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Newspaper
The Evening Current
Location
Carlsbad, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1918
Page
2
Mrs. Scott Lee, an elderly African American woman in Axhtattta Ohio, has created a mobile canteen for soldiers. She attaches bundles of magazines and lunches to a long pole and hands them to men leaning from passing troop trains as they go by.
For sale a 12 section Texas ranch with good water and class stock. Partly stocked with fat cattle and a large calf crop. Bargain offered by RANCHER in Carlsbad New Mexico.
The Liberty Loan War Relic Train showcases captured artillery from Chateau Thierry including a Minnenwerfer as crowds learn how local boys fought in the great battle. The display highlights American courage and the repulse of German shock troops as part of the Fourth Liberty Loan Campaign tours in the Eleventh Federal Reserve District.
The display showcases Verdun era weapons and a Depth Bomb used in troop transports. Visitors view Lewis guns, Chauchat rifles, aerial torpedoes, and a Minnenwerfer with a U S soldiers equipment comparison. Four cars travel with speakers and an attendant corps to promote liberty loan support.
In New York a white tiled venue famed for batter cake shows a woman selling mowers to raise funds for soldiers’ families. An army officer buys her wares totaling 40 dollars, then taxis her away, paying the fare and leaving the curb bareheaded.
Readers are reminded of the remaining quarter for the Thrift Stamp purchase drive. Local post offices report steady participation as schools and clubs encourage residents to complete payments before the deadline.
Mrs. L Newton of Albany Oregon takes over woodsaw duties when her husband cannot find help. She handles the sawing while Mr Newton lifts the wood, wearing a ducking dress and gloves and performing the work with the same manly efficiency.
Captain Jacques Suzanne Arctic explorer and Rev. W. H. Wheeler of Beacon New York work as shipwrights on the government steamship Newburgh being built in a Hudson river shipyard Wheeler, a bolter's assistant, plans to earn enough to buy a Liberty bond.
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