Growth of a mushroom village at Pelham Bay Park
Readable text describes Commander William B. Franklin directing a vast Naval Training Camp at Pelham Bay Park near New York City. An eighty acre, 5 000 strong camp rapidly expanding to 21 000, with probationary recruits trained in naval basics and armed with semaphore signals, cloth care, and drill. The camp houses Y M C A activities, chaplain committees balancing religious and recreation programs, and a steady stream of broadside publications for personnel.
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Ersons
Pelham Bay Park
New York City
William B. Franklin
Germany
Naval
Naval Training Camp
Pelham Bay
Clothhaw Bay Park
Nagniade
Warren B
Naval Reserve
Navy
Cens Tee
Fi Aedelmcas
John MM
Ehaipaywa
Toons Vej
Lieutenat
Wditers
Neal
Drews
J. Cherne
Gut Cave
Baston
Gerrans
The Lone Poilu and the Saved Ditch Fragment
An OCR fragment presents a war poem about French soldiers, the Lone Poilu, cry of Debout les morts, and their sacrifice to save a strategic trench. It evokes the hymn like chorus, deaths, and national pride with Anglo American framing.
General Penn Warns Recruit on Saluting of Officers
A Camp Custer general, passing a pupil lounging on an empty box, stops to ask if the recruit knows he should stand at attention and salute. The general jokes that one day a lieutenant will reprimand him for failing to observe, offering a friendly warning.
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Penn
Custer
Jater
Crusoe
Jie
Sigan
Robinson Crusoe
Tle
Khedive
Sarsa
Parilla
Fernandex Lodge
No. 1
Aly
Blu
Dhat
Robinson Crisoe
Robindon Crusoe
Do Ax We Mense Company
Sites Testorate Robinson Crusoe, Tnc
Europe
Napoleon
Robison Cragoe
St. Imelena
Man's Land
Sam
Hindenburg
Paris
Midecon
Envious Crusoe Boasts of Island Autonomy in Satirical Scan
A caustic column contrasts Crusoe’s lone self rule with modern rulers. The piece mocks the Kaiser and Napoleon, urging isolation of ego and autocracy, while predicting Allied victory and a punitive fate for aggressive leaders.
Hatchet on the High Seas Reports War News On Board
The Hatchet is a daily on board ship for American sailors at sea. Volume two edition features condensed wireless news from London Paris Washington New York and more. Includes do nots for enlisted men and a daily entertainment schedule aboard the vessel.
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United States
Athantic
France
High Seas
London
Paris
Washington
New York
Beast of
Berlin
Tio Blom
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Flenven
Kuixer
Atlantic
Defeuer
America
Franklin
Alan
John M. Mark
Fim
Mark
Ethan Bay
J.waide Vt
Es Herald
Ss Aeang Een
Ead Alee
Poilr
Gordon Gray
UE Ruiger
Robinson Crusoy
Crugoe
Jor
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