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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1918
Page
6
The narrator recounts a tense scene in Belgium where counterfeit and real passports are traded. He resists threats, vows to keep his passport, and contemplates using pottery as a weapon if forced. He reflects on Belgian hospitality and the peril faced by fugitive helpers.
The narrator endures five days hiding in a vacant house under German occupation. He endures hunger, scavenges scraps, observes soldiers, and secretly follows a cat for food. He survives a tense cellar close call as German troops search the home and remove metal goods.
Stanley J. Weyman asserts that machine guns and high explosive shells doom popular revolts in large nations. He argues only external power with equal arms could break despotic rule, as cities like Ghent Liege and Antwerp would fall swiftly to modern munitions.
Field headquarters report details 2 448 miles of railroad rebuilt or repaired 590 miles of new railroad 150 miles of teleferica cables 30 000 miles of telephone wire 10 000 new military buildings and 200 miles of narrow gauge rail behind trenches. 120 civil engineers 200 000 workmen and 100 000 army mules aided by engineers and wagons completed the front line infrastructure over 18 months amid avalanches snow and floods.
The English Co-Operative Wholesale Society is a major manufacturing group with factories across England, own farms and creameries, and $50,000,000 invested in member homes. England and Scotland wholesale societies now produce $500,000,000 yearly, with the largest tea warehouse distributing 25,000,000 pounds of tea from own lands in Ceylon.
The Turkish seizure of Constantinople halted Western learning and destroyed many works. Some believe vast manuscripts remain buried in Saint Sophia vaults and elsewhere. Modern scholars question the treasures, but recent reports raise hope of recovering priceless books.
Mr. G. S. Thompson of Kirby Knowle Thirsk died in York England aged eighty three. He rode his first winner at seven after his father backed a rival horse and a racing stable boy mounted the other horse Young George Thompson was sent for and told to gallop home to win the race. He obeyed and was handed back to his mother through the family carriage window.
A brief item cites complaints from Washington about rising living costs. The piece notes pathology observers claim monkeys once priced at 8 now fetch 18 in New York, illustrating inflationary pressure.
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