Lex Anteinternet: September 5, 1917. The draftees begin to report

Tuesday, September 5, 2017

September 5, 1917. The draftees begin to report

September 5, 1917, was a big day for a lot of younger men as they began to leave their homes to report to Army training camps. Eleven, we learn from the Casper paper, were leaving booming Casper.

And 35 were leaving from much larger Cheyenne, whose paper was also reporting that the Japanese were mustering to come to the aid of the Russians.

In the university town of Laramie the paper reported on the total numbers of the first contingent of draftees in its headlines, 34,450.

There would be a lot more following.

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