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Newspaper
Advance Hustler
Location
Advance, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1918
Page
6
An account by a German engineer officer describes the invasion of Belgium, rapid advance into France, and the brutal artillery and trench fighting near Vitry le Francois and Neufchateau. He recalls a night of relentless shelling, shattered wounded, no medical aid, and moral collapse amid No Man's Land.
In a dawn attack at 4 15 A M German forces go over the top into a French barrage under rain. They suffer heavy casualties retreating while the French shell trenches, three meters from the German line, before both sides suffer losses in a two hour back and forth. Hunger thirst exposure and exhaustion add to the dire situation as calls for relief grow urgent.
The French stop the Prussian advance on days two and three of the Marne clash and the German line buckles under French assaults as a fierce struggle for a German battery unfolds in the next installment.
In Henry S. Canby’s Atlantic reflection a contrast emerges between the rigid self image of Americans and their appetite for sentimental reading. The piece notes English crime laws against spoilage and frost on potatoes, illustrating themes of practicality versus sentiment in modern society.
Brig. Gen. James G. Harbord, temporarily commanding the marines teaching Germans in France, is a proven fighter who rose from private to general. Born in Illinois, he and Pershing led American forces in Mexico and France, later serving as chief of staff before taking marine command at the front.
Justin Godart, Lyon parliament member and former secretary of state for the sanitary service, arrived in the United States to relay France’s gratitude to the Red Cross and YMCA. A lawyer by training, he led labor reforms, joined WWI as a hospital orderly, organized medical service on multiple fronts, visited front-line posts daily, and earned the war cross at Craonne in July 1917.
Capt Franz von Rintelen alias Hansen Gasche Gates led the German bomb plotters in the United States. Reports say he posed as Duke Adolph of Mecklenburg Schwerin in England years earlier and may have kinship with the emperor. He and ten others were convicted in New York and sentenced to Atlanta for attempting to blow up ships and fined. His wife, a Berlin social figure, is linked to Berlin society and the Red Cross.
Truman Handy Newberry, Detroit businessman and former assistant secretary of the navy, serves as lieutenant commander in the U S naval reserve. He works long hours at 280 Broadway New York as principal assistant to the district commander Usher, overseeing naval reserve forces from Barnegat to New London and north to Lake Erie with the New York port and navy yard in his remit. He has hardly left New York in the year plus on duty, aside from a single inspection trip.
Mrs. Alice Heller of Christopher Illinois reports four years of irregularities weakness and nervousness ended after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She says she is no longer nervous regular and in excellent health. The advertisement urges other women to try the remedy and contact Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. Lynn Massachusetts for guidance.
Ford owners are urged to use Ever-Tight Piston Rings to clean carbon, restore compression, and boost engine speed. The ad promises fuel savings, a six month payback, and a money back guarantee, with sets for engines, tractors, and gas motors at $8 per set. Written from The Ever-Tight Piston Ring Company, Department F, St. Louis Missouri.
A dialogue from the Boston Evening Transcript shows a positive girl rejecting commitment while he questions a syndicate offer as a test of possible future relations.
Soap and ointment offer soothing relief for burning or irritated skin. Bathe with Cuticura Soap and hot water, dry gently, then apply Cuticura Ointment. Free samples available by mail from Cuticura, Dept Boston. Soap 25, Ointment 25 and 50 cents.
The Montgomery County Historical Society forms a committee to relocate an 1734 Horsham grist and sawmill to Elmwood Park Norristown. Miss Mary Iredell donated the mill, with Norristown council agreeing the borough will maintain it at the park near Stony Creek. The project seeks to display pioneer flour grinding and lumber sawing and plans to bring the large driving wheel turbine wheel and cob crusher.
Rural Owensville suffers phone outages as volunteers at the Red Cross replace calls. Residents report busy lines while neighbors explain they are out soliciting, at the Red Cross workshop, or helping with hay.
Dialogue between Mrs Flatbush and Mrs Bensonhurst on soil ownership and boots. The exchange notes 7 percent soil possession and argues men in the country carry soil on boots more often than others. The quote satirizes land ownership and labor patterns with a humorous regional twist.
A playful fragment depicts a firefly calling itself a slacker and an ant insisting on rising early, hinting at a comic exchange about chores and wake times. The brief vignette centers on a light humor dynamic between insect characters.
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