THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
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HUNS REDUCE WEIGHT
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War diet in Germany has accom- j
plished a greater reduction of the
corpulency of the average German
than all the Marienbad cures, Rus
sian baths and drastic courses of
exercise, reports an Associated Press
correspondent writing from Amster
dam.
Obesity, writes Professor Albu, in j
the Berlin Lokalanzeiger, has dis
appeared to an amazing degree, es
pecially in the urban centers. The
disappearance of excessive flesh has
been more thorough than any medi- j
cal treatment could have effected,
says the professor.
The war diet, he asserts, has been
an education and a cure for many
who had given up all hope. It has
upset medical prognostications that
were once regarded as incontrovert-!
ible.
“I have known people.” says Pro
fessor Albu, “who in two years time
dropped 90 and 100 pounds, so that
their friends scarcely knew them.
They could almost cut up an old
suit and make two new ones out of
the material, without having to
bother about a clothes card.”
The writer then repeats the now
trite remark that "we all eat too
much,” and adds that most corpulent
persons involunarily reduced their
girth without any injury to their
health whatever. He emphasizes the
fact that this attenuation is not due
to , under-nourishment alone. A
very great deal is due, he says, to
unaccustomed bodily exertion and
severe mental strain. Sorrow and
vexation, the thousand-and-one do
mestic worries and troublees caused
by the war tend to prevent the
formation of flesh. People at home
are generally more prone to giving
away to mental worry than the men
in the trenches. Hereditary obesity
he adds, has in no way been cured
by the reduced war diet.
Professor Albu says he has found
a distinct improvement in the state
of health of diabetics, who can now
eat with impunity bread, potatoes
and other foodstuffs that were for
merly taboo to them.
Sufferers from gout have also
benefitted by the reduction in the
meat diet and by the enforced ab
stinence from alcoholic liquors.
Rheumatism, especially of the mus
cles, has also become rarer.
Indigestion has in Professor Albu’s
opinion, certainly improved on the
smaller bill of fare, which has had
a beneficial effect on the activities
of the digestive tract.
All sorts of slight nervous ail
ments, especially among the women,
have disappeared because less at
tention is being paid to them in
these strenuous times.
Of great scientific and practical
value is the discovery that among
the soldiers at the front sundry
nervous affections of the heart,
stomach and intestines have often
completely vanished. The professor
ascribes this to a strictly regular
life in the open air. In the field
as well as at home, especially among
women, flagging nerves have re
ceived a marvelous brace-up.
ARMY PREPARATIONS
To provide for the needs of the
army, the contsruction division of
the War Department has under
taken since April, 1917, a total of
323 operations, and now has in pros
pect 153 more. The total cost of
this program is estimate'’ to be
SI.083,766,198.
To the end of August, 93 opera
tions had been completed, including
the camps and cantonments. The
cost of the finished operations was
8277,745,847. Additions and altera
tions of minor character are not
figured as “jobs."
There are now under construction
266 jobs, which will represent a
cost appriximating $636,858,351.
Practically all of the work now
under construction will be finished
by January 1, 1919. However,,
some of the larger jobs, which are
of a permanent nature, will not be
completed until October, 1919. In
cluded in the present construction
are the development of eight port
terminals at a cost of approximately
$150,000,000. One of these, the
Brooklyn army supply base, esti
mated to cost $40,000,000, will have
the largest warehouses in the world.
The other terminals in the course
of construction are: South Boston,
Mass., which is estimated to cos*.
$28,000,000; New Orleans Lo., $10,
000.000; Charlestown, S. C., $25,
000,000; Norfolk. Ya., $20,000,000:
Philadelphia, Pa.. $15,000,000; New
ark, N. J.. $10,000,000; Newport
News, Ya., about $5,000,000.
Projects now under way include
a large number of ammunition de
pots, quartermaster’s warehouses,
and storage depths in inland cities,
hospitals, ordnance plants, new
training camps, and the enlarging
of other camps to provide accom
mod ations for the increasing army
and the newer methods of training.
The major portion of this class of
work will be finished by January,
1919.
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CAMP OFFICERS
CAMP KEARNEY—Serially num
bered tags were used in keeping
track of draft recruits recently re
ceived here, so that the whereabouts
of each recruit was known at all
times, and each man went through I
the different steps connected with
his induction in their proper order.
The tags were made out for each
man as soon as he arrived here,
being, in fact, the first “paper”
filled out in the recruiting receiv
ing office. One side of the tag bore
a warning to the recruit not to lose
it. On the same side were spaces
marked with the names of each
step in the induction process. On
the other side was the recruit's,
name, home adress, camp assign
ment, camp serial number, and the
number of his local draft board. 1
As each man underwent the various i
processes, a note as to whether he
had passed the required standards
was made on the card. At the end;
the tage was a complete record of i
the man's activities from the time
he arrived until he was accepted as
a soldier or sent home as unfit ]
material.
The tags were retained by the
men until they had undergone the
personnel examination and obtained
their clothes; without them they
could not obtain their food or cloth
ing. When turned in the tags were ;
filed as a record of the supply by
the different draft boards of the j
men demanded of them. Tags show- [
ing rejections formed a record of
the number of replacement men to
be furnished by each draft board.
At the same time the tags were (
given the men, all other papers
needed to complete their army
records were handed them, each with
as much data on it as could be filled
in at that moment. When the re
cruit reached his company street
in the recruiting receiving camp, his
acting first sergeant took these
from him and, under supervision of
a company officer, put a company
staff of non-commissioned officers
and enlisted men to work filling
them out completely Most of the
papers were returned to him when
he started through the physical ex
amination process. All but his per
sonal record, insurance applica
tion and allotment application were
filled out as he progressed through
this examination and were sur
rendered with the papers given him
by his local draft board, at the end
of it. The exceptions were filled
out in later examinations.
OVERHEATED DRUM CAUSE
OE NIGHT EIRE ALARM
The ringing of the fire bell at
the townsite office at about seven
o’clock last night drew the atten
tion of the people who happened
to be within hearing distance, and
for a time the little crowd that had
formed swayed hither and yon, not
knowing where the fire to which
the bell summoned the people, could
be. No blasts of the whistle indi
cating the direction of the fire,
seems to have been heard.
It was soon discovered, however,
that the fire was at the Rust House,
and the crowd quickly made for
the place, only to discover that the
alarm was caused by an overheated
flue that threatened to do damage.
The city chemical responded prompt
ly, but was not used. The Commis
sion chemical also responded, but
was turned back when it had reach
' ed the Nicely House, on upper A
street.
j It would appear that an accumu
lation of creosote ir the stove pipe
at the Rust House caught fire when
the draft was turned on, and the
i pipe, for its entire length, soon got
red hot, and fearing a fire, the
alarm was turned in. No damage
! was caused by fire or water. The
stove pipe cooled off as soon as the
creosote in it had burned out.
Food means first of all Wheat... The
next two months will tell.
AmtRICAN WAYS
CAUSE BRITISHER
SOME SURPRISE
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LONDON. An Englishman writes 1
from Kansas City to a London news
paper to express his surprise because i
Americans are not boasting over the i
achievements of the American sol-'
diers in the war.
Before the Americans began to;
fight he was much impressed by i
evidences'" of great enthusiasm for1
the war and little realization of the ;
sacrifices involved.
“I wondered what would happen j
when the Americans had their first
big affair," he writes. “I antici
pated an unprecedented burst of
patriotism whjch would probably ex
aggerate what had been accomplish
ed by the American troops.
"The German drive started, and
the reports came in of the way the
boys had held the line and stood
firm, and in fact had done all that
their home folks had expected of
them. There seemed to be an omi
nous calm when the news arrived.
I began to look for the uproar, for
the enthusiasm which my previous
experience had led me to expect. 1
"Now come' the enigma. The
calm continued. One man said,
"We're getting a lot of credit. I
wonder if its true.’ Women whom
I had heard again and again making
remarks to the effect that ‘the boys
would show them how to fight,’ were
absolutely subdued. On all sides
people are wearing a quiet smile.
The external enthusiasm seems to
have vanished right into their hearts,
and today the United States is real
izing with quiet pride the seriousness
and tremendous possibilities of the
cause it has undertaken.
"When 1 read in dispatches from
England of the impression the
Americans were making by their
modesty and their quiet way of ac
complishing things, I was inclined
to be skeptical. I am no longer
skeptical. The past few weeks of
the war seem to ha,ve changed every
thing, and I know more of the
United States as a nation than I
could have learned had I lived here
for thirty years of peace time.”
NOTICE
Nenana townsite lots will be
offered for sale at the townsite
office at 11 a. m., October 26th,
28th and 29th, 1918, at public auc
tion.
Anyone desiring a particular lot
put up for sale please notify the
Townsite Manager on or before the
dates named.
H. B. JOSEPH,
Townsite Manager.
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Jist ez de buckwheat cake got
flop over on his fa-~e, lir'er Dacon
rin' dance 'rulin' en say. sezee:—
“One good tu’n desarves en nuth
er.” sezee.—Moanin’ dat ef do
sojer beys go en do do fight'n' fer
us, de leas’ we alls kin do is ter
sen’ ’em all de wheat—en eat
buckwheat instid. Co'n meal, rye
en barley flour fer us will he’p a
lot too.
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SWELLJEAN SUPPLY
VENTURA, Cal.—Beans, tradi
;ionally forming a large part of
;he food of soliders, have received
i fitting war-time attention from the
farmers of \ entura country this
rear. The result is a crop esimated
by Horticultural Commissioner Brock
it 71,000 tons, with a market valua
tion of $12,520,000. Most of the
beans are limas.
Iloney, another crop with a spe
cial war-time significance because
of the use of some of its elements
in munitions making, will approxi
mate 2,000,000 pounds, selling at
$4,000,000, according to County Bee
Inspector Cale.
MEMORIAL SERVICE
TO BE HELD SUNDAY
Dr. Diven announces that a
memorial service in honor of the
Nenana boys who have passed away
in the service of our country, will
be held next Sunday at 2:30 p. m.,
in the Coliseum.
The original plan was to conduct
the service in the church, but
there will certainly be more people
desire to attend the service than
can be comfortably seated in the
church, and the Coliseum manage
ment has kindly granted free use
of the theater for the occasion.
Further notice will follow later in
the week.
Dr. R. R. MYERS
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ARCTIC HOTEL
WANT ADS
WANTED—Two or Three con
genial fellows to occupy 4-room
residence with me. Kitchen fa
cilities if desired. See Slippern
FOR SALE—Panoramic views of
the town of Nenana in 1916 and
1917; taken by Johnson, of Fair
banks, from hill overlooking the
town. Apply at News office.
FOR SALE, CHEAP—Large tank
heater and pipe drum; flush toilet,
good as new; also sink. Inquire
Simson’s.
WANTED—Woodchoppers to cut
four-foot wood at Vachon's, Tolo
! vana. 0-19
' FOR RENT—Upstairs residence,
four rooms furnished. See Slippern
PIANOS- For Rent and Sale. Sim
j son’s.
WANTED Reliable party to rent
or manage Central Lodging House.
Inquire on premises. O-'Jl
; FOR SALE—Small heater. Cheap.
Inquire News office.
FOR RENT—Four-room unfurnished
cabin, hot and cold water con
nections. Inquire Waechter Bros.
Market.
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