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Newspaper
Inter Mountain Globe
Location
Hulett, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1918
Page
7
A small voice asks What is a back number as Pa explains it using cars and athletes. A correction notes it is easier for a girl to believe she is pretty than to persuade others. Dialogue includes Willie and Johnny with classroom missteps and a Boston Transcript quip.
Frances Toplitz writes from New York on how French families adapt to displacement, lodging, and rationing during wartime. She notes government plans, Red Cross support, improvised homes, practical meals, and the resilience of women as they rebuild with Marmite stoves and modest rations.
Instructions for drying corn at the milk stage, including husking, worm injury removal, and keeping silks. Steps cover boiling time 8 to 12 minutes, sun drying or drier temperatures 130 to 140 rising, final oven finish 160 to 165 for two hours, and storage in muslin bags to prevent moisture.
Big battle area guns from Flanders are returned for overhaul after a shell prompted premature explosion. Journalists inspecting war work note one gun blew in two. Experts examine the shell defect as early war faulty shells caused many destructions. Europeans invent imitation glass resembling cellulose for roofing automobiles.
Oliver Wendell Tolmer argues that talent welcomes society but struggles under constraint while genius resists harnessing. He notes talent runs in families and faces envy, pity, and risks such as failure, debt, or bad reputation, contrasting common mediocrity with rare exceptional ability.
Troops from many regiments gathered in a French quay shed before boarding a 20 knot troop ship bound for the French coast. The night crossing included watches, discipline reminders, and a near-miss with a suddenly illuminated danger light before dawn disembarkation behind a protective breakwater.
A collection of brief, old newspaper style jokes. A prisoner faces a jail term with a clever line about 42 days at the fireside. A Boston Evening Transcript note mentions an asylum visit to see a friend off. A Smith family dinner exchange ends with a wife preferring solitude to uninvited Murray visits.
A pure blue laundry product promises whiter clothes with a claim of true blue color. Packaged in a large size and sold by reputable grocers for six cents. Customers are urged to ask for it today.
A witty exchange has readers noting a humorous jab about a bare apology being dressed by the speaker. The banter pivots on a playful misunderstanding and culinary quip between two speakers.
A German agent in the United States proposed buying American newspapers to influence public opinion, suggesting spending up to 50 million dollars to keep the U.S. out of war. The plan was not carried out, and readers are warned that even if agents had turned pro American, shifts would have been quickly noticed by the press and public. The piece reflects on German attempts to sway opinion and the resilience of independent journalism.
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