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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1918
Page
3
American Red Cross nurses in French and British hospitals describe cold corrugated huts and woolen layers as they care for wounded. Letters recount brutal combat scenes, trenches, and lifting spirits with red comfort blankets amid harsh winter and distant sunny days.
In Harrisburg Alabama local readers learned Ferdinand Alvey died at Camp Taylor from pneumonia complications. His mother Mrs John Alvey was beside him, and the body was sent home. A startling error revealed a different corpse bearing Ferdinand Lindza Alvey aged 24. Undertakers traced the mixup to missing and misfiled casket details.
Postmaster General Burleson raises parcel post limits to boost farm product movement. Starting March 15 packages in first and second zones may weigh up to seventy pounds for delivery in first to third zones. others increase from twenty to fifty pounds.
The article argues women’s rising roles in war time, highlighting pharmacy as a prime vocation blending scientific service and business ownership. It notes women in British military hospitals and in U S drugstores, with education and licensing open to them, and cites the University of Illinois School of Pharmacy as offering training after high school.
Local notes report Mrs Clyde Goodwin leaving Saturday for Camp Funston Kansas where her husband is stationed. Other items mention visitors, a death from diphtheria, job moves, and a shoe supply plan for U S troops with totals in the millions under the Quartermaster General's Department.
Vern Winters enlisted in the mechanical department of the aviation corps in Terre Haute and will soon depart for camp. He married his fiancée Miss Sylvia Napier from near Martinsville the day after enlistment, as a congregation left the church with a sense of duty well done.
To E D Morton County Clerk Clark County Illinois you are requested to call a special meeting of the Board of Supervisors of Clark County Illinois at the court house in Marshall on Monday the 11th day of March A D 1918 at one o clock p m for the purpose of allowing claims against said county and to transact other business before the County Board Dated at Marshall Illinois the 1st day of March A D 1918 Norman V Forsyths Edward Pearce Burns Hurst W O A Byram J B Hombrook Leander Wright Supervisors
Mr. W. Houk of Marshall yards his back and kidney pain to horse shoing strain. He recounts suffering for two years with hip pains and nocturnal kidney secretions before using Dean's Kidney Pills. After five or six boxes his trouble vanished and he has worked steadily since. Sold 60c at dealers, Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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