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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1918
Page
9
Advertisement for Ironated Herbs with Pepsin from Keifer Drug Co promising to restore health. Claims include relief from fatigue headaches biliousness indigestion and general ill feeling with a guarantee to put you in the pink of condition. Also touts over a hundred other Red Cross remedies and toilet preparations.
Notice is given that Lon Alfred is appointed administrator of the estate of M A Miller late of Clark County Illinois. He will appear before the County Court of Clark County at the Marshall courthouse for the December Term on the first Monday in December to adjust claims. Creditors must attend and debtors must pay promptly. Dated October 6 1918. Lon Alfred Admr. Graham and Snavely Attys.
The Kaiser seeks a pause while armies burn cities in France and Belgium. The article argues Germany, beaten, aims for an armistice to buy time to recover its strength and pressures the United States president for peace.
The text argues that enemies once mocked America as weak and farmer armed, but now recognize the United States as a military power. It emphasizes how American industry and volunteers transformed into a powerful armed force, capable of defeating veteran divisions and pressuring adversaries toward a negotiated peace. The piece warns against underestimating the US and notes the enemy’s miscalculation in both physical power and spiritual resolve.
Chas Myles announces a new wagon yard opening in the old Harlan barn on Thursday October 10 offering livery services and day or night trips. Citizens urged to visit and try the new facility.
Marshall Lodge No. 133 AF and AM holds four stated meetings tonight at 7 30 PM. All Master Masons invited. I W Brosman secretary.
The piece recalls 18th and earlier levies such as taxes on public amusements fancy goods clocks and even statues in gardens. It notes the guinea pig tax for households with powder and pig tails and mentions taxes on soap salt and wearing gloves or mittens as once taxed items.
A New York Times tale describes a professor seeing a supposed blind beggar catch a penny and accusing him of fraud. The man admits he is not blind, explaining he holds the corner for the real mute helper who is at the movies. Miss Fanny Luckhaupt seeks county superintendent post with endorsements and notes on certification.
A group of Uncle Sam engineers learned to repair a broken dam and avert a flood in one hour. Nine beavers blocked the torrent with timber earth rocks and sod while an old dam held. An officer compared the beavers feats to wartime engineering.
German troops face a beard policy choice as gas masks may seal better on clean shaven faces or benefit from a dense beard. Deutsche Tageszeitung notes a real patriarchal beard as Teutonic and historically tied to fearsome image. Front gas tests in airtight cubicles show full beards claim added security.
William Ransford and Allen J. Jackson, seaman and wardroom cook of the national naval volunteers, braved cold seas to recover a man who slipped and fell from the forward turret of the U S Iowa. The drowning victim was W A Wells.
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