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Newspaper
Fulton County Tribune
Location
Wauseon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1918
Page
7
Local note quotes Urbana residents describing a long illness described as pestis grippe and its effects on stamina. The passage mentions Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a suggested remedy for nervousness and related complaints, reflecting era attitudes toward women’s health and home remedies.
A ragged beggar confronts a police officer near Grand Central terminal as onlookers watch. The scene ends when the officer offers to arrest him, prompting the beggar to reveal a bandaged arm and claim he could pull off the feat elsewhere. The event draws a crowd and a cautious warning about petty crime.
Fragmentary note discusses wool conservation and cooperation between American and French designers. Mentions wool usage limits, French ambassador, and Paris demand. No clear outcome or dates. Entities include New York, French designers, French government, American movement, wool men, ambassador, Paris.
A Fifth avenue designer creates a dark blue cloth canteen coat with wide front overlap for bloomers, plus a horizon blue cloth Red Cross badge. The article notes wartime fabric shifts, reductions in wool use, and armies' impact on fashion including capes, puttees, and a new emblemed coat for Red Cross members.
A description of a women’s strart frock blending medieval tunic lines with a narrow seal velvet skirt. It notes blue and gold embroidery, a red Croix Rouge symbol on horizon blue, and a broad front lap. The design features a high collar, large pockets, and a cape-like front with wrapover warmth.
A reader offers practical guidance for hosting a chafing-dish party with prep steps and menu ideas. It suggests a polished table setting, ready mise en place, and simple courses from fruit cocktails to dessert. Also included are waist care tips using silk strips to protect blouses from wear.
Article argues farmers with woodlands can help alleviate coal shortages by supplying wood for fuel. It cites U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that substituting wood for coal in rural and small town heating could save millions of tons of coal annually. Guidance on sizing, seasoning, and cord wood production is provided, with examples of wood yields from white oak and white pine and notes on private woodlots and community actions to expand wood cutting.
A quirky historic column offers farming tips on sow bedding and littering, vegetable soil care, and how to handle sows in high condition. It notes baby beef for faster returns with skilled stock care, sugar beets for market gains amid shortages, and urges planning a four year crop rotation system.
A report on agricultural prospects in the Virgin Islands notes limited cultivation beyond sugarcane and Sea Island cotton, with scarce vegetables and fruit. Recommendations include better stock, forage crops, and improved dairying and farm handling. Also mentions nationwide employment of agricultural workers, and brief notes on manure use and castration of young boar pigs.
The Boy Scouts of America was incorporated February 8 1910 under District of Columbia laws, granted a federal charter June 15 1916 by act of Congress. The text notes the movement’s broad interpretation of scouting, urges protection of its good name, and states only the U S army and marine corps may wear uniforms similar to those of scouts, with permission granted for the BSA to use its own uniforms.
Detroit scouts assisted city and nearby towns with traffic control, aided at the army and navy recruiting station, cleaned Main Street corners, and ran a first aid tent with a rest hammock. They cared for 29 patients, found eight missing children, participated in six parades, and achieved 88 percent in six mobilization calls. They aided in two auto and two street car accidents, helped in eight city fires, staffed the museum during Red Cross events, attended four city conventions, raised 265 dollars for the Michigan Thirty-first troop comfort fund, reported nine quarantine cases, and conducted three factory flag raisings, while supporting a family with a bedridden father and distributing Christmas baskets annually.
Treasury department rejects conferring military titles on Boy Scouts for war stamp campaign praise. Boy Scouts of America leadership opposes the plan, citing ongoing cooperation with the war department and avoidance of soldiery imitation in line with federal charter and army organization law.
Boy scouts in Independence Missouri find a wartime aid by cutting old cloth into gun wipers, stringing about 150 per bundle for shipment to nearby camps where ammunition and equipment are scarce. They supply a practical item soldiers need to keep rifles clean.
New York City organizes the first troop of Boy Scouts composed entirely of five year veterans. Each member wears a veteran scout pin to show long service as a first class scout and member of the Boy Scouts of America. The veteran scout idea spreads with the slogan once a scout, always a scout.
About 140 boy scouts from Buite were guests of the Rotary club at the Nine Mile reservoir. A sport program, Rotarian addresses, and refreshments marked the day’s events.
Boy scouts in Lima remove torn political literature from telegraph poles as election excitement fades. They conserve paste board and paper for sale while a New Brunswick scout cooks for his hospitalized mother’s lecture.
In a playful quip, Bil-Dro asks if a man can ever have enough room in a sleeping car while a contortionist brother demonstrates flexibility. The Good Tenants boast their gaiety, claiming they are not merely tenants but redecorators who recently refreshed the house after previous occupants left.
A fragmentary caption appears with lines about “A Different Kind For many years” an artist abroad and a humorous dialogue involving cows, a burglar joke, and a political quip about unity versus division with Germany unused in context. The readable bits suggest a cartoon caption or caption-style humor from a periodical.
A mixed, midcentury style collage touts Dr. Pierce's Anuric as a swift remedy for kidney pains, backache, and rheumatic twinges, claiming dramatic personal recoveries. It blends testimonials, historical lore, and sensational warnings about dangerous kidney disease if ignored.
An article surveys the Watling street tradition from Dover to Chester and the milky way theory. It notes the name’s cautious linking by antiquaries to Roman roads across England, with England’s North Conch variant rarely still called Watling street and no strong ancient origin firm.
A broad scan of the page highlights Green's August Flower touted as a cure for constipation liver troubles and general malaise with quick relief after a few doses. The Medico Laurentiin museum of Florence possesses a claim to the world’s most valuable book. Castoria is urged for infants and children with a warning to inspect the label. A humorous exchange about poker and a note on Atlanta city employee salaries appear as brief items.
An old time advertisement touts GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules as a standard remedy for kidney liver bladder and urinary tract issues. It claims long history of use and vows refund if not effective, urging immediate use to avoid delays that could worsen health.
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