SAYS CAMP UPTON NOT UP TO DODGE
Private Clifford C. Reeves writes from Camp Upton on Long Island after transfer from Camp Dodge. He contrasts the camps, recalls a tiring cross country trip via Tama, Marion, Chicago, Detroit, Niagara Falls, and says sleep is scarce, with sights in New York and Canada, then warns the censor might discard his letter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp Dodge
Clifford C. Reeves
T. C. Reeves
Wellman
Camp Upton
Long Island
N. Y
New York City
Wilkesbarre
Tama
Marion
Cedar Rapids
Savanna
Chicago
Grand Trunk Line
South Bend
Valpariso
Ind
Battle Creek
Lansing
Port Huron
Mich
Prepare for the Hot Wave Indigestion Relief Ad
Foley Catholic Tab promises prompt relief from indigestion and biliousness. The ad claims gentle yet thorough action, cleansing the bowels sweetening the stomach and benefiting the liver. Listed for Lemon’s Pharmacy as a remedy for indigestion bad breath bloating gas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foley Catholic
Lemmon’s Pharmacy
Advt
Inventor adds kick to near beer with raisins
In Los Angeles on April 12 an inventive drinker claims to make near beer alcoholic by adding three or four raisins to a bottle, recorking it, and waiting 24 hours. The raisins allegedly ferment the contents, increasing near beer sales tenfold in recent weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Calif
Cootie Garments Unsatisfactory For Army Use
Des Moines reports Gov. Harding releasing part of Col. E. R. Bennett letter stating cootie garments sent to the 168th Infantry are unsatisfactory. Bennett says the underwear is unserviceable, ineffective, and further shipments would be ar w ise. He urges continuous bathing and delousing to keep men vermin free.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
W. L. Harding
E. R. Bennett
One Hundred and Sixty-eighth Infantry
Bennett
Harding
Invalid hotel guest name prompts clerk to move on
Kansas City room clerk John Venne scans a guest register and reads a long unfamiliar name Stanley Vandervelchinkensteinhauserlyouzurs ki from Grand Rapids. He asks how many in the party and then, muttering about reading English, crosses out the name with his fountain pen and leaves for another hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
John Venne
Stanley Vandervelchinkensteinhauserlyouzurski
Grand Rapids
Mich
German Ham and Turnip Currency Issued at Niederlandstein
Niederlandstein on the Rhine has released original paper money featuring a fat ham on one side and turnips on the other. The ham bears a Schiller quotation about tender longing, while the turnip side begins a famous German folk song with Thus we live thus we live in 1918.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amsterdam
Niederlandstein
Rhine
Schiller
Enlist in the Army and Go to College Announcement
The War Department promotes the Student Army Training Corps as a third path to national service. It offers college enrollment with military drill and academic work, potential officer specialization, summer camp, and active duty options, with transfer to active service possible via military channels. Graduate age or completion influences service plans.
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Army Training Corps
United States War Department
America
War Department
Student Army Training Corps
United States Army
Student
Army
Navy
Committee On Education and Special Training
Washington, D. C
U S Ambulance Men Making Good War Service
Washington reports the American ambulance corps, formed to aid the Allies, is serving behind French, English, Belgian lines and Italians front. Camp Crane at Allentown trains 4500 plus volunteers from many universities for medical, laboratory, and evacuation units as drafts drive future selection.
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Washington, D. C
Switzerland
Allentown
United States
Camp Crane
University of Washington
University of California
Leland Stanford
University of Maine
Harvard
University of Chicago
Hamline
University of Texas
United States Army
Elbert E. Persons
Verdun
Marshal Joffre
Ft. Oglethorpe
Georgia
Fort Riley
Kansas
Europe
Col. Persons
Victor Sammanuel
Crane
Richard Slee
Still Threat to Force Back Wages Rescued by Judge
Frederick W Stull, a Spanish American War veteran, told Ed ward Hurley he would come to Washington with a gun to obtain $25 back wages from the shipping board. Federal Judge K M Landis dismissed the case but reproved Stull and promised to aid him in collecting his claim.
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Chicago
Frederick W. Still
Edward N. Hurley
United States Shipping Board
Washington
K. M. Landis
Still
Stull
German destroyer sunk off Zeebrugge by mine
London reports an official British admiralty statement that a German destroyer was sunk eight miles off Zeebrugge, likely by striking a British mine. Enemy mine sweepers off Zeebrugge were heavily bombarded by British aircraft.
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London
Zeebrugee
Admiralty
Zeebrugge
Kidney pills relieve backache feel better in days
I am a locomotive engineer and suffered back pain with irregular bladder action. After taking Foley Kidney pills I was relieved in a couple of days. Geo McClain of Turtle Lake North Dakota writes this testimonial for Lemiley's Pharmacy advertisement.
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Geo, McClain
Turtle Lake
N. D
Foley
Lemiley
Advt
Shenandoah Man Registration Ordinance Probed
Shenandoah's city council passed a local work or fight ordinance requiring men ages 17 to 55 to register. At the war office men present questions and receive a card similar to government registration. Two volunteers work ten hours daily. Similar measures pass in Clarinda Blanchard and Essex and may spread statewide.
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Shenandoah
War Office
Clarinda
Blanchard
Essex
Kidney health and Foley Kidney Pills ad
The copy presents a vintage advertisement praising kidneys as vital organs and linking back pain joint swelling and rheumatic aches to kidney trouble. It promotes Foley Kidney Pills as relief and mentions bladder irregularities with a brief pharmacy attribution to Lemmon's Pharmacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lemmon's Pharmacy
Thousand Soldiers Now Are Citizens
One thousand alien soldiers at Camp Dodge took the oath of allegiance today becoming U S citizens. They gathered in the YMCA auditorium to pledge loyalty in a mass citizenship ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp Dodge
United States
English woman wins medal for farm work in war effort
An Englishwoman Mrs. George Thompsett, 62, mother of sixteen, received a first prize medal for general farm work. She worked in place of her son who went to war, competing with male farmers and earning praise amid wartime farm labor trends in Iowa and France.
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United States Food Administration
George Thompsett
France
Lowa
Iowa
German Officers Shoot Own Men Amid Picardy Fight
Paris dispatch reports Anglo-French forces gaining ground with Picardy front held by infantry and German units relying on machine guns as officers kill soldiers showing signs of quitting. High command reshuffle blamed for German disarray between the Somme and Oise with Von Hutier’s eighteenth army under pressure to withdraw along multiple roads toward Roye and Ham.
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Paris
Picardy
Marshal Foehruck
Rupprecht
Bavaria
von der Marwiitz
vonHutier
Somme
Oise
von Hutier
Montdidier
Roye
Ham
Nesle
Wild World War Inventions Show Sketches Of Futuristic Schemes
A July London note lists fanciful war ideas by amateur inventors for munitions ministry consideration. Proposals include arming balloons, training birds to steal Krupp mortars, towing rifles by nets from balloons, perch-steering shells, searchlights on anti aircraft guns, and heat ray plans to ignite Zeppelins, among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Ministry of Munitions
Essen
Krupp
Air inventions committee reviews thousands of wartime ideas
The air inventions committee, formed nine months ago, has examined more than 5 000 inventions and suggestions. Proposals include petrifying German troops with cement, flinging snakes by pneumatic means into trenches, and blasting Germany with a tube extending from England.
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Germany
England
Ministry of Munitions
Air Ministry
Air Inventions Committee
Mrs Watson of Detroit Gets Stronger With Vinci Tonic
Mrs Watson of Detroit Michigan describes a weak rundown condition with loss of appetite and fatigue. After trying Vinci within two weeks she reports improved appetite and strength. The ad attributes Vinci to beef and cod liver peptones iron and manganese peptonates and glycero phosphates and promotes Sherman Bros. as a distributor.
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Detroit
Mich
Vinci
John F. Watson
Sherman Bros
Advt
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California
U.S
Call College
Uncle Sam
Priscilla Dean
Ella Hall
Star Theatre
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Caner Cort
National War Garden Commission
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Washington Loan & Trust Company
Chas, H. Keck
Frank R. Sage
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