War garden notes and a temperance speaker visit
A letter describes planting a diverse war garden on July 4 with potatoes, beans, corn, lettuce, cabbage, carrots, and turnips, noting quick sprouting and water needs. It mentions Tennessee corn taller than a man with multiple ears and good roasting ears. Miss Marie Brehm, longtime temperance advocate, will speak at the church next Sunday evening reflecting on past cooperation.
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Marie Brehm
Olney
Illinois
Long Beach
QO. L. Kilborn
Soldiers’ Frontline Hope Amid Timber Work in France
From Southwestern France Percy Cox reports by letter dated June 30 that he is miles behind the firing line near Dox at the Pyrenees base, describing 20 hour days felling pine timber, harsh farming conditions, and a stubborn resolve despite hunger and hardship. He notes French farmers and oxen, old stone houses, and strong gardens, while expressing willingness to endure and support the war effort.
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Percy Cox
Dox
France
Pyrenees
Mexico
Parlez Vous
Sheriff Candidate Acknowledged in Democratic Ticket
Sheri Davis for Sherrff Shelton Davis of Marshall was announced last week as a candidate for sheriff on the Democratic ticket. After three weeks of severe fighting the Allies have driven Germany from the Soissons Rheims salient and forced a retreat toward the Aisne river with heavy losses. American casualties total 1523 with French and other allied troops making up the rest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shelton Davis
Marshall
Sheriff
Davis
Soissons-Rheims
Aisne
Evangelical Church Notices and County Judge Candidate
Emanuel Sunday School at 9 30 service 10 30 Zion Sunday School 10 00 Emanuel announces ice cream social next Wednesday Aug 14 at Schafer grove Ernst all invited J W Feller pastor Edward Pearce of Marshall to run for County Judge in Republican primary Sept 11
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County Court
Clark County
Nyotis
S. J. Dancey
Court House
Marshall
Said County
Ilinois
É. JR
Sissen
Admy
of & J. Daneay
Caceazec
Conay, Waity
Emanuel
Zion
Schafer Grove
Ernst
J. W. Feller
Edward Pearce
U Boats Murdered Thousands in Unrestricted Warfare
A government statement notes that by February 1918 German U boats killed 14,120 noncombatant British men, women, and children, excluding other nationalities. The piece warns against indifference to such murders and frames torpedoing noncombatant ships as pure murder.
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House of Commons
Letter writing the rage among wounded marines in France
In France, wounded United States marines in base hospitals are inspired to write letters home by a French stenographer who volunteers to draft their missives. The Parisian helper visits daily for dictation and triggers a surge of mail from the now literary soldiers.
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France
Petite Parisienne
Buried East Tennessee Money Invested in Liberty Bonds
Thousands of dollars buried by East Tennessee mountaineers were dug up and invested in Liberty bonds. Cash found in fireplace corners under garden trees and from hollow oak trunks dates back over a century. The third loan shows the mountaineers largely participated.
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Mountaineers of
Tennessee
Liberty Bonds
Johnson
City
Tenn
East Tennessee
German Deserter Links Brutality to Kaiser Era
Marlon Hadlich an ex German mechanic and current American citizen says German officers brutalize soldiers. He recalls injuries from sword blows and harsh punishments including forced labor and water carries. He notes his father crippled for life and plans for naturalization yet to be completed.
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Marlon, O
Curt
Hadlich
Germany
Metz
Strassburg
Navy too safe wife signs release for husband enlistment
In Pittsburgh a woman told court she opposed her husband joining the army but not the navy, calling the navy too safe. After lengthy argument she relented and signed a release allowing his enlistment.
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NAVY
Army
Pittsburgh
John Bendthson
Buck Mountain to Aid War Effort in Potatoes
Hazleton Pennsylvania readers learn Buck Mountain soil once fed the Merrimac siege is now used by amateur war gardeners to grow potatoes. The piece links local patriotism to national duty and wartime agriculture.
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Hazleton
Buck Mountain
John
Ericson
Merrimac
Human Cruelty Varying by Self Awareness, Says Lancet
The Lancet argues cruelty rests on self awareness and intent. Humans can vary from cold blooded malice to deliberate pleasure in others pain, while lower animals act on instinct without understanding suffering.
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Henry Campbell
Lancet
London
Care for Little Ailments And The Healing Shock
A nostalgic piece argues shock therapy can fix mind and body for many ailments. It recalls a blind man in San Rafael who regained sight after a 40 foot fall, Ellen who escaped a house fire with a broken hip improved, and a crippled man who outpaced dogs. The author suggests a sanitarium use of severe methods to wake the mind and erase minor troubles.
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Bill
San Rafael
Cal
Ellen
Because It Saw The Sausage Roll Under The Table
Jelly reveals a riddle style legend titled Why did the orange ice cream with playful exchanges among Jelly Telfrida Janet Peter and Beatrice Kelston Then Jelly offers witty lines about lemon sponge banana trifle gooseberry fool and a dumb walter as part of a scene from All the Joneses reflecting light humor and social banter in a quaint domestic tale
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Telfrida
Jelly
Walter
Janet
Peter
Brazil
All the Joneses
Beatrice Kelston
Make Pets of Hornbills
The yellow hornbill, a fearless bird, perches atop tropical trees and makes a noise like a pup. Africans tame young hornbills, removing them from nests and rearing them on milk and berries in huts. Grown birds stay with foster parents and eat from the same dishes, returning to the hut until mating season when they depart with a chick.
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Africa
Oriental Gesture System in Eastern Drama
A Hindu volume outlines gesture as the deaf and dumb alphabet of the soul with nine head motions for nine actions and 24 to 28 hand movements. It notes single hand gestures and double hand signs for animals, trees, and oceans, with certain poses denoting emperors, castes, or planets. The translator remarks that only a cultivated audience can appreciate such tokens.
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Los Angeles
Augusta
Conference of Federal Farm Help Specialists
Birmingham
Ala
Sheri Davis
Evangelical Church
HIN
Wiil
Kaiser
Proud Man
J. R. Burnett
E. M. Duncen
the Dulaney National Bank
Harry B. Dulaney
Bert Bryan
JR Burnett
F. W. Greenough
Cashier
Edwin’ Booth
Detroit
Florence
CLARK
Cole Bros
Black & Hutchinson, Grocers
Indiana
Alberta
Herald
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