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Recruiting Officer Assigned to City
Corporal B. A. Richards of the 1st engineering corps in the 1st division is assigned to High Point as a recruiting officer. He has an office in the post office building and signed up two Lexington youths, Steve Brown and Grady Haynes, who were sent to Greensboro and will join the 1st division at Camp Zachary Taylor, Ky. Richards highlights favorable enlistment terms and urges inquiries at the post office. The other note mentions the Chamberlain hotel safe at Old Point Comfort, Va, where jewelry valued at about 200000 dollars was found intact beneath ashes.
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B. A. Richards
1St Engineering Corps
High Point
United States Army
Steve Brown
Grady Haynes
Lexington
Richards
Greensboro
Camp Zachary Taylor
Cooper Richards
John J. Pershing
Chamberlain
Old Point Comfort
Chamberlain Hotel