Plans for Students Army Training Corps at Pennsylvania colleges
Dr George L Omwake Ursinus College president and Pennsylvania Director of the Commission of Students War Service spoke on a War Department plan to mobilize high school and college boys as officers and engineers through a free college education coupled with military training The program aims to convert 125000 high school graduates in the US and 16000 in Pennsylvania into future Army Navy leaders by placing enrolled students in the Students Army Training Corps with active duty provisions only upon reaching draft age and during emergencies.
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Army of Pennsylvania
United Sates Army and Navy
George L. Omwake
Ursinus College
Pennsylvania
War Service
Te Omwake
War Department
United States
Army
Navy
Uit
Army Training Corps
Army Training ‘Corps
Selective Service Regulations
Students’ Army Training Corps
Oniwake
Omwake
Gassed Soldier Tells of German Atrocities
Robert Forbes, back from the front in France to recover from a gassing, reports from Bellaire on German atrocities observed at the front.
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Bellaire
Robert Forbes
France
Soldier Pelkey Mutilated by Germans in Battle
John Leg Pelkey, a comrade, was horribly mutilated by the German in the same battle where Forbes was gassed. Pelkey’s throat was cut from ear to ear, Forbes says, his abdomen opened and his back slashed.
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John Leg Pelkey
Pelkey
Forbes
Pelkay
Teaching Women How to Fight Propaganda in Seattle
Seattle women attend an institute at the University of Washington directed by Miss Hunley Coldwell. The dean of women oversees a large class providing accurate information on the Governments war programme to empower women against German propaganda.
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Seattle
Wash
University of Washington
Hunley Coldwell
Oldest Aviator in U S Service: Lt Otis Gilmore
Otis Gilmore of Mercer Pennsylvania, aged forty five, is the oldest aviator in Uncle Sam's service. A veteran of the Spanish American War, he trains at the Lake Charles School. His eighteen year old son serves as an enlisted man in the navy.
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Mercer
Uncle Sam
Otis Gilmore
Gilmore
Lake Charles
Von
Navy
Old Fighting Tenth in Europe Courage and Beaming Glory
The Twenty-Eighth Division, comprising Pennsylvania units such as the old Tenth Infantry the Fighting Tenth and others from Greensburg Oil City Pittsburgh and beyond, fought near Dormans and across the Ourek in June. Their advance, bold as a torrent, terrified German troops and earned lasting honor for Pennsylvania as they clenched victory in a critical push alongside the Rainbow Division and the Third U.S. Regulars.
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Dormans
Oureq
Europe
Pennsylvania
Twenty-eighth
America
Sugar Hoarder Is Fined and Deprived of Supply
SEATTLE W ash Aug 15 Pierre P Ferry wealthy son of the first Governor of Washington has been fined 840 dollars plus court costs and the price of seven sacks of wheat found hidden behind a servant’s door on the third floor of the Ferry home Federal agents uncovered the hoarding. A Federal judge ruled 550 dollars and the loss of the flour as sufficient compensation to the Government for Ferrys food hoarding activities.
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Seattle
Wash
Pierre P. Ferry
Washington
Sfa
Tom
Ferry
Father of Five Fighters Regrets He Can’t Join
LAPORTE Ind August 15 Mr and Mrs Joseph Hecker near here have three sons in France with the army and two more in U S camps. They hope their sixth son who is now seventeen joins soon. Two sons are with Canadian forces overseas. We are mighty proud of our boys and I’d be right over there with them if I could.
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Laporte
Ind
Joseph Hecker
Near Here
France
Trainis
United States
Business Men Form Guard of Honor in Wooster
In Wooster Ohio business men have organized a guard of honor to escort departing soldiers as they entrain for training camps. More than 100 men have joined and each departing quartet will receive a fitting farewell from this city’s volunteers.
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Ohio
Wooster
Makes Bed in Cemetery to Avoid an Operation
Kenocha Wisconsin August 15 Police Chief O Hare orders strict enforcement of the 1050 curfew ordinance in public parks. Anyone found in parks after the hour will be arrested for disorderly conduct.
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Kenocha
Wis
O'Hare
Hog Island Shipyards Name Origin Revealed
Philadelphia August 15. Letters from across the country ask how Hog Island shipyard got its name. Colonial Society president Davis Page notes 287 years ago the island Quistconek was inhabited by Indians and later bought by Otto E Coch in 1681. The name, from Delaware language, supposedly means place for hogs and the island was used as hog pasturage by Swedes and earlier by Indians.
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Philadelphia
Jeet Corporation
Hog Island
Davis Page
Colonial Society
Otto E. Coch
GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules Promoted Urgently
An ad emphasizes kidney and bladder health with warnings about rabies and uric acid poisoning. It touts GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules as a two century old world famous remedy for stomach liver kidney and bladder diseases and urges immediate purchase from druggists with a money back guarantee and imitation warnings.
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Pasteur
Selective Service Regulation Details Bands and Insignia
The article outlines that local boards must read drafted men the regulations governing mobilization and provide copies. It describes an arm band or bassard marked U S N A to be worn from induction until arrival at the mobilization camp, to replace the former ribbon insignia. It notes provisioning of a sleeve insignia and a separate patch to indicate service. Oklahoma’s Hartshorne region highlights Mollie Easley, mother of ten enlisted sons, plus brothers and nephews serving in camps across the United States.
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Truley
National Army
Ogeh Leaales Ainda
Carpham
Hartshorne
Mollie Easley
United States
Petes and Pigs Report from Cotte Die Event
A brief note describes a local event involving Petes and a pig themed activity at Cotte Die. The fragment mentions Brow and 2 ne Pigs Hoe Pey ont, with unclear details and dates. Further readable entities include Pgh and Kooy Siti re wb eee.
Gardner at 102 in Missouri walks daily to store
Ellen Leighton aged 102 lives on the edge of MT VERNON and walks to an ad store near the center with a green pea garden. Twice weekly he mows his front lawn with a scythe after returning home, illustrating a quiet elderly routine.
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MT. Vernon
Ellen Leighton
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