12 Sep 1918
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Newspaper
Fort Des Moines Post
Location
Des Moines, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1918
Page
1
Private accounts describe the Verdun front as soldiers discuss German tactics and the impact of shelling. Wounded troops are evacuated to field hospitals with recovery plans outlining light duty, foreign service, or transfer to general hospitals as they return home for rehabilitation.
The office notes subscribers who move or change their address must inform the paper to ensure correct delivery. Messages should reference Ward 1 and include current contact details for prompt updates.
Davis listed as a draft candidate toward Camp Fun Stum Kan but rejected on appearance amid references to the “spotted Davis family.” He asserts fitness and patriotism while noting his circus ties and performances with the family act.
A wartime notice advises citizens to limit luxuries and focus on necessities. It promotes purchasing war-savings stamps and highlights the ease of handling the stamps, urging timely acquisition to support the war effort.
A Texan among a crowd in Washington D C eagerly sought an audience with King George V and Queen Mary. He greeted the king with a loud handshake. The royal couple calmly received the gesture as others pressed forward to greet them, per accounts from John Pontius.
After a week of effort across hospital wards the Eye Ear Nose and Throat Ward Twelve wins the cleanliness prize with 84 percent the highest in the hospital. Ward Eleven and others follow with 92 and 84 points, while Ward Twelve’s staff led by Miss Anna Thompson and Private First Class Don Morris vow to defend their title against rivals in future rounds.
A contingent of trained nurses departed Fort Des Moines for overseas service, led by Gailors and under Chief Nurse MacMillan. Twenty nurses, including Florence Anna and Ruth Au, boarded ambulances with the medical detachment amid cheers, signaling high morale and commitment to the foreign mission.
The article describes Vincent's Angina, dubbed the "Woof and mouth disease," spreading through a diggings camp. A lab sergeant led vigorous examinations and quarantines with about 1200 tests in a month and 200 men examined daily, as crews complained of constant checks. The quarantine was lifted when comparisons showed newcomer infection rates matched personnel, suggesting the epidemic began locally.
The notice informs subscribers that deliveries are made weekly on Thursdays and directs readers to contact the newspaper office to report missed deliveries or obtain receipts for their copies. It emphasizes prompt action and the need to request replacement copies if needed.
The War Department approves enlistment of men aged forty five to fifty five for the Orlastice Department Quartermaster and Naval/Military corps to free younger workers for active duties. Contractions have been sent to recruitment units nationwide. Minor disabilities will be valved. A release signed by present employers is required for applicants over forty five.
A local campaign urges support with a wartime patriotic tone promoting thrift stamps and national duty. Citizens are encouraged to invest in thrift stamps as a symbol of sacrifice and communal effort in a country worth saving through defense and economy.
The campaign tale of Harry T. Hartwell of Mobily shares how defeat was met with humor as he filed his expense account. He quips about lost time, sleepless nights, weight loss, baby kisses, stove fires, water buckets, miles walked, and many handshakes, concluding with the remark about Washington through the Congressional rope.
The Reconstruction Department has received Fordson tractors funded by Ameren Rut Cress to aid agricultural rehab for disabled soldiers. Operators are being trained to plow and cultivate, with the aim of deploying machinery to farm land and reintegrate veterans into civilian work.
Soldiers at the Medical Supply Depot handle expendable and non expendable medical property for fifteen wards and offices. Sergeant First Class Clarry Neeson and a team including Alvin Gales Kemner Grand Kinney Liboracki Schlessinger Sherddon Tharp Tasnes Gilleapie McNamee and Meister wait on requisitions and reports for Chicago Washington and beyond while keeping vigil in a barely lit office.
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