United States Foresters Regiment to Aid British Army
Special correspondence describes the War Department plan to form the 10th Reserve Engineers (forest) a regiment of foresters and lumbermen to operate in northern France for rail beds tunnels and timber needs. It details recruitment dates training camps officers from universities and forestry schools and the goal of mobile lumber camps and sawmills to support allied forces.
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War Department
United States Foresters
W. B. Greeley
United States Forest Service
Department of Agriculture
Forest Regiment
France
England
New England
British Isles
Scotland
Bridges
Forest Service
Woodruff
Beverly C. Dunn
Marseille
Bordeaux
Florida
Alps
United
Iparison
Massachusetts
Virginia
Maryland
Connecticut
Republic
M. Poincaire
Europe
Wart Department
10Th Reserve Engineers
Forest
Forest Branch
British Columbia
Indian Forest Service
David T. Mason
University of California
Dorr Skeels
University of Montana
W. N. Millar
University of Toronto
Canada
Florida National Forest
Cocomimo
United States
America
Henry S. Graves
Barrington Moore
Washington
University
Fort Leavenworth
Kan
Kansas
Girls and Soldiers in War Time Wit and Romance
A well known novelist quips that war and love go together. A Paris encounter with an Escadrille Lafayette aviator shows a French girl kissing his hand after he boasts of battles. The light exchange ends with a humorous bite remark about death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Escadrille Lafayette
Paris
Recreation for the Army Camps Under Secretary Baker Plan
The article outlines Secretary Baker's plan to provide wholesome recreation for the National Army and National Guard camps. It details a commission led by Raymond Fosdick to organize theaters, athletics, libraries, and social events supported by Y M C A and Knights of Columbus facilities. It emphasizes preventing vice, fostering morale, and using community effort near camps to entertain soldiers with concerts, dances, sports, and reading rooms.
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America
National Army
National Guard
Baker
Raymond B. Fosdick
S. R. O. Algns
Newton D. Baker
Cleveland
Playgrounds and Recreation Association of America
Raymond Fosdick
Thomas W. Salmon
Europe
Commission On War Activities
Secretary of War
Commission
Young Men's Christian Association
Knights of Columbus
Joseph E. Raycroft
Princeton University
Malcolm L. McBride
Yale
Raycroft
Lee F. Mannier
Russell Sage Foundation
Plattsboro
Joseph Lee
Playground and Recreation Association of America
Kelly
Menger Hotel
San Antonio
Dallas
le Park
Catholic Women’s Association
Keackenridge Park
Basebell
Brackenridge Park
Salado River
Camp Wilson
Hot Wells
West Em Lake
Garde
Koighta
Colmabos Hall
San Diego
Cal
Exposition Grounds
Jefferson Barracks
St. Louis
Junction City
Fort Riley
Kan
Traine Ch
Thomas J. Howells
Pittsburgh
Charles P. Neill
P. E. Pierce
John KR. Mott
International Committee
Pierce
Mott
Col
P. M. Callahan
Knights’ Committee On War Activities
Lewis J. O'Hern
A. G. Bagler
Gaynor
New York City
Bureau of Social Hygiene
M Canada
Old Land Office
Old Post Office
8Th
E Streets
Washington
Fosdick
War Garden Idea Prompts Individual Home Gardens
Representative Mason of Illinois voiced a plan in Chicago urging families to grow their own vegetables to curb prices. He notes a humorous letter request while recounting public ignorance of gardening, highlighting a citizen seeking seeds, bees, grass, wall flowers, and plants for a rock-ground plot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mason
Illinois
Chicago
Seedaman
Rockefeller gift inspires charity anecdote in New York
John D Rockefeller, credited with a $5,000,000 Red Cross gift, is quoted reflecting on gratitude and philanthropy. The tale recalls a humorous exchange about a pensioner being visited by a benevolent figure who traveled long distances in heat with gifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Go D. Rockefeller
Red Cross
New York
Dr. Fifthy
Going the Rounds with Alfred Noyes Poem Returns Thirteenth Time
Alfred Noyes, famed for making poetry pay, sat at the Players Club in New York when a waiter delivered a suspicious envelope. He opened it and a printed slip dropped. He sighed. The critic asked if he was surprised to get the poem back. Noyes replied that he had sent it out thirteen times already.
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Lfred Noyes
Players’ Club
New York
Mr. Noyes
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Washington, D. C
Forest Rangers
A National Forest
Arizona
Sammy
Tommy
Sammies
New
Harris & Ewing
War Recreation Board of
Texas League Park
First Baptist Church
Wells Hotel
Prospect FT Baptist Church
John R. Mott
Association On Commission On Training
Tor
Aymond B. Fosdick
Commission On Training Camp Activities
P. H. Callahan
Knights of Columbus Committee
Commission On Training Camp
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