Convicts Help Build Mountain Road and Show Charity
In Wyoming convicts, treated as trustees, labor on a county mountain road earning 5 dollars monthly. They donated 27.50 to the Red Cross, with several giving 5 or 10 dollars, showing notable sacrifice. The piece contrasts citizen generosity with convict service and urges greater public giving. It then shifts to wartime ordnance spending, detailing contracts totaling billions, daily disbursements, and the expansion of district offices to speed payments.
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Unclear Phrase From Gas Officers Camp Report
Fragmentary note cites gas officers at multiple camps over six months. Text unclear. No further factual detail available.
War Department reports gas defense training and manpower surge
The War Department announces extensive gas defense training for American troops heading to France with British guidance. Gas officers, many commissioned lieutenants, drill divisions in mask use and gas detection, using mimic shells and nocturnal attacks to sharpen realism. Simultaneously, overall war bureau employment has risen about 800 percent to roughly 235,000, with army growth over 1,500 percent. Gas mask production expands to about 5,000 horse masks daily, aided by new riveting machines ensuring horse safety. Reports also note ration cuts in German states and declining livestock, rubber import restrictions shifting commodity shortages, and band expansions to 50 members per regiment under a new lieutenant ranking system. Contracts in Lithe tock, Arkansas, and Brunswick, Georgia, total about 7.0 million dollars.
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Feeding Soldier On The Transports And France
An account of how soldiers are fed aboard transports and in France shows the 180 varieties of meals, large bread and meat provisions, and the shift to money orders for purchases. It notes railway congestion, courier shipments, and new army dental corps expansion to serve over five million men.
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