Self Helps for the New Soldier
A 1917 Wheeler Syndicate booklet offers concise guidance for new soldiers. It covers discipline, conduct, and personal resilience to aid recruits in adapting to military life.
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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1917
Page
7
A 1917 Wheeler Syndicate booklet offers concise guidance for new soldiers. It covers discipline, conduct, and personal resilience to aid recruits in adapting to military life.
The article explains how to form a column of squads from line, change direction with a single command, and then align by dress. It covers right and left squad movements, about faces, rear marching, guides, file closers, and the sequence for marching to the rear while maintaining line integrity.
The article explains two hard company movements from a column of squads. It covers right into line and right front into line with commands, pivots, halts, and dress adjustments, detailing squad and captain roles and execution steps.
Describes company level drill movements using fixed and moving pivots. Explains executing “companies right left” to form lines or columns, turning on pivots, marking time, alignment, and halting sequences for squads and platoons with emphasis on marching, direction changes, and rear rank actions.
An electrical manufacturer has perfected a glow in the dark light switch to spare shins and furniture. The device uses a minute quantity of radium compound to emit light when darkness falls.
A sermon explains Jesus I am the bread of life and the necessity of eating his flesh and drinking his blood as the means to spiritual life. It argues this language shows a practical, literal-turned-spiritual process of appropriating Christ's sacrifice for redemption and emphasizes belief in Jesus as the path to the Father.
An old Indian tale describes a fakir who spreads his bed in a palace ante chamber thinking it a casavanserai. Brought before the prince he asks what an inn is and inquires who dwelt there before him. The fakir learns his father died and left. then asks about ancestors.
A new congressman recalls a thirty year old joke about Uncle Joe and green corn. Cannon retells the tale once more at length, contrasting true version with earlier retellings and noting the three meals a day at Willards hotel.
An ad claims a ten minute proof that a hot bath with Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment relieves eczemas and irritations. It promotes free samples by mail and urges readers to request a booklet. A separate classroom joke about London notes dense population per textbooks.
A friend notes a cigar box with Mark Twain as he walks the street. Twain quips that the box means he is moving again, not smoking, revealing his dry wit and restless habit in youth.
A fragment notes a Red Cross Ball in America with praise for grocers and a mention of a new camera carrying case. It also references a man famed for boasting about his appetite and hints at film features in a compartment.
Simson asks where a step ladder is and Mrs Simson says Willie had it last. They deduce it must be in the pan try. A playful exchange reveals money spent and a missing hole in a glove leading to a carefree fellow named Flubdub who once spent his last dollar on a fortune told.
Brown Banks shows keen interest in his work while Green notes not less than 10 percent. The speaker warns against despising failure and suggests he may seek to dull care and gloom quickly.
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