10 Jan 1919
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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1919
Page
1
A dated advertisement urges mothers to use California Syrup of Figs as a gentle laxative for teething and stomach issues. It promises quick relief, claims a pleasant taste, and warns to seek genuine product from the California Fig Syrup Company, noting to beware counterfeits.
Thrift Magazine estimates prewar savers at about 14 million in banks and savings, with 21 million subscriptions to the fourth Liberty loan and 3 million others who joined earlier issues. After removing duplicates, about 24 million Americans own Liberty bonds today, suggesting widespread household bond ownership.
A Philadelphia returnee recalls a rugged newsboy at Independence Hall who, with all papers sold, shouted Germany's surrender. He says, I am just a-doin what no Liberty Bell would do if it could, highlighting character as substance and reputation as shadow.
In Neustrelitz the narrator recalls harsh winters in a German prison camp. Sentries withhold rations and flogging occurs for minor faults while letters are torn and morale sinks. Suffering from cold, damp barracks, cooties, and food scarcity, prisoners endure raids on bread and brutal transport to a distant stockade.
Neustrelitz housed Russian prisoners while British and French POWs avoided internment. Russians endured harsher treatment due to perceived endurance and use as bargaining leverage. The barracks were spruce, ninety by twenty five feet, with wide cracks. The narrator notes pride in the carpenters who built them and reflects on brutal conditions.
A wartime memoir fragment describes a prisoner in Germany salvaging a cigarette stub, making bark cigarettes, and improvising matches by burning coat sleeves and spinning a brass button. It recalls harsh conditions and scarce supplies inside the camp. A brief note touts an Italian doctor’s claimed tuberculosis cure using sugar on bronchial secretions.
A private in the quartermaster corps at Camp Ike requested a transfer to the artillery. After he left, his bunk mate placed a service flag with one star before their barracks and explained the star signified Joe had joined the army.
A short dialogue weighs marriage roles with a joke about a wife now holding a position. It mentions a ribbon counter clerk, a husband’s term, and calls her his counterpart. The ad promotes Doctor Pierce's Pleasant Pellets for pimples headache and bad breath with May Apple Aloe and Jalap rolled into a pill.
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