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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1918
Page
5
A British officer bluntly criticizes a naive chaplain saying he is a rotten chaplain the men will not follow to heaven. The officer then concedes the chaplain might lead as a company officer since the men would follow him to hell.
A reader touts applying Freezone to a corn to stop ache and ease removal with fingers. The claim emphasizes instant relief and simple self care without humbug.
Hetty learns she has a new baby brother and excitedly proclaims the family now has the start of a real soldier. The piece opens with a quip on egotists being pleased with themselves.
German positions between Cambrai and St Quentin crushed. Belgians enter Roulers and threaten Ostend while Armentieres evacuation brings Lille within reach. Lens evacuation opens routes to Douai and Menin as Franco American and allied forces press forward in northern France and Belgian Flanders.
Washington reports the patrol boat Tampa torpedoed in the Bristol Channel on September 26 while escorting a convoy. Ten officers and 102 men were aboard, with one British officer and five civilians among the missing. Navy records say all on board are presumed lost.
Evanston Wyoming police report that Robert Humphrey a guard at the Aspen tunnel shot and killed fellow guard R W Sears and wounded Edward W Hoehner the general manager following an argument at the tunnel about 20 miles east of Evanston.
A Lexington blaze of incendiary origin destroyed the I. H. Taylor stock farm causing an estimated loss of 875000. Among the losses was Woodford the Hereford bull worth 12000 and noted as an International prizewinner.
Berlin reports Prince Maximilian of Baden named imperial chancellor and heir to Baden throne. Born July 10 1867, he is expected to lead the government.
Washington plans to adjourn for a month during the November elections prompt enactment of the eight billion dollar war revenue bill is urged by Secretary McAdoo to avoid disorganization and threats to the national flow of war funding.
The first cotonnut charcoal shipments are sent to the United States for gas mask production. Local plants increase output daily to meet demand and strengthen wartime manufacture.
German censor allows articles on possible Austrian capitulation if Austria is forced to lay down arms under pressure.
The government of Ory Philippines in Manila says the program of absolute wartime prohibition will be shown to the Philippine legislature when it convenes this month. The announcement was made on Thursday.
Allied forces rupture the Hindenburg line eight miles as St. Quentin falls to the French and Cambrai to the British. Lille evacuated as Germans retreat toward Belgian border. Brussels pamphlets urge patience amid liberation. Küntler notes continued pushes from Cambrai to Verdun with stiff German resistance elsewhere.
Logan Utah. Professor W. Brooke formerly of Salt Lake and for years an economics professor at Utah Agricultural College was drowned in the college pool on Wednesday. He dived from a springboard with Professor Brinley, failed to surface, and was pulled from the water unconscious. He died a few minutes later despite efforts to revive him.
General Wershing said on Tuesday that American troops advancing between the Meuse and Argonne have seized a large stockpile. The partial tally includes 120 guns of all calibers, 750 trench mortars, 800 machine guns, 100 heavy tank guns, thousands of shells and hundreds of thousands of rounds of small arms ammunition.
A Zurich dispatch to the Journal says anti German and pacifist riots are active across Bulgaria. Rumors say a national cabinet may form under Premier Malinoff and Dr. Ghenniec, freed from prison recently by royal pardon from King Ber.
Filed in federal district court here Tuesday the case seeks to block Lincoln Telephone and Telegraph Co from charging installation rates after government control of the telephone and telegraph system. Nebraska highway commission is involved in the proceedings.
Count von Bernstorff, former German ambassador to the United States, is reported marooned in Constantinople after Bulgaria’s surrender to the allies. He recently represented Berlin at the Porte during the crisis.
The text states that Americans will soon be able to buy shoes at fixed maximum and minimum prices lower than current levels and receive better quality shoes.
New York reports the sugar beet crop for the Tufted Brains area rises by 378 021 tons year over year though overall condition on August 1 trails the ten year average.
City Attorney Stephens was invaded by a persistent peddler who pitched an ash sifter. Stephens refused the item yet admitted the peddler exposed how he gained entry by saying he sifted. The anecdote ends with Stephens acknowledging the punch line.
Pimply rashy skins soothed and healed by Cuticura Soap to cleanse and purify and Cuticura Ointment to soothe and heal. Free samples available at Cuticura Dept X Boston by mail and at druggists. Soap 25 cents, Ointment 25 and 50 cents.
Novelist Robert W. Chambers told a New York Country Club audience that the war has altered every aspect of life and writing. He admitted older writers feel disoriented and struggle to create. He mused that describing ordinary modern scenes, like a girl’s car, seems shell-like.
An old advertisement asserts catarrhal deafness results from inflamed Eustachian tubes and cannot be cured locally, promising cure through Alls-Cata Medicine taken systemically with a $100 guarantee by F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio.
The article recounts a Paris Island training day when a gust of wind sent a recruit’s hat into the bay. Following the incident, other marines publicly tossed their hats into the water for luck, creating a sea of straw headwear.
A short, humorous reminiscence from Chicago Museum about Robert's mischief at school. The teacher calls him to task, and on returning home his mother asks about school. Robert predicts trouble with the teacher after claiming she has gassed him three shoes already.
Fragmentary lines read like a casual note on a news item. Names and clear events are not fully visible. The snippet hints at a critique or reception but lacks concrete details to confirm the subject or outcome.
A wartime reminiscence from a hospital in France describes a French officer presenting a war cross to a patient and a nurse secretly kissing him at his bedside. The piece pokes at romance, noting fiction nurses as idealized, with the imagined happy ending and a glamorous, coolly dressed nurse.
A reader asks if his wife mend socks for soldiers and a man named Meekton confirms he helps by staying home to test socks. The dialogue notes efforts in home front activities and light banter about duties and footwork.
A humorous reflection on a husband who has much to say but faces a wife who limits his speech, capturing domestic banter and comic tension in a single quip.
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