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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1918
Page
9
The Opera House was packed Saturday evening with attendees from the area to hear Bell's Famous Hawaiian Company. The program mixed Hawaiian and American music and drew strong applause with frequent encores. Mr Small earned praise for securing this diverse ensemble.
A report from Camp Zachary Taylor suggests most draftees who recently reported will stay with the 159th Depot Brigade and not transfer to the Eighty fourth Division. They are expected to sail later with a unit preparing for travel, possibly to France.
Miss Lida Gardner National Organizer of the Parent Teachers Association and State Organizer of Community School Leagues will address parents at the High School Auditorium on Thursday March 21 at 3 p m. The event invites interest in your child and community education efforts.
The Food Administration weighs further wheat limits to protect the sub normal US and allied supply until the next harvest. Officials fear hoarding by some as the main obstacle to saving efforts. Mr Will reports for duty by March 25 and asks debtors to settle immediately.
President Wilson urges all American boys aged 16 and over not permanently employed to join the United States Boys Working Reserve. March 18 begins National Enrollment Week as part of efforts to boost farm labor for the war and support the front lines and home front needs.
Senator Thomas A. Combs resigns his Senate seat and as president pro tem amid plans to retire at session’s end. Charles M. Harris of Woodford is seen as likely successor for pro tem. No special election planned unless a session is called to fill the vacancy. The move stems from a potential conflict with his role as director of the Federal Reserve Bank in Cleveland.
Uncle Sam declares war in self defense and calls five million youths aged sixteen to twenty one to national service through the U S Boys Working Reserve. About two million of these young men are idle or in non productive work, prompting the creation of the reserve to support war efforts.
The U S Boys Working Reserve is a registered army of youths ages sixteen to twenty one organized by the U S Department of Labor. Eligible boys enroll by card oath and parent consent to receive a Great Seal certificate and Enrollment Badge.
Parents are informed that their sons may join the Reserve on a purely voluntary basis and may be withdrawn from membership at the parents sole discretion. If a boy is in school he will not be enrolled without consent.
A six year old boy named Dick Montjoy, son of Richard Montjoy, raised, housed, stripped and loaded a tobacco crop and donated the entire proceeds to the Red Cross. The crop sold for 4.80, drawing wide admiration as a patriotic, inspiring contribution.
A shipment of 726 government horses from Camp Grant Illinois bound for an Atlantic port suffers mass deaths near Covington Kentucky. Some 400 animals are dead with over 300 expected to die. veterinarians struggle to save any. Authorities suspect a deliberate poison plot, with government losses around 88000 dollars.
Mr Frank L Stevenson of the U S 8 Ohio is stationed at Norfolk Va in charge of armed guard troops training them for service in France His wife from Brooklyn will join him there The remark about angels with wings comments on human laziness.
A wartime appeal urges city and town boys ages 16 to 21 to join the Working Reserve. It explains national needs, factory and farm labor, and the duty to sustain production while others enlist. The message asks youths to prove patriotism by filling the gaps left by soldiers.
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