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VICTOR LIBERTY LOAN WILL BE NEEDED TO REBUILD GALLANT AMERICAN SOLDIERS L opyrignt Underwood Underwood N Y ARTIFICIAL LEGS FOR SOLDIERS MAILED TO ENABLE THF1M TO EARN A LIVING The soldier who lost a leg over there need not wrorry about being able to work for the government fits him out with an artificial leg And soon he is walking about as before The above shows a man being fitted for an artificial leg Reconstruction is one of the great items for which the country is spend ing money now Spending It gladly and with the aid of the best surgeons It is not the reconstruction for which devastated France plans It is reconstruction rehabilitation so far as it can be wrought out of the galiant American soldiers returning early wounded and broken from doing their share in the great war One feels after a tour of one of the military hospitals that he has been permitted a visit to a divine work shop where men are fashioned in parts put together and taught to function It is done with safest skill When it is accomplished out of this hospital walks a man who was a machinist before his legs
Soldier Newspapers Are Important Factors In Keeping Up Morale of Our Fighting Men ill S j G 1 HEAVY TANK 1 VT PRODUCTION i XSS I I XrWr V wwCf 7 V W V7 Ms A _ II By ELMO SCOTT WATSON Released by Western Newspaper Union THERES an old saying that if two men meet anywhere in the world and one of them is an Englishman the chances are hell suggest they start a club If thats true then its equally true that when any unit of the American army larger than a squad arrives at a new post be it on home or foreign soil one of the first things the soldiers do is to start their own newspaper This seems to apply to the fighting fronts as well for soon after the American forces in Sicily had captured the town of Vittoria a onepage sheet called the Dough boy News made its appearance As a matter of fact the News is a transplanted soldier newspaper It is published by and for the men of the 45th di vision of the United States Sev enth army and it was started while the 45th was in training at Pine
Includes rosters of officers and enlisted men, 1861-1866. Vol. 9 contains reprint of Gen. I.H. Elliott's Record of Illinois soldiers in Black Hawk and Mexican wars, and record of Illinois soldiers in Spanish-American war (issued also separately) Also available in digital form.
THE VETERANS POLL TAX In the Maine House Feb 7th on motion of Mr Skidmore of Liberty an act to amend Chapter 163 Public Laws ot 1905 relating to the exemption of soldiers and sailors from poll tax was taken from the table Mr Skidmore then addressed the House rs follows Mr Speaker in tabling this bill my purpose was to call the attention of the members of the House to the fact that this bill was treading ou dangerous ground that it created a class legisla tion that is it relieved from taxation a certain portion of onr people who were well able to pay The law relat ing to a poll tax by some is considered to be absurd and wholly wrong but as for me I do not think so It gives to those w ho are young and just coming on the held of action and who have not had the privilege that others have had to acquire property ou which to be taxed a better and more thorough knowledge of the plan and conditions of government Now there is a law on the statute books which this law calls attention to which exempted all soldiers
AT VALLEY EORGE Dedication of Memorial Tablet to Maine Soldiers Valley Forge Pa Oct 17 In i the presence of a large assemblage of men prominent in Maine and Pennsyl t vania a monument to the memories of soldiers from the State of Maine who were at Valley Forge in the winter of 17771778 wasunveiled this afternoon at the historic camp George E Fellows president of the Maine Society of the Sons of the American Revolution presided at the exercises Governor Cobb of Maine presented the monument to the Valley Forge Park commission and it was accepted by W H Sayen a member of the com mission Gov Cobb spoke as follows Mr President Ladies and Gentlemen The whole country owes a debt of gratitude to the men and women who justly proud of their ancestry have done so much to perpetuate the deeds and memories of those who participat ed in the struggle for independence and constitutional liberty in America A definite motive inspired the great commonwealth upon whose soil we stand today and whose guests in a sense we are to set aside to care for and to consecrate forever to a reverent patriotism this hallowed and historic
The Queen of the Kennebec i Or The Last of The Wampanoags BY FRANK W GOWEN NO 11 Arnold was true to bis word and over took Morgan at Indian Old Point in Nor ridgewock Here he found the river for a mile or two ahead so broken into rapids that it was necessary to land all his boats baggage and stores and transport the same along th banks of the river This was a doubly hard task for his sol diers as trees and bushes had to be cut down and cleared away to effect a pas j sage for the army The trials and hard j ships of the brave and hardy soldiers had begun in good earnest but Arnold was j everywhere present now with the rear division of his struggling army giving orders right and left to the officers then jumping into hiscanoe he shoots forward like a deer and when he comes in sight of Morgans toiling soldiers far in advance of the main army they send up a hearty cheer for their brave and daring leader who knows no fear Night overtakes him but this brave man rests not Sit ting before a big
NO NEED TO WORRY Despite Croakers Human Race Is Not Deteriorating Facts Brought Out by the War Show That Men Today Are as Strong Physically and Morally as Ever in History The big avernge height of the men dratted into the United States army is being widely commented upon in the press and it appears that the facts Justify the favorable remarks being made observes the Montreal Gazette Records of the quartermasters office show that the Americans who are donning the army uniform today are bigger than the men who fought in former wars The size most in demand for the standard army shoe in the past was 7E while the average size of the marching shoe today is SV2 D and that of the field or trench shoe 9E Two styles are issued for it has been found by experiment that soldiers require a larger shoe for the trenches it being necessary to wear two pairs of socks at a time in cold and wet weather Similarly the presentday American soldier has to be provided with a size larger than his predecessor in coats shirts and breeches He is a bigger man all round which is decidedly sat isfactory
The Browning Chief Entered as 2nd class matter July IS 1931 at the pastoffice at Browning Montana under act of March 3 IS7S Subscription 200 year tn advance Mis Annie Duncan Owner A weekly newspaper published every Friday at Browning Glacier County Montana Germans and Generals General Waveils recent choice of the worlds halfdozen great est generals is particularly inter esting because it does not in clude the name of a single Ger man of the last hundred years in spite of the fact that this emi nent British soldier recognizes that modern Germany is probably the greatest militarist power known General Wuvell places the American Robert E Lee on a level with Napoleon though re garding him as rather more of a gentleman than the celebrated Corsican adding also the names of Frederick the Great of Prussia and the Duke of Wellington Leading these four in General Wavells opinion are the two greatest soldiers the world has yet seenWinston Cnurchills ancestor the Duke of Marlbor ough and the famous Byzantine Belisarius The reason for the omission of modern German generals like Ludendorff is that German vic tories are characteristically the result of close organized staff work and that no