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Christmas will supply the answer for many; charity, especially war charity, will receive much of the Liberty dividend. Others will cash the coupon with the postmaster and immediately hand him back the money, with a request for thrift stamps or war savings stamps. Still others will simply deposit the coupon at the bank and be credited with so much more paid on their second Liberty bonds...
...purchased a brand of long, black cigars, which were not labeled Colorado Claro, and these he did not use sparingly. But think of the utter chaos which would result from Phillips Brooks lighting a cheroot in Phillips Brooks House in the year 1917. No mild reproval or honey-worded request would be tendered him. Forcible ejection would be the only method of treatment. Tobacco is now taboo in Phillips Brooks, and it would be so even in the case of the Bishop. Time doth work many marvellous changes indeed...
...have one request I am going to make you. Please make every one realize that this is a long war if we want to stick to it until we have reached a victorious conclusion. And to make our sacrifices worth while, we must stay in the struggle to the bitter end. It is not we men on the firing line who will win this war. It is you who stay at home, sacrificing comforts and money to feed and clothe us. We are under your orders, and just as long as you hang on, we will fight as well...
...entire net proceeds from the game between the First Maine Heavy Field Artillery and the Informal University football teams on Saturday are to go to the Red Cross. This disposal of the receipts has been determined at the request of the artillerymen, who prefer to have the Red Cross benefited rather than add to their own Regimental Union fund...
...after Monday, October 15th, all men desiring transfers to other companies report same to their company 1st sergeant who will put their request through regular military channels...