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Every man for himself And flevil take the lonesome**, Is, apparently, the philosophy of Uncle Sum's soldier boys in (lie great military temps where they ore undergoing Intensive training for the real tiling “over there. Here ifl n typical scene in na army Y. M. C. A. bull (Hug an hour or l^yo before the formal entertainment begins. On the stage one of the boy* In k link I is leading an informal “sing «mg. About two aenre of the Cel lows are up there with him. and it must he a pretty good song, for it can be seen that about half the crowd In the building la facing the music, But this doesn't disturb the nine or ten. checker games, seen in the foreground. In the least* nor does It get the goat of I he. scores of fell mss who uro grabbing a few-minute* In which to write to the folks nt home. The num in the extreme right front of the picture has received a newsiinirer from “the little, old town back there,’' while the hoy seen standing In tin? very Center of the picture plainly ndiidts’ddmse-If to he either on a “polot or on t: “poseft’s» nobody's business which. The. Y. M. C. A. huts are flic soldiers* clubs, churches, homes and whatever else ihey want to tnake them. The principal cantonments of the country lt;$pKiin from ten to twenty Iflrge “Y buildings, to say nothing yf the huts overseas and outposts on the Mexican b^fdor.BR1N61NS AMERICAN W0U8SED FROM THE FRONTsi-■■Ambulances with wounded arriving at an American military field hospital' from the front In France. The mure serious cases arc transferred to the base hospital, which Is often many miles from the lines.wt^ivvW^M«AAAf\/vViAvvvVVilt;vw*l«wv*,V^A/yyvvW^v ^■*.v^y»^^wwwvwwwvyywvvw,i' • .• I
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Weimar Mercury
Weimar, Texas, US
Fri, Nov 01, 1918
Page 8
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