Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 262, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1917 — WANTS TO SHINE SHOES FOR PERSHING’S ARMY [ARTICLE]

WANTS TO SHINE SHOES FOR PERSHING’S ARMY

Ptieblo, Colo.—Thomas Price, twenty-seven, a legless bootblack here, wants the job of shining shoes for General Pershing’s Sammies “over there.” His crippled condition prevents him from entering the army, so he has written President Wilson, requesting that he be given a chance to “do his bit.” “I am told that soldiers have to keep their boots polished/’ wrote Price, who conducts a shoe-shining parlor here, „ “and that they have to do lt themselves. If you can make a place for me to do the shining for them ! UonT fhlnk you’ll find me loafing on the job.”