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Newspaper
Potosi Journal
Location
Potosi, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1918
Page
2
Analysis of ancient cradle songs shows they endure despite change, keeping rhythms and melodies linked to the people who sing them. The tunes vary in movement and meter across Germanic, Scottish, Hungarian influences while the words remain simple and meaningful to home voices. Historical context hints at their role in reflection of culture.
A St Paul dispatch reports a German helmet wrapper made of rolled newspaper, found with a British recruiting mission badge. The article links heavy German civilian use of newspaper cloth and notes regional war time markets and materials. It also cites William Beebe on Paris geography and opal settings, plus a statistic about English female wage earners.
War department casualty lists show 144 names from the west front area with 28 killed in action and 12 died of wounds. Entries include Fred B. Jenkins Hiroe Ky, John Stevenson Chicago, and Oliver J. Kendall Naperville Ill. Also listed are wounded, missing, and prisoners across multiple states, plus a mine accident near here killing two workers. A fourth Liberty loan rate is not to exceed 4 4 percent amid bread ration strikes in Germany. An influenza outbreak is reported in Berlin with rising treatment numbers.
Ambush described as Pershing reports 19 Americans against 40 Germans in No Man’s Land. American machine gun fire destroys patrols as two German prisoners recount escape from a rear detention camp and drift toward American lines. Dispatch notes fierce fight with most Americans back to their lines.
A German officer captured Sunday in France says German forces have shot several American prisoners who resisted capture. He told our intelligence officers that Americans failed to observe warfare etiquette and attempted to ambush guards, prompting German retaliation to deter such acts.
Amsterdam dispatch from Wolff Kuesa of Berlin reports American war prisoners are not ill treated in Germany. They are not shown to the public or insulted and are not used as show objects. Other items note plane downings in Paris and a Kentucky crash death, with various political and shipping updates.
Dapan in China lends Marines to bolster the treaty port and center of the sugar industry, located 273 miles northeast of the region. The brief note highlights foreign military presence and economic hub status in the area.
Vienna government officials and workers’ representatives met as shortages mount. Miners printers and telegraph workers demand a 60 percent wage increase to cope with underfeeding hurting productivity. Premier von Seydler and Finance Minister von Wimmer cited limits on state costs with only vague promises of further discussion next fall. Reports describe meals missing for months and bread and fats scarce near Vienna, with censorship limiting coverage.
State officials warn grocers to restrict sugar purchases to two pounds per customer for general use, twenty pounds for canning, and special permits for excess. Manufacturing buyers barred. Also reports on legislators' efforts to pass a workingmen's compensation law, tax reassessment challenges, and updates from Jefferson City and Farmington on local incidents and public service moves.
Buenos Aires reports a striking surge in commerce with South Africa. Argentina exports include steel rails and accessories, 24 000 shoes, bone meal and dried blood, leather, linseed oil, canned meats, mattress wire, and 700 to 400 tons of wheat. South Africa buys 800 000 Argentine hardwood railway materials and other goods. A Stockholm dispatch cites Petrograd on the eve of revolt against Germany.
In Taylor Springs J W Birdwell, working at the American Smelt Cow plant, sacrificed his life while trying to save Pauling Tunnel from drowning in the lake. Undertow dragged him under during the perilous effort.
Hartford reports Carmine Lansillo Frankie Duss and Carmine Pisanillo were executed at the state prison in Wethersfield for the murder of Morris Goldstein a New Haven tailor on the night of November 24 1916.
A peremptory writ of mandamus compels State Auditor Hackmann to audit two Lamkin travel accounts for 1917 trips to Portland Oregon and Washington D C. The court allows $1405 from the department of education appropriation, with Judge Faria writing the opinion and Judge Walker dissenting. The ruling covers conventions in the public interest and notes related cautionary opinions.
Description of a famous medicinal preparation using herbs roots and solvents. Assembles details on sterilization pasteurization sealing and careful preparation to claim success in treating female illness supported by letters of recovered patients.
The fragment describes usage and substitution of a fuel material, noting a large population figure and a belief that no movement will occur. Key entities are unnamed and distorted, making exact identification difficult.
Report states motorcycles are being exported with woolen tires instead of rubber tires. Officials note the woolen tires serve certain wartime purposes, but no rubber is permitted for export except for war needs.
British authorities disclose wartime injuries showing that a number of soldiers were totally blinded in the war while nearly 20,000 inhaled in one eye. The data cover English locations including Beloit and indicate widespread eye injuries among service members.
A cryptic note describes Teacher Willi asking who moved text between fonts. A quirky exchange hints at classroom font mishaps and possible prank dynamics, with students and staff characters named in a playful but concise item.
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