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guaranteed remedy, (jet a 35c large trial bottle at the drug store. 4-25-tfRalph Stearley, former traction station news dealer and son of W. F. Stearley, of East National avenue, who was recommended for cadetship at the West Point Military academy by ex-j Congressman Moss and successfully ! passed his examinations, is getting plenty of action at Uncle Sam’s big war school.In a letter to his parents, Stearley says:|| “Dear Parents:“I had some firing on the target range yesterday. I got 41 oi*t of a' of possible 50. The captain said it was .rt-( pretty good. We have a sham battle le, every Saturday morning. We march ut- ’ up in the mountains about four and a tod half or five miles and then we fight Iso each othe^r.i'he “Kalf of the corps has white band3 is on their hats. We use blank cart-ial ridges. We also are taught to fire in me a line on the plain. You ought to see ich me run sixty yards with full equip-ful ment and rifle and fall when going al-:iej most full speed and start firing from a ss, prone position. ,ip-1 “It took all the skin off my chest and ip- ( knees at first but a fellow gets so he ick can fall without breaking his neck.,ed j “We have field artillery once each las week and you ought to see Stearley, aer the popular news dealer, aiming one of ily those big guns. I got the range and be elevation and everything yesterday in his sixteen seconds—eighteen seconds is ps, the time allowed for an expert, so I als guess if I keep on I can make i,t.. | “I go on guard tomorrow (Monday) uc-, night and I sure do despise that stuff, sin but I won’t have much more of it.| “When we get back in barracks I ;ks will have to settle down and study very lie- hard.• ^jod “Rip Van Winkle and the Dutchmen ith are still playing nine-pins in the Cat-
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Brazil Weekly Democrat
Brazil, Indiana, US
Thu, Aug 02, 1917
Page 9
Full Page
Clipped by
Lynn M.
IN, USA 24 Jul 2017
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