Private Albert Cramer World War I Service Recap
Albion Indiana resident Private Albert Cramer son of Mr and Mrs Cramer served fifteen months in France and England. He shipped via Camp Merritt to Liverpool and England front lines including Argonne and rest camps before Germany. He returned home to Camp Taylor June 1 1919 and praised his experiences yet would not repeat them.
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Albion
Ind
Albert Cramer
Mia Simon Cramer
Praire
Vancouver
Washington
Merritt
Liverpool
England
Prange
Counyer
France
Ordea
Cramer
Argonne Front
Germany
Europe
Mgr
Camp Taylor
Charles Newman
Lieut Gaskill Back After War Service
Lieut Robert Gaskill, former head of police and free mail systems in the city, was here yesterday greeting friends after nearly two years away in the expeditionary forces. He served in the Abt field signal battalion guiding a unit at the front and kept communications for the vanguard of the American advance. After the armistice he joined the army of occupation and spent about six months in Germany.
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Robert Gaskill
Ele
AbDth
Gaskel
Army of Occupation
Germany
Near By Flag Notes From Kendallville and Surrounding Posts
In Kendallville Indiana Ralston V Macher veteran News Sun employee returns from overseas service. In Columbia City Earl R Bordner receives misaddressed blue and red letters intended for a Nebraska Bordner causing confusion. In Warsaw Indiana Floya Treesh and William Carroll arrive home after overseas service and James J Runyan returns from France. Milford soldiers Calvin Ritchie Shirley Clayton Chauncey Coy and Ortie Leemon also discharged. Lieutenant Aldine continues service notes.
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Columbia City
Ind
Earl R. Bordner
Bordner
Piger
Neb
Earl BR. Bordner
Earl .R. Gardner
Nebraska
France
Warsaw
Floya Treesh
Camp Taylor
William Carroll
James J. Runyan
John N.runyan
Calvin Ritchie
Shirley Clayton
Chauncey Coy
Ortie Leemon
Aldine
Returnees from France and Army Service Tales Across Indiana
Fort Wayne resident Thomas recently spent about two years in France and visited Warsaw. James Kohler of Leesburg came home after service at Jefferson Barracks and Washington Fork. Mike Partee, discharged at Camp Sherman after a year, plans to reenter the drug business in Hicksville. Millard Dowell of Columbia City returned from army service as a motor mechanic then field artillery, discharged at Camp Taylor. Johnson, formerly in the garage business, sailed in 1918 aboard the Leviathan and survived two submarine attacks. Maurice Perry, Union Township, returned after more than a year in the army in the east. Plus an advertisement for a sale of summer suits.
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Thomas
Fort Wayne
France
Warsaw
James Kohler
Leesburg
Jefferson Barracks
Washington Fork
Camp
Als. J
Hicksville
Stalph Crow
Mike Partee
Camp Sherman
Partee
Tartee
Byangport
Mapes & Co
Columbia City
Ind
Millard Dowell
Warren Dowell
United States Army
344Th Field Artillery
Cannp Taylor
Army of Occupation
Ied Johnson
Maurice Perry
Willam Perry
Union Township
Army
Fort Wayne to Host Fourth of July Festivities
Fort Wayne merchants prepare for Fourth of July weekend with full stock of comfort and pleasure items for shoppers. Lieutenant Ballard and his Curtiss bomber plane postponed by rain last week will remain in town until July 5 for possible exhibition if weather cooperates. A basket picnic by Trinity English Lutheran Church at Cakeside Park is planned for Saturday at 1 pm, weather permitting.
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Lake of City
Fort Wayne
Ballard
Trinity English Lutheran Church
Tierra del Fuego Foreshadows Anarchist Colony Move
The article describes Argentina’s policy to deport anarchists to Tierra del Fuego, a remote penal and sheep‑ranching lands end near the Antarctic. It notes extreme climate, few Indigenous people, and a history of depopulation from massacres and settlement.
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Republic
Tierra del Fuego
Tierra del“Fuego
Virgin
Argentina
Chile
South America
Antarctic Circle
Chains
Magellan
Local church notices and society meeting briefs
WANTED An experienced washer in the laundry room Fort Wayne Sanitary Wipers Co Now Haven M P Church Sunday school at 9 30. At this session the election of officers will take place. Preaching at 10 50 am Subject Cause for Apostacy and Promise to the Faithful January meet at 2 pm The C B society meets at 7 15 pm Preaching at ? pm Subject Some Lessons That We Should Learn from the Fall of the German Empire S Beininger pastor Missionary Society Meets Sped to the Nez VAN WERT June 27 the Woman's Missionary society of the First Baptist church met at the home of Mrs John F Greenewald 716 South Teter street Friday afternoon The program was as follows devotional Mrs Greenewald business tosson No 4 Women Workers of the Orient music leader Nira Ed mond Grothouss ens Want Ads Gring Resel
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Haven M. P
C. B. Society
German Empire
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News-Sun
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Sqierra del Fuego
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