30 Mar 1918
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Newspaper
Indiana Evening Gazette
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1918
Page
1
Unclear fragments indicate a Gazette published Sunday with advance notices. The item references Miller News Service and Indiana publication details, suggesting an official notice or alert about upcoming issues and distribution.
A historic call frames War Savings Societies as a national effort to enlist 80,000,000 men women and children in owning U.S. securities. The campaign seeks citizen involvement as voters and investors, knitting diverse Americans into a thrift driven, government supporting citizenry. Also notes social visits of Mrs Stewart and Miss McMinn during Easter season.
Indiana boy with the 15th U. S. Engineers shares vivid observations of daily life at the camp in France. He portrays scenes of training, routines, and interactions with comrades, offering a personal glimpse into military life overseas.
Wilson writes from a camp near a French village detailing army routine, living conditions, and improvements in morale. He notes barracks with double deck bunks, straw mattresses, and regular meals, and admires American engineering transforming the valley, hills, and town. He mentions cold winters and heat challenges in the unheated barracks.
British forces report repulsed German assaults at Demium and Mezieres with prisoners taken while Mezieres stands southeast of Amiens in the German offensive. Gen. Foch assumes supreme command as Allied armies unite under one leader amid rising German losses. Vast German casualties and wounded stream from Picardy as arsenals expand and prayers rise in Britain. Japan accepts no Siberian intervention after diplomatic talks in Tokyo.
A morning scene at a village near camp shows residents crawling from bed to exercise. The town has two main unpaved streets and narrow alleys. Low stone buildings, poor cleanliness, and minimal sanitation shock an American reader. Water comes from a public square pump and laundry chores occur at a hollow-sided stone facility. Women scrub at a water pool with wooden boards and wash by kneeling. A single church with a low square tower serves a religious community mostly made up of women and elderly men.
An old advertisement urges women to request free information about Triumph Pills sold only via the National Medical Institute in Milwaukee Wisconsin. It warns against using other drugs and promises safe, dependable relief without drugstore sales.
Notices state that all clerks in offices and all employees watches will be advanced one hour from 2s60 to 2300 and trains will operate at the revised standard time as adopted by the government under the Daylight Saving Law in Buffalo and Rochester.
Allied troops in a rural French village frequent three cafes known to Americans as Hole in the Wall Sugarteets and Marguerites where soldiers may only drink beer or light wine during certain hours. A single corner store in a living room serves meager stock, while sanitation and tented villages echo a wartime scene with high prices for basics and a distant town offering more amenities.
A contract movement links Saxman to Coneuamed Smokeless Coal in an $10,000 deal tied to shipments from 8 ty nets to Bast Wheatfield. The arrangement shows growing commerce between named parties and the Wheatfield market.
A husband reports his wife and three children vanished after boarding a morning train, presumed to have left Homer City for Indiana. A boarder from Cherak’s home, deserted by his wife, also left Claghorn the same day. Separate item notes the marriage of Kish Toth Alex and Miss Kathryn Toth in Homer City on March 20 by Squire Crossman at his Court Place.
Notice lists pricing and order terms for ads in the paper. It states cash with order and bans phone orders unless from regular advertisers with a running account. The fragment implies a general classified section instruction.
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