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Newspaper
Encampment Record
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1917
Page
7
The piece reviews a no name designer’s summer dress in crepe georgette with possible alternatives in silk satin and wool. It describes a light midsummer frock with a shaped yoke, stitched hems, satin bindings, soutache embellishment, and a belt, plus new hat arrivals in black marines and several milan brim designs with decorative braids and wreaths.
Washington estimates show about 9.5 million registered men will fall under the universal service law. Of those physically qualified and not exempt, roughly one in three may be called this year, with the first draft targeting 500,000 plus possible expansions to 750,000 as training camps and exemptions boards begin operation under Crowder.
The article discusses WWI draft policy clarifying who may be exempt, the process before exemption boards, and the plan for public drawing ceremonies. It notes married men and others must prove support for dependents, while others face medical exams, with records kept if rejected. It outlines cantonments and training, and stresses careful, nonreversible finalization by the president and General Crowder.
In Kansas City Missouri two Black men faced a confrontation after a misunderstanding over registration. An unnamed structural steel worker, William Mac Clellan, insulted them and demonstrated a show of superiority before leading a group toward a sergeant’s desk. All three were charged with disturbing the peace.
London premier Lloyd George considers Prothero for the agriculture board post amid food shortages and demand for higher output. Verona New Jersey reports eight-person family led by Thomas Elston, an ex-British artillery man, with sons serving in Boer War and World War I forces across Europe and North America.
War papers issued by German armies at the front bring high prices as British drive prevents further publications and scarcity drives offers up to 800 marks for a single copy. Printers across the empire produce near exact counterfeits causing widespread sales of fake originals despite warnings.
Three cans of jewelry were found near Wheatland by a tapper and claimed by A A Reathing of Southside Omaha in a sheriff’s letter. Reathg said he was traveling from Sacramento to his home and had the jewelry with him. He hid the jewels on a hillside fearing theft and never returned to retrieve them.
A Home dispatch reports that a single copy of Amerigo Vespucci's Letters, stolen years ago from Florence, has been found in a parcel inspected at the Italian Swiss frontier. The package was addressed to a German book seller who fled to Australia at the outbreak of war.
A mother warns her daughter Jennie about eating more cake after she has already eaten heartily. Jennie protests that she still has room, saying her neck is left, revealing a humorous exchange over her growing fullness.
Otto H. G Lippert, a Cincinnati pharmacist, reports twenty-five years of selling Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root with no complaints and strong favorable remarks from customers. He urges readers to prove the remedy by sending ten cents for a sample and booklet, noting bottles are sold in drug stores.
Sir Edward Carson shared a personal anecdote at the British Empire Producers' meeting at the Savoy. He recounted a son who urged a navy path, arguing its role as a link to the colonies, and noted the son now commands a submarine after an admiralty briefing on a destroyer’s attempt to sink it.
A dirty tramp asks a back-door lady for aid after losing his job three weeks ago. She questions the type of work he did at a soap factory, noting his honesty despite unemployment and implying no dishonesty in his discharge.
The item records a quirky kitchen plan where Tam jokes about adding a patel for tune and then making it a potato patel, reflecting playful food wordplay and a casual domestic moment.
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