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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1918
Page
7
Tom Mix stars in Six Shooter Andy a pop and action picture plus There’s Many a Fool a Fox comedy with Hank Mann Two acts run at 7 o clock with admission 10 and 15 cents Bring the kiddies to enjoy a lively evening at the cinema.
Mr. and Mrs. Zenas Murphy and son Donald are ill with influenza. Several neighbors and relatives visit and assist. Other locals chat, travel, and help with farm chores as the community copes with illness and a major operation in Paris.
Local notes show visits among Terre Haute residents and Marshall people, with travel to Danville Chicago and St Louis. News covers fire scare, sales of land, postal and camp discharges, social gatherings, and family updates through the week.
All calls for army and navy induction are cancelled and men 18 to 35 may enlist in the navy without draft board ties. Ratings now open include hospital apprentice, fireman, machinist mate, apprentice seaman for radio, shipwright, boilermaker, ships cook, and officers servant. Enlistment is four years with Class One and Class Two enrollments also offered. Illinois applications go to the Peoria Recruiting Station.
A speaker laments a nationwide flu outbreak likening it to a consuming disease. He cites sneezing, feverish symptoms, and body aches, noting past illnesses but warning the current illness delivers stronger misery and fear.
The Reichstag recommends moving workers from cities to small detached cottages with light air and nutritious food to raise births. It notes many mutilated soldiers marry older women, harming repopulation, and proposes more children clinics to cut infant mortality.
A crew of fourteen framers two foremen and four riggers at the Sup ple Ballin shipbuilding yards Port lind Ore built and placed eighty nine frames in forty and one half hours. Frames were double bolted together with sixty four screws and two coats of carbolineum were applied before bolting.
A pure bigd Holstein bull about 12 months old for sale. described as well bred and a good individual. Located at 4 Noble Correll Robinson Michigan route 6.
Scottsburg draft board sent papers for a man seeking exemption due to marriage since August 5, 1918. The third district appeal board returned them with deferred classification refused and a note that the place can be filled by another. It is presumed clerks wrote a refusal reason for industrial grounds on the papers.
The Paris Stars and Stripes describes varied loadouts among soldiers. One squad member carries a full pack with extra shoes overcoat and many corned Willie cans while another advances with only a blanket gas mask and helmet.
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