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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1917
Page
5
Mr Lochner, secretary of the Ford peace expedition, recalls being refused hospitality by a city during a German train journey with drawn shades. The episode echoes the chilly reception faced by the peace council in the American middle west.
Statisticians estimate battlefield mortality around 60 per thousand with 150 wounded per thousand, many wounded returning to trenches. Roger Babson questions prophecy versus fact, noting varied casualty risks across roles and the small Verdun French losses. The piece ends by noting a shift in German attitude toward America and asks Adams County if their county fair can be revived after Hancock’s successful revival last year.
The narrator recalls moments of déjà vu and strange coincidences where impressions duplicate across minds and events. He recounts a writer’s fictional names matching a real prison case after publication, pondered alongside Plutarch and Poe on coincidences and the boundary between fiction and truth.
The Emergency Fleet Corporation awards contracts to build three government owned shipyards to construct 200 ships. The yards, costing 35 million dollars, will be used for fabricating vessels and include options to purchase the land they occupy.
Thornton W Burgess tells how Big Tom and Mrs Gobbler await visitors in the Green Forest. Reddy Fox appears, pretends friendliness, then tries to lure them down. The encounter ends with polite refusals as the birds consider settling in the area.
In a schoolboy diary tone, Fatty Bellowes and Andy Anderson debate skipping class to test a claimed army exemption. They fear departures, the new desks, and a freshly painted room as the school prepares for their return while mothers treat them like soldiers.
A brief exchange ends with Reddy wishing long life and happiness and promising to return at shadow-time. The piece shifts to local wants, urging readers to place sale ads in The Whig Want columns and promoting wartime garden advice to quit asparagus cultivation and let weeds cover soil for winter protection with a spring humus boost.
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