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Newspaper
Advance Hustler
Location
Advance, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1918
Page
6
A wartime editorial urges sweeping labor mobilization to grow food. It proposes drafting all 18 to 21 year olds, the exempted, and idle men, placing a million workers with farmers to avert famine. The piece warns Americans sleep through crises and stresses immediate action to plant, cultivate, and harvest.
Camp Lee Virginia officials consider allowing Paul Bergison to join the division in Milton Bergison's place. The appeal asks to report within two weeks. Milton Bergison, a Pittsburgh draftee, died at the camp recently.
The story recounts a French unknown soldier of the 79th Infantry who, with a pipe in his mouth, fired on Germans at Saint Exypre heights near Lunéville on August 26, 1914. He was killed in action, buried on the ridge, and the ministry of war issued a citation in his name after failing to identify him.
Sergeant Francis T. Fraser of The Black Watch single handedly captured 17 Germans during the Sanctuary Wood battle near Ypres. He went undeterred after losing his rifle, bombed a dugout, and forced surrender as enemies exclaimed Kamerad. Duke of Devonshire awarded the DCM, praising the act as deserving more.
Bartlesville Oklahoma jailers under sheriff and deputy sheriff organize a war garden to supply peas beans radishes onions and other vegetables for the prison table with rotating duties in tending the plot.
The Fairbanks house in Dedham Massachusetts built in 1686 remains the nation's oldest frame house. Oak timbers quarried in England circa 1635 support the structure while bricks arrived as ballast. The Fairbanks family gathered there for a reunion after arriving from Sowerby Yorkshire in 1623. Motor cycles and bicycles gain popularity in Siam.
Adachi Kinno suke in the New York Tribune described Feng Kwochang as an interrogation point for Chinese politics amid a tumultuous presidency. He rose from petty officer to head of the Peers' Military academy and Imperial Guards, one of Yuan Shih kai’s four pillars, later involved in the emperor’s abdication plan.
The text portrays Thomas Staples Martin of Virginia as the powerful Senate majority leader who effectively controls both chambers. Though small in stature and not a frequent orator, his influence is felt in guiding administration legislation and bending recalcitrant members, while his public presence on the floor is minimal yet decisive.
Mrs. Benjamin Cram of Baltimore and New York reports a Franco American exchange market to link American and French goods under the Travidl Franco-Americain. The effort aims to aid penniless war victims and boost U S France trade, with patrons in Paris and an American committee to organize the French Crafts society.
The article portrays Count Czernin’s resignation and Baron Burian as a pliant successor under the Kaiser. It labels Burian Magyar by birth with a noble title, describes him as graceless, deaf, and lip reading skilled, and claims he lacks initiative. It depicts Tisza and Burian as representatives of reactionary despotism and Hohenzollern tyranny.
Mrs. Frank Fitzgerald of West Philadelphia credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring her health after 30 years of marriage and repeated nervous prostration. The letter urges other women with nervousness backache and headaches to try the product and seek guidance from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
A Methodist missionary quizzes a woodcutter about a dangerous Oregon slough. The boy says the bottom is good and hard, but the man sinks after crossing. The tale, from the Methodist Centennial Bulletin, illustrates truth and perception.
A doctor assures a wife that her husband will recover quickly so he can return to work and settle the medical bill, highlighting the finance motive behind medical care. The exchange ends with the wife and the M D agreeing the faster he heals the sooner the bill is paid.
The report notes Perkins travels solo on hunting trips and insists on carrying a gun during outings.
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