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Drink and Social Evil Ruins Many Soldiers, He Says 'C. MM. D Burnet, who resides with his family in othe vicinity aft Centre ville, returned from the Mexico border where he had been” servis een private with, Company 1, Auth. Regiment, N..G. PL, shige?’ early by duty, Private Durnett. was dieharg on over the dependency family rul ing of the war department and was on this elby yesterday afternoon on his way to OS City to resume work. to the plant of the Reed a 8 Engine company. While Mr. Durnett was on the for der he wrote several letters. in the Morning Derald in which he spoke of the drink avil among the guards men, , He said that if Paso, only a few wiles, from the camp, was a wile open town and that the galoons dined the resort. In the red light district Dack warked ameh haved among the soldiers. A t Aone Unie there were 300 Hal iors in the fluld hospital suffering with venereal disease,” said J. Mr. Burne to a Herald reporter at the Pennsylvania station yesterday after noon. “Some of the soldiers would not have money enough with which to purchase a postage stamp to write home to the relatives, yet, when they went to the city they would al ways “come back to the camp badly intoxicated.” Mr Burnett yesterday wore hi regulation Wuardsmen’s service moi form and attracted considerable at onion ‘among the passengers at the station. Jte wna considerably attend ed by the wintry weather and salt that it would take iim sone tine 10 again Yet accustomed Gn the north orpelimitte, . “When I left the camp on Nov. , the thermometer registered 120 ° de grees above zero at orit day, bun it wie, nolder at night. b do not know when the boys of the 16th will be sent home, but Cok Rickards sold me a few days before he left that they wowd be given only a few hoywre netiee,”
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Titusville Herald
Titusville, Pennsylvania, US
Sat, Nov 18, 1916
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