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Newspaper
Spring Valley Gazette
Location
Spring Valley, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1918
Page
6
An English officer and a Turkish officer clash in a rare open fight after a skirmish near Gallipoli. The Turk drops his gun and the two, roughly equal in size, spar with fists for about ten rounds before artillery and fatigue end the contest. The scene ends with mutual respect as both resume their positions. In Minneapolis the federal reserve notes project splits torn bills for chemical cleaning.
The article recalls the 1845 start of Christian missions to China after a war with Britain and notes Taou-Kwang's 1850 death and the Taiping movement. It then shifts to Grace Boynton Monks describing round-the-clock labor and night shifts at Woolwich arsenal with workers, mainly women, facing danger from yellow powder and long shifts.
The Boston Post recounts how Dutch pretensions to a nutmeg monopoly on the Panda Islands faced market manipulation by burning giant piles of the spice to raise prices. Nature intervened as pigeons spread nutmeg seeds广grows across Asia, enabling widespread trees and ending the monopoly.
The Spectator thanks note two playful mistranslations one from a schoolboy and another from a sergeant humor arises from a menu misread as im becile roll, while a Horatian line is rendered as After horse exercise the black lady sits down with care.
The air minister laments bloated administration as he notes his new staff. He cites Napoleon era figures from Wellington showing vast clerical corps in the French war office versus smaller British staffs. He contrasts early French writing with later British hours and notes army size differences.
At Hotel Drouot Jules Clarette's dossier includes the 1851 manuscript of Alexandre Dumas fils Tale of a Lottery. Dumas wrote he received 240 dollars for sixteen pages, far more than the 80 dollars he got for La Dame aux Camellias, which later earned Michel Levy about 100000. Dumas later regretted the meager share.
A Christian Science Monitor tale recalls a legend from Alsace about giants in a gold country castle. A 800 foot tall daughter plucks a laborer and his plow, learns the work sustains life, and returns them to the fields. Her act leads to peaceful peasants and no more harassment by giants.
Le Cri de Paris recounts Monsieur Terrat hired in Louis Philippe's era to exterminate bugs in Paris barracks. He charged 90 centimes per sleeping room with a repeat service at 50 centimes if needed. He treated arms racks and prisons, and his death ended attempts to share the secret with the state, leaving soldiers still fighting insects.
In Philadelphia Moyamensing prison Billy Sunday spoke to a housebreaker who pledged to reform on release. The inmate recalled Sunday’s impact, saying he was turned inside out and sick of himself, calling Sunday a winner and one of the gang reformed.
Mrs Pudge suggests turning a winter dress into a new garment to save money. Herbert supports the idea but memories fail as the dress had already been given to Cousin Lizzie, dashing the plan. Herbert silences the chatter with a violent kick of the ottoman.
The article cites Harry S. Stabler noting canned foods make up 30 percent of wholesale grocer business nationwide and 40 percent in large cities. It argues cities could not sustain growth without food conserved in tins and that authorities would verify these figures.
The army engineers test a water wing device for fording deep streams. A soldier floats upright using an encircling buoy that supports shoulders and arms, enabling rifle use while crossing. Experiments show accuracy at 3800 yards while moving across water.
The anonymous well informed correspondents offer little new about Germany's food conditions. The London Globe notes Berlin is repeatedly described as starving since autumn 1914, suggesting Germans survive on air or substitutes.
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