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Newspaper
Fulton County Tribune
Location
Wauseon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1917
Page
6
A disputed order from Judge Warner triggers Starbuck and John to push toward the courthouse as police and conspirators converge. Dramas unfold around the garage, a telephone clash, and a plan to meet at the courthouse while evading a sweep by armed men.
Sheriff and deputies plot a stealth assault to seize Stanton on a case of complicity while Starbuck and Smith race along river roads pursued by a gunboat of police. They dodge a fast train crossing and move toward Hillcrest, planning to confront Corry Baldwin about a tangled entanglement as time runs out.
Sheriff Flardinie's posse and deputies gather at night along Brewster street and Timan Yor road to seize a man claiming a U S marshal badge. A heated exchange precedes a cautious advance toward Hophra House, as tensions rise over authority and a prior seizure.
A wartime letter argues for diverting garbage to hog feeding to lower waste and create a profitable end product. It cites Engineering News Record supporting sanitary benefits and possible higher per ton yields. It notes a ready market paying $16 per hundredweight and recalls past city practices hindered by unsanitary opposition.
In a curious barter, cedar rails are traded for woven wire fences to supply cedar pencil wood. Agents persuade farmers to swap old rails for wire fences, yielding high valued cedar strips usable in pencil production, while rail owners gain modern fencing. A Tennessee farmer resists but the cedar value proves greater.
In a humorously cryptic exchange a customer questions meat tenderness while an Indian vendor touts a buying rule. The report cites a US Department of Agriculture bulletin praising Sofa as a crucial food plant next to rice, noting its use in Alice Pork and Beans. A social aside hints at youth and old beaus amid quick-witted banter.
A collection of small comic vignettes and lines about a restless baseball hopeful Tommy Tonkins who learns a hard lesson after soaking his hands in salt water leads to a window breaking mishap. Another quip centers on a wedding gift of a flatiron and a bird’s warning about a violent husband, followed by jokes about life insurance and grudges in marriage.
An American driver recounts visiting an England instruction camp then sailing home. A gunner misidentifies a sapling as a pig after an officer’s lesson. A winter scene notes a child’s "snowbow" idea and a Red Cross ad appears amid agricultural department work touring staff of 16,000.
Excerpts from Kansas City Journal pieces mix social quirks with a jab at class ambition and romance. A cabaret dancer, a pretentious hours girl, and a blue eyed beloved figure appear amid ad copy for Aliee Beans, a Soja Navy blend. The text hints at ongoing chatter on society, innocence, and rumor, ending with a wartime style call to attack rats as food wasters.
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