Louis Krato letter to Dr. Henry Milton Whelpley - October 14, 1918
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[October] 14, 1918 [Henry Milton] Whelpley St, Louis [Missouri] Dear Sir: - your letter at hand and in it a request to the sending of the Meyer [Brothers] Druggist to my new address. I am only to glad to receive the Meyer [Brothers] Druggist while at camp. As it reminds me of St. Louis and again a fine companion among us boys. We are eagerly awaiting our turn to see & read the contents. Not only the men in the Dispensary but some from the Receiving Ward. My sergeant and the head man in the Dispensary Sergt. Thomas Binz a member of the A. Ph. A. absorbs the price list with pleasure and not only it but turns from cover to cover to find points in this profession
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Corp J.W. Davis formerly a salesman for the Meyer [Brothers] Drug Co. comes to visit us and seeing the Druggist has nothing to say to us but read the contents of the journal with pleasure as tho it were a story book. As I was in Sect. A, one day I walked down the road to go to the canteen. While just across the road where the Infirmary is located I was halted by a guard. Accidently I looked around & to my surprise saw A. Florian Ph. G. my fellow graduate of the St. Louis College of Pharmacy, attending to something in the Red Cross Ambulance. Spying him I told the gaurd I was going to the Infirmary for Medicine. So Pvt Florian & I met I asked him for some pills in case I was halted again. Now as I heard he is in infirmary #3.
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Pvt. Schniermeyer a Junior of the College is now at work in Ward #5. Pvt. A. E. Erdsieck who was in the Dispensary about a month is now Over there & I am his successor at the Dispensatory. Working in the Dispensary and the National Dispensatory I have with me Prof Caspari my former Instructor in Chemistry, tho I am far from home & the College I can appreciate his company in the Dispensatory & its works. By reading the Druggist and trying to make friends with it, I have our Dean of the College their represented. A young lad one day, learning I was a druggist & also knew some chemistry, asked whether they needed any chemists in the laboratory. Questioning him & getting
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into a conversation he tried to tell me that “Potash” was “a salt of Potassium” I told him they were one element but he could not see it. Thanks to the College for at least teaching us not to make such a small error on an element whose salts & compounds are used daily. He ought to attend Dr. Caspari’s Quiz hours and find out this mistake & learn a lesson. The metric system is entirely used throughout the Base hospital here in the prescription line & in the army. It is one great help that it was taught & preached to us to learn it & learn it thoroughly. Coming to the end of my letter and news all gone I will close. Hoping the college will be a success this year as it was last term. And the Senior class graduate
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with honors as the class of 1918. Long may “Our Alma Mater Live.” Success & prosperity to the college in its new term. Sincerely yours, Louis Krato Ph.G. Pvt. Louis Krato, c/o Base Hosp. Dispensary Camp MacArthur, Waco, [Texas]
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| Title | Louis Krato letter to Dr. Henry Milton Whelpley - October 14, 1918 |
| Creator | Krato, Louis |
| Source | Krato, Louis. Letter to Dr. Henry Milton Whelpley. 14 October 1918. Dr. Henry Milton Whelpley Collection, 1826-1929. A1737. Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, Missouri. |
| Description | Louis Krato sent this letter to Dr. Henry Milton Whelpley. Dr. Whelpley was the dean of the St. Louis College of Pharmacy and editor of the Meyer Brothers Druggist magazine. In this letter, Krato described life in the camp and mentioned the other students from the college that served with him. This letter was written on Y.M.C.A. letterhead. |
| Subject LCSH | World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1914-1918--War Work--Red Cross; Camp MacArthur (Tex.) |
| Subject Local | WWI; World War I |
| Site Accession Number | A1737 |
| Contributing Institution | Missouri History Museum |
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| Date Original | October 14, 1918 |
| Language | English |