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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1918
Page
7
Cornelius Vanderbilt praised an heir at a Piping Rock luncheon calling him a true-blue American for fair. He noted the man's Mayflower ancestors and said his descendants are returning on army transports.
Ad claims cold sufferers especially those prone to repeated head colds can prevent chronic catarrh by taking Halls Catarrh Medicine. Internal use said to cleanse blood and affect mucous surfaces. Testimonials offered, money back guarantee, Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio.
The dialogue features a quoted maxim about knowledge and a senator’s reply. It raises themes of information, its acquisition, and its potential impact on society and policy. The exchange underscores caution in handling data amid political scrutiny.
An advertisement touts Dr. Pierce's Pellets as best for liver, bowels, and stomach. One pellet for laxative, three for cathartic. Also notes Britain developing a new system of school hygiene.
The article recounts unusual Valentine gifts and pranks that led to marriages or engagements. Examples include a heart with a question mark that wed the giver, a blank marriage certificate, a ballot shaped valentine that produced a wedding, and a silk gown valentine that won a yes. Rail timetable and puzzle valentines also yielded romances.
The report to date shows 79,450,727.25 appropriated for relief work by the American Red Cross. Foreign allocations include France 2,015, Serbia 8, etc. The note defends expenses, claims most funds go to relief and lists canteens, hospitals, destitute care, and convalescent support.
The piece reports ten months of war costing the United States about 7.1 billion dollars at 1 million per day. It notes 412.001 million in loans to allies and 22.08 million in domestic war expenses, with forecasts the yearly total may near 10 billion and warns Allied loans and army needs will push costs higher.
Reports from Berlin say German editors warned that by next May the Teuton army will be in Paris. The forecast came after a conference where Hindenburg and other leaders discussed wartime aims and media control. Bomb sentences were handed to German nationals in New York for conspiracy. Air raids and reprisal actions spurred further German and Austrian clashes on the front. Colonel Roosevelt underwent surgery for an abscess and is recovering, with expectations of a swift return to activity.
Mrs. Efe Hill of Blanchester Ohio writes that after twelve years of suffering nervous headaches with heavy brain pressure sinking spells and extreme weakness she found relief after four bottles of Peruna. She reports renewed strength and being well.
A jumbled excerpt recounts Jonah and a talking whale with misquoted and garbled dialogue. The text weaves nautical myth with modern wartime imagery and shifts to unrelated snippets about forgiveness, debt, and garden work, yielding a fractured, incoherent scene.
A promotional notice extols Dr Pierce s Anuric Tablets as a powerful cure for kidney related distress dangers. It urges exercise open air light diet and ample water, claims dramatic efficacy and urges readers to obtain a trial package from a local agent or send 180 for trial. It mixes health claims with a boastful quip about heredity and social morals.
A garbled 1914 Hoover bulletin cites slogans about paying with a smile and buying food with thought. The text references a claim about a woman and a man’s exclusive rights, and a line about choosing battle over surrender.
The bill authorizing the secretary of war to provide distinctive badges to men of draft age who have been exempted or rejected was passed by the senate on Tuesday in Washington.
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