Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1919 — WAR DOGS AND CATS NEEDED [ARTICLE]

WAR DOGS AND CATS NEEDED

Bureau of Mines Can Use Great Numbers for Experiments With Gas Masks. If you raised Fido to be a hero send him to the bureau of mines. And If there is a tom eat about the premises who shows signs of heroic qualities send him along, too. The bureau of mines is anxious to get canine and feline heroes right now. They can be devoted to a very useful purpose, one that may be the means of saving the lives of hundreds of American soldiers. The bureau is using cats and dogs in experiments with gas masks that will be supplied to American soldiers at'the front. Hundreds of animals can be used and the bureau recently sent out a call for more of them. In each case, the animals are shipped at government expense. The Yale Medical School at New Haven also is conducting experiments with gas masks and can use almost any number of dogs and cats.