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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1918
Page
9
A British Royal Flying Corps pilot engages a six craft German patrol. The dogfight ends with the Briton returning home safely after a daring low pass. The piece extols continuous gallantry of British pilots, cites bombings, and notes German bombardment of hospitals in retaliation.
Post Office Department warns parcel post to France is burdened by excessive articles. A government transport carried 715,080 letters and 835,640 parcel post pieces, weighing over 113 tons and occupying 12,000 cubic feet of space. Letters filled 846 sacks, parcels 7,452 sacks. ships, cars, and trains were required for unloading.
Secretary Houston calls on Boy Scouts of America to help win the war by growing home gardens raising pigs and poultry conserving food by canning and drying and beating their own 1918 food production records. He pledges federal and state agricultural support and urges every scout to feed a soldier and one other. The message links the effort to national victory in World War I.
An University of Oregon student in the ROTC battalion has invented a bomb designed to explode after a programmable fall distance. The device can be hurled horizontally without detonating, but when dropped it detonates after a set number of feet. If tests prove satisfactory it will be supplied to the War Department for aviation use.
State Food Administrator Walter P. Innis issues strict orders banning the use of wheat flour in paper hanger paste in Hutchinson and across Kansas. He urges the switch to commercial paste materials to ensure safety and consistency.
Swift & Company releases a handsome 1917 year book detailing the packer’s activities, stockholder address by JB F Swift, profits per head from 1912 to 1916, wartime contributions, federal investigations, and government licensing of food distributing agencies. It notes 2,800 employees entering U S service and promises to aid war efforts.
A brief Louisville Courier Journal excerpt shows a young man declaring support for Uncle Sam while the older man urges him not to stand too far back. The dialogue captures enlistment sentiment and family encouragement during a wartime era.
An old newspaper fragment markets a catarrhal disease cure with a $100 reward offer. It references Benency & Co of Toledo Ohio and includes testimonials. The text is garbled but centers on a medical remedy claiming strong effects and a reward for information or participation.
The speaker asserts a man’s resilience sustains others as the world progresses. He notes a wife depends on his support and claims those who endure will be pulled out of difficult situations through grit.
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