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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1918
Page
6
A chaotic wartime dispatch reports 166 missing from Tuscania and 126 bodies recovered. British and American officials coordinate memorials and survivor aid as lines of transport, search operations, and funeral arrangements unfold across Glasgow and nearby routes.
Market notes list various live weight and dressed weight prices for butter dairy products meat and poultry. Entries reference beet live weight per ewt and per dy with unclear figures, along with chicken and spring chicken items. Details are fragmentary and use antiquated spellings suggesting a late 19th or early 20th century rural market page.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions the Spar Cereal Company and items described as foul red and grain. No clear event or facts beyond company and产品 names are readable.
Fragmented OCR notes reference guns at St Quentin and named figures linked to justice and high level proceedings. Mentions President James and alleged officials, with terse references to a court and supreme authority.
Wilson speaks to farmers amid Washington debate on aid and policy. He urges unity with allies, cites wartime strains, and presses Congress for support while acknowledging public concerns over costs and inflation. The president faces questions on relief programs and farm credits as a broader national strategy unfolds.
The government funds Britain’s bread program, paying about 100 million dollars annually. Grain is seized at a fixed price, imported wheat bought en masse, milled, and sold at fixed loaf prices. The article notes poorer quality bread for U S readers and compares French pricing.
Reconnoitering party pressed near German lines and overheard safe talks and women’s laughter while troops kept silent watch. A brief engagement followed as artillery and infantry shifted to repel observers, with reports noting German trenches abandoned and Allied patrols advancing cautiously under fire.
A fragmentary wartime note describes enlistments for the Tuscania operation. It mentions engineers and multiple regiments, with crews reportedly determined to avenge the loss. The text recounts reactions at a ship sinking and quotes a speaker supporting action against the enemy.
Dr Talcott Williams director of the Columbia University School of Journalists argues newspapers bear heavy war costs and calls the craft the top public service. He notes discharges are high and wartime changes strain both staff and business. The public wrongly assumes wartime boosts profits.
An exchange with a captured German soldier unfolds as a British Tommy questions him about his wife and hints at his former honors and status. The brief encounter reveals cultural clashes and wartime tension.
The Marshfield Free Library adds numerous new titles including Abbott The immigrant and the community a work on immigration and settlement house methods. Fabres Story book of science for children. Kottcampe Elementary mechanics for practical engineers. Robinson Lessons in cookery. Stevens Bov s book of famous war ships. Gerard My four years in Germany. Harris President Wilson bid to recall life and leadership. Johnson New England travel narrative. Longstrethe The Adirondacks travel history. Peat Private Peat Canadian army memoir. Street American adventures travelogue. Whiling Canada the syllbinder Canadian society and resources. Drama Echewataay The great Caledonia. Gregory Seven short plays. Robertson Caste three act comedy. plus numerous other fiction and nonfiction titles from various authors.
Four men, two white and two Black, are under arrest in Kentucky on February 9 over the death of 24 year old widow Toy Sparks whose body was found. Hicks, his son Beber, James Legon and Will Casey are in custody and held at the Henderson jail amid fears of violence.
Joseph John Thomson, noted physicist, has been appointed master of Trinity College Cambridge after extensive service at Cavendish Laboratory and decades of scientific leadership.
The number of women employed in munition factories grows from 3 500 in 1910 to over 100 000 in 1917, per a National League of Women's Service report, with 1 266 000 women involved in industrial work linked to the war effort in some capacity.
Professional directory notes Marshfield Clinic physicians and surgeons. Listing highlights include clinicians affiliated with the Marshfield Clinic and related medical services.
Abstracts of titles and collections from Grand Rapids Wisconsin cover real estate, loans, and insurance matters handled by the justice of the peace office. Learn procedures, filing requirements, and how property interests are recorded and enforced.
A garbled field report mentions former president and a claim that he has safely weathered an eclipse. It notes cautious statements from officials about satisfactory progress and references past health issues. The text is fragmented but indicates a political or medical update tied to Roosevelt and an eclipse event.
Through volunteers alone many colleges have already given to the army and navy. A percent of their students contributed as part of a broad drive.
In Lagrange North Carolina a longtime sufferer reports cough relief after taking Vinol and gains in weight after night sleep. The ad claims Vinol as sonic and tissue builder, not a patent medicine, with formula on bottle and money back guarantee from Sexton-Demgen Drug Co Marshfield.
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