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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1917
Page
2
A shop urges customers to buy Liberty Bonds and send coupons at par in payment for merchandise and any accounts due in 1917. The notice declares it the duty of every patriotic American to buy bonds and to encourage others to do so, promising value in return.
Classified ads list six room rental at Fourth and Poplar for ten dollars monthly with agent A O Howard and another listing noting Mrs Chas Chase. Lost keys advertised with multiple contact numbers including Green 426 and Green 653. Social column describes Harriet Willard engagement to Julius Peters and a series of showers and social events surrounding the bride elect at various local homes.
A notice states carbon paper typewriter paper and ribbons are available at the Naws Telegraph office for purchase or supply.
Paris reports that Fontainebleau artillery school plans special facilities for American officers. Four months of training to aspirant grade precedes second lieutenant. Sixteen hundred American pupils expected. English speaking instructors formed. arrivals start with basic trig, physics, and chemistry knowledge.
Paris reports that General Pershing's French headquarters have been chosen by the U S embassy and approved by Washington though the exact site is unannounced. A chateau offered by a French noble will house Pershing and his staff while over 100 motorcars are pledged for their use. A new field in France will employ American women drivers to replace chauffeurs of automobile ambulances at the front.
Dr Anna Howard Shaw, noted suffragist, vows to “doing her bit” for the United States by sacrificing coffee and extra food. She normally eats two soft boiled eggs and two slices of toast but now limits to one egg and one toast, drinking water instead of coffee, saying it is a woman’s part to conserve the food supply.
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