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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1918
Page
7
The record notes early siege warfare employing deleterious gases during the Athenian vs Spartan conflict from 481 to 404 BC. Techniques included pitch and sulfur fuels creating choking fumes and molten mixtures blown onto defenders. Greek fire later featured in Byzantine sea battles and sieges of Constantinople in 1261 and 1412.
A historical note explains that Persiannsect powder once cost 16 dollars a pound and came from Transcaucasia. An Armenian merchant revealed it was ground flower heads of a related plant. Seeds failed to sprout in the US until California began growing its own insect powder locally.
A historical medical rebuke declares the onion has no medicinal value for tuberculosis. Researchers classified and analyzed the bulb and found it useless for treatment, contrasting it with butchered claims from old timers. The piece mocks onion based cures and suggests boiled potato peelings or beet tops as similarly fruitless substitutes.
Flowers carry meaning beyond price says New York Telegram urging simple personal tokens over grand designs. A tray vendor's humble bouquet may convey more than a luxury arrangement from Fifth Avenue. Messenger blooms require a message to be truly effective.
Destructive grasshoppers in Nowendoe North 8th Ward plague the area during visits. Hens refuse to eat focal eggs as yolk and white turn blood red from swallowing the insects.
The term lawyer is described as a modification of the old English lawwerk or lawewer meaning laws man, with the second element a corruption of the Latin vir meaning man. The explanation links English and Latin roots for the profession's name.
United States Department of Agriculture find that a mix of dairying hogs and grain yields best labor income on northern corn belt farms. On typical Lenaw ee County farms larger operations with more capital earn higher income. rotation favors corn oats barley wheat hay with alfalfa adding value.
An Italian widow living in New York had five sons two fought for Italy and France as volunteers the others joined the United States. A German mother in Connecticut sent three sons to fight for Germany while the remaining three fought for the United States after the US entered the war. The piece argues that loyalty to the United States outranks blood or birth, illustrating through these families and a Civil War parallel.
A Nebraska tone article outlines eight essentials for winter eggs: suitable stock, comfortable quarters, kind treatment, regular attention, abundant water, wholesome food, liberal rations, and congenial exercise. It stresses stocking quality pullets, roomy clean houses with proper ventilation, steady care, and ample water and feed.
Assistant Secretary Carl Vrooman warns that Europe’s dairy herds are depleted by war and will demand dairy products at unprecedented levels after the conflict. He urges America to boost milk, butter, cheese, and cattle supply to prevent shortages and profit from high prices.
Poultry keepers aim for ten eggs a month per hen for six months this season. Those unable to meet the standard should cull useless stock and quit wasting feed. Do not admit failure until after attempting the prescribed methods faithfully and conscientiously.
A concise list outlines key needs for chickens including suitable stock and comfortable quarters. It emphasizes kind treatment regular attention abundant water wholesome feed liberal rations and congenial exercise to promote healthy flocks.
The text advises that free range poultry gain access to green and animal feed, plus grain, providing a complete laying hen ration. It emphasizes exercise and fresh air, urging farmers to align feeding with natural seasons, especially spring, for better egg production.
A devotional reflection questions why God allows war and suffering. It argues God’s will is not automatic but understood and done through human free will. The piece urges readers to seek and act on God’s will to end war, stressing personal responsibility.
A fragmentary lyric condemns a group named the Vigilantes as monstrous and monstrous, claiming their deeds defile the sea and dark abysmal acts. The verse laments speech loss and imagination failing before their “black renown” while noting London’s population living in 471000 flats.
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