08 Jun 1917
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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1917
Page
1
Washington reports thirty five thousand young Americans are gathering at fourteen camps to form the officer corps for the first army increment of 500,000. Only the most capable will receive commissions, with a second wave planned and the aim to produce 10,000 officers by mid summer.
The War Department plans to appoint suitable young men aged twenty one to forty four after training. College ROTC students likely to join the first ten thousand will be selected by a regular army officer at the college and admitted to camps. Preferably, students should attend camps near their home states as colleges graduate seniors.
In Yoakum Texas a German born farmer G Holmeg brought his seventeen year old son Otto for navy enlistment. Officers needed an interpreter since Holmeg does not speak English. Through the interpreter he said Please accept my son It is my offering to America.
Lieutenant Colonel Jean Fabry, Joffre’s chief of staff, is known in France as The Blue Devil of France. He has likely faced as many thrills as any officer in the French army as commander of an Alpine chasseur battalion.
The fragment notes that the family of James from Cincinnati registered to enter the war effort, indicating a collective enlistment or draft submission from a single household. Details on names, dates, or units are not provided in the readable text.
Purdue agr icultural experts organize county hog exchanges to move hogs to 200 pounds or more, urging landlords and tenants to cooperate. The program links sellers and buyers, with telephones to connect parties, and promotes patriotic meat production while warning against selling 100 pound hogs at high prices.
A Philadelphia reader describes relief from lifelong cramps after using Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and credits a newspaper advertisement for guidance. The piece also discusses wireless telegraphy wave lengths, explaining wave meters and the fourfold relation to aerial length.
A cynical voice mocks a suburban optimist who has given away cans of angleworms from his garden. The optimist hopes luck and gratitude yield breakfast fish, while noting the worms dug up during agricultural work.
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