DRAFT DILEMMAS In the Army deferment humor era
A humorous look at WWI selective service drafts and deferments. Citizens from coast to coast mail in clever pleas, soldiers improvise to ease rations, and camp life antics like dogs spotting secrets at Fort Stevens reveal morale and comic relief amid preparations.
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Uncle Sam
Selective Service Board
249Th Coast Artillery
Fort Stevens
Oregon
Mike
Fort Bliss
206Th Coast Artillery
Arkansas
el Paso
Stanley M. Gates
Louisville
Hiram
Draft Board
Draft board tales in the war era from mistaken knocks and mates
A comic slice from the draft era shows misread medicals and clever ruses. A San Jose relative sells a car for 250 while Iowa farm boys teach poker. A draftee with a glass eye passes medicals. another with a wooden leg surprises the commander.
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San Jose
California
Iowa
Chicago
James Brown
Brown
Bomber Tire Change Stirs Fort Worth Airport Crew
Airport workers succeeded in changing a tire on a 15 ton bomber for Great Britain using two house moving jacks and railroad ties. The plane was damaged on landing but the pilot avoided harm and prepared for a San Diego tire swap. A second bomber arrived Saturday and the tire was replaced Sunday. Mothers milk is now frozen for better storage up to a year.
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Fort Worth
Great Britain
San Diego
Fuller
Jacks
Suggestions for handling tomato plants at College Station
College Station notes from J F Rosborough extension horticulturist Texas A and M College on transplanting tomato plants. Covers should stay off frames when temperatures exceed 40 degrees and watering should be reduced to slow growth and harden the plants.
Transplanting tomatoes and pest control tips
Advice to plant seedlings in early morning, mound soil, and set rows five to six feet apart with two to three foot plant spacing. Treat cutworm with bran mash poison at dusk and side dress with nitrate of soda if April is wet and cool. Includes a humorous exchange about marriage and engagements.
Diplomacy Office Boy FacesTelephone Misfire
A humor piece depicts an office boy nervously hinting the boss is needed on the line. The employer scoffs at thinking and is told the caller asks for him in crude terms. The exchange highlights workplace tension and miscommunication in a comic tone.
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Tom Simmons
Dallas News
Brooklyn
Omaha
Pittsburgh
Tampa
P. S
New York
Miami
His
Is Smith
Draft Headquarters
Smith
John Smith
Dziengielewski
Gosciewski
Jakubiec
Carl Strobel
Philadelphia
Camp Lee
Virginia
Strobel
Ralph J. Recano
New Britain
Conn
Reeves
A. Y. Creager Co
M. & P. Bank Buildingerman
Texas
Banking House
Federal Reserve Bank
U. S. Securities
CCC Cotton Loans
The
First National Bank
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Good Housekeeping Magazine
Chatter
Yeager’s Service Station
Texaco
Texaco Indian
Texaco Motor Oil
Havoline
Sinclair Motor Oil
Willard Batteries
Stephens & Bryant Insurance — Real Estate
Nat'l Bank
Whitewright
Webster's Dictionary
Atlas OF the World
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