Washington Draft Numbers Drawn In Order For 1918 Class
The June 27 draft drawing in Washington assigns registration numbers to determine order of call for the 1918 class. Numbers indicate when a youth will be drafted, with 1 to 99 and beyond listed. new registrants will be placed at the foot of each class list in order drawn. All numbers will feed into five classes, with Class 1 anticipated to be called before year’s end.
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Baker
Washington
Feeding Soldiers On The Transports And Beyond In War Time
An article details how soldiers are fed at sea with 210 000 meals daily and 180 varietes of food while listing vast quantities of bread beef eggs and fruits. It covers parcel post reforms, dental corps expansion to 5 810 officers, railroad car movements into wheat regions, mosquito control in camps, Mexican labor imports, gas proof food containers, and camp theater networks ahead of wartime needs.
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France
War Department
Secretary of War
Quartermaster Corps
Dental Corps
United States Army
Department of Agriculture
Railroad Administration
Medical Department of the Army
Federal Public Health Service
Health Service
Department of Labor
Quartermaster’s Department
Quartermasters’ Department
Chautauqua
Lyceum
New York
Liberty
Commission On Training Camp
Worth Knowing items and figures from a 1940s digest
Minnesota bars alien teachers. California congressman Nolan a mulder by trade. London firemen receive 15 shillings weekly raise until after the war. McDonald weighed 200 pounds in Columbus prison. released at 840 pounds. US Bureau of Standards tests color method for cottonseed oil. Mrs. Rebecca Mayo runs a Provincetown shoe store since 1875. Russian prisoners in Germany run propaganda books. Faure storage battery shown in London 37 years ago. Edison helped modernize it for streetcars.
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Minnesota
Nolan
California
London
McDonald
Columbus
Faure
Edison
Steady Hand Imperative in Military Affairs
Quote attributed to Bacon on the need for a steady hand in military affairs, arguing that errors in war have irremediable consequences. The line emphasizes discipline and prudent action over peaceful administration.
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Bacon
Paper goods advertised in Berlin paper shows uses
The Information Belges notes a Berlin advertisement listing numerous paper uses. It cites paper for dresses aprons business suits upholstery trunks bags pillowcases mattresses and assorted assorted lots for sale.
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Berlin
Information Belges
Germany
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Promised Cure
Mrs Heller of Christopher Ill praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for curing nervousness and female troubles after trying other remedies. The notice invites letters to Lydia Pinkham Medicine Co. Lynn Mass seeking advice on health concerns.
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Christopher
Lydia E. Pinkha
Pinkham
Lydn, Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn
Mass
Old London's Constables Recall Chartist Era Fire Prepares
Sir Spencer Ponsonby Fane and foreign office clerks recall being sworn in during the Chartist troubles of 1848. They were assembled in a cabinet to hear harangues from the chief clerk, armed with muskets and cartridges, yet the weapons could not be cocked or rammed due to faulty locks.
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London
Spencer Ponsonby-Fane
Spe
Foreign Office
Sir Spence
London Chronicle
Cutting Out Things War Censors Mentioned
Dialogue notes Mrs. Church questions her husband about his wartime duties as a censor. Mrs. Gotham indicates a sum of 80 and recalls that her husband served as one of the official censors.
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Church
Gotham
Offic
Happy is the Individual Whose Things Are As They Should Be
The saying reflects on contentment from aligning life with ideals rather than current reality. It emphasizes inner judgment over external circumstance and frames happiness as moral steadiness.
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TSS
United States
Washington, D. C
Army
Naval Reserve
United States Bureau of Standards
Rebecca Mayo
Provincetown
Scemise
Daisy Fly Killer
Harold Somers
Kale Ave
Srooklyn