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Newspaper
Fulton County Tribune
Location
Wauseon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1918
Page
7
A fragmentary reminiscence about a conversation between San Geare Robey and a well known brother, touching on doubt about writing a book and a remark about a jury’s verdict for manslaughter, with stray typos and odd phrasing.
An old herbal remedy, Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery, is praised as a tonic for health. The piece notes its herbal nature, long-standing reputation, and lack of alcohol or narcotics, promoting it for general vitality.
In Reading, Pa, the British ambassador Lord Reading, young in appearance and talent, finds comic trouble when a waiter insists on a signed bill. A playful exchange unfolds as the waiter asks for a signature and the ambassador reluctantly complies, prompting further lighthearted remarks about identity.
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A collage of light humor from cartoons and jokes. A corporal known as the champion optimist quips about keeping spirits up. Various anecdotes describe everyday mishaps and comic misunderstandings, including a fall from a second story window and a family overheard at the door.
North Dakota undertakes large scale rodent control across counties with a state funded plan under federal cooperation. Campaigns target prairie dogs gophers and other pests, reporting millions of acres treated and substantial crop protection gains.
The article extols farm machinery as crucial to feeding the nation and supporting the war effort, urges careful seed selection and soil health, notes asparagus and clover value, and warns of manure losses. It highlights beekeeping issues, crop yields, and practical tools like a two row cultivator as time and horse savers.
In 1916 over 5,000,000 acres were treated with poison prepared in quantity and distributed to farmers who applied it around ground-squirrel burrows. By spring 1917, 16,000 North Dakota farmers joined, treating 4.5 million acres and eliminating pests, with costs under five cents per acre when labor is provided locally. Co operative campaigns in other states targeted prairie dogs and jackrabbits, guided by five essential features: cooperation, trained leadership, a unit plan, financial support, and legal pest extermination.
Foul-destroying rodents plague the United States with prairie dogs, ground squirrels, pocket gophers, and others damaging wheat oats corn alfalfa potatoes beans fruit melons and almonds and pasture. East of the Mississippi rabbits woodchucks meadow mice and white footed mice menace gardens. The annual crop losses reach 150 million dollars, based on USDA field reports and farmer input, excluding house mice and rats.
Estimates submitted by state directors of agricultural extension show large crop losses to native rodents. Montana ranges 15 to 20 million dollars, North Dakota up to 10 million, Kansas 12 million, Colorado 2 million, California about 20.9 million, Wyoming 15 percent of crops, Nevada 10 to 15 percent or about 1 million, New Mexico 1.2 million with potential double.
The lesson summarizes Jesus countering scribes, Pharisees, and Sadducees as he teaches divine authority, resurrection, and love. It highlights the Parable of the Husbandman, the tribute question, the widow’s mite, and the Great Commandment, stressing belief in God’s power and the moral call to sacrifice.
The wartime religious shift in England has deepened literary reflections on death and the afterlife. H. G. Wells, once pragmatic and socialist, writes with new belief, while Sir Oliver Lodge’s Raymond on communications with his son illustrates war’s impact on faith. The war drives renewed interest in eternity and life beyond.
A Newark Marine Corps applicant claims German blood via a toe prick but fails the weight requirement. Separately, a California redwood in Mendocino County withstands wind and fire, with a sapling rising from the roots to replace the toppled trunk.
A mixed page item set includes an advert touting Othine double strength for freckles promising clear skin, plus a note on smoked shark sales along the Atlantic coast and a casting of old patent medicine claims. Also features quips about deadlines, a joke line, and a World War era travel anecdote.
A collage of quips and vignettes from a 20th century paper includes a mock telephone scene with a would be appointee, a judge and tailor gag, a Birmingham Age-Herald cartoon note, a Christian Science Monitor quote about a girl beating a boy, servant talk at a grand house, a sly Mississippi anecdote, and a blunt line about health, wealth, and a pawn broker.
A stranger contemplates making a porterhouse with mushrooms and toast, but a waiter interrupts with a joking inquiry. The scene touches on self denial as a patriotic trait in a brief, reflective moment.
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