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Show SWEETS 10 BE SENT TROOPERS Quartermaster Requisitioned for 5,000 Pounds of Candy as Part of Food Ration. El Paso, Texas, April 6. Tho sweet tooth developed by tho American ex- podltlonary force in Mexico is to be gratified. i The quartermaster's dopot here to- day received from the. field quarter-'. quarter-'. master at Casas Grandes a requisition I for 2,000 pounds of chocolate candy and 3,000 pounds of stick candy. The local quartermaster at once - took steps to rush tho order through. , Candy is not regarded in tho army as a luxury, but as a food which will be doubly appreciated by the hard riding troopers after days and days of subsistence on nothing but hard tack and bacon. |