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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1918
Page
2
Amid war reporting, Allied offensives yield balloon losses and casualties. Pershing assigns 1,500 troops home. Reports note German front plans, censorship, and vast total war damage in France. Domestic items include lynching, mine workers election results, court appeals, and rail fare disputes alongside peace conference updates.
Arizona reports show Kingman establishes a cactus fiber plant and Black Silver mine installs a reduction facility near Crown King. Copper output for November totals 4,382,736 pounds at Miami and 15,785,001 pounds for Phelps-Dodge with Consolidated Arizona around 1,000,000 pounds monthly. Jerome Red Cross masks revenue tops 1,725.45 while War Savings stamps near 4,972.97. Local incidents include Bowie's E N McCormick killed by steam and a influenza mask order in Douglas after outbreaks.
A message from President Wilson was read in both chambers of the Swedish Riksdag. He expressed satisfaction at the invitation and pledged to promote a peace worthy of Europe through common counsel and a league of nations. He later received a doctorate from the University of Paris and spoke on his honor.
Washington announces home forces demobilization targets at 30 000 daily with seven day average at 27 000. December 14 totals show 29 903 officers and 188 562 men demobilized. War Department reports over 900 000 men slated for early demobilization including 21 000 divisional troops 43 000 engineers and 16 000 aeronautics personnel. Five transports sailing home troops from France were announced.
A Swiss depicts an ultra efficient mother in a single image balancing cradle rocking, fanning, reading, knitting, and singing to a baby. The German dismisses it as impractical and jokes that the figure could be compressing cheese by sitting on it.
A brief note from the Louisville Courier Journal references a returned manuscript amid a light literary exchange. The remark asks about a poem but clarifies the item is a manuscript not poetry.
A satirical note questions land ownership and class conflict with wit about peace talks and farm disputes. It lampoons critics and pretends to test claims of possession while jesting about models and exploded theories in a playful political quip.
American forces, under Col. Robert Bogers, have occupied the Ehrenbreitstein fortress opposite Coblenz. The 100 acre stronghold will serve as regimental headquarters for the First Pioneer Infantry and two Pioneer battalions. Germany hands over large war material to the Third Army, including 760 large caliber guns and nearly 3,090 machine guns.
Judge John H. Denison grants a temporary injunction in district court preventing further liquor deliveries by the American Railway Express Company to holders of permits issued before the dry law took effect.
Reval the Esthonian capital on the Gulf of Finland has been evacuated by German forces. The move signals a strategic withdrawal as Allied or neutral powers observe shifts in control and defense lines around the Baltic region.
The novelist Arnold Bennett denounces publishers and editors as merciless leeches on writers. He compares profiteering from authors to an impresario offering a 40 day fast for free, saying they will cover the writer's keep but no salary.
Advertises Cuticura products for sore hands including Soap and Ointment. Recommends soaking in hot suds, drying, rubbing in Ointment, and removing surplus with tissue. Offers free samples from Cuticura Dept. X Boston and lists Soap and Ointment prices by mail and at druggists.
A humorous exchange questions why congressmen form pairs, suggesting the pairings aim to gain plums. The line contrasts a boy’s curiosity with a father’s wry explanation about political incentives.
The instruction says snap fasteners should always be pressed together using a piece of thin cardboard as a support. This method ensures secure alignment and minimizes material strain during coupling.
A brief notes that some people latch onto a joke and hold it for a long time, a light observational line about human behavior and humor. The item reads like a quirky social aside from a column.
The reader laments constant misery from Acid-Stomach and its daily sufferings. It describes how acid harms health and especially erodes tooth enamel, weakening even the strongest bodies.
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