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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1918
Page
11
In World War I tale, Lloyd the deserter saves D company by loading a machine gun and repelling Germans. He sacrifices himself when a bullet ends his life, as Captain honors him and a funeral march follows with broken crosses in the trench cemetery.
The narrator describes vast Allied build up before the Somme offensive. British forces, heavy guns, and US made equipment flow toward front lines as trenches are replicated for rehearsals. A secretive, highly guarded preparation unfolds with planes, maps, and strict civilian bans.
The U S shipping board launches a novel training plan to create marine engineers from skilled linesmen and machinists. Professor E F Miller leads courses at Tech and partners with Tulane Armour Institute Case School UC Berkeley and others. The program aims to supply skilled citizens for the new merchant fleet and includes day and evening classes with hands on tests. Shipping board section chiefs recruit nationwide and a pamphlet explains how to become an officer in the merchant marine.
Isinglass is made from the swim bladder sounds of fish. One ton of hake yields 40 to 50 pounds of sounds. Dried, soaked, cut, rolled into sheets, ribbons wound on spools. One ounce clarifies 200 to 500 gallons of wine and one pound clarifies 100 to 500 barrels of beer. Used in cement for mending glass and pottery, adhesive plaster, and in many textiles and waterproof fabrics.
The article notes wild tea plants reach ten to twenty feet, but cultivation keeps them around three feet for ease. It states Japanese tea is mostly green, with substantial black tea exported from Formosa. Seeds are planted on terraced hillsides, forming giant step-like contours from bases to crests.
Pittsburgh clergyman Rev. Daniel L March recalls a Western Front tale of a German prisoner who, when joked about by American soldiers, confesses he is angry not at France England or Belgium but at Christopher Columbus for discovering America.
Government chemists recommended corsa syrup, maltose syrup from potatoes, honey, and high grade refiners' syrup as principal substitutes for sugar.
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