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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1918
Page
9
Fort Sam Houston in Texas calls for hundreds of automobile mechanics and skilled tradesmen to support motor transportation for wartime service. Training programs prepare auto repairers, blacksmiths, carpenters, machinists, welders, and other trades for service at home and abroad, with waivers possible for minor physical defects.
Waterlo o Boy is honored in the United States Naval Academy 1918 graduating class at Annapolis Maryland. Among the members is Spencer H. Warner son of Mr and Mrs H Warner. Mrs Warner travels to Annapolis for the June 6 exercises with 20 other mothers staying at the same boarding house. Warner is a West High and Waterloo Business College graduate who later served as private secretary to Congressman Maurice Connolly who appointed him to a cadetship at Annapolis three years ago. The war shortened the course from four to three years. Milton Warner another son has joined the marines and is in training.
City council may choose among several propositions for garbage disposal. Mayor Thompson announces plan to begin free refuse collection except ashes on June 3, with provisional contract terms until status of prior agreement is settled. Proposals were reviewed at a conference attended by the mayor and councilmen and proposals to collect or buy garbage were discussed.
For the benefit of families of Waterloo men in the United States military, the army recruiting station issues public information to speed war correspondence. Commanding officers of all organizations have directed the enlisted to use soldier numbers in all communications with the war department.
A wartime guidance urges officers to inform next of kin guardians or beneficiaries of each soldier's serial army number along with full names in all communications to the war department or the bureau of war risk insurance. Include rank and organization when known. numbers follow names. The same number will never be assigned to two men and remains with the individual.
A rotund man, drinking with friends, is jailed after an officer confrontation. In the cell a black man asks why the white man has not served in the army. The pair reenact drill and recon, the white man impressed by the experience, saying another night would ready him for trenches. Note directs to the Want ad page.
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