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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1918
Page
6
Arthur Guy Empey, born in Jersey City, travels to England and enlists in the British army. He trains in France and joins front line duty, witnessing trench hazards, a comrade’s death, a chaplain’s救 aid under fire, and perilous patrols in No Man’s Land while staging a successful wartime play.
A chaotic scene over a misfire with bottles and entrenching tool antics sparked confusion but did not spoil a successful performance. The cast recovered, attracting new troops and prompting a weeklong run with the S. R. O. sign displayed outside for six shows.
The narrative recalls Abe hiring Ikey Cohenstein as cashier and Sambo as porter for a Palace saloon production after paying $6,000. The second act shows a pig pen like interior, Alaki Ike's revolver scene, and a tense troupe scramble for notorious rafters boxes. A rival group, Blighty What Hopes, challenges their show as rehearsals and logistics unfold amid war time performances.
Amsterdam reports Kaiser Wilhelm II is restructuring Germany’s clothing market under Reichsbekleidungsstelle. Men’s suits standardized in six series from A to F, prices fixed, cash payment required, new empire suits called reichsanzug. Local shops run by municipalities, sales banned on credit, luxury and misfit sales ended. Women’s wear to follow as newspapers debate acceptance.
German newspapers report growing crime across Germany including burglaries and street thefts of food and letters. A Berlin conference on public insecurity noted burglary payments leapt from 400000 in 1914 to 1100000 in 1916 and about 5000000 in 1917. A postmaster trap in Mittenwalde led to his wife’s six month imprisonment.
Dorothy Barnes Egbert known as the goat girl organizes a unit to take to France under Stanford University Miss Egbert plan to herd goats. She says the goat girls must be college trained but provides no explanation for the need of a college education.
The work of U S hospital units in Picardy earns praise from French and British officials. A portable field hospital near the front performed 118 operations from 155 admissions with 30 percent mortality, far lower than expected. The cemetery near the front holds nearly 100 American graves as veterans decorate graves with flowers.
A stranger asks where to pay a telephone bill at a Des Moines store. Ted Bengfort, head of the millinery department, reveals no payment office exists. The man points to a lit sign reading Liberty loan bell, leaving the scene puzzling.
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