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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1918
Page
5
A reflective verse marks the Old Year’s passing at the hearth and a soldier Dale’s New Year of longing. A bustling camp scene follows with letters found and a precious missive from Winnie rekindling love, as boxes, cakes, and gifts pass amid revelry and reunion hopes.
In France Dale Webster and Roy Bartley share wartime camaraderie on New Year’s Eve. Webster narrates a tale of a captured skulk, overdue mail, and a missing letter to Winnie Trask. A dugout anecdote reveals Webster once found a bear in a pit during their perilous frontline days.
The text contrasts Aesop and Mark Twain on mental attitude. It cites Aesop’s line about small minds and concert and Twain’s critique of showy self-importance in a Sunday school superintendent. It describes the urge to be in the spotlight as insect authority and a substitute for inner self-control.
A vintage note describes a winter chapeau designed to offset short stature with high heels and a tall hat. It highlights black velvet piled with a white wing mounting along the front as an artful, stylish solution for the petite figure.
The article details American Red Cross activities in England France and Italy. It notes the Salibury Salisbury hospital farm at Salisbury England, wartime care for wounded soldiers at Dartford, and Christmas roll calls in hospitals. It highlights Belgian Queen Elizabth aid, the Queen's Purse fund, Red Cross support for orphans in Veront Italy, and extensive canteen service on the Italian front. It also mentions shoemaking for Belgian children, Red Cross colonies in France, and civil affairs efforts supporting 377 children across 14 institutions in the war zone.
A fashion profile highlights a Hudson seal cape coat wrap with matching muff. The piece blends cape ease with coat snugness, designed for warmth and elegance. Furrier craft, versatile wear, and other furs like squirrel and kolinsky are noted as stylish alternatives.
Instructions describe crafting a double decker Christmas gift bag using two Ford ribbons six and a half inches wide and an embroidery hoop. Cut cardboard rounds for bottoms, pad with cotton, cover with ribbon, sew halves of ribbon to form sides, attach to hoops, and join top and bottom with ribbon covered by silk.
A charming dinner gown can be made with black malines lace and black net over white English embroidery. A dark green charmeuse frock with long sleeves and a narrow draped skirt needs no trimming. A pale pink batiste dress should be trimmed with real filet lace and girdled with blue basel cloth accented by gold and silver threads.
A devotional study on Joseph guiding his father and brothers to Egypt. It links Genesis narrative to Christ’s future revelation to the Jews and his provision in Goshen. Jacob blesses Pharaoh as interpreter of divine blessing through Abrahamic covenant.
General Order No 1 asserts every true man must not bow to bondage, declaring it a supreme shame for the noble. It frames freedom as a divine right and a personal creed against servitude.
Fragmentary line suggests a meditation on inner self and external events. The text mentions Agios Edwards and hints at a personal or philosophical reflection about how what comes to us grows from our deepest being.
A historical summary notes animals and birds aiding war efforts, including parrots warning of air raids, horses and oxen aiding mobility and logistics, dogs and other animals assisting in reconnaissance and combat, large mammals used in trench and minefield tasks, and birds aiding locating artillery and signaling ships and planes near front lines.
A royal recruit to the king of Siam wrote on the Freedom of the Seas for a Siamese journal. The piece raises whether he used ordinary Siamese or the Palace language. Palace language emerged to spare royal ears yet preserve royal actions as distinct from those of lesser people.
Important to mothers to examine every bottle of Castoria, that famous old remedy for infants and children, and see that it meets standards and is properly labeled for safety and dosage.
New York has become a major diamond hub during the war, but Chicago stands as the world's diamond center housing more cut and uncut diamonds in a single building than any other. The United States now buys nearly all South African output, about five percent of the global supply, with several New York cutting factories and Chicago as the western headquarters.
An old advertisement promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a remedy for catarrh. It claims internal action through the blood to treat mucous surfaces and notes a long sales history of over forty years with testimonials available from F. J. Cheney & Co. in Toledo Ohio.
A Kansas City Star excerpt documents a chaotic scene where a shocked observer reports youths beating a boy with clubs while a man from Rumpus Ridge dismisses fault, noting the assailant is not his kin and commenting on the child’s repeated injuries and visits.
Miss Moon Turner of West Pittsford Massachusetts completed one hundred sweaters for the navy since December 1917. She started knitting in Tepcember 1017 and produced a sweater roughly every three days. She also made mufflers and wristlets in spare moments and had not worked on Koltzing before this wartime task.
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