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Newspaper
Blue Island Sun
Location
Blue Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1918
Page
5
The Dresden Enterprise argues newspapers, though strained by higher material costs, promote public causes and serve humanity. It urges banks and firms to print locally to support hometown printers and fund Liberty Bonds, noting publishers give beyond pay due to duty and habit.
Reflection on how labeling someone a slacker can harm, citing a man with three volunteer sons supporting an invalid wife and himself, and a crippled veteran working to aid a brother. Warns against rash judgments and urges recognizing true duty, noting many patriots endure hardship and fear-mongering harms.
General Pershing issues an order stressing duty includes writing home to family and friends. The War Department receives a copy. It notes the military postal express service handles all mail for American forces in France and to the U S, aiding soldiers and families.
Community items include War Savings stamps promotion at The Sun number 139, police officer Otto Wilcke on vacation, Mrs. Dan Nelson visiting Chicago, library hours, local sales and bargain carnivals, family news, illnesses, picnic rain, and church services with German and English schedules.
A column mixes inspirational WWI era verse urging women to protect their own morale and contribute through faith, cheer, and self sacrifice. The piece sits beside notices on local deaths, social events, and community gatherings reflecting the era's home-front life.
Paris court martial condemned Mme. M thirty seven to death for spying for Germany. Her son Noel sixteen was sent to a penitentiary colony until he reaches adulthood amid details of a German propaganda agent in Barcelona and a network using a girls school to pass secret letters.
The Kankakee Inter-State Fair management announced the 1918 dates August 26 to 31. The first five days feature racing horse show livestock and farm displays war cookery exhibits and an outdoor circus. The final day is reserved for automobile races. The fair is renowned for its entertainment value.
Mixed small ads list employment housing sale rental lost items and local businesses including Linemen wanted furnishings for sale piano for sale flat for rent rooms for light housekeeping lost keys used cars dealer in Blue Island Illinois testimonials for Foley Kidney Pills from Stadle's Pharmacy and Emil Schmitt.
In East Chicago a loaf costs 100 dollars or 100 days in jail. Owning a dark lantern costs 50 dollars while driving an open muffler car costs 25 dollars. Bathing nude in canal or river between 4 am and 10 pm costs 10 dollars. The article notes midnight bathing as the only safe recreation in the Twin Cities.
Friedens Evangelical Church lists the Sunday morning schedule with Sunday School and Bible Class at 9:00 a.m. and service at 10:15 a.m. The Evangelical League meets at 7:00 p.m. A July 7 congregation business meeting is at 2:00 p.m. July 14 features a Children's Day service.
The Klinkman family extends thanks to friends neighbors Rev Woeks Miss Erna Lussenhop the Odd Fellows and other groups for sympathy help and floral honor in their bereavement. Also notes a final line about lending money.
A Maine reader reports quick relief from rheumatism and kidney symptoms after using Foley Kidney Pills, with husband also benefited after long pain. An ad mentions Stable's Pharmacy and Emil Schmitt. Also notes about 5000 Germans interned in the United States.
An old bulb wastes more current than a new bulb. Replace aging bulbs promptly to save energy and reduce electricity use.
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