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Show BROOKS APPOINTED SPECIAL ENROLLING AGENT. In the window of the Milford Pharmacy Phar-macy on Main street, there is displayed dis-played a double page advertisement from a current issue of a great national na-tional weekly that brings the war on the sea directly home to this section, and to the store where the advertisement adver-tisement appears. The proprietor of the store has a personal interest in the advertisement also, for it relates re-lates to war work that he is doing for the government. Furthermore, ho helped pay for it and the cost of the ad. for a single issue was $ln,-000. $ln,-000. The advertisement asks for 50,000 men between 21 and 30, for service in the new merchant marine. in the language of its headline, it offers of-fers "50,000 Jobs at sea" to clean-cut clean-cut young Americana. It states that the L". S. shipping board will give I ihem special training before putting them into actual sea service, carry- ; ing supplies to our armies and the al- ; lies in the fighting fields ot Europe. So much importance is attached to 1 this work that men accepted for It j are exempted from a call to military ! duty. The advertisement relates further that the "Rexall Stores throughout the United States, nearly 7.000 or them, have been designated by iv i government as enrolling stations for! the U. S. shipping board." The personal interest of Mr. Brooks, in common with other Rexall Rex-all druggists, in this striking war announcement an-nouncement is contained in the concluding con-cluding words of the advertisement, which are: "This use of the stores and the expense of this advertisement advertise-ment are a contribution by the Rex- ; all Stores to the cause of liberty." j |