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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1917
Page
9
The text explains skirmish line drills for a company with intervals, guiding right or center during deployment. It covers base squad designation, corporal leadership, and step by step deployment from line and column of squads, highlighting how squads form skirmish lines and how guides direct front placement and halts.
The base squad Deploys after a set interval and other squads follow once they reach the general line. If required by the ten considerations squads may deploy earlier. Each corporal signals "As ekirinishers" and the line halts abreast of him. The whole formation aims for orderly progress with squad fronts advancing by terrain and cover. When halted soldiers face the front, the enemy’s direction, and lie down to maximize cover if available.
The passage explains how a company and its corporals deploy into skirmish lines and form lines from different orders. It covers guiding directions, oblique deployments, flank or rear shifts, and assembling into line from company or platoon levels, emphasizing corporal-led execution and trainee learning. It ends with a note on tourists seeing English firms compress tea into plug-tobacco blocks.
New York fashion note surveys autumn trends with a shift to narrower skirts and rising bustle cues. It tracks tie backs from Civil War era minimalism to modern sheath lines, sleeves, jackets, and a polonaise revival, predicting a family album jacket with forward pull and high collars as a standout.
The shirtwaist dress is a season favorite, offered in tub silk crepe de chine and shirt ing flannel. It pairs simple morning wear with tennis attire, often striped with white collar and cuffs, and features a waist joined to the skirt for secure wear during activity. Only a third of South America's population is of pure white blood.
Mrs Etta Dorion of Ogdensburg reports sharp and stabbing female pains relieved after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She credits the product with lasting relief after years of illness and notes doctors advised surgery, which she avoided. The testimonial urges other women with difficulties to try the remedy.
A travelling wild beast show offered a silver medal to any barber brave enough to shave a lion in the den. A bold barber stepped in amid cheers, nervously dabbed at his cheek, and declared he was not afraid, while the tamer admitted the lion showed little interest and the barber confessed fear.
A dialogue fragment recalls a man who loved his friend’s wife and later married her. He faced no divorce, instead planning a hunting trip in Maine woods. The exchange hints at a concealed relationship and a dramatic motive behind the marriage.
In a stage exchange Markey and Oh note they can skip the final act. Oswald recalls paying five dollars. The program lists Act 4 as same as Act 1, suggesting a circular scene setup or running gag.
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