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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1919
Page
11
The piece urges graduation speakers to emphasize Savings and Thrift Stamps to influence new graduates. It links Memorial Day observances in Wisconsin to wartime thrift campaigns and explains thrift now benefits individuals and government alike, expanding from a wartime to a personal practice.
The piece notes that postal workers in Wisconsin and nationwide will support the Uncle Sam Thrift campaign in 1919. Carriers, both urban and rural, are organizing to promote War Savings and Thrift stamps during their regular routes, visiting homes weekly to sell stamps and spread the thrift message.
A new pay day system would route salaries into bank accounts for each worker. Proposed by A Barton Hepburn ex-treasury comptroller the plan aims to curb theft by making funds readily accessible only as needed. Employers might pay interest on unwithdrawn salary, promoting savings via regular purchases of savings stamps.
Government War Savings stamps are touted as the path to financial stability. Receivers are described as the closet skeletons of habitual spendthrifts, signaling reforms and fiscal discipline amid wartime savings campaigns.
A Nish cemetery holds multiple national groups from the great Orient war. German graves form the largest plot with cement crosses, Bulgarian plots use wooden crosses, and smaller Austrian, French, Italian, Serbian, Romanian, Russian prisoner plots are nearby. New graves for refugees who died from influenza also appear amid the mass.
The War Department approved a plan to keep in commission at least 1080 tanks with 880 heavy type. Each army corps will have a signal tank brigade attached. A heavy battalion includes 48 fighting tanks with 22 reserves and a light battalion has 45 fighting machines with 27 in reserve. The corps total is 133 battle craft ready, with 75 awaiting orders.
In Humps Mills a man and his helper opened a hollow log while chopping firewood and found a living swarm of rabbits. They killed seventeen rabbits, plus three squirrels and a skunk, as the log appeared to teem with life.
Police seek a burglar in Steubenville Ohio who handled babies. He moved the infant from a cradle to a bed while the parents slept, apparently thinking valuables were hidden there. The parents awoke to find the baby between them amid a disrupted room.
Police seek a muscular thief who abstracted 660 pounds of rolled oats from a San Francisco warehouse. Night watchman Max Miller reports missing 12 sacks weighing 60 pmunts each. Burglary believed to involve carrying sacks some distance as no wagon or car was found nearby.
Thomas Polley of Duquoin IL did not hike to the Rhine yet he estimates he has tramped about 250000 miles for Tarlo Sam in carrying mail for peace efforts.
Wisconsin schools host many foreign born children who actively participate in Thrift and War Savings stamps programs. Teachers instruct in thrift stamp lessons, prompting students to buy stamps for themselves and their families. Milwaukee’s leading school system serves 26 nationalities, teaching English and saving culture through daily thrift activities.
An early citizen aims to shape youth as future community leaders. The piece urges boys to earn money honestly, save and invest in Thrift stamps, and divide earnings for mother, savings, and spending. It warns against stinginess and peer imitation, using Bobby Jones as a cautionary example of conspicuous spending.
Thomas W Bore a Wisconsin education director urged thrift instruction in a talk on Opportunity citing statistics: from 100 men who die three leave estates over 10000 dollars, fifteen leave 2000 to 10000, eighty two leave no income property. among 100 widows eighteen well off, forty seven must work, thirty five in want. He praised France after 1870 indemnity guiding thrift and urged using Little Lessons in Thrift and the Pupil's Thrift Garden to teach children to save from one cent onward.
The piece argues Wisconsinites face housing pressure this spring with many unable to find rental space and forced to buy on installment plans. It promotes thrift and War Savings stamps as a means to build a substantial first payment within five years, enabling home purchase later. The slogan urges saving now to buy later.
The piece credits Bishop Samuel Fallows as a widely respected American cleric who, in youth, earned 26 days of work for cents paid in quarters. It argues that even then he understood thrift paying dividends, noting the value of saving through thrift stamps and War Savings stamps beyond their face value.
A firm foundation. Safety, increase and negotiability are provided by War Savings stamps. They can always be converted into cash in ten days at the nearest post office if you must have the money.
Dairy Division of USDA educates about milk value through lectures, demonstrations, charts, and films across six regions. In Bridgeport two milks specialists spoke to five meetings reaching 1,600, with diverse audiences. A Illinois factory allows midday milk deliveries and notes improved efficiency and temper. New Haven store promotes milk with posters and six tickets for 25 cents, distributing half pint bottles and straws to clerks.
A humorous cartoon page lists professional puns linking body parts to job advice. Phrenologists and oculists are urged to sharpen business sense, manicure and pedicure jostle with tools, and other trades receive playful twists, ending with chorus girls good at figures.
A condemned catalog lists wartime horrors blamed on Germany including invasion of Belgium sinking of the Lusitania bombing civilian cities and plots against the United States. It asserts ruthless submarine warfare deportations and atrocities by German soldiers and officers, with censorship and looting mentioned.
During a temporary substitution by a gospel minister at a newspaper office a subscriber sent a menacing note threatening violence over a missed renewal. The minister joked that extracting the editor’s stubbornness could be done with twenty church members, illustrating the humorous exchange.
A brief humor item features a small boy and a Deacon in a witty exchange about cigarettes. The boy jokes that his mother would “raise hell” because the cigarettes belong to her, delivering a light, clipped quip suitable for a humorous column.
Milan seeks offers from American firms to supply woolen huts for homes to ease a severe house famine worsened by scarce brick cement and transport. Huts offer cheap, durable shelter seen as quick aid after earthquake losses in Messina and Avezzano while Italy’s government funding remains far short of needs.
In Sault Ste Marie Michigan a man named C M Spurbeck killed a large creature in a red wolf pack. It had a dog's head and wolf body. Officials scramble over bounty eligibility and legal authority to pay on half wolves.
Octavius Roy Cohen Jr three year old son of the Birmingham author and playwright astonished educators and musical critics by naming 200 operas in a juried test. New Orleans public schools head Nicholas Bavey led the panel and praised the exhibition as phenomenal as the child identified operatic selections starting with the Weir Gynt suite.
A large buffalo blocked a passenger train on La Veta Pass at night, denting the locomotive with its head. The beast returned to strike again and rolled the train into a ditch a second time. The train was moving slowly, avoiding likely fatalities.
Official casualty tallies report 32,454 officers killed or missing and over 4,330,000 soldiers wounded or dead. The figures, compiled by a staff officer from official lists, reflect heavy losses during the war.
Mrs. Rohtes of Kenosha Wisconsin cracked an egg while baking a cake and a hard marble rolled out, surprising her as spring marble play returns.
Yaqui Indians crossing from Sonora Mexico into the United States obtained a large supply of army ammunition and matériel from American sources. The action underscores cross border tensions as authorities monitor arms movements near the boundary.
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