Southeast troops in France get supplies at wholesale prices
American forces in France benefit from post exchanges run by the Army and Navy Y M C A under General Pershing. The Red Triangle conducts the largest business enterprise, selling cigarettes and supplies at cost with no profit. Fatima 50 centimes, Camels 35, and other brands priced to match wholesale costs. Captain George M. Lynch reports prices have stabilized and troops pay cost.
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Pershing
Atlantic
Army
Navy
France
General Pershing
Red Triangle
Prince Albert
George M. Lynch
Florida Military College
Gainesville
Fla
Books of American Library Association Found Across France
Raymond Fosdick reports ALA books discovered in dugouts, cow barns, hospitals, and villages across the training area in France. He notes the library service has grown rapidly, with millions of books distributed to soldiers and sailors deployed or in transit.
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American Library Association
France
Raymond Fosdick
National Commission On Training
Rance
America
Need Only Creed Cited By Evangelist Gipsy Smith
Gipsy Smith told vast southeastern audiences that need is the sole creed as meetings boost support for the United War Work campaign opening November 11. The evangelist urged focus on creed over other aims amid large rally attendances.
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Gipsy Smith
United War Work Campaign
Florida newspapers pledge aid for United War Work drive
Florida daily and weekly papers pledge to back the United War Work campaign opening November 11. The pledge centers their effort across the state to inform the public about the seven war work agencies and the goal of raising 170.6 million dollars.
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Florida
United War Work Campaign
Salvation Army Soldiers Helped at Chateau-Thierry
The Salvation Army provided lemonade to American and allied troops during the Chateau-Thierry battle. Surgeons note the drink helped cooling wounded soldiers while they awaited care. The Army’s welfare work is highlighted as a major wartime effort supporting fighting men through the united war work fund drive.
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Chateau-Thierry
Uncle Sam
Salvation Army
Y M C A Helps Troop Builders With Huts In Forests
In the pine forests of Alabama Georgia Tennessee and other Southeast states men are hewing wood for the war program while the Y M C A locates huts and tents to support these loyal workers and bolster morale along the shipbuilding effort.
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Alabama
Georgia
Tennessee
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Republic of the West
A. Lloyd George
Great Britain
United War Work
Tau
Katherine C. Budd
New York
Dorr Field
Arcadia
Gertrude Mayo
New Yor
Reston
Pickens Bank
Pickens
8. C
Creed
Chateau-Therry
Samuel Tomer
Hintergrien
Fue Guntaur Gonpany
WEW
York
Its
Castoria
the Centaur Company
New York City
George Ellis
Internationaltay Press
Wood & Co
Thomas
Terrace
B. M. Smith
Pickens Drug Company
Interstate Drug Company, Inc
the Sentinel
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