04 Jul 1918
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Newspaper
Iuka Vidette
Location
Iuka, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1918
Page
1
A letter from Guntown Mississippi writer W A Buakeny commends the Vidette for its righteousness and loyalty, supports Allied cause against the Kaiser, and urges continued usefulness. The note, dated June 26 1918, also reports local health, travel, and visitors, listing several residents and events nearby.
Weather dry. crops need rain as Miss Bitha Clingan visits Eastport. Ice cream suppers popular. watermelons near ripening. Pleasant Hill Sunday School meets weekly. Various visits and trips noted among locals. a birth announced. Maud Alabama native Tim Quillian dies. others travel to Sheffield for work. Mentions of neighbors, camps, and a curious note on onions and appetite.
Draughon Jno F founder of Praughon Colleges leases space in Elka Building Jackson Tenn to open a Draughon Jackson College by July 10 enrolling about 10 students. It will offer world famous Draughon Courses with placement aid through Nashville Employment Department and promises office positions from $65 to $125 monthly. A charter enrollment offer grants special tuition to first fifty students.
Dear Editor and readers recount life in Whitton Arkansas with crop news mosquitos tents meetings and marriages plus church activities and Red Cross efforts. Also notes on military service farm life and Liberty Loan support detailing community response and rural subscription figures.
Rem Mossy and Robwerr Carter of Troop M and H 802nd Cavalry describe their move from Iuka Mississippi to New Orleans and on to Camp Nicholls Arizona. They detail train travel, Red Cross welcomes, desert landscapes near the Mexican border, weather, camp life, and plans to train with horses for a possible assault.
A dark wartime verse envisions mercy for the Kaiser ending in perpetual torment. The speaker vows lavish luxury followed by battlefield rot, a French girl’s child, and the ruin of Lusitania, culminating in forcing him to sing the Star Spangled Banner.
Miss Susie V. Powell urges using Irish potatoes as a substitute for wheat to aid war effort. She notes corn is already heavily used for human consumption in Mississippi and stresses rice, oatmeal, sweet and Irish potatoes as additional substitutes to conserve wheat for Allied needs.
Public health guidance on tetanus and rabies explains how infections enter the body through minor wounds and animal bites. It covers immediate wound care, carbolic acid and alcohol use, anti tetanic serum as prevention, and rabies signs in animals with advice to quarantine animals and seek veterinary observation. It also includes general care tips for babies and cautions about lighting and exposure.
A post graduation home coming social at Dormitory Monday June 24 featured Prof. W. R. Nettles and his bride. Guests praised the couple and the toast by Mrs. Moor wished the couple a long life and heavenly reunion. The bride and groom were described as refined and estimable and guests said they had the best time ever.
Secretary McAdoo argues for prompt tax increases for the 1919 fiscal year to avoid large loan dependency. He favors war profits taxes, higher normal income taxes on unearned incomes, and heavy taxes on luxuries, despite public complaint about physician shortages. He notes urban death rates are at historic lows while rail schedules in Iuka, Mississippi shift June 16, 1918.
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