Letter from San Antonio Camp describes city life and camp growth
Lloyd D. Witter, a lieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps, writes from Fort Sam Houston and Camp Travis about San Antonio’s rapid wartime transformation. He details the city’s architecture and heat, the presence of about 20,000 soldiers, and the sprawling logistics network from receiving barracks to quartermaster detachments. He describes his duties managing the canteen and clothing issues, his promotion to sergeant, and his plans to learn Spanish while noting hopeful prospects for the war’s end.
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Lloyd D. Witter
Fort Sur
Houston
Texas
San Antonio
Uear
Signal Corps
Orénev
Fort Sam Houston
Southern Department
Travis
Third Cavalry
Third Field Artillery
Nineteenth Infantry
Quartermaster’s Corps
Sam
Goig
Quartermasters Corps
Jefferson Barracks
West End
France
Quartermaster Corps
United States
Cy Clark
Fort McIntosh
Laredo
Valley City Girl Graduate at Chicago
Valley City native Myhbro, a Maclean School graduate, is named director of the expression and music departments at the Congregational Training School for Women on Ashland avenue. She will lead the Fellowship Congregational Church choir after Oct 1, with Dr. Maclean offering partial vocal scholarships to voices auditioning for his choir at the Maclean School on South Michigan Avenue.
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Chicago Evening Post
da A. Myhro
Maclean School
Congregational Training School For Women
Ashland Avenue
Mias Myhbro
Maclean
Fellowship Congregational Church
Plymouth Church
South
Michigan Avenue
Normal Teachers Won’t Take Rural Jobs in North Dakota
Mayville Sept 19 Mayville area reports that normal trained teachers refuse rural posts due to loneliness and social limits. Of 62 graduates expecting teaching this year all found good paying positions and only six will teach country schools. Wages for village principalships run from 60 to 100 dollars monthly for graduates and 80 to 100 for men.
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Mayville
Mayville En Reerg
Normal
Chaffee's Style Show Unqualified Success
The Fall Style Show at the Chaffee department store on September 19 opened late but quickly showcased 100 garments and 75 hats. Models, led by Misses Hamilton and others, displayed silk and serge dresses, kimonos, coats, suits, hats, gloves, and furs amid rose and aster decor while host C. C. Chaffee praised clerks and models.
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Chaffee Department Store
Hubbard
Betty Wales
Eether Hamilton
Esaie Hamilton
Hope Wallace
Elsie Holzman
Constance McPherson
Zella Martin
Gladys Schroeder
Laverna Busdicker
Mesdames von Schultes
Belton
Iverson
Harkins
Starvation Will Win War Hoover Says at War Convention
Atlantic City September 19 Herbert C Hoover head of the food administration warned at a chamber of commerce war convention that starvation could decide the outcome of the war. He argued that only nations able to organize food production and conservation could prevail and that neutral northern Europe could not receive American food without contributing to the common pool. He noted that exports had exhausted the nation’s usable cereals and animal products and that the early harvest left the stock lowest in history but that the anxious period had passed.
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Atlantic City
Herbert
Hoover
Food Administration
Chamber of Commerce of
United States
America
Europe
Germany
Dripping Blood Tells Story of Elevator Death
At Wadek Farmers Elevator a farmer discovering a mangled body in the cupola found E. F. Davis 35 dead some time. He was employed by Farmers Elevator at Watlek and is survived by a widow on the homestead near Parshall. The cause is not explained but suspected to be gear entanglement.
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Ttis
Eight Cents a Pound to Be Sugar Retail Price
Beet sugar producers in conference with the food administration reached a unanimous agreement setting the retail price at eight cents a pound. Wholesalers will pay seven and a half cents at eastern refining points, with the retail price normally not more than a half cent higher. The food administration also announced an international committee of five to arrange purchase and distribution of sugar for the United States and allied countries, controlling a large share of the world output.
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Washington
The
Food Administration
United States
Season's Course Will Include Best Artists
The sixth annual artists' course at the State Normal school is completed and dates for appearances will be announced soon. The program features top artists like Rita Fornia and Augusta Lenska, with Sascha Jacobsen and the Knessel Quartet, and includes a strong modern repertoire. Local events note the season aims to uplift taste and provide both entertainment and education.
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Department of Music
State Normal School
Hach
Valley City
David Bispham
Hanser] Conwell
Rita Fornia
Metropolitan Star
Mme
Metropolitan Opera Company
New York
Leonora
Nedda
Fornia
Victor
Sascha Jacobsen
Knessel Quartet
Schumann-Heink
New York Symphony Orchestra
Boston
Jacobsen
Victor Talking Machine Company
Augusta Lenska
Stickley the Soldier Editor Turns Traffic Cop at Camp McClellan
Warren A. Stickley known as Stickley to North Dakota friends, the former Bis marck Tribune editor, now serves as captain quartermaster at Camp McClellan Alabama. He regulates transport of hundreds of trucks and thousands of workers, routing traffic and removing dead-heads while enforcing road safety with soldiers as guards.
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Bismarck
Warren A. Stickley
Stick
North Dakota
Camp McClelism
National Army
Amnisop
Ala
Uncle Sam
United States Army
Camp
McClellan
Major Dulin
Annison
Liberty Loan Campaign to Last Four Weeks
The second Liberty loan will run four weeks from October 1 to October 27 with Liberty Day on October 24 nationwide. Details will be released after Congress acts on the $11 billion bond bill. Grant Shepard of Valley City and Miss Georgia Thomas of Columbus married at Rudolf hotel. Rev. C. E Vermilya officiated.
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Liberty
Washington
Congress
Grant Shepard
Valley City
Georgia Thomas
Columbus
Ohio
Rudolf Hotel
C. E Vermilya
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Lloyd Witter
Mart Mason
Fourth Street
Valley City Furniture Co
Chicago
Mankato Commercial College
Mankato
Minn
Chas, Campbell
South 20Th Street
Billings
John A. Gillis
Fargo
Mra
P. Enerson
N. Dakota
Chaffee
C. C. Chaffee
Rudolf
Mlle Augusta Lenska
Royal Opera
Belgium
Chicago-Philadelphia Grand Opera Company
South Africa
Henri Caine
Massenet
May Doelling
Pianist
Cornelius van Vilet
Cellist
Minneapois Symphony
Bril
Mr. Overhoffer
van Vilet
Oberhoffer
Tetrazzini
Mary Garden
First Order
Marley Sherris
Hero
Mr. Sherris
Victor, Jaimer
Martha ,Wilberg
Nome
City
Wm. M. Scholl
Dr. Scholl
Berisa DE
Right Price Merc. Co
Alabama Camp
Bismarck Tribune
Associated Press
Commonwealth
Philippine
Mexico
Ion
Hetles
F. L. Baker
Spring Arbor
Mich
Free Methodist Church of North America
Lighting Lite Mission Church
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