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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1918
Page
9
Article describes use of electric searchlights by Allied forces to disrupt Austrian and German air and ground operations. Field lights mounted on motor tracks illuminate tank and infantry movements. antiaircraft searchlights defend depots and bombing raids. Receivers aid locating planes before lights flare.
Washington reports that Germany and Austria faced grain shortages as they failed to seize Ukraine’s grain, forcing bread ration cuts. The article links shortages to sabotaged supplies and a Czech-Slovak army tied to Russia, while noting rising Michigan women factory workers.
Urgent appeal urges owners of walnut trees or logs to sell to sawmills with government contracts for gun stocks or propeller lumber. Government cannot buy logs or trees directly. farmers are asked to contact Capt. KR. L. Oakley in Washington, D.C., to connect with mills and receive fair payment. Every tree counts toward producing propeller blades and gun stocks for soldiers.
Sixteen women in overalls load 192 pound bags of coffee and heavy sugar weights beside male dockworkers at New York Dock Company. The new crew includes an author and a former vaudeville star among widows and two Negro women. Work hours run 7 am to 5 pm five days weekly at 24 cents an hour.
Fresh beef for domestic markets moves from stockyards to retail stores in about two weeks. Though chilled, the meat is not frozen and cannot be stored for price rises.
Summer heat weakens stomach strength and worsens indigestion bowels and gas. The ad urges using EATONIC tablets to counter dyspepsia and stomach pains, claiming thousands have benefited and promising free samples with a purchase from a local drugstore.
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