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Newspaper
Encampment Record
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1917
Page
14
Readers explore summer fashion through crepe georgette dresses and hats. The feature shows light frocks with georgette dominates, plus new midsummer millinery designs including black marines hats with braided soutache details and wide brims.
Washington outlines ironclad exemption boards and a first call likely for 750,000 men under the selective draft. About 9.5 million registrants are physically fit. roughly 2.5 million remain subject to call after exemptions and rejections. The process includes 4,800 boards nationwide and appeals courts, with 500,000 to be drafted initially and up to 750,000 in total potential call.
War draft plans unfold as mothers ask what end justifies sacrifice. Exemption rules will cover families and public servants, with a lottery likely in public venues. Registrants face medical exams. accepted recruits go to one of sixteen cantonments for training or to fill gaps.
In a tense night scene in Kansas City Missouri two Black individuals refuse to wear registration cards. Structural steel worker William Mac Clellan, twenty one, confronts them with a tirade and a display of certificates before a confrontation at a sergeant’s desk. All three were charged with disturbing the peace.
London premier Lloyd George searches for a capable head of the board of agriculture amid food scarcity and rising production needs. He sides with Roland E. Prothero, historically his foe, highlighting Prothero’s efficiency over past quarrels. In Verona New Jersey the Elston family of eight is noted for military service across generations. Father, now an American citizen born in Devonshire, served six years in the British artillery and leads the Verona Home battalion. Frances, Frederick, William, George, Gilbert, and others pursue service or rejoin the ranks as years pass. Gilbert and William have military roots, with Gilbert in Company K Fifth New Jersey and William rejoining at times.
German war papers issued at the front fetch high prices as British offensives halt genuine issuances. Counterfeit copies flood the market, with printers reproducing near originals. Despite warnings, thousands are sold as authentic across the empire, with some bids reaching 800 marks for a single copy.
Three cans of jewelry found near Wheatland were claimed by A A Reathing of Southside Omaha in a letter to the sheriff. Reathing said he was traveling from Sacramento in 18 and hid the jewels on a hillside to avoid robbery, and never retrieved them.
London dispatch reports a Florence stolen treasure titled The letters of Amerigo Vespucci, a sole copy once owned by Marquis Cappol. Police on the Italian Swiss frontier uncover a package headed to a German bookseller who fled to Australia after the war.
Little Jennie, after a hearty meal, asks for more cake claiming her neck is left yet. Her mother cautions she is full and might burst, reflecting a comic slice of domestic life and a child's stubborn appetite.
Otto H. Lippert, a Cincinnati pharmacist, praises Dr Kilmer Swamp Root for kidney and bladder issues based on twenty five years of experience. He notes customers' favorable remarks and urges readers to try a sample bottle by sending ten cents to Dr Kilmer Co and mentions available regular bottle sizes at drug stores.
Sir Edward Carson told a London audience how his son urged navy service, revealing his own early bias toward law. The son now commands a submarine and Carson recalled a destroyer’s failed attempt to sink it, as he spoke during a Savoy hotel event hosted by the British Empire Producers' organization.
A dirty tramp pleads, a lady asks about his job, and he explains he worked in a soap factory. The exchange implies the man was not fired for dishonesty, highlighting a moral misunderstanding in a harsh street encounter. The scene captures poverty and judgment in a brief, period-voice vignette.
Tam plans a Patel inspired tune and converts it into a potato Patel effort. The quirky note hints at a playful kitchen musical idea and a comic wordplay moment.
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