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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1918
Page
2
In the trenches Empey observes feeding routines and mud cleaning for dixies. He watches an older man pour mud into a dixie and, after failed wash efforts, learns the cook uses mud to clean the vessel. The day includes letters home, wood chopping, coal drawing, and meals of hot tea.
A squad details a daily ration issue led by a lance corporal and a private. The sequence shows the quarrel over bread portions, jam distribution, and onions, with the corporal trying to divide 19 men across six loaves and three jam tins amid complaints and diplomacy.
A wartime narrator recalls a corporal borrowing a jackknife to slice cheese and a host of rations in a frontline dugout. Tommy endures meager pay, scarce biscuits, and improvised trench puddings, while front line duties mix with charity pleas from the Lonely Soldier column.
In the narrative, Empey confronts the sudden proximity of death when a fellow soldier is killed beside him. Hoe outlines this grim realization in the following installment, promising further reflection on trench danger.
A wartime feature extols Royal Flying Corps pilots chasing German aircraft over Europe. It highlights audacity, tactics, and record flights with 127 hostile batteries silenced and 238 tons of bombs delivered in two months. Naval airmen and French forces added to Allied successes.
Sergt Major Charles H. Smith of Brooklyn recently returned from three years in Europe with the British army. He captured a German underofficer’s helmet in the trenches and wears it as a trophy. An American of English birth, Smith served in France Gallipoli Salonika and the Macedonian front. He turned fifty while en route home after discharge for physical disability and now lectures on his trench experiences. The helmet bears the inscription Mit Gott fur Konige und Vaterland God and King and Fatherland.
Post Office Department warns parcel post for soldiers in France is clogged by unnecessary items. A transport carried 5,835,840 pieces and 12,000 cubic feet of mail, filling 19 train cars and delaying delivery to General Pershing’s headquarters. Readers learn about canteens offering ready access to fruit, cakes, and sweets instead of sending bulky goods.
Secretary Houston tells the Boy Scouts of America they can help the nation in World War I by growing vegetables, canning and drying food, raising livestock, and sharing cooperation with federal and state agricultural agencies. He urges boys to beat their food production records and to feed soldiers and allies.
A University of Oregon student claims to have invented a bomb that can be hurled or dropped with controlled detonation. Tests reportedly determine the blast distance and timing, with plans to hand the device to the War Department for use by aviators.
Officials announce a ban on using wheat flour to make paste in Hutchinson and nearby areas. The Food Administrator Walter P. Innis urges the public to switch to commercial paste products to avoid shortages and comply with regulations.
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