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Newspaper
Fulton County Tribune
Location
Wauseon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1918
Page
2
A chaotic digest notes arrestees and trials, injuries and deaths, arial combat reports near Dayton, and regulatory actions. It mentions four men shot at Cleveland, a naval aviation incident, wage strikes, and public-works tweaks. Various officials, from Ohio governors to county commissioners, are named amid war measures and local disturbances.
William L. Edison, Thomas A. Edison’s second son, joins the U S Tank corps after declining an officer’s commission. He reports at Fort Slocum to be occupied, rests five days, then goes to Gettysburg for tank training. This is his second military service, previously serving at age nineteen in the First regiment U S volunteer engineers as a corporal during the Spanish American War.
A collage of brief items covers wartime contracts in Detroit and Britain, fish canning for army rations, a Vermont stencil machine, an American patent on anti-tangle weights, a beef substitute milk product, Berlin crimes, Japanese diet costs, Hoover’s salary, and a Milan cooperative with clothing and services. Also quoted jokes and snippets on counterfeit money and a war garden party scene.
Returning federal sailors and marines are enrolled in a hospital training school in Baltimore to learn trades and reading in raised type. O H Burritt is educational director with Miss Jenny Turner assisting. Red Cross and the Minded Institute coordinate, aiming to place men in home communities after training. Books for soldiers total over 2.5 million are supplied by the American Library Association with 40 library buildings erected and 600 camps aided nationwide. War-time reforms in clothing repair reduce new issues by 30 to 40 percent, while women are employed in repairs and laundries. Wheatless bread substitutes are being developed to save flour, with three new loaf varieties expected.
Secretary of Labor Wilson outlines the general mobilization starting August 1 under the U S Employment Service to recruit common labor first and then all workers for war industries with 100 or more employees. The program aims to protect living standards and morale, guard youth and women entering heavy work, and prevent excessive disruption of regular employment. The War Department lists central officer training camps at Camp Lee Petersburg Camp Gordon Camp Pike Camp Taylor and Camp Hancock with admission monthly and four month courses for infantry and machine gun and three for field artillery. Eligibility requires US citizenship aged 20 years 8 months to 40 and suitable moral and physical qualifications. civilians need high school graduation or equivalent and specific technical knowledge for artillery. A children’s recreation drive runs through July August culminating in Patriotic Play Week September 17 involving 11 million women in 10,000 communities. A postal censorship board seeks Spanish translators in port cities, with attention to rest and health necessary for sustained work. Paper thread is discussed as a Denmark wartime substitute for binder twine. Bastille Day and the Fourth of July are observed by American forces. Wheat in Turkey reportedly sells at 500 bushels per unit, amid relief efforts. prewar prices were 60 cents per bushel.
A compact reflection on avoiding shortcuts to success, urging careful, steady progress. It contrasts the lure of quick gains with the costs of missteps and emphasizes patience and safety as the wiser path. The piece then shifts to a note on the banjo, describing its primitive form used by savages in equatorial Africa as a calabash instrument with strings, played at communal feasts.
Eleanor F. Egan recounts a Mesopotamian campaign mirage that misled Turkish and British forces near Shatha. A retreat was ordered as reinforcements appeared from a distant mirage, causing panic and a long pursuit to Khmiseyeh, with the desert's illusion shaping a pivotal moment.
A memorial to Oliver Goldsmith is being erected in Auburn County Athlone Ireland by restoring the church where his father ministered. Goldsmith born 1728 Ballymahon Longford. his father Charles later rector of Kilkenny West and settled in Hissey now Auburn. The piece links Goldsmith to Lissey and evictions in his Deserted Village.
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