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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1918
Page
6
A World War I dispatch recounts an American general delivering beefsteak onions and smokes to wounded soldiers at a French hospital. Amid the pain, moral courage shines as a Pennsylvanian asks for relief and a Kentuckian dies after signaling to a nurse for water.
Sergeant Tramel reports the week ending July 29 saw a list of new Army recruits from the Alliance station headed to Fort Logan Colorado. Names include Leroy Brewer Charles Giles Fred J Peacock Melvin J McCluskey Omro Hoffman Carlton W Shively Edmond Habeggar Harold Davis William E Blacksher Frank Huston Lynn O Layman. Huston to Fort Riley for cooks and bakers school weighed 227 pounds and 72 inches tall. expected to graduate as an instructor earning 96 dollars monthly.
An American Lafayette squadron member crashes behind enemy lines and meets a British commander. He jokes he spread petrol on the grass plot after greeting the officer. The piece combines a WWI poem about home and sacrifice with a humorous war anecdote from London Tit-Bits.
A Maryland Rock Point tale explains how the osprey and eagle form a two bird alliance. The fish hawk catches fish for both, while the eagle guards the nest and attacks rivals from above. On sunny days the silver fish gleams in the osprey's talons as the two birds maneuver over the Potomac.
War disruptions push Argentina to secure aluminum sulphate for water clarification. Once imported from Germany, supply is tight and prices range from 120 to 185 dollars per ton. A government-approved plant to produce it from native kaolin costs 188000 dollars, with estimated production costs around 26 dollars per ton and potential reductions if sulfuric acid normalizes.
An English officer on a wartime mission in a French town buys butter vegetables and fish but ruins his status as a native speaker by saying Vois sayez c est pour la messe to a clerk. The phrase about mass confuses the young woman and likely astonishes her.
A National Museum Washington exhibit shows meteorites of all sizes from tiny pebbles to giant masses. Among the pieces are casts of forms like Bacubirito, estimated at 25 tons and still at the impact site in Mexico.
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