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Newspaper
Cokeville Register
Location
Cokeville, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1918
Page
7
In France American soldiers shed foolishness and show calm courage and resolve before battle. Y M C A songs ease tension as soldiers sing of home. Officers note iron will and readiness to face casualties while writing letters surge threefold.
Joseph Carroll of Albany is blind but believes he could capture the Kaiser. He faced a local draft board with his mother present and was immediately rejected. He told physicians he may be blind but knows he could get his hands on that Kaiser and asked for a chance to serve Uncle Sam.
A Leavenworth teacher found a picture of Kaiser Wilhelm torn from a geography book by fourth grade boys who ripped out the image. Girls covered the face with paper. the teacher warned there is a state law about destroying public school books.
A dying man in Philadelphia declared he would die soon and handed $450 in cash to a Liberty Loan booth to aid Uncle Sam. He insisted the money go to the bond effort and hurried away, leaving no receipt.
A Bristol airboat, carrying two occupants, flew two hours after both pilots died midflight before fuel ran out. The craft pursued a German Albatross, attacked, and eventually crashed west of No Man's Land after losing maneuvering height.
The two men in the Bristol aircraft were shot from behind and died instantly. The petrol tank was empty and the machine drifted down after controls reportedly shifted. The crash occurred after a long air duty with the bodies in the air for over two hours before impact.
Mrs Mary Hazenstaub a 100 year old German native from Bavaria says she cannot speak English but purchased a $100 Liberty Bond. She also expresses a wish to see the Kaiser stopped.
In a downtown San Francisco department store an American flag is unfurled from a high baton as a 30 piece band and 60 voice chorus lead The Star Spangled Banner. No sales occur during the national anthem and the event starts at noon after a change from nine o'clock to include more patrons.
Advert explains how farmers and workers push harder on foot power and favors Allen's Foot Base antiseptic powder. It claims the product takes friction from the shoe, relieves tired aching and blistered feet, and keeps women and men comfortable, with widespread dealer availability.
An unusually foggy dawn at Camp Grant leaves soldiers ready for drill while a sergeant, misled by fog, discovers a sentry talking to a post at a distance. After repeated calls and gestures, the soldier approaches and finds the apparent target is in fact a post.
A new substitute for Lycopodium is described as the dust from gas discharges of drying apparatus in coal or lignite briquetting works. A centrifugal process precipitates the dust to keep sand from clinging to castings, replacing the vegetable material once imported from Russia.
Japan faces a shortage of small coinage and plans to issue small paper notes worth 50 20 and 10 sen. The sen is half a cent in U S currency.
A witty exchange in a social scene shows one person declaring feeling worthless and another quipping that the root cause was losing at bridge the prior night. The brief vignette captures a lighthearted poker-faced rebuke in a bygone social setting.
A pupil in a Tidhana school mistook the U S capital, naming Tadiannapolis, then correctly identified the President as Jefferson, noting his image on stamps. The exchange highlights a playful mix of geography and civics in a classroom setting.
Promote Cuticura Soap and Ointment for clear complexions scalp cleanliness and soft white hands. Free samples offered by Cuticura Dept X Boston. Sold by druggists or by mail Soap 25 cents Ointment 25 and 50 cents.
A dairy lunch on East Washington Street bans the term pretzel, with counters admonishing patrons to say ten ring instead. The new policy targets German identity, asking customers to avoid German terms after a display of movie-influenced sentiment.
The item notes a playful line about a young man smiling when Mayme calls him her lamb with a sheepish grin. It then states Brooklyn has 310,623 pupils in public schools.
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