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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1920
Page
6
A fragmented 1920 era column describes a Breton-turned-Canadian soldier noted by The Lancet for remarkable endurance. He lacks sensation, cannot feel heat or cold, and relies on sight to move, with many self-inflicted scars from demonstrations.
A fragmented Shepherdstown ad praises Doan's Kidney Pills with local testimonials. Readers claim relief from back pain and weak kidneys, while a retiree on German Street endorses the medicine and warns against unsafe substitutes.
A vintage home paper quotes a boy’s early obsession with a fast toy bogey car and a flying toy era. An aircraft ad in New York promotes planes as gifts for service sons postwar. The piece critiques how commerce marketed speed and flight to families after conflict.
A wartime letter from officers Foy and colleagues describes German use of pigs as camouflage in France to impede Allied advances. Pigs crowded forward during German retreats and were used to mislead American troops as they moved through evacuated ground, with boars acting as decoys and triggering fires as they fled.
This excerpt presents a poetic meditation on grass as nature’s constant mercy. It recalls May’s imagery, the regenerative power after war's destruction, and grass as sustenance and solace across seasons, noting its quiet, pervasive influence beyond bloom or fruit. The piece appears from a 19th century magazine context.
Harborough conceives a caravan kitchen to feed children in poorer quarters of Taunton during wartime supply shortages. A dozen women, including Kircher and Lowden, organize hot dinners for 2s or less, funded by mothers’ deposits. The initiative grows quickly, serving about 33,000 dinners weekly in one district and may become a permanent institution beyond the war.
The by products of the packing house industry divide into edible and inedible. Edible parts include exterior coverings, horns, hooves, bones, and hides, yielding leather, glue, and tooth products. Horns and hoofs later yielded nitrogen-rich material reclaimed as fertilizer after sulfuric acid treatment.
A garbled report references naval questions about tanks and wrecks. It mentions Aubertain and a Lone dra Name, a Vrench koverinfest, and Edinburgh Scotsman experiments, claiming barges moved at two miles per hour in a reconstructed water canal context.
The readable portion of the OCR shows scattered words and misspellings with no coherent events, names, dates, or places. There is insufficient readable material to form a factual summary or identify a person, organization, or outcome.
Weary of wing and starved a tiny canary aboard the four mast schooner Sophie Christenson 1000 miles from San Francisco finds a new life. The ship’s captain Bob McCarron notes the bird, once a voxel pet, sought the shore and perched in a cage as the schooner rocked. The bird welcomed aboard and now travels with the crew.
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