15 Aug 1918
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Newspaper
Cambridge City Tribune
Location
Cambridge City, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1918
Page
1
The Tribune states that rising costs of paper printing and living expenses will prompt a subscription price hike starting September 1. The notice warns readers of the forthcoming rate change and impacts for current subscribers.
The notice lists pricing for obituaries and display ads. Obituaries first ten lines free, then 5 cents per line. Display advertising costs 15 cents per inch. Trade items priced at 10 cents per line per issue. It also mentions a $1 560 yearly rate with renewal terms for August 15 and advance payments for 12 months at the old rate.
Cambridge City sources report Lake Division Red Cross headquarters audit calling for a thousand graduate nurses weekly for two months to support allied armies. Surgeon General Gorgas and Miss Anna Gladwin urge Ohio Indiana and Kentucky enrollments, with July through September targets and improved pay for overseas service.
Persons owing the Tribune on subscription with one year paid in advance may renew at the old rate of 1.00. After September 1 the rate increases to 1.50. Readers are urged to pay promptly to avoid the higher price.
Local notes report John Boyer has joined the navy, families hosting relatives visit Dayton and New Castle fairs with cousins and friends. Several threshing rings meet at Walter Bertsch and John Walters homes. crowds enjoy ice cream and cake as the season's work wraps.
The column lists gatherings and travels around Milton. Names include the Shank reunion at Glen Miller, Clohes ter White hog exhibition by Clyde Leverton, visits by Mrs. Alice Wiggins of Richmond, Alvin Lowery from Hamilton, Prof. L. E. Thompson in Shelbyville, and numerous family dinners and church activities. Attendees include Crownover, Williams, Weyl, Hale, Jones, Kern, Engle, Sevier, Ball, Stover, and others.
A long community digest from Richmond Palladium features visits among local families, war service updates, illness notes, and social happenings. Captain Sands moves toward ordnance duty. deaths include Mrs. Sands and Mrs. Blackburn. A Doddridge Chapel homecoming, a war address by Rev. Alfred Wagner, and a France letter recount local ties and wartime spirit.
Miss Violet Marley returns from Indianapolis as families discuss travel and gatherings. Guests visit relatives in Richmond Cambridge City and Bentonville while farm sales and relocations include the Robert Cornthwaite place sale for 12000 dollars. Town events cover reunions roasts and medical procedures as locals share updates.
Prominent local pastor and businessman Rev W D Parr died at his Kokomo home after a brief illness of acute indigestion. He was 65. Survived by his wife and four children.
Norma Ey Weigel recalls life at Naval Air Station Key West in August 1918. The writer describes earning an ensign commission, teaching novice pilots, performing stunts, and enduring cold, danger, and humor amid about fifty planes including Curtiss types and four hundred horsepower flying boats.
A longstanding reader who always paid on time ends a quiet courtship with a paper by marking his subscription cancelled as refused. The columnist decries the stubborn gesture and labels the man unfriendly and unpalatable, noting the ongoing friction with the editor.
The Washington Herald lauds Indiana for sending nearly 90,000 men to army navy and marine branches in the first year and a quarter of World War I. It notes volunteers and draftees, overrecruiting of volunteers, and Republican state support for the war effort.
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