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Newspaper
Blue Island Sun
Location
Blue Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1918
Page
5
Francis cuts and colors a magazine image, completing a Statue of Liberty with an orange torch. He muses that her cheeks should be red from being out in the fresh air, reflecting on art and reality.
A Boston Transcript item describes a polite incident where a dignified lady visiting a new acquaintance dropped a tissue sheet and the resident youth corrected her, remarking that she had dropped a cigarette paper. The moment reflects a small, humorous social observation from daily life.
The passage compares historical dating and railway timetables to a primitive agreement to meet at a dead tree at sunrise. It argues that time is defined by choosing a specific sunrise and tree for human convenience, noting many sunrises and many trees exist.
The soul inhabits the body for a time and then departs. Birth and death are states of the soul, not the body. The soul is the self, the body its dwelling place. People cling to life because they misperceive the body as the self.
A rail official argues that after 16 million miles of travel the next fatal accident is due. He suggests shifting to foot travel once the odometer nears 15,999,999 miles, implying a wartime restraint or risk calculation.
The speaker, Governor Craig of North Carolina, declares that the most desirable modern utility is indoor running water. He dismisses railroads, telephone, electric light, automobiles and fashion as less essential, highlighting water in the home.
Mrs New kid asks why the baby cries. Newkid suggests the infant ponders a quip about governors of North Carolina and South Carolina. The line frames a light domestic moment with a political joke.
American soldiers in Paris clocked long range shells from the 72 mile gun during German bombardment. Y M C A secretary Albert Ogden recalls troops timing intervals to about a quarter hour. French and American watchers noted shells hitting near the Grand boulevard while air raids followed at night.
Sergt Reginald Grant of the First Canadian field artillery recalls the third battle of Ypres from Sanctuary woods near a town. German forces massed, the battery retreated after exhausting ammunition while fighting through waves of attackers. Flames and smoke enveloped neighboring units as survivors fought on, with Grant noting both sides pressed the fight.
The Countess de Bryas arrives in America at Miss Anne Morgan’s invitation to recount France’s distress behind the front lines. She urges Americans to contribute to a fund benefiting the American Committee for Devastated France, describing severe poverty and injuries among civilians and children.
In Columbus Ohio two patrolmen found Albert Breaker head downward in a barrel on Congress Street near Russell Street. He slipped while closing a window and became wedged, shoes still tied to his feet, requiring effort to free him.
The United States Department of Agriculture launches a campaign to promote cottage cheese as a cheap meat substitute. Nearly a hundred field workers will spread the message nationwide, highlighting that cottage cheese is made from skim milk and has the same food value as meat.
Cleveland mayor H L Davis and Akron mayor I S Myers ordered that only American citizens or those with first papers may obtain business licenses in their cities. The move restricts aliens from engaging in licensed commerce in the two Ohio cities.
New York reports that Jean Paul Gruet, a young deaf man, demonstrated how he can "hear" piano music via vibrations in his feet during Josef Hofmann's recital. He described sensations from floor contact and from body parts like arms and fingertips, noting upper leg muscles vibrated and lower tones caused inward excitement and increased circulation.
In Celestial social circles the bridegroom family gives the bride’s family items before the wedding. Gifts include food, the pig’s leg and foot, goat leg, eight small bread cakes, eight torches, three pairs of large red candles, vermicelli, and several firecracker bunches.
Nancy Crosby, tenant in Four D, visits the Curtis Carter real estate firm to warm herself with knitting as coal shortages loom. Carter, amused, arranges a job for her and later discovers he tampered with her radiator to keep her comfortable, hinting at deeper interest.
Venezuela covers 1,020,400 square kilometers with an estimated 2,824,984 people as of December 31, 1916. Population concentrates along coastal and mountain districts while inland regions like Anpure Bolivar Delta Amacuro and Amazonas territories show very low density around 0.8 per square kilometer.
The family of Henry Phipps, pioneer steel magnate and philanthropist, is heavily enlisted in wartime service. Sons John 8. Phipps and Hal Qo Phipps hold captaincies in U S Signal Corps and Ordnance, respectively, while Howard Phipps seeks a regular army commission. Mrs Amy Phipps Guest runs a London hospital. Frederick Guest serves as captain in the British Army. Bradley Martin Jr. is a US Army major.
A Nairobi hunter encounters a superb beast that leaps just out of reach. The creature roars and misses, then vanishes into the woods. The next day a tracking party finds the beast again in an open clearing, where it is seen practicing high jumps.
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