First Experiences in Uncle Sam's Army From Maine Letter
Kieth Gilbert of Dalton describes boot camp life at Fort McKinley Me in 1918. He praises Red Cross gifts routes of welcome, meals, drills, and daily routines while detailing passes, quarters, and bayonet practice amid wartime duty.
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Kieth Gilbert
Dalton
Uncle Sam
Fort McKinley
the Pointer
West Hammond
Harvey
Canada
Vermont
Merton Mills
Gasco Bay
Message From Fort McKinley Soldiers Aboard
A wartime letter from the 25th Company at Fort McKinley Maine describes busy days of drilling and studying with lights out at 9 30. The writer notes steady correspondence from home, mentions teammates Anton LaBuda Fred Washausson Paul Kuleta West Hammond Keith E Gilbert Dalton P S and reports making the Post baseball team as third baseman for an opening game at Fort Williams South Portland.
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Kaiser
Boys of the
25Th Co
Dixie Flyer No More as Government Takes Rail Control
Government takes control of railroads ending passenger and freight competition. Commercial agents lose offices and thousands of clerks and stenographers are displaced as luxury trains are replaced by plain numbers. Rail lines shift to war energy production, signaling a major industry restructuring.
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Overland Limited
Northwestern
Union Pacific
Black Diamond Express
Lehigh Valley
Pioneer Limited
St. Paul
Congressional Limited
Kaiser
U.S
Bill
No More Mobs Law Passed By Congress War Time Edict
A wartime sedition bill clears Congress, banning disloyal or abusive language about government, constitution, military, or flag with fines up to $10 000 or twenty years imprisonment. The law lasts only during the war and critics compare its reach to German controls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Germany
Iaiser
Dittman and Liebknecht Linked in German Assembly Shoes
The report notes socialist Reichstag member Dittman joined with fellow socialist Liebknecht in a convict pen making shoes. Dittman was imprisoned for delivering a speech to 12,000 workers protesting German war policy toward Russia and the Baltic, in a drumhead trial.
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Dittman
Reichstag
Liebknecht
Baltic
America
United States
American Socialist Party
France
Chicago Daily News
In Memoriam for Eva Wredericka Volbrecht
In loving memory of our mother Eva Wredericka Volbrecht who left us one year ago May 19 1917. What is home without a mother or the things the world may send. We lost our mother we lost our dearest friend. From Her Lonely Children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eva Wredericka Volbrecht
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Riverdale
Illinois
East 137Th Street
Office of
Tion
Aember
Maine
Dixie Flyer
Memoriam
Art Schaffner & Marx
Hart Schaffner & Marx
HART
Roseland
Bach Bros
Michigan Ave
115Th Street
Florsheim
Stetson
Dolton-Riverdale Building & Loan Association
Horace Holmes
First Nat’l Bank
Dolton, Il
Service
Northern
D. VanWyngarden & Son
Chicago
Mammoth Hatchery
W. Washington, St. Chicago
Geo. Tuch
Indiana Ave
137Th Street
WM. C. Zesch
Riv
Midway
Leyden Avenue
Chawacy Ave
Grand Cregala
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