Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 270, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1918 — FIRST TO ENTER ST. MIHIEL [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FIRST TO ENTER ST. MIHIEL

Corporal Herman Boer was the first American to enter St. Mlhlel. Corporal Boer was formerly an engineer at the St Francis hospital In San Francisco. He is a native of Germany and came to San Francisco from that country 15 years ago.- He became a citizen and was well past the draft age when the war-broke out He.enlisted and was sent over with the first American volunteer forces to go •broad.