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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1918
Page
5
Department of Agriculture bulletin issued April 1 reports winter wheat at 78.6 nationwide versus 63.4 a year ago. Illinois wheat at 88 versus 60 last year. Livestock conditions broadly better than the prior year.
After reaching civilization Stefansson retreats at first glance and chooses to return to the polar environment. He prefers the remote Arctic cold over settled life and tread back toward the ice.
Local notes report Lieut Earl Mitchell stationed at Key West Florida and many visits among residents in Meadeville Pa Terre Haute Ind and Marshall Ill Various family visits travel of relatives including Dr R C Jones returning from Oakland Calif and J E McClure's son in France Also reports of the Daughters of the American Revolution meeting and a bid notice for a new Methodist church at Livingston.
Paris cabbies lure riders with a broken down engine ploy on Avenue Tractale and Rue des Martyrs. The driver feigns failure, seeks sympathy, and earns a tip before restarting the car and heading back to seek another mark.
A wartime urging to turn off night lights to save coal. The piece argues against night lights as unnecessary, unpatriotic, and hygienically unfounded, noting a 16 candle power lamp wastes coal and urging readers to conserve as part of the war effort. It invites practical acts like knitting for soldiers, cutting sugar, or skipping items to save fuel.
Popular Mechanics reports a war era invention achieving 6000 words a minute on a single grounded wire. The device is a printing telegraph using a universal recording instrument, applicable to wireless but not yet used with it. Details are withheld for military reasons as it could alter operators for the signal corps.
In a quiet dining car a teacher and his wife praised their well behaved daughter as they finished a meal. Their calm evening shifts when the girl suddenly asks her mother if they will wash the dishes. The moment adds a humorous twist to a serene scene.
The text contrasts the penny’s waning popularity with religious collectors and beggars versus the nickel’s higher status. It notes changes in consumption, weighing machines, and the influence of a “brownie” in recent years, suggesting a shift in coin economies and cultural use.
A Savannah News feature notes how capable looking young Marines, displayed in view, elevate Uncle Sam every time they are shown.
A tea room run by young women of the Congregational church is planned for Monday April 22 at an accessible location. Guests will be served sandwiches, pie and coffee with proceeds supporting the church music fund.
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