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Newspaper
Bedford Free Press
Location
Bedford, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1918
Page
8
Italy faces mounting war costs with expenditures soaring to about 10 million dollars daily. Prices rise as middlemen hoard and corner markets, while few arrests fail to curb profiteering. Public impatience grows amid risk of unrest and weakened national resolve.
Birmingham, Alabama report shows J. P. Baggs, father of H. T. Baggs who died aboard the Cyclops, speaking before a draft board and revealing he is a skilled mechanic. He expressed a desire to serve his country and was sent to a U S shipyard after the investigation.
Wichita figures the Kansas Woman's Christian Temperance Union will erect a drinking fountain near Union Station as a tribute to Carrie Nation. The State association voted 1009 dollars for the project and the city will maintain the water supply. Nation began her movement in this city nine yards ago. Liberty Day baby born to Mr and Mrs W Moore, weighing nine pounds.
A British airman in France fought off a German pursuit after his weapon jammed. He expertly rammed the German craft with his undercarriage, sending both planes into a tailspin. He regained control, landed without a proper undercarriage, and was greeted by comrades with relief and praise.
Survivors recount a U boat attack near Barnegat and Cape May as ships Winnetcoane and Isabel B Wiley were sunk with crew fleeing in boats. Captain Sweeney and Captain Newcombe describe encounters with German submarines, lifeboat rescues, and a late harrowing escape toward the New Jersey shore with the Bristol coal carrier aiding survivors.
Irwin White, son of Mr. and Mrs. John F. P. White, formerly of Knoxville and now in Moulton Alabama, is a thirteen year old corporal in the infantry and perhaps the youngest enlisted man in the United States Army. He enlisted about eight months ago, stands five feet ten inches tall and weighs 175 pounds, with remarkable development and strong patriotism.
The narrator recalls meeting a second U-boat after leaving the Gristol, with the first vessel sinking the Cole and the new submarine only 500 yards away. The crew feared shelling but resolved to press the fight, sending six men to assist as they prepared to challenge the enemy.
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