Early Days Abroad Training in France
Theodore Roosevelt Jr recounts his arrival with the Twenty-Sixth Infantry in Demanges France. He describes bonding with French children, adjusting to vin ordinaire and champagne, pay disparities, price inflation, and the ease of forming friendships with locals. He highlights discipline, incidents of misbehavior, and his leadership amid daily life and training in northern France.
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Col. Duncan
Duncan
Seventy-seventh
Twenty-sixth Infantry
Gen. Seibert
Roosevelt
Twenty-sixth
Demanges
France
National Institution of France
Vin Ordinaire
Roosevelt's Indictment of Home Training of Troops
A veteran account from France reveals American troops entering combat ill prepared for modern weapons. Training focused on basic drills while French units demonstrated grenades and trench weapons. Mixed results followed as language barriers and cultural differences complicated instruction before a joint French liaison party and later social gatherings. The piece closes noting a French cost-cutting Consumers' League initiative in Paris.
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Win
Alwas An Agret
Europe
Oro
Spada
Murphys
Sao
Ares
Iis
Moneuvers Ground
Reviowa
Menacel
Ile
Deauclare Asalet
Thenuelare
France
Mel
Nonron
Noncom
Serjount Ross
B Company
Stinl
Hese H
Paris
Havas
Montmartre
Consumers' League of France
Labor Day Plans Nearing Completion in Waterloo
Plans for the largest Waterloo Labor Day celebration in years progress as the Central Labor union committee meets at Labor temple. Invited speakers include Mayor Short of Sioux City and union leaders W. H. Anderson and Duncan McDonald. The day opens with a 9 am parade of union men, floats prize 10 7 and 5, then families go to Cedar River park for picnics and sports.
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Waterloo
Central Labor Union
Labor Temple
Mayor Short
Sioux City
W. H. Anderson
International Association of Machinists
Duncan McDonald
Illinois State Federation of Labor
Fifth Street
Fourth Street
Labor Day Committee
Waterloo Union
Cedar River Park
Pershing Leaves Venice for Battlefields Tour
General Pershing spent part of yesterday in Venice. In the evening he departed for a tour of the battlefields and the liberated region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pershing
Venice
Havas
Lemon-based sunburn cream advertised for pale skin
Advertisement promotes a lemon juice blend with Orchard White to create a freckle tan and sunburn lotion. It claims quick whitening results for face neck arms and hands and asserts the product is harmless. Grocers supply lemons and Orchard White is available at drug stores.
That Change in Woman's Life in Fremont Ohio
A Fremont reader describes relief from menopausal symptoms after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She reports heat flashes nervousness backache headache irritability and blues improved after treatment and invites further guidance from the Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts asserting forty years of experience and confidential handling.
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Fremont, O
Lydia £. Pinkham
Mr. Goopes
Napoleon St
Fremont
Ohio
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn
Mass
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Theodore Roosevelt
Kipling
Broadway
Gatten Layly
Arnold
United States
C. O
Duxembourg
Germany
Menu
America
Murphy
Tin
G.b.duncan
Lieut. Co
Linha Canis Tauen
Army
Twentysixth Infantry
Public Ledger Company
Canada
G. P. Putnam's Sons
George Weilein
Winds
Mrs. Godden
Webster's Will
Anheuser-Busch
St. Louis
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