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Newspaper
Cambridge Jeffersonian
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1918
Page
4
Entries summarize births and deaths of Emanuel Swedenborg and Thomas Paine, Napoleon’s 1814 defeat at Brienne, Zeppelin air raid casualties in Paris, and German gas attacks at the Riga front in 1917. The brief notes cover 1688 to 1917 with key figures and outcomes.
Pollux, twin star of Castor, moves toward Earth from the meridian south of the overhead point near midnight. The star's approach is reported at a rate of 26 miles each second.
A compact reflective item notes Browning’s line on life judged by God not man, paired with a Psalmic line about divine word fulfilling storms. The pair presents a period voice meditation on fate and providence, pairing literary allusion with scripture.
A wartime tale centers on United Forever Johnson, a patriotic foil and wealthy skeptic. Ted Sample, memory erased by war, recalls his old self and rebukes Johnson, whose stingy stance on bonds becomes the twist.
The English estate Hawarden, once linked to William Gladstone and a hub for diplomats and statesmen, is put up for sale by his grandsons. Tax pressures and economic shifts have made maintenance untenable. the once mighty home faces a final transfer from its famous lineage.
The Ohio War Board outlines a wheatless program with two full wheatless days and one wheatless meal daily. It lists meals including sliced bananas with puffed rice and cornmeal griddle cakes for breakfast and cold beef tongue with Belgian baked potatoes for dinner, urging continued wheatless eating across the Allies and the United States.
The piece argues that returning soldiers will bring back European thrift and agriculture, along with better civic virtues. It predicts influence from French ideas on economy and observation, while cautioning against imports of frivolity. It asserts foreign contact will enrich the United States.
Poem reflects on life’s toil and unmet worldly goals, praising a cherished friend as compensation. The speaker contemplates fate, gratitude, and enduring spirit, noting the beauty of stars and sun as rich recompense for efforts and trials.
A collection of light vignettes and questions from the community. A boy hawks leaf raking for a nickel while families discuss ships and marines. Students recall a whale lesson and the stray joke about whalebones. Local residents Mayor Oldham and T. M. Blake are noted in brief city visits.
Secretary Baker told the senate military committee that the United States will have more than 500000 men in France early this year and over a million and a half ready to send. He said the army at the front will be hardened and trained and noted Germany and allied powers had not been told exact figures. He described artillery outputs, shell contracts, clothing shortages, and cantonment site selections as part of war mobilization.
A brief Cambridge notice marks twenty years since the 4660 event. The fragment notes a local milestone with no further details available in the readable text.
William Hoover visits S. E. Boden in East Wheeling avenue then returns home near Morristown. John H. Leeper and Margaret A. Ruby wed January 27 by Rev. Jas. Jones at L. A. Twining’s residence. Mrs. C. L. McCulley and Julia return from Columbus. J. W. Campbell and Zanesville party depart for Washington. Judge N. H. Barber returns from Washington. H. B. Williams and others attend Senecaville teachers’ institute. Born January 37, 1808 to Dr. S. M. and Florence Cheadle Steele in Moundsville.
New Concord January 28 Muskingum College will keep its doors open nearly all year to meet wartime teacher shortages. The normal department plus summer term will run three six week terms starting April 20 June 10 and July 17 for 18 weeks of professional training. The college plans a service flag and honor roll for students who answered the call to colors. Several athletes have joined aviation service and field artillery. Lieutenant Isaac Camp, an alumnus, helped march into Jerusalem. Final exams for the first semester end January 31 and the second begins February 4.
Columbus reports strict enforcement of a new government rule requiring equal sale of substitutes with every purchase of wheat flour. The five to twenty percent substitution schedule begins immediately with bakers and grocers to reach 20 percent substitution by February 24. Mrs. R M Boyd of Lore City was seen shopping in the city Tuesday.
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