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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1918
Page
12
Mary Elizabeth Crabtree, mascot of the National Education Association, along with Mary C C Bradford president, urges teachers to boost junior Red Cross membership. She seals envelopes for the campaign and plans to invest earnings in war savings stamps to support the war effort.
Highlanders report indescribable atrocities by German forces in France. Sergeant A Good of the Seaforth Highlanders recounts a hut ruin with a woman nailed to a wall and a three year old impaled on a hook, left to die. The village was captured and recaptured with further slain, a grave toll of cruelty.
In Greenwich Connecticut a plain mule disrupted a Round Hill dairy wagon, munching lemon pies from Conklin's bakery while the driver paused for breakfast. Wealthy locals who ordered other flavors were left pieless as the animal favored the citrus crust.
A new double knitting method from Australia reaches Chicago women via Miss Brown who teaches the technique. The Red Cross in Evanston sells the directions to raise funds for relief, enabling learners to produce a right and a Jeff sock simultaneously.
A reflective, verse like note on April showers arriving, budding trees, and the yearly danger of a late freeze. The passage muses on temptation as a soft whisper rather than a roar, tying nature to enduring human frailties.
An ad style fragment asserts that children cry for Fletcher's Castoria amid discussion of 127 dialects in Russia and the lack of a uniform system of common schools.
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