World War I 100 Years Ago: Jan. 16-23

From The Indianapolis News, Monday, January 18, 1915: The Charles C. Carr Co, 146 N. Pennsylvania, has received a contract for a big supply of wool socks for one of the armies engaged in the European war. The socks are of heavy dark oxford gray material and considerably longer than ordinary half socks. The order is to be delivered at the rate of 1,000 dozen pairs a week till next May, put up in bundles of one dozen pairs each with 60 dozen in a case.  The first shipment is to be made January 20. The company is putting in additional machinery to meet the provisions of the contract and to care for the usual orders. The contract stipulates that the name of the country for which the socks are being made should not be divulged.