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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1917
Page
5
Volunteers are being recruited for a gas and flame service regiment to be ready by Thanksgiving. Expert mechanics chemists and skilled workers are urged to enlist to supervise the American offensive at the front. Men must be 18 to 40 Loyal citizens with strong initiative and muscular strength. Private enlistment pays 33 dollars per month with advancement potential.
Men with necessary experience may be assigned to special duties and given non commissioned ranks at the rate of $40.20 to $96 per month and expenses. Local recruiting officers can give preliminary examinations and the volunteers will be sent directly to Camp American University, Washington, D. C.
In Waterloo two families under financial stress cannot buy coal stoves. Lydia Bicher, acting superintendent of the Social Welfare league, requests donations of two coal cook stoves. One family includes an elderly invalid and a sick head of household with only a wood stove. The other home has five children, a father who is ill, and a gas stove but no heating stove.
Petrograd reports the Russian preliminary parliament will soon debate the Romanoff family's future. Attention centers on whether the former emperor and his relatives should be banished abroad after imprisonment near Tobolsk, Siberia.
Washington October 25 government report shows 37,563 women employed in German mines in the last quarter of 1916, up from 7,265 in the same period of 1914. The document highlights a dramatic shift in labor as war demands grow.
Edward F. Stahl and Kingsley Elizabeth M. Ryan of Waterloo are listed for marriage licenses. Tay G. Smith of Cherokee and Nina Benton of Springsdale are also noted. Barclay & Son advertises oak and hickory chunks with phone 1406.
Wool children's school sweaters listed in medium weight Oxford and white colors priced at 3.50 dollars each.
Lot 3 offers one lot of silk skirts described as very attractive with a special price of 22.2 cents.
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