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Newspaper
Inter Mountain Globe
Location
Hulett, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1918
Page
4
A veteran reflects on what war taught him about life. He describes sharper empathy for others, hunger, loneliness, and physical pain. The experience changed his view of happiness, joy, and mortality, shaping a more serious outlook.
The Risorgimento paper compares Italy's current crisis to ancient Rome. Germanic forces from the north and east attacked across the Alps toward Friuli and the Ison River region while Austrian-descended tribes crossed into Italy. Rome, though struck, reorganized legions under Marcus Aurelius era leadership to defend the plains and Alpine approaches.
In London the Duke of Marlborough criticizes tax measures aimed at farmers, praising the British farmer’s wartime resilience and skill. He warns against overtaxation and argues profiteering does not apply to agriculture, noting rising costs but modest net profits around 10 to 12 percent.
Ambassador Morgenthau recounts a stroll with the German envoy on August 25 1914 noting German plans to loot Paris art treasures if victory comes and to press for harsh terms after defeating France. He cites Krupp profits and demand for harbors and rail rights, with hopes of quick peace if Paris falls. A separate European wire recalls a jailed vagrant and a bath after arrest.
A fragment suggests the word tip stems from English coffeehouses where tip boxes carried inscriptions about bumpiness, with initials allegedly forming the word up. The theory, amid doubts about service speed, tests readers on accepting the playful origin claim.
Behind British lines in France a government issue includes a three part jack knife for each soldier. The four inch steel blade can opener and marlin spike serve multiple front line needs from meals to wood cutting and gear maintenance. The marlin spike’s myth as a torture tool is shown as German propaganda.
English food authorities crack down on profiteers and hoarders in a Nab- Clonal Food Journal feature. Morris Wash of Thames receives six weeks in prison and a 250 fine for pricing margarine above the max. others, including Joseph Luhman of North Ion, A. B. Gibson, president of the Nottingham Grocers Association, and J. Robertson of Parre Bank, face fines for overpricing, profiteering, and related offenses as trustees of public property.
Patrick Fenton argues poverty stems from fear of money and a starved soul. He says savings without fulfillment breeds real poverty, urging readers to value nature's wonders, dream boldly, and build solid foundations through small, steady deeds.
The report details multiple penalties for food restrictions violations. Jesse F. Courney of Tow Street paid 76 dollars for serving meatless days with surplus goods seized for four weeks. Mrs. Wild of Winston offered three shillings per pound for butter for the wounded and was bound over for 12 months. Albert Norrish and Kenneth Lunille, Cardiff club leaders, faced 2040 dollars and 000 dollars fines with coats for excessive meat consumption. Charles and Sarah Marfleet each fined nine dollars for feeding six greyhounds wheat bread soaked in milk. Thomas Halley of Graffoe fined 59 pounds for feeding barley to cattle.
A historical note quotes a 1770 New England Chronicle paragraph about patriotic women in Chester County joining plows to seed fall crops as men depart to defend liberty. The passage evokes a familiar modern echo of women’s wartime labor and national duty.
An Armenian girl describes arriving in New York at dusk and feeling safe walking the streets at night for the first time since leaving Turkey. She recalls past fear, the crowding of Constantinople, and the joy of American liberty, passports, spies, and soldiers all gone.
In old Kentucky, a plane news fragment describes peasants, a father urging resilience, and a contemptuous remark about Yankees reflecting regional sentiment amid wartime rhetoric. The piece conveys a rustic, rural response to distant events in a tersely humorous tone.
A wartime dispatch reports Austro German armies looting Italian churches and villages, destroying crops and art, and forcing prisoners of war into harsh, starving conditions. Italian POWs suffer deprivation, with many dying from hunger and disease en route to and in concentration camps. Mauthausen shows slightly better care due to Italian doctors and comrades.
A fragment from the Pittsburgh leader Neville Inland describes a legend of the area where an old white mule and a flint rock musket symbolize a bygone weapon era. An elder recalls Sol Ague telling of settlers, hostile Indians, and frontier hardships while a stranger carrying a musket ends a tale of the era.
In a reflective piece Brandies recalls leaving Germany at 20, dodging military service, and facing a court martial for absence without leave. He describes German obedience, the brutal logic of war, and contrasts it with America's fight for Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity.
Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst accredited representative of the British Woman's party arrives in New York to strengthen war work ties with American women. She says the party backs a win the war program, aims for industrial justice and higher living standards, and will blacklist pacifists or hindrers of the war effort while praising allied victory.
A wartime dispatch describes Austrians brutalizing Italian prisoners and pursuing Irredenti, Italian subjects from provinces long part of Venice who fought in the Italian army. The piece references Battiat Filzi and Sauro as martyrs and notes repeated searches for Irredenti with rewards for success.
In a tense scene a colonel questions prisoners as they march across a hall. The guards’ ferocious snouts and insidious manner terrify the captives, who plead their origins. One man insists he is from Della Italia, while an Austrian Walliffa and companion signal a man’s disappearance.
Milan's committee on preparedness and civil assistance runs a practical course for women and daughters to make and repair footwear. Volunteers provide information on tools and materials. Sessions are held Sundays from 9 to 12 in the Women's Industrial Society quarters at Via Brisa No 8.
A New York World letter describes Washington during wartime change. It notes a striking image of a white female uniformed driver amid black laborers, population growth of 70 000 excluding soldiers, and rapid tent rises. Congress debates Pomerene to curb extortion while alley laws may be postponed.
Readable fragment shows Mrs Umiyon or Urawon examining a cake held between fingers while a person named Uneon or Newson narrates. Dialogue hints at mistaken identity, playful banter, and noting the cake's cherry and strength amid a surreal wartime dinner scene.
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