Tombstone Liberty Day Observance Honors War Effort
Citizens of Tombstone gathered on Allen Street for Liberty Day events at six o clock. School children raised the flag before a patriotic program featuring song, a flag salute, and a speech by Attorney W. G. Gilmore praising local efforts in the Liberty Loan drive and the county’s lead in subscriptions.
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Tombstone
Allen Street
America
Arizona
A. C. Lockwood
Liberty Loan Committee
Cochise County
Liberty Loan
Lockwood
W. G. Gilmore
Globe youth 10 to British airman direct at front
Kenneth Wilson of Globe was sent to Toronto to report for Royal Flying Service duty. One of two among five Missouri School of Mines students from Rolla accepted after tests, he earned a 200 percent efficiency bonus. He plans to train as a cadet, be commissioned as lieutenant, and fly over France soon.
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Globe Youth
Royal Fying Service
Missouri School of Mines
Rolla
Wilson
France
Toronto
Draft board reports Cochise men for Camp Fenston recruitment
Ray B. Krebs returned from Douglas to lead 6 men called for entrainment at Camp Fenston. Cochise County quota was 85 but two already enlisted and assigned elsewhere, with 55 more to be called around May 10 for Fr. McDowell California. The list of names includes Ambrose Kennedy, Martin Costello, Albert Murchison, Thomas Ames, John Rock, Arthur Motett, and many others.
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Ray B. Krebs
Douglas
Fenston
Fr. McDowell
California
Golden State Limited
Ambrose Kennedy
Martin C. Costello
Albert H. Murchison
Thomas H. Ames
John Rock
Arthur Mottett
B. Jopeon
Tony Ostento
D. c. Crawford
Hjaimer Neilson
S.A. West
F. Allen
Ralph Wilson
W. Neehan
Benj
Dominick Bet
Walter F. Freeman
Daniel Angius
H. L. Alin
C. G. Johnson
J.C. Trout
W. Bell
Charles Jange
Jerry Wain
Wallace Jenkin
Fred” Hilburn
L. Kelly
Lester King
Peter Drake
P.J. Wright
Guy Brown
Ray Johnson
Fred Paulkener
R. Boehrig
C. J. Young
Charles Jupp
Harry C. Jennings
Nick Petunt
Adolphus J. Milette
Thomas Cheeny
J. B. Kuhn
Wm. Short
J. J. Gibbonn
W. Harris
Albert Hamlan
C. W. Leitz
Pen
Representative. Information sent to sheriff's office
A fragment notes that representatives received something yesterday and that the information was sent to the sheriff's office with J. L. Bussard representing.
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J. L. Bussard
Drafted men can enlist in Navy under new rule
Local Cochise county board distributes notice urging 18 to 25 year old men to enroll in the Naval Reserve or regular Navy. Recruitment stations listed in El Paso and local posts. Reservists receive the same pay and training as regulars, with enlistment potentially triggering a call to duty at any time.
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NAVY
Cochise County
el Paso
Servce
Naat
Naval Reserve
Navy Recruiting Station
el Paso St
Texas
Bisbee and
Douglas
Rome
Potassium Fields near Cochise County Tapped for Test Wells
A Bisbee and Douglas group plans to sink test wells on Dry Lake near Cochise three miles from the Southern Pacific line to explore potassium deposits. They filed 2560 acre claims with land offices in Phoenix and Cochise County records. Douglas investors join Bisbee men in backing the project, aiming to extract potassium from brine in wells, with experts noting Witcox and Nebraska similarities.
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Arizona
United States
Bisbee and
Douglas
Phoenix
Recorder’s
Cochive
Les
Soutern Pacific
Bisbee
William B. Ghoring
W. & McKee
Arthur Houle
Joe B Curry
George Jay
Ben H. Wolf
Capt
J. P. Hodgson
N. C. Beldsoe
Arthur Notman
L. C. Shattuck
Walter H. Gage
William Childers
B. Ward
O. J. Hurley
Arizona Medics Discuss War Role at Gathering
Phoenix April 27. Arizona State Medical association opened its two day session with a Hooverteed dinner at the Woman's club. Dr John E Bacon of Miami spoke on the relation of physicians to the war, noting 14 000 doctors already in service and 18271 in the medical reserve corps. Arizona reported 67 doctors in the reserve, about 28 percent of the state total, a higher share than any other state.
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Phoenix
Arizona State Medical Association
Th University Club
Woman's Club
Association
John E. Bacon
Miami
Bacon
Arizona
Subdividing Work Of The County Councils
The State Council of Defense urges distributing patriotic tasks across communities. Community Farm Bureaus handle production, but other needs exist. Mining areas should form subcommittees on mining while forestry livestock and cattle sheep groups may organize separately where useful.
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Phoenix
State Council of Defense
What Sacrifice Really Means In This War
Special to the Prospector from Dallas Texas on April 27. A reporter witnesses a soldier saying goodbye to his mother at a railroad station while others debate Liberty Loan sacrifices. One man with money invested questions why a subscriber bears loss, recognizing the broader wartime duty and evolving perspective on sacrifice.
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Dallas
Tex
Infant Loses Life in Globe Fire at Hastern Roundhouse
An infant perished in a blaze at the home of M. N. Young, a night-shift hostler at the Arizona Hastern roundhouse in Globe. Young, a colored man, saved one of his twin daughters but suffered severe burns as the fire raged. The origin of the fire remains undetermined.
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Globe
M. N. Young
Arizona Hastern Roundhouse
Mexican Threats Cloud Christmas in Hayden
The Mexican population near Hayden threatened trouble after the pursuit of Augustine Sanchez following Deputy Sheriff Frank’s shooting on April 9. A letter from a Mexican signer named 11 others detailed plots to burn a home. authorities guarded camps as ring leaders departed and Sanchez remained at large.
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Hayden
Augustine Sanchez
Sherif Frank
Cree
Washington, D.C
Sanchez
Winkleman
Hay House
Amend
Sanches
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