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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1917
Page
2
In Columbus Dispatch, the writer extols a YMCA poster urging boys to write home, arguing letters to mothers bolster homesickness with simple, heartfelt messages. The piece praises the sign as a powerful, morally uplifting force sustaining families during wartime.
The Leader offers a few scholarships in a leading western commercial college. If you consider business study, call The Leader office to discuss_options.
The Haskell Free Press explains how camouflage entered common use during World War I and expands its meaning beyond military concealment. It notes French theatre origins and illustrates how people may camouflage true conditions in daily life from mortgages to cosmetic changes.
A wartime tally reports two classes of German detainees in the United States. About 2 364 POWs are under the War Department, with 850 at Fort McPherson, 165 alien enemies at Fort Oglethorpe, 617 at Fort Douglas and 80 interned aliens. 400 aliens are held at the Department of Justice request. Germany is said to hold roughly 150 sailors captured from American ships.
In Cambra region German counterattacks failed to erase fresh Allied gains from ten days of heavy combat. Reports show 11,000 German prisoners taken, over 100 field guns, and about 65 square miles of territory including six towns. Italian front stabilizes at Piave. Russia and Germany to discuss armistice terms. potential separate peace raises global interest. The Youth’s Companion offers 1918 subscription deal and related notes on home-front gifts for troops, with emphasis on personal keepsakes from families.
A newspaper item notes recruits flocking to form the Thirty Battalion flame and gas unit in Washington. A young graduate travels 200 miles to join. chemists, electricians, and carpenters respond, as the service trains Americans to meet fires and fumes with flame and gas gear. Enlistments open to men 15 to 49 with mechanical or practical skills at recruiting stations.
A Bowie Commercial College advertises rapid training to gain better paying work. It cites young students sent to fill $75 to $76 positions in Texas and Oklahoma, asserting three to four months of study can yield $1,000 to $1,200 annual salaries. It urges local youths and parents to enroll to meet rising demand for trained workers.
All parties are notified that trespassing and hunting on the Neuhaus ranch property are forbidden. Anyone caught engaging in these activities will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Signed by J. Li. Clark.
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