During my recent visit to the Kautz Family YMCA Archives at the University of Minnesota, I was amazed to find that the archives had a collection of Camp Devens newspapers from 1917-1918.
On this date, one hundred years ago, my grandfather would have sat down to read a copy of this Trench and Camp newspaper June 12, 1918 edition, hot off the press:
Some examples of what Jay and the doughboys would have found in Trench and Camp:
Greeting the new guy in town
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Early version of Duolingo?
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In case you didn’t get it right in the training session.
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Un peu de culture.
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A warning
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Something funny
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And a gentle reminder
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Jay in the Great War 