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Newspaper
Cokeville Register
Location
Cokeville, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1918
Page
8
A humorous Indianapolis News item mocks measles lore and doctor talk. It jokes that a pitched fever means being chosen for a mock rite of the Ancient Accepted Order of Measleries, warns about a five day vacation, and quips that a milder “Duke’s disease” variant is safer though still part of the measle family.
A science note describes an experiment with a water filled bowl powdered lycopodium and charcoal line to show the earth’s rotation. After several hours the line shifts opposite to the earth’s movement, demonstrating how the earth spins beneath the surroundings.
The town records mention the market place as early as 1036. In 1683 the general court ordered a weekly Boston market on Thursdays at the widest part of State Street now Water Street Market Street, opening Rox ary's main highway.
A meditation on friendship as a blessed reality that supports life and heart. It urges embracing steadfast friends who understand and lift spirits, quoting a line about gripping friends to the soul with steel hoops to safeguard the soul.
Washington reports a German circular warning neutrals of fate if they join the Allies. It details alleged booty in France and Belgium, church destruction, confiscated art, and mistreatment of English prisoners. The document claims 60,000 British prisoners with many deaths in camps and cites German offenses in Poland and Belgium.
In Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania two men enlist to settle a wager on who will kill the most Huns. Alexander Gormacki, 28, and John Gorinski, 23, plan to mark each Hun knocked down with a notch on a stick. The higher tally wins the bet when the war ends.
Selle Short Pants Emnets of Steubenville recounts a fifteen year old boy named Gil bert E. Boycan who writes from France to his parents that he sold a short promo at Newport News. He ran away from school to see soldiers depart and enlisted at Wheeling West Virginia, seeking army service.
James Woods in New Castle Pennsylvania placed 15 eggs under a hen and hatched 16 chicks. He suspects one egg produced twins but cannot identify which.
Dr George Louis Meylan recounts Y M C A and army workers near the Bowie guns facing near constant shelling. He notes women workers killed and daily close calls, with volunteers sleeping on the ground and marching toward front lines after Chemin des Dames.
Large mining firms create forestry departments to reforest waste hillsides near Hazelton and Hugo Pa. Bear Creek watershed gains 5 000 white pine and 5 000 Norway spruce trees with 30 000 more planned. Reforestation aims to reduce floods, improve water supply, and ease mine access.
A million men aged 21 registered on June 5 for World War I service. Governors were ordered to mobilize 200,000 more registrants between June 24 and 28, with 750,000 expected fit for active duty. Illinois leads Western quotas with 28,500. camps include Camp Cody, Camp Lewis, Camp Funston, and Camp Pike among others.
Washington reports German submarine raids again struck the Norwegian steamer Eidsvold forty miles off the Virginia capes. The entire crew was rescued by a navy supply ship. Mines from prior raids may have influenced the area with Pratt striking one mine and others found nearby by patrol craft.
The federal farm loan board withdrew further offering of farm loan bonds on June 5 after selling 560,000,100 during a two week campaign. Funds cover needs until about November 1 and the offering will be renamed after the fourth Liberty loan campaign.
President Wilson sends a second letter to Governor Stephens of California urging clemency for Thomas J. Mooney. Mooney was convicted in connection with the bomb blast that killed temperance marchers during San Francisco's parade on July 22, 1909.
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