Georgia Consideres Using Drafted Men On Farms To Prevent Idle Land
Atlanta Feb 15. In advance of the Georgia farming and business meeting in Macon Feb 27 Commissioner J J Brown seeks a telegraphic reply from Provost Marshal General Crowder on detailing drafted men who cannot be sent overseas back to family farms to cultivate and harvest crops. Brown favors keeping soldiers in service but assigned to farms and recalls possible. Gov. Dorsey aims for full candor on food situation for the state. The plan could be discussed at Memphis meeting of Southern agriculture officials.
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Tenn
Dorsey
Commissioner of Agriculture
Southern Commissioners of Agriculture
Bathing Facilities Scarce in French Towns
Paris reports scarce bathrooms in many small French towns where American troops are billeted. Officers and men go without daily baths and few manage a hot bath weekly. Some showers are being installed to improve conditions.
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Associated Press
Bathtub becomes wartime bath amenity in barn storage tale
An artillery major in a small town converted a barn tub into a daily bath despite no running water. The tub, stored since before the war, was found by the major and cleaned, heated with a kettle, and used each morning. Locals, including the barn owner, called the practice humorous.
Weather in Georgia and Athens cold with fair skies
Weather summary reports a northern storm moving northeast toward the St. Lawrence valley. Athens and vicinity will be fair with much colder conditions on Saturday. The eastern cotton belt may see light rains as the system progresses inland.
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Georgia
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Photographs From Athens Rest Room Sent To Many Cities
Manager D. P. Haselton of the Athens Rest Room has had interior views photographed and will send them to cities across the east north and middle west. Civic bodies in several cities have had representatives inspect the work and request photos to show their communities what a handsome convenient elegant place it has become.
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