War era moral booster urges teens to support 1918 effort
A spirited wartime letter addresses girls aged sixteen to twenty one urging patience, knitting, and morale boosting, then calls on boys aged sixteen to twenty one to join the Boys Working Reserve. It stresses maintaining production, enlisting, and sustaining national effort as the war approaches 1918.
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United States
Council of National Defense
Flora
Elsie
Agnes
Jassie
Vance
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Married His Mother In Law Sparks Draft Exemption Fight
Dunkin Robertson of New York married his mother in law on July 16, 1917 and sought draft exemption claiming a weak heart. The district board placed him in 1-A. Robertson, whose wife died a year after their four year marriage, was called a slacker by Senator George B. Agnew for the latest union. He argued half of the Army pay would support Mrs Robertson.
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New York
Dunkin Robertson
District Board
Robertson
George B. Agnew
Meatless and Wheatless Meal Plan Proposed
The United States proposes a weekly meatless and wheatless schedule: one meatless meal daily and one wheatless meal daily, plus specific wheatless days. Meatless excludes beef, mutton, and pork, while wheatless excludes bread crackers and cakes made with wheat flour.
A W Owen Now a Canadian Major
The Illustrated World notes Major A Wallace Owen of the Overseas Forces as a Canadian major. A personal sketch recalls his Somme experiences, enemy offensives, and ground held with 29 men left. It also traces his Klondike days in Dawson and Iditarod and his current command of the British-Canadian Recruiting Mission Western Division.
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A. Wallace Owen
Talian Canad
Owen
Somme
Klondike
Dawson
Iditarod
Lincoln Red Club Members Pledge Monthly Red Cross Support
In celebration of Abraham Lincoln's 109th birthday the Lincoln Red Club members pledge five dollars monthly through local American Red Cross Society to support the war effort. The list includes Geo W Albrecht A S Bourne P Wood Ch Taylor K C Burton and others. The pledge urges others to add their contribution.
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Abraham Lincoln
American Red Cross Society
Geo. W. Albrecht
A. S. Bourne
P. Wood
Ch . Taylor
K. C. Burton
Wm. B. Thomas
Mrs. C. Baker
W. It. Solibakke
W. W. Nelson
Sam
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Mrs. Young
M. T. Crosby
Dikeman
Holy Cross
Marshall
Andreofsky
J. H. Rogers
City Bock
A. W. Owen
Lincoln Red
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Red Cross
Smith
Innoke River
Snyder House
Witchell Lumber Co
Merchants’ Cafe
Robt
Soutar
Iditarod Meat CO. Proves
Pioneer
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