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Newspaper
Blue Island Sun
Location
Blue Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1918
Page
3
A preacher condemns gambling cards and dancing as threats to the church’s spiritual life while defending theater as entertainment with noble actors. He argues dancing corrupts morals, cites women drinking and smoking, and estimates five hundred thousand fallen women with 375,000 linked to dance.
An author discusses happiness from unselfish living and urges applying New Testament principles. He reviews a small plant's cooperative experiment where workers choose, with one major CEO override, and profits on wages match capital, while some capitalists resist sharing power and profits.
The piece warns feeble-mindedness threatens democracy and calls for national identification registration instruction supervision and segregation. It cites an estimated 400000 feeble-minded people and notes 12000 Army rejects with a third due to feeble-mindedness, linking crime and social burdens to the condition.
Public urged to help crippled individuals by matching them with suitable jobs and training. The piece argues that societal support should focus on employment rather than pity, noting many cripples already hold important positions and stressing the value of work over idleness. It calls for candid action and practical steps.
The piece stresses prompt growth in factory output for war, aligning efficiency with humane labor standards. It cites General Orders No 13 from the Ordnance and Quartermaster departments, advocating eight hour days, night-work limits, rest periods, and fair wages as essential to sustained munitions supply and national defense.
An Exchange note recalls Pliny praising the mulberry as the wisest tree once buds appear after cold weather. It laments continued neglect of the black mulberry in grafting and naming, noting no distinct varietal forms exist beyond the wild type.
Dialogue excerpt shows two tramps in a weary exchange with back and forth banter about fatigue and a humorous image of sleeping in a bathtub. The humor centers on exhaustion and casual slang of the era.
At Camp Grant a rookie helper tasked with peeling potatoes was tricked by kitchen police into borrowing skirmish line to dry cloths. He returned with a neatly wrapped parcel containing white thread, revealing the prank and its harmless outcome.
Dr. F. Wood Jones of University of London argues that children wear out the outer edges of shoes first due to descent from an arboreal, monkey-like ancestor. He cites longer arms than legs in development, inward-facing feet, and outward foot-weight as inherited arboreal traits shaping early gait.
A four year old leads his visiting aunt on a walk through the city. When asked if he knows the route, he proudly replies that after four years he does know his way about the city.
Isaac F. Marcosson recalls a touching scene in a ruined village where a widow forges a horseshoe in her collapsed home. Her husband fallen in battle and herself clad in his uniform, she continues to work as distant guns thunder. The moment brands her as the heroic incarnation of feminine defiance.
The passage notes cod producing about 45 million eggs per season with single cod containing up to 9.5 million eggs. It cites eel finds of over 10 million eggs, and lists egg counts in herring, smelt, sole, roach, sturgeon, carp, tench, mackerel, perch, and flounder. It adds oysters’ prolific spawning and Buffon’s thought experiment on herrings.
The article recounts beard taxes from Elizabethan England and Peter the Great era Russia, noting a fortnight growth levy, nobles paying 100 rubles and commoners one kopek, extended to St. Petersburg by 1714 and repealed in 1762. It also mentions French clergy beard taxes urged by Duprat with papal backing.
A popular science monthly report describes a galvanized wire mesh splint that substitutes wood, with tempered steel for hand molding, sterilized by galvanizing and welded into a single fray resistant piece. The porous design aids evaporation and air circulation under dressings, and the rollable splint is lighter and less bulky than wood or plaster versions.
The piece recounts Coma Berenices, or Berenice's Hair, a constellation named for Queen Berenice wife of Ptolemy II. It tells how she sacrificed her hair to Venus for her husband’s safe return from war, and how the temple relic disappeared, giving rise to the legend of golden locks becoming stars.
The garrison flag of the United States army is made of bunting with an 86 feet fly and 20 feet hoist. It has 13 stripes and a blue field in the upper quarter near the staff containing the union of stars, extending to the lower edge of the fourth red stripe from the top.
A promotional description of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound outlines its production in a laboratory setting. It emphasizes reliability, cleanliness, and pasteurization as part of creating the medicine for women's illnesses. Cites testimonials from women restored to health as evidence of virtue.
Father Charles B. Moulinier of Marquette University School of Medicine notes that global scientific activity centers in the United States and will likely stay there if funding persists. He cites the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia as a key driver, printing translated medical literature for China and Japan and supplying South America, while advancing chemical dye research and attracting a remarkable young Philadelphia chemist.
The Christian Science Monitor compares Von Hindenburg's boast to Soult's comment in the Peninsular War about driving the British to the sea. It notes Wellington's retreat near the sea and questions whether Hindenburg will alter his plans if faced with reality.
A witty exchange unfolds as Mr Duthwaite warns that borrowing from Peter to pay Paul is bad business. The impecunious citizen agrees and laments the difficulty of finding Paul, highlighting a playful clash over financial prudence.
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