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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1918
Page
5
Extracts from German papers claim Paris panicked after front news but French spirits rise with Marne victory. Citizens cite Clemenceau’s courage, German casualties, and anticipated American troops joining poilus as reasons for renewed confidence and optimism.
Nearly 1,000 men of military age without proper cards or credentials were rounded up in Minneapolis after a joint raid by the department of justice and local Home Guard. Agents seized 197 pool rooms and dance halls as draft evaders were taken into custody.
report from London dated April 7 notes Russians in England seek American passports amid fears of a broadened conscription act. Ingland residents, especially in Whitechapel, worry foreigners enjoy protections but dodge military service. Many claim to be students, some old or illiterate workers. officials release or detain applicants after registration and questioning.
Boston reports describe efforts by missionary groups to apply modern methods against a severe pneumonic plague in Mongolia and Shansi Province north of the Great Wall. A town north of the wall records 1,000 deaths in five days, with 200 more south of the wall despite gate closures and traffic bans. Dr. Edwards surveys villages finding entire families dead and unburied. Dr. Young, dean of Union Medical College in Peking, travels to Shansi with Ly Chang to aid plague work, delivering lectures and lantern slides to persuade locals of the danger and need for decisive action.
A Swiss company will test on a large scale a process to produce industrial alcohol from calcium carbide at Visp. A plant to make two million pounds yearly is being built and, if successful, similar facilities will be built in Norway and Sweden.
April 7 report states the council of Ministers approved purchasing the country’s telephone system with service to begin January 1. The text, though, also mixes plague references and unrelated notes on Shansi province, Hoang-ho river traffic, and American board efforts amid Indonesian and Mongolian contexts, creating a fragmented summary of multiple topics.
Satin camisoles with lace trim and delicate straps priced to 69 cents. Batiste corset covers trimmed with Val lace and Swiss embroidery at 69 cents. Pink crepe bloomers with elastic bands at 69 cents. Batiste envelope chemise in flesh or white with ribbon or hemstitched straps at 1.29.
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