economia

Updated: June 11, 2025

Here and there in the Economia embarkation camp those days and nightless nights in early June many a secret conclave of doughboys was held to devise ways and means of getting their Russian mascots aboard ship. Of these boys and youths they had become fond. They wanted to see them in "civvies" in America and the mascots were anxiously waiting the outcome at the gangplank.

Lewis E. Jahns - The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki: Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919

"At The Earliest Possible Date" Work Of Detroit's Own Welfare Association "Getting The Troops Out Of Russia" We Assemble At Economia Delousers And Ball Games War Mascots War Brides Remarkable Memorial Day Service In American Military Cemetery In Archangel Tribute To Our Comrades Who Could Not Go Home Our Honored Dead.

Lewis E. Jahns - The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki: Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919

But it was not the institutional service such as the Hostess House or the Huts or the box car canteen, such as it was, which endeared the "Y" girls to the doughboys as a lot. It was the genuine womanly friendliness of those girls. The writer will never forget the scene at Archangel when the American soldiers left for Economia where the ship was to take them to America.

Lewis E. Jahns - The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki: Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919