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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1918
Page
11
A personal wartime letter from Pvt Ralph Johnson of the 168th Field Hospital describes nine months overseas in France. He writes from A E F France via New York, sending regards to his family and expressing hope they are well.
The Nebraska State Board of Agriculture confirms the state fair will go on this year with a larger attendance expected. It promises bigger amusements, more varied exhibits, and a national service campaign to boost food production and resource conservation. A brief note adds a new baby arrival in the Jefferson household.
Ralph Johnson of Alliance writes from somewhere in France on July 2 1918 to his parents describing a short rest in real billets behind the lines after fighting. He notes letters and a cablegram, mentions friends, daily duties, gas training, tobacco supply, and hopes for furlough, with reflections on weather travel and a desire to stay safe until homecoming.
An old plea for daily hot water with limestone phosphate to cleanse the stomach liver kidneys and bowels. It claims improved appetite brighter cheeks and overall vitality after regularly flushing internal toxins with a small drugstore quantity.
Samuel Cole recalls early hunting along Boonville Missouri. He describes killing five bears near the town site, twenty two bears in three days, four elk in under an hour, and thirty deer sighted in a single night. He notes stalking method using a red handkerchief to lure deer. The account is drawn from Missourians of One Hundred Years Ago by Walter B. Stevens.
In Dauphine Alsace a World War Sunday School booklet saved French soldier Eugene Durnall when a machine gun bullet glanced off a tree and tore into the Testament worn on his chest. The Testament had been given during the 1917 Alsace campaign as part of a 1,200,000 distribution by Bible agencies.
The Bulletin des Armees records wartime nicknames used by Germans and French for weapons gear and troops. Terms include the 420 mm gun called Big Bertha and machine gun stottertante, as well as the organ of death and tulip for casque.
Monthly per capita intake shows United States surpassing European nations in wheat meat fat and sugar. Germans in 1916-17 had sugar rations about one tenth of U S levels and meat consumption far below. France with a modestly higher diet than Germany still had only 1.1 pounds of sugar per person per month versus 7.4 in the United States. England, though commonly a
The Herald notes many readers use want ads to buy sell or locate items and even seek reliable partners through classified columns. Ads show broad community use for finding goods services and lost belongings.
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