Army Pay Scales and War Efforts Highlight Weekly Digest
The digest notes officer insignia, hospital admission rates in France versus the U.S., and detailed enlisted pay scales from June 1917. It covers housing allowances, post exchange benefits, and essentials provided by the government. It also reports women in industry rising to 100,000 workers, Swiss butter limits, Red Cross Italy aid, shipping needs for a soldier, dye exports, and war risk insurance applications near four billion dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
Infantry
Field Artillery
Coast Artillery
Cavalry
Engineers
Ordnance
Signal Corps
Quartermaster Corps
Medical Department
Medical
Population rise and draft rates in Pennsylvania 1917 notes
Population of Pennsylvania in 1917 is 8,981,082, up about 1.5 million since 1910. Drafts were under 60 percent in four states per Provost Marshal General. Also reports illness of Wild Cat Wright of Chambersburg, a veteran wolf hunter, and the arrest of George Smith of York for German propaganda. 175,000 motor vehicles licensed for 1918 with revenue near 1.84 million. Ground frozen three and a half feet in Ephrata. new machinery being installed elsewhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Fit
Wright
Chambersburg
Franklin County
Ephrata
Various Wartime Notes and Local Economic Hints
The item notes silica from Chickies Rock used in steel making and mentions common kitchen mice sold at 6 cents each for submarine use. It reports draft movings around Camp Meade and Lee in February with about 2000 men, a 14 percent first-call share, and a nitrate of soda sale by farmers at $77.50 per ton. It covers Liberty Loan fundraising efforts, burial pauses in Middletown, and weather related to a hard freeze affecting digging.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo. A. Flecker
Spring Grove
U. S
Meade
Lee
United States Department of Agriculture
Also Mentioned on This Page
War News Digest
United States
Washington, D. C
France
Post Exchange
National League of Women’s Service
Red Cross
Italy
Bureau of Warrisk Insurance
America
Lebanon Valley
George Smith
York
Smith
Air Children’s
Hershey Department Store
Chickies Silica Co
Chickies Rock
E. L. McColgin
Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce
Middletown
Harrisburg
Eanes
L Company
At Water Works
Littlestown
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