urges girls serving in war work to protect health through posture, diet, and safe living. Miss Randerson and Miss Randerson’s team teach stair climbing, proper standing, and how to avoid a slouched stance that impairs digestion. Army nutrition notes praise meat for warmth and energy, outlines rations, and stresses milk and substitutes for children and adults during wartime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iertie Naniderson
Nd Wit Mn
Army of Girlss
France
Mary
Reprimands on a cold streetcar in Canada and a windworks joke
On a frigid winter day a husky soldier in a Thai uniform boards a streetcar where a young slacker mocks the attire. A passenger counters, revealing the knee reveal. Later a telephone exchange in Toronto prompts a quip from a judge about the windworks during a winter waterworks moment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thailand
Diring
Torlan
Voyage of Pershing's Staff Aboard Baltic Recalled
A historic June 7 issue of the Stars and Stripes recounts the May 28 1917 departure of General Pershing and his staff from New York aboard the Baltic. The piece marks the first detailed account of the voyage, noting secrecy, civilian attire, and early experiences crossing to prepare the American Expeditionary Force for battles like Cantigny. It highlights officers, interpreters, and the challenges of early wartime sea travel amid health drills, language lessons, and shipboard routines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vangyard
Liverpool
Stars and Stripes
ALEF
Pershing
Crecy
New York
Cantigny
Governor's Island
Willan
Nani Nds
Baltic
Greatener
Aeher
Fors
France
Robert Hacon
Great Life if You Don’t Slonard in Charge to ARF
A fragmented account details American officers in civilian clothes aboard a ship and voyage to London amid secrecy. It notes civilian clerks surrendering outfits, popular elite parents as outfitters, and entertainment by Lyn Harding and Dorothy Gish. A special train carried the party to London, with Pershing greeting engineers and officials on arrival.
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Cat Ward
Pershing
W HW. Young
Sedsinge
Torx
Washington
Aunitor
London
Chiet
Toval
In Station
Air Joby Hrensky
Masaeal Sims
Ambassador Page
General Pershing
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John J. Marlin
Surgeon General's Office
Washington, D.C
Marlin
Navy
of Agriculture
Foo Money
Patrions
Miss M Rensselaer
Home Conservation Division
United States Food Administration
Mabel Fonda Gareissen
Riverside Drive
New York City
Scott McCormick
M. CA
Mothers of France
Mra
Gareissen
Jones
Plattsbur
Edmonds & Bankers
Fareissen
Y. M. CA
Couneil
Enoch N. Crow
Europe
Wee Woldiers
Childre
Department of
United States
McGowan
Avas
Hart At Sea
Hes
Reeadoma Woman
Robate
Terence Okla
Dye
Lie I
Lis M
Mr. Sells
Tam
Wronedoe
Library War Service
American Library Associat Son
Rcan
Hoboken Dispatch Office
Ken, N. J
Ann Don Diel
Lisa Kathereen Jones
Mint Jones
Ballin
Amin
Frank Stanton
Stokt K&cormick
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KE Windaasimers
Tate
Dewey
Ike
Hongkong
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Hing
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