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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1917
Page
11
A letter from Fort Monroe Virginia dated May 8 1917 praises the Coast Artillery Corps as the best line. The writer says two weeks since taking the oath have improved him and outlines daily routines, noting an 6 15 am sunrise start and ten minutes to dress.
A sentry style letter from Jefferson Barracks Missouri describes daily routines including roll call, drills from morning to three in the afternoon, and sunset retreat. It mentions a typhoid shot swelling, a recruit dying at the fort, and a fight between a Newport News recruit and a colored soldier leaving one wounded.
Private Sidney C. Pettit letters describe sleeping on guard duty being shot at, three battlewagons Texas Montana and Frisco visiting for six months coal and provisions, an Army Navy ball 3 to 1, intensive sixteen inch gun drills, and uncertainty about remaining stationed a month or more before deployment. Pettit mentions friends John Shea Edward Kerr Fort Banancas Florida and Bob Murray, plans retreat, and sends regards to Steve Stehle and the girls.
A housewife faces rising prices for linen wool silk and cotton. Iowa State College home economics suggests practical clothing reuse tips. Keep garments brushed cleaned and mended. Use shoe trees make over old dresses into children's wear and create rompers from leftover fabric. Unbleached muslin with gingham chambray bands makes simple dresses.
Frugal tips show how to repurpose old shirts into knitted aprons use collar bands for edging and cuffs as hot dish holders with tape added Sashes from lower portions of worn night dresses can decorate kitchen curtains and extend wardrobe utility
Dr. A H Beifeld, professor of children's diseases at the State University, advocates increasing sugar and carbohydrates in infant meals under medical guidance. He notes parent foods tested on rats thrive there but cautions against assuming the same for babies.
Dean W Teeters of the University of Iowa offers College of Pharmacy facilities for manufacturing drugs and chemicals for war use. He says students and faculty can help by producing pharmaceutical preparations and chemicals from government supplied raw materials, and by testing identity and purity of drugs and medical supplies bought by the government in the middle west.
Land to list for sale by owner. Any one with land to sell should see and list it with Lewis Lippold of Graettinger Iowa R F D 2.
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