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Newspaper
Spring Valley Gazette
Location
Spring Valley, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1918
Page
3
A Canadian soldier wounded at Ypres in 1915 regained full use after bone surgery at a London hospital. Surgeons restored his bones and inches, treating the feat as routine while preparing to handle the next seemingly hopeless case.
The Census Bureau reports that the death statistics area now covers about 78 percent of continental U S population and Hawaii. It includes 27 states 43 cities in other states the District of Columbia and Hawaii. Birth registration has shown satisfactory progress in the past two years.
A lieutenant recalls a drill at sea when life preservers were grabbed for lifeboats as a gun fired during target practice. A startled Regro clambers out of a hatchway shouting about a submarine and his missing life deserter status amid the roar.
A pre war discussion recounts a Pittsburgh girl who becomes engaged to a broker whose father objects to the match. The daughter retorts that the father cannot support her either, highlighting prudence amid social pressures.
Coffee remains scarce in Denmark with prices up to five dollars per pound. In response, 15,000 tons of substitute materials have been used recently, including 6,000 tons of acorns 1,300 tons of dandelion 1,600 tons of chicory and 2,300 tons of sugar beets. these substitutes are marketed to cope with the shortage.
The article extols the ruffed grouse as a prime game bird, noting its camouflage perfecting woodland deception, solitary habits, and swift, straight flight. It advises hunters to work dense brush and spruces, stay ready for rapid shots, use multiple hunters on flight lines, and keep calm to avoid rattled nerves.
The Pittsburgh Gazette reports English violinist Isa dore Berger claims music can be translated into color visible to the eye. He argues colors express the same emotions as sound and that red denotes passion, yellow love, and blue mysticism.
A Columbus Georgia mill with 58 weave varieties symbolizes cotton’s expanding role. The government orders involve 110 million pounds of cotton for navy use and 200 million yards of cotton gauze for surgery. Chemists foresee more applications beyond traditional cloth.
The London Chronicle recalls Vert-Vert the monastery parrot famed for piety who, during a canal boat visit to a nunnery, gained a new vocabulary with disastrous comic results. The French tale by Jean Baptiste Gresset from Amiens sparked scandal and led him to leave a clerical school.
The London Chronicle notes cloth sleeve badges on front line troops depict playing card suits. Regiments are divided into packs with each company using a suit symbol in a color as an identification mark.
Historic notes explain that Christian era dating varied for centuries with Rome counting from founding, Diocletian, or Egyptian Coptic calendars. Denys the Little fixed Incarnation from 753 A C, a system criticized by Bede. modern scholars place Jesus birth at 5 B C, yet no reform seems likely due to vast calendar confusion.
The first rail freight train ferry sailed the English Channel carrying about fifty cars from Newhaven to Dieppe amid war logistics. Tides 31 feet high, uses short bridges on floats to cope, ferry chained to dock during loading, two smokestacks flank the center tracks.
A McClure's Magazine writer laments war’s toll on orchards and shade trees. Houses and churches can be rebuilt with money, but fruit trees require time. War leaves orchards with faded branches and white-stemmed stumps, though some stumps briefly bloom in spring before dying.
The article asserts that years of experience and preparation are essential for achieving certain results and participating in specific activities. It emphasizes that business and professional people must reveal their best to meet today’s demands arising from national emergencies, noting that past years have outfitted many to perform excellently in these tasks.
The government fisheries bureau reports vast beds of razor clams off central Alaska near Cordova. One bed spans about 60 miles in length and three to five miles in width, offering a new food supply. The clams differ from eastern varieties in shape and appearance.
A visitor at the circus comments on a cobra, asking where a replacement would come from if the current snake dies. The handler replies that he expects the cobra to last a long time, implying confidence in the animal's longevity.
Public sale follows a 1918 decree in the Bureau County Circuit Court. Master in Chancery W. K. Trimble will offer Lot 16 in Block 87 in O Beirne's Second Addition Spring Valley for cash at 2 PM on July 8 1918 at the west front door of City Hall Spring Valley Illinois.
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