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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1918
Page
12
A nostalgic poem recounts a mother singing to her little one as evening falls. It frames aging, lullabies, and dreams, with imagery of shadows, rocking, and a voyage toward slumber. The piece reflects tender parental love and the passage of time from childhood to adulthood.
United States surpasses private insurers with 14.0 billion written in six months of 1917 and 100 million in the third April week. Soldiers and sailors, about 1.8 million, carry policies averaging 8500 dollars with caps from 1000 to 10000. April 12 ends government coverage for earlier enlistees while new recruits are urged to insure. Government payouts include 61 million in salaries and 60.96 million in death and disability, plus 177 thousand in insurance payments.
Army home economics demonstration workers hear ration methods from agriculture specialists. Demonstrations teach cooks to use left foods and flour substitutes, with new appealing cornmeal dishes. Salt and fireless cooker techniques are reviewed for field ambulance hospital units.
J. W. Buscher, a Civil War veteran from the Twenty third Michigan Volunteers who fought in France in World War I, was discharged after serving eight months in the trenches at age 73. He recently enlisted in the Canadian Railway Battalion. King George invited him to Buckingham Palace to commend his courage and endurance.
Luminous paint finds many uses in the current war. Dials glow in the dark and compasses with luminous needles are issued to 100000 soldiers. Cloth stripes on collars, beacon-tipped sticks, and luminous tape guide troops and medics at night. Signals are visible only up to 60 feet, reducing enemy detection.
The report lists several patented ideas including translucent window backgrounds for portraits and artistic shades, a theory linking hair type to body and mind strength by a French scientist, and a compact detectaphone worn under clothing to record inversions on a cylinder. A Washington DC inventor is noted for the detectaphone patent.
The note describes King Cotton rising to power over clothing and food, turning cotton into lard substitutes and butter like products, and expanding mills to grind flour and influence tea and coffee markets, with a satirical view of his reach into everyday goods. The Syracuse Journal tone mocks how cotton power could dominate diverse industries.
A cockerel owned by Fr. C. Nfyson sold at a gift sale in Muldstoone raising funds for the Red Cross and Kent Prisoners of War Fund. The event realized nearly £6,000 with subscriptions and additional donations.
Reading in the home crafting tips, this piece outlines pantry friendly desserts and breads. It lists maple and rice based pies, cream pies with meringue, a barley flour and corn meal mixture, potato flour sponge cake, raigin drop cakes, and general batter methods with specifics on ingredients and bake times.
Vere market reports in London detail the amalgamation of all Jewish associations across the empire to defend legal rights of German Jews. James Simon, labeled Court Jew by Junker circles, heads the effort, urging equal rights and emigration into the Turkish empire, with similar moves planned in Austria Hungary Turkey and Bulgaria.
The article notes major league teams rely on ace players as drawing cards on road trips. It highlights Tyrus Raymond Cobb as the premier draw, estimating Cobb alone brings substantial turnstile revenue to Detroit when he performs away from home.
A dispatch from General Thackura in Paris reports cancellation of authorization for exporting wal nuts from French colonies to American and allied countries except Tuis and Muruccy. Special license now required from the mother country. A similar export ban applies to animal hair to allied nations.
The U S Department of Agriculture notes corn leads in protein per acre among staple crops and underpins vast feeding and manufacturing sectors. It fuels pork growth, dairy silage, and countless byproducts from starch and oil to cereals, with wide use across the Midwest and corn belt.
War conditions pinch laundry work as caustic potash becomes scarce. A substitute is sought and a domestic bleach is proposed: three pounds of trisodium phosphate to twenty five pounds of soap, per Popular Science Monthly.
The United States Department of Agriculture urges backyard and small farm owners to raise more poultry to aid meat and egg supplies. The plan emphasizes early hatching, keeping hens after chicks hatch, reducing losses from rats and cold, sanitation, and self-sufficient feeding to reach about 100 birds per farm on average.
The Chicago Ledger cites Le Courier des Etats Unis to explain General Foch’s name should sound like Iosh with a short o, not Teutonic. It notes Foch is Basque from the Pyrenees and that Basque names ending in ch have a soft sh sound, not a German guttural.
A compact reflection noting that virtue, happiness, and progress hinge on decisive character. It asserts that honest action follows from restraint of pleasure and that love loses meaning in breach of promise.
G Ward Price warns that moving a large army on limited roads and rails causes crowding and delays. A well timed, pre arranged withdrawal plan reduces chaos, while ad hoc actions by artillery leaders and supply chiefs heighten confusion and risk.
The piece explains old USDA garden advice. It splits vegetables into warm and cold types and links sowing times to bloom stages. It warns wrinkled peas rot in cool ground, and says when apple blossoms fall is the time for heat loving vegetables like cucumbers beans corn pumpkin and squash.
Dialogue snippet shows a daughter and father debating wages and affection. The father notes the man earns fifteen a week while the girl emphasizes time passes quickly when loved. The exchange highlights family economics and emotional ties.
Senator Sorghum reflects on a sharp quip about his speech as critics remain divided. The wife of a newly produced playwright recalls his audacious approach of breaking the critics between acts to toast drinks and cigars.
A humorous exchange shows a wife dismissing a joke as the husband jokes about trenches. They discuss periscope use and the misinterpretation of its purpose turning into light wartime banter.
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