Wartime letter urges girls and boys to aid the war effort
A dated appeal to sixteen to twenty one year olds and their elders frames WWI mobilization as shared duty. It urges girls to support front lines with comfort and letters and boys to join the Working Reserve, stressing factory and farm productivity and patriotic sacrifice as 1918 approaches.
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United States
Council of National Defense
Flora
Elsie
Agnes
Jassie
Vance
Nps
Married His Mother-In-Law in a Slacker Union
Dunkin Robertson of New York married his mother in law on July 16 1917 and sought exemption claiming her weak heart. The District board placed him in 1-A. Robertson’s wife died a year after their four year marriage. Senator George B Agnew called the marriage a slackER union and said half of his Army pay would support Mrs Robertson.
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New York
Dunkin Robertson
District Board
Robertson
George B. Agnew
What the U. S. Asks Meatless and Wheatless Meals
Government appeal outlines one meatless meal daily and one wheatless meal daily. It calls for a weekly meatless Tuesday and a wheatless Monday and Wednesday along with a porkless Saturday. The plan defines meatless as no beef mutton or pork and wheatless as no bread crackers or cakes made from wheat flour.
A W Owen Now a Canadian Major
The April issue features Major A Wallace Owen of the Overseas Forces in a leading article Will the Allies Hold. A Canadian sketch notes his Somme experiences. he arrived with 4,000 men, left with 29, and later led the Western Division of the British-Canadian Recruiting Mission after early Klondike days and Iditarod prospecting.
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A. Wallace Owen
Talian Canad
Owen
Somme
Klondike
Dawson
Iditarod
Lincoln Red Club Pledges 5 Dollar Monthly Red Cross Support
In celebration of Abraham Lincoln's birthday members of the Lincoln Red Club commit to paying five dollars each month to the American Red Cross Society through its local chapter for the duration of the current war. The pledge list includes Geo W Albrecht A S Bourne P Wood Ch Taylor K C Burton and others. The Red Cross needs your bit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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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U. S
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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