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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1918
Page
7
A World War I era portrait of La Dame Indomitable, the elderly woman sheltering in a bombed French village. She tends boots and dishes for American officers, runs a makeshift hospital, and endures shell fire while tending wounded soldiers.
London reports Lt. Arthur Rhys Davids, an Eton boy, credited with downing 22 Germans including Voss and Schafer. Missing since December, his family accepts he is dead, praising his bravery and detailing his rapid rise in the Royal Flying Corps.
In Pittsburgh and Wellsburg an informal Gretna Green is described where eloping couples quickly reach the marriage license office and altar. Mrs. Otto Schenck, sixteen, testified in divorce court about the speed and ease of elopements aided by a woman taxi driver who meets trains to transport couples without delay.
The peanut flour bread is being distributed widely by a Gainesville bakery in cooperation with chemist B F Williamson. Made from peanut cake after oil extraction, it offers higher nitrogen value than dried beef and combines one fifth peanut flour with four fifths wheat flour for a balanced bread and meat substitute. The product is touted as digestible wholesome and palatable with potential to price below wheat flour.
Y M C A reports 2 200 workers with expeditionary forces in France and England and 8 000 in American camps. General Pershing seeks 3 000 volunteers to run the France canteen system, with 1 000 more business leaders to join before July 1. The bulletin notes 8 000 000 feet of film shown weekly and large shipments of baseballs bats gloves and equipment for troops. Y M C A huts and dugouts line front lines and Russian front huts were destroyed, with 150 secretaries in Siberia awaiting return orders.
Near Iive Oaks Cal Wing a farmer killed two large wild cats along the Feather River while hunting jack rabbits One cat climbed a tree and attacked Wing a shot felled it Its mate appeared and Wing shot again to end the scene
A Nebraska man after 11 years of experiments invented a device enabling a party line user to identify any other subscriber listening to the conversation. Egypt ports saw 8340 steamers in 1916 with 1,488,415 tons cargo landed and 16,903 passengers disembarked. Merrimack County NH contributes Daniel Webster and John Paul Jones to the draft army. Mme Hone Suzuki of Japan heads a shipping company profitably since the war. An English farm girl now works as farrier and blacksmith.
Countess Laura de Gozdawa Tureszynowicz heads the Polish Gray Samaritans in cooperation with the YWCA. The Polish women in the group receive nursing and social welfare training in the United States for reconstruction work and hospital service in Poland.
Maj Edward Rist in charge of tuberculosis cases reports that under 20 percent of soldiers discharged as tuberculous in the war's early years actually had tuberculosis. The alarm over rampant disease appears unfounded.
The head of a large concern recalls misjudging responsibility after his wife left him with a poodle a Maltese cat and a bowl of goldfish to care for in a Birmingham Age-Herald item.
A concise remark notes that although yellow journalism may color a story, it still garners readership. The exchange highlights perceived value of sensational writing versus factual balance in press.
Washington officials released documents alleging Gutzon Borglum planned to form an altcratt producing firm with silent partners. The papers claim Borglum sought influence with President Wilson and ally Henry Harrison Suplee to alter the aircraft board, with Paris named as his corporate representative.
Chicago reports Hoover orders no campaign to curb high prices for corn meal barley flour and other wheat substitutes. He denounces current prices as extortion and says substitutes should sell 10 to 20 percent below wheat flour, with a telegram echoing the directive to lower rates.
Marl Curzon, leader in the House of Lords and member of the British War Council, warned to Primrose League that grave times lie ahead and British soldiers may have to concede ground. He urged unity, American support, and the resolute British spirit as encouragement.
Washington reports France dispatch shows total allied and neutral ship losses, including sea accidents, were about half as great in April this year as in April 1917, reflecting improved conditions in submarine warfare.
Washington reports Chaplain Franz Feiner once sent from France by General Pershing and later stationed in Hawaii has been sentenced to a long term in prison on charges of disloyalty. Honolulu reports Maj Harold Park missing after an interisland airplane flight in fog over Hawaii.
Fort Worth Texas May 18 Cadet Harry J Myers of Brucyrus Ohio fell to his death when his aircraft broke from a spinning nose dive at about 1000 feet east of Hicks field near Fort Worth.
Vieut Gen Sir Bryan Mahon, commander in chief of the forces in Ireland, announced publicly on Thursday that he would leave Ireland. The report notes uncertainty about his successor and mentions no names.
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