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Newspaper
Kansas City Sun
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1918
Page
6
A mid age man in the capital scene draws attention while window shopping Panamas and style notes. Two women speculate on his life, singling out a possible single status and a past with family duties. The piece ends with reflections on humble pie and pre show observations.
Mean Ward O Malley notes in Century Magazine how wartime Washington swelled with newcomers and relatives. He describes skyrocketing rental prices from $10 to $40 50 monthly, with rooms and even furnished apartments fetching vast sums while vacancies persisted apart from the German embassy.
A yellow flag appeared on Central High School’s 60 foot mast after halyards were cut. Student Jay Long failed climbing the pole, Carl Stein later brought down the torn banner. Rumors blame Tech with painted yellow on a morning prank while emphasizing it did not reflect Tech or school spirit.
Potomac Park social charity teahouse run by Mrs Donald Washburn and Miss Carolyn Nash funds Red Cross. Uniformed volunteers wear Red Cross outfits and national service school khaki. Belle Baruch, attending from Wall Street circles, wears Women’s Radio corps pattern uniform.
A detailed Sierra High Peak expedition describes a multi day, four night trek from Tuolumne Meadows to Lyell Peak and Thousand Island Lake. Guides horses and gear are arranged in the valley with a route past Rafferty and Parsons peaks, Donohue Pass, and Banner Peak ending back in the valley.
Dr Carl Lumholtz, a Norwegian traveler, recounts encounters with six rhinoceros hunters west of Borneo. He notes tobacco sustenance during food scarcities, a Suputan chief ear piercing ceremony with a tiger tooth, and a dramatic ritual ending with blood and a river stone. The Dyaks near Upper Mahakkan remain friendly, with limited external influence. He observes high muscular development and graceful movement among women, and that headhunting has largely ceased under Dutch influence, last noted five years prior.
EW YORK. Lieut Joseph B Smith, author of Over There and Back and Trench Warfare, writes from France after years with Canadian and Scotch armies. He shares his twelve year old brother Paul’s letter asking about Allied bravery, democracy, and how American boys can help, including requests for outlines and reflections on young war heroes and bravery. The boy questions why American youths lack similar chances and asks if John Traverse Cornwell handled a gun.
In Baltimore at the Methodist Home for the Aged an 82 year old man BB Goffard Fuller stands to gain a rumored fortune of 540000 pounds from England. A London attorney C A Kerr allegedly confirms the estate may be settled after a century long dispute involving an English earldom and several generations including Fuller’s mother Hicanor, her grandfather Nathan Ireland, and other heirs. Fuller says he and an uncle Carroll Ireland would share if true, though he does not count on it.
In New York City's Ghetto eighteen youths, sons of enemy aliens, form a self styled company to “lick the Kaiser.” They conduct a daily camp routine including drill and mock battles using improvised gear amid alleyways and vacant lots, under Captain Pete, facing cops and vendors as adversaries.
In Atlantic City a War emergency conference of the National Baby Vehicle Manufacturers association lamented government use of materials for baby carriages. Manufacturers warned that essentials neglect risks fewer babies and potential impacts on future soldiers, citing steel shortages and threats to baby carriage production.
Massachusetts experts urge catching only small lobsters to let larger ones breed as prices rise and supply dwindle. They blame federal propagation errors and propose seasonal closures aligned with Canada to boost stocks, warning Maine and Massachusetts may face scarcity, leaving lobsters a luxury for the wealthy.
The text surveys fish fecundity from cods spawning up to 45 million eggs per season to herrings with estimates of 154 million eggs per pair over three years. It notes extraordinary finds such as an eel with over 10 million eggs and details eye counts in various species, emphasizing cod as very prolific and oysters showing microscopic, crowded shell generations. It cites Buffon on herrings multiplying for 20 years to equate global bulk to London.
A stranger at a camp Y hut jokes about a clothing store while hats and caps sit behind the desk. A July in khaki asks for a baseball loan and leaves with the ball, as the secretary notes their method of tracking athletic gear by lending rather than inventorying.
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