Army Humour and Wartime Tales From The Front
A collection of wartime quips and anecdotes recounting soldiers and officers in training, misadventures with uniforms and horses, and humorous letters from home. The pieces feature Lt jokes, a War Risk Insurance Bureau director’s self deprecating humor, and a negro engineer regiment aboard the Acquitania with early drill mix ups.
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R. G. Cholmeley-Jones
War Risk Insurance Bureau
Walter Reed Hospital
Washington
Bonehead
Ment
Wahsington
D. C
Posta
Government
The Army Slum and a Mock Ad in a Western Paper
A soldier remarks on a lifeboat as colored enlisted men watch, then a raft and officers. The piece ends with a caustic ad: Wanted five blacksmiths and three plumbers, ex Army cooks especially wanted.
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Ished
Georgia camp drill leads to water tank mishap
A two week recruit on his first guard duty at a Georgia trading camp is assigned to a water tank. His task is to alert the corporal if the tank overflows. The camp is awakened at one o clock by a sharp cry: Corporal of the guard Number Six bring a cork.
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Acquitania
Eighty-fourth
Leutenant
Perce
Georgia
Return of the Lawyer and Air Squadron Drill Confusion
A former client greets a returning lawyer with broad humor about wartime absence. The Aero Squadron undergoes close order drill as part of prefront training, with a rookie unit misplacing itself before the captain and correctly identifying his service number 284526.
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Aero
C. O
Try It Try It Try It A Promising Family Message
A positive meditation urges readers to begin each day with joy hope and kindness and brighten any mood with cheerful greetings and warm handshakes. It emphasizes happiness comes from within and family cooperation means each member does his part and helps others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leslie’s
The Procrastinator How to Act Now at Toby's College
A paternal urging for immediate action to enroll in Toby's Business College in Waco Texas. The ad touts courses in Bookkeeping Banking Telegraphy Shorthand Typewriting and General Office Training and notes the school was included for clerical training of disabled soldiers and sailors. A free catalogue is offered for request.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toby
Business College
Tomor
Toby's Business College
Waco
Texas
Value of U S crops and livestock in 1919 reported by Houston
Secretary Houston announces 1919 crop value near three times prewar average totaling 15.873 billion dollars. Livestock value climbs to 8.83 billion, up 546 million from 1918 and 1.094 billion from 1917. Meat production forecast to reach about 21 billion pounds.
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United States
Houston
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Yank
O'Brien
Paddy
Willie
Jack Horner
France
O. D
Weekly Financial Review
Herald
First National Bank
St. Louis
the Herald
FORD
Parts and Accessories
J.t. Parma
Cameron State Bank
Cameron, Texas
Antiat
Velvet
Folsom Avenue
St. Lows
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