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Newspaper
Encampment Record
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1917
Page
7
Discusses chest width and limb alignment for strength, endurance, and conformation. Covers forelimb health including joints, tendons, hooves, and common blemishes such as bucked shin, wind puffs, ringbone, side bones, scratches, and navicular disease. Also notes barrel formation affecting vitality and notes on hernias and reproductive anatomy in stallions and mares.
Army sergeants from Fort Myer visit the National Service school camp to teach cooking to cadet troops. They parade stern looks while the girl soldiers listen eagerly then tease with curiosity about men. Hairpins and camp cleanliness become the daytime task as housewifery takes over.
Isa Rodriques, described as a pretty girl in a soldier’s uniform, travels from New York to San Francisco encouraging young men to serve by staying home to grow food for the army and navy. She markets agricultural service recruitments and aims at city lads, using pictures of army and marine corps to persuade.
Mrs Flora M Thompson advocates enrolling Washington women in farming courses at Maryland Agricultural College. She argues three farm women can do the work of two men and urges practical farming lessons for District women to support food production as male labor declines for war. She spoke to the college faculty and at a Young Women's Christian Association address.
Dr Griffiths of Philadelphia sought maps from Representative Moore to navigate inland waters. He was arrested near St. Phillips Louisiana by local home guards who labeled him a German spy due to the many taps on his documents. After ten days in a calaboose and intense lobbying, he was released and reportedly returned home without the rumor of further wrongdoing.
A jokey dinner exchange unfolds as a husband and wife spar over manners and talkativeness. The man boasts he spoke at the meal and hints at his rare speaking opportunities. The bit riffs on pride, politeness, and social personas.
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