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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1918
Page
7
A cable from the Y M C A war work council orders one million summer drinks and fruit flavors for American soldiers in France. The shipment includes shaving soap, pool tables, chocolate, sugar, flour, cigarettes, and tobacco to ease heat and thirst at the front while fostering morale.
In Tuscarawas county Ohio seven girls will raise pigs to compete in state and county contests amid more than 500 boys and girls enrolled in corn pig poultry clothing and food clubs led by Miss Minnie Porter. Poultry raisers plan 8750 purebred eggs for hatching as Amish patriotism grows and Liberty bonds near five thousand in sales.
Roscoe Wagner of Anita son of J A Wagner will be inducted into coast artillery at Ft Monroe Va. Robert Jacobson Atlantic mail carrier recently accepted for mechanics will leave Monday night for Chicago for Armour Institute training. Magill’s thief city in training at Norfolk word has been received Led Son of W R Magill and wife Had with the coast artillery has given a commission as a second seat.
The American squadron operating over the Toul sector reports its first victories against German planes. Lieut Edward Buford Jr of Nashville engages two foes, then fends off three more after his gun jams. Lieut Edward Rickenbacher, the former auto racer, is credited with a May 22 biplane kill near Thiaucourt. Reports indicate American pilots have downed multiple German aircraft while the front remains contested and secrecy persists.
Clarence Young, a Des Moines lawyer turned aviation serviceman, was captured by Austrians and sent to Camp Dodge. In Benton township neighbors hosted a farewell for Wal ter Bopp, while Herbert E. Bartley of Anita is cited in AP dispatches from the front recounting a prisoner moment during Belleau Wood fighting. A letter from Sergeant Harold Herbert describes raids, No Man's Land, and duties near the Atlantic area as battles continue.
When F Levi Dees aged fifty enlisted in the engineering corps in St Louis a Dees family line completes 140 years of service in all US wars His great grandfather fought in the Revolution supplying his own ride clothing and gear His father Sustler J Dees enlisted for the Civil War at sixteen Levi Dees a skilled engineer passed examination and was sent to Wilmington Delaware
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