Ford Eagle Launches at River Rouge Yard
The Ford Eagle boat number sixty the last built under wartime Navy contract was launched at the River Rouge Detroit yard on August 16 at 3 30 P M.
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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1919
Page
1
The Ford Eagle boat number sixty the last built under wartime Navy contract was launched at the River Rouge Detroit yard on August 16 at 3 30 P M.
The long Ford Yard complex launches the first of 21 Eagles submarines now at the Rouge plant with a 500 bodies daily output target. Sixty blasts mark the event as “Eagles” 1 2 and 3 patrol near Archangel Russia and may head to Italy. Six boats head for the Philippines to replace destroyers and gunboats.
After the war the government recruits civil service workers through weekly exams in 400 cities. The pay is good, hours short, and Washington work offers education and career pathways in federal offices, banks, insurance firms, businesses, and railroads.
A terse recruitment notice touts training at Tyler Commercial College in Tyler Texas as a path to high rewards. It invites readers to fill in and mail for a free catalogue, urging enlistment in Bookkeeping Shorthand Business Finance Cotton Classing and Telegraphy.
The piece quotes President Wilson urging opponents to improve the treaty rather than block it. It argues Borah and Johnson lack merit, notes the Constitution’s durability, and stresses that time brings needed changes. It also mentions oil lubrication for brake mechanisms and British paper from Burma grass.
In western Texas mines produced silver at a 590000 ounce annual rate during the first half of the year. A line notes an amused Irish regiment scene with a lieutenant rallying his troops before the march to the front and a joking exchange about fighting and running. A pharmacist offers a remedy while an officer jokes about being pulled around. Passing Show.
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