Enlistment Drive For Motor Transport Service Begun
Citywide recruitment by three member committees from automobile industry, chauffeurs union, and transport corps to visit garages and car trades. Large influx of applications at the U. S. Employment Office. districts expected to meet national targets as draft ages and qualified older men considered. Headquarters at 122 Main Plaza. Mail applications to Box 1028 with age height weight and driving experience details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Motor Transport Service
Chauffeurs’ Union
Transport Corps Department
Texas
Trust Me Try Dodson's Liver Tone Calomel Harms Liver
Dodson's Liver Tone is promoted as a safe, pleasant vegetable alternative to calomel for liver and bowel relief. The ad warns calomel is dangerous mercury that mutates bones and can cause weakness, sickness, and missed work, urging readers to choose this remedy instead. It targets both children and adults, claiming easier dosing and no salivation. A local pharmacist is said to endorse it and guarantee results or your money back.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dodson
Calomel
Complaints to McAdoo Bureau Highlight Rail Service
Washington October 15 Complaints to Director General McAdoo and the railroad administration reveal both praise and criticism of government controlled railways. The new complaints bureau receives nearly 300 letters daily, leading to reforms such as better connections, luggage policy changes, improved station facilities, and more courteous staff. Some letters note inadequate passenger service while explanations cite wartime constraints. A Pennsylvania resident praised a clean station idea, and 300 Erie commuters lauded Conductor Thomas Styan. Ballard Dunn heads the bureau with a staff of correspondents, forwarding suggestions to senior railroad officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
McAdoo
Bureau of
Bure
Pennsylvania
Junction City
Schedwes
Erie
Thomas Styan
Ballard Dunn
Chicago
Linen for France Drive Seeks Everyday Donations
American Red Cross launches nationwide linen drive to supply military hospitals in France. Families are asked to donate one sheet or one towel per item, with specified dimensions for bath towels sheets and hand towels. Volunteers and Juniors assist as campaigns operate from the Wolff & Marx building and Red Cross rooms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
American Red Cross
America
San Antonio
Red Cross
Wolff & Mars
Sted Cross
Dawns
Red
AC Letter Awaid
Dinen
Wolff & Mark
Conservation Committee
Smithie Graves
Woman's Far
Wis. Sisters Become Citys First War Widows
Madison Wisconsin report tells that Mrs Michael Lange and Mrs Raymond Nisi the cousins both learned their husbands were killed in action on the same day, leaving them the citys first war widows. The men died in battle last August after marrying the sisters last December.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wis
Michael Lange
War Department
Raymond Nisials
Hether
Lange
Nichols
September class of draft will be big Army asset
The article reports on the September draft class, noting many registrants are not fit for service due to illness and a shortage of examining physicians amid an influenza epidemic. It lists registrants unreturned questionnaires and warns that nonresponse could mark them as delinquents, risking imprisonment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Comptiodte Martiers
Postollier
Joert Board
Alanuel Aleman
Charles Cavel
Alferd Marie
Mya Ado
Antives
Marin Ateredondo
Refugio Avila
Luis Ayala
Milton Baldora
Jacinto Mar Eavincion Bagandes
Mataal Jose Rotella
Hadeor Calvillo
Germans Strip Ostend Front as Guns Flow South
From Ostend neighborhood reports the German forces have withdrawn many guns, triggering crowding and nervous energy in Lille and surrounding countryside. Population rushes to safety as Front news lags and Wilson note lingers, leaving residents unsettled and wary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coates
Kanon
Speci
Srov
Pulte
Lester Lo
Ostend
Wwnce
Lille
Tony Distinew
Hillery
Wilson
French and the Army Mule Heads to the Front
The article describes difficulties using French army mules to move goods and troops. It notes horses are hard to master for French officers, urging reliance on American horses and riders. A Chicago News observer reports on improvisation and tensions in negotiations over mount supplies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Pownsend
United States
Walter
Miust
Nile
Also Mentioned on This Page
Liberty
Pir
Broadway
Victor
Stenger
Victor Talking Machine Co
Camden
N. J
Orvas
Victor Records
Victrola Kvi
Mvil Electric
M’adoo
Erarolene the Great
Addrasgress Mills Chemical Co
Dept. D
Rerd
Johneon ‘Orm
Wagner Drug Co
Houston
Fischer Drug Co
Gibts
Irug
Ady
Post Toasties
St Off Foods
Wolfson’s
Saul Wolfson Dry Goods Co
Perle
Gude
Southern Pacific
Travis
Hers
N. St
Mary's Street
U. S
Tan
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!