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Newspaper
Andrews News
Location
Andrews, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1918
Page
4
An editorial urges voters to study candidates before the First Primary and vote honestly in August for the good of the state. It notes a government order about cracked ice, jokes about wartime hardship, rural mail reliability, spontaneous party uprisings, and a jab at college students joining productive work this summer.
The piece warns that espionage remains active despite the espionage act. It cites a sunk ship survivor reporting a submarine near New York with nightly wireless signals and notes German agents in Atlantic towns. It urges loyalty, vigilance, and reporting of suspicious activity to aid war effort.
A Holstein calf sells for 106000 dollars drawing attention to the auction buzz. The buyer reportedly seeks to keep the calf indoors while others work in the barn, a plan reflecting early dairy farm practices.
The piece describes historical methods to tell time using a knotted wick from China and Japan, a glass oil lamp used by Philipp II of Spain with marked scales from four PM to eight AM, and a 12 inch candle reportedly used by King Alfred with three inches burn per hour.
A notable specimen of self-watering plants is the water barrel, about the size and shape of a beer keg. It is actually an inner living water tank with storage cells arranged so the pulp forms about 96 percent water.
A humorous Farm Life vignette describes a man eating celery and dry toast in a hotel within a hospital zone. A waiter taps him to note the location and request quiet.
A western poet mocks a male observer who admires a pretty woman with a stark line about a tear drop petrified by its own audacity. He declares such imagination unfit for poetry and suggests selling ice instead.
A pithy maxim from the Boston Transcript states that a joke you tell yourself is always a good one, reflecting a meta view on humor and self amusement.
The passage notes whistling as a good omen and singing as a release of emotion, uplifting service and celebration. It then portrays Mobile as a typical Southern city with a lazy climate, green trees, and ships from the West Indies, favoring commercial growth. It ends with a comparison of hog necks, describing their strength for rooting in the ground.
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