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Newspaper
The Evening Current
Location
Carlsbad, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1918
Page
2
The Evening Current published daily by Carlsbad Printing Co. is shown with editor L. Perry and company details. It notes second class matter status since April 16, 1917 and post office in Carlsbad New Mexico under the 1879 act.
A notice states that The Associated Press owns exclusive rights to news dispatches credited or not credited to the AP for republication in this paper and in local editions. It emphasizes copyright control over content published herein.
The community plans to publish excerpts from letters received by families of soldiers and sailors. Letters come from Red Cross nurses and service members of YMCA and Knights of Columbus. The aim is to show how war work societies support troops and maintain morale, welfare, and health.
A wartime exhortation urges Americans to support the nation by voting wisely and backing President Wilsons war policies. Arthur Seligman of Santa Fe NM writes that every citizen must show loyalty through energy enthusiasm and full effort to aid the war and crush Germany. He emphasizes that voting rightly in the coming elections is as crucial as financial contributions and public support for leadership.
In memory of a dear brother and son, the writer pleads for full support of Liberty loans and War Savings Stamps to back the war effort. He honors a brother in training, quotes a poem, and expresses pride in service members, urging families to purchase bonds even when finances are tight. A late telegram confirms a brother’s death reached Charley Weir after the funeral.
American soldiers billeted in a central France village describe informal life with French hosts. They praise cleaner homes and improved sanitation, learn about local life, and say the experience deepens sympathy and sharpens their resolve to defeat Germany. The old couple in one billet lost three sons and has a son held by Germans, while French women tend to the soldiers’ laundry and meals.
Amid war pressures, Mack troops march with folk songs and banjos in Europe while craps games glow in barracks. In St. Louis, draft selections face a new order banning liquor to inductees, as morale and discipline shape wartime life.
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