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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1918
Page
6
The American Arthur Guy Empey moves from Jersey City to England to enlist as a private. He serves in London recruiting, trains in France, and experiences frontline trench warfare learning death lurks as comrades fall. He goes over the top and endures a desperate first assault.
Recount of volunteers sent to bombing school in France. Describes making improvised bombs from jam tins using clay, mud, fuse, and improvised detonators. Tracks dangers, futility, and evolving weapon design including Mills bombs and the shift from jam tins to safer models. Includes wartime slang and soldier humor amid casualties.
A veteran recounts training as a bomber noting a mechanical lever device and fuse system. The description covers throwing technique and timing to ensure the fuse burns before impact, while highlighting Canadians and Americans excelling at the task and the author’s wish for peace on returning to units.
In hot weather the company bathes in a deep creek behind the billets. After a brief parade and discipline, they march to a Divisional Baths building by the creek, ready to wash clothes and themselves, despite shelling noises overhead.
The passage contrasts Shelley and Coleridge noting Shelley’s indolence and fondness for water inspiring poems while Coleridge showed a lack of will to work, wasting talents and unfinished projects. It reflects on the perceived laziness of two celebrated poets and their divergent legacies.
City families can raise eggs by keeping four hens in a back yard fed mainly on kitchen waste. The article covers coop size about 20 square feet for four hens, space needs for 10 to 15 hens, cleanliness, and when to replace old layers with pullets to maintain production. It emphasizes sanitary conditions and practical space use for urban poultry.
Farmers' Bulletin 889 outlines how boys and girls can raise hens at home to provide eggs and meat, enjoy caring for animals, and earn thrift stamps while helping increase food production for the war. Free on request from the United States Department of Agriculture in Washington, D. C.
The Agriculture Department warns that rapid poultry production is essential as the U S enters World War I. To feed troops overseas and spare cured meats, home poultry supply and consumption must rise on farms and in backyards during 1918. The call comes from The Agricultural Situation for 1918 Part XI Poultry.
The article weighs profitability of raising ducks for meat and eggs versus chickens. It notes demand for duck eggs is narrower, large scale duck farming can be more successful, Pekin ducks resist disease better, and careful feeding drives larger returns. Ducklings reach eight to twelve weeks, weighing four to eight pounds, sold mainly in spring and summer with high prices. Farmers market them in fall.
In recalling Fox era pantomimes, F. W. Hofele notes the long hours of skilled workers preparing mechanical devices and the arduous duties of the stage manager. He recalls Harlequin’s risky leaps and an incident where Paul Martinetti narrowly avoided serious injury after a star trap mishap, underscoring danger in live theater.
A famous bronze equestrian statue of General Colleone, conveyed to Rome from the camp of San Giovanni e Paolo, is praised as a spectacular sculpture. The work, begun by Andrea Verrocchio and assisted by Leonardo da Vinci, was completed by Leopardi after Verrocchio’s death. A legendary quarrel allegedly led Leopardi to cut off the horse’s head before fleeing to Florence, but mercy restored him and he finished the statue.
In Celestials social circles the bridegroom’s family gives the bride’s family assorted presents before the wedding. The offerings include food and various items such as pig and goat legs, eight small bread cakes, eight torches, three pairs of large red candles, vermicelli, and several bundles of firecrackers.
Willam Jones discusses how life gains significance through eagerness expressed by activity perception imagination and reflection. He notes the tingle of reality and the sense of real positive importance arising from living.
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