12 Jan 1918
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1918
Page
1
City employment office at 104 E Pratt St Baltimore and Curtis Bay invites applicants for guaranteed city jobs. Apply to Smith Hauser and MacIsaac Inc for details and placement.
A Rome correspondent recounts Pope Benedict jokingly permitting an American portrait painter one sitting to depict the pope for Vatican display. The artist later sought US show rights and submitted lines claimed from St Matthew, testing American belief in the artwork. The tale threads with odd notes on milk myths in Asia.
The article notes sugar at $58 per barrel, rice $31.39, tobacco over double current price, and a 21 pound chest of tea over $100, while present prices are much lower. It discusses war-time food scarcity, German rations, and U S suggestions to economize on foods. A humorous wartime anecdote mentions a sergeant reading a Times excerpt about marriage and divorce, ending with a note on allotment payments and survivor benefits.
Bobby visits a popular swing with youths at a place noted for its rising generation. On returning home his father asks if he swung. He replies he did a little, but it made his head ache and stomach hurt, so he had to stop.
Algeria's wine crop is estimated at about 6 million decaliters or 159 million gallons, down from 8.78 million decaliters in 1916. Dry weather, phylloxera, plant diseases, and labor shortages in Oran reduced output while prices rise and France remains the primary buyer amid potential barrel and bottle shortages and transport fuel issues.
War correspondent notes salvage teams operate near front lines, collecting debris and metals. Copper, steel, lead and other materials are recovered, refined, and reused, while no ammunition fully buries. valuable metals fetch prices, supporting wartime needs.
A few women are employed as carpenters in France as an experimental measure. They are housed in army huts built by the contractor and work under a forewoman who reports to a French manager. A housekeeper cook and four woman supervisors are employed. Their output and pay mirror that of men, and their duties include the camp work of carpentry.
Percy Hull, after selling a business for fifty thousand dollars, visits his former associate Barclay and discovers a dusty stone and memories of Ardath Revere. Reconnecting with Ardath and her brother Winston, Hull supports their rose business, revealing his changed character. Ardath forgives him, and they renew trust as he funds their venture.
In Ju Man Street’s travel book American Adventures a lexicon of naval cadet slang is revealed. Terms include bird or wazzo for a man, steam for marine engineering, and buged for juice for failing exams. A girl is a drag, heavy drag or brick is unattractive, sleuth or Jimmy legs is a high-watcher, and to be ragged means to be caught.
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