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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1918
Page
8
An old classified style ad touts Kilmer's Swamp Root as a cure for kidney liver and bladder ailments. It cites sworn statements and testimonials from customers and urges sending ten cents for a sample bottle plus your paper name. The copy urges readers to seek large or medium bottles at drug stores.
A collage of Uncle Sam humor and wartime vignettes includes a French restaurant miscue by a U.S. soldier and a comical exchange over utensils. Also features an ad for Cuticura remedies and a dark joke about a condemned man on a platform, reflecting London Tit-Bits style.
The text follows Arthur Guy Empey, an American in Jersey City, who travels to England after Lusitania sinking and enlists in the British Army. It recounts his training in France, first exposure to heavy artillery and cooties, front line trenches, fire step, and the dangers of No Man's Land. It notes a chaplain’s rescues, trench digging, listening posts, and observation duties amid war’s perils.
In a chaotic siege narrative, Wilson details a risky plan to mislead German forces via a fake order system. The battery fires D-238 on a German road, causing heavy destruction and near discovery of the ruse, while officers confront the aftermath and a stern rebuke from Old Pepper.
A man struggles to remember a lingering reminder of something forgotten, only to find the elusive memory remains out of reach as he searches his mind for the missing detail.
A woman asks Peg about marriage to a man with no money and the reply suggests she must find cash to marry him. The dialogue implies pressure to secure financial support before commitment.
The text describes a long standing Chinese love of fireworks and lanterns. Lanterns appear at night in every city port river and canal. They hang at doors and pagodas and illuminate homes shops and vessels along streets.
The article notes the first use of springs on railways from the George Stephenson patent of September 1816. It mentions the Agenoria, built by Foster and Rastrick in 1820, as the first locomotive with steel springs on the leading wheels, now housed in the South Kensington Museum. It adds a tip about hanging pictures to hide wires.
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