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Newspaper
The Evening Caledonian
Location
Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1919
Page
4
The Evening Caledonian published daily except Sundays from St Johnsbury Vermont outlines its publisher W D Pelley Publishing Co Inc and address 125 Eastern Avenue. It states subscription terms four dollars yearly with in advance payment rules and Associated Press rights for news dispatches and local news.
A quirky wartime column mocks shortages and home life woes. It jokes about scissors, pipes, dictionaries, rubber rubbers and subscriptions while lampooning the Kaiser's wood cutting, Allied actions, and a makeup man who once received wardrobe perks during the war.
The article reports Republican resentment toward executive overreach after the armistice. It cites plans to seize control of public utilities and cable lines as an ongoing power grab, with Postmaster General Burleson cited for acting without congressional notice. Senators Kellogg and Hitchcock condemn the action as a breach of good faith and checks and balances.
A humorous reflection on life blending advice about buttoning and unbuttoning with a note about hockey under the chief finier and a playful take on Mary Ann’s remark. The passage contrasts outer appearances with inner states through scattered lines.
A humorous riff on culinary and clothing lingo, linking foods and outfits through playful terms. The piece touts how words cross over between eating and dress and riffs on such phrases as Good Taste, Dressing the salad, Broilers in a chorus, Old Hen, and Pudding Heads while urging readers to craft verbal style with restraint.
A resident asks if honesty is best policy after a boy correctly counts his change in a St Johnsbury shop. The storekeeper keeps ten cents despite the boy's repeated attempts to explain the error, prompting a call for honesty to be practiced to teach children.
Camp Meade Md Jan 23 The Second Heavy Mobile Ordnance Repair Shop headquarters by Captain W T W Underwood arrived for demobilization next week After serving under fire on the Hindenburg line the unit returns with 131 men and 2 officers intact but for 43 men and an officer lost They repaired big French Howitzers and railroad mount guns and included skilled engineers machinists and even mathematicians The company sailed July 1 and operated in Angers Toul and with both American Armies before demobilization
A World War I era poem recalls wartime romance with Elsie and fond memories of doughnuts. The speaker contrasts missing a sweetheart with the comfort of doughnuts, joking that Salvation Army treats now outdo past treats as he faces deployment in France.
The narrative describes artillery actions north of St Quentin by the Second American Corps with the Fourth British Army. It notes heavy concentrations at St Quentin tunnel Le Cateau and the German retreat as armistice arrived. Casualties and overseas discharge details follow, with units Meade and Hoboken movements and arrivals from Dorr Field Arcadia.
The Temple hosts a Masonic social and dance this Friday evening March 7 at 8 15. Flora Washburn of West Barnet visits Mrs W C Gaskill at 22 Webster Street. Mrs C B Averill arrives from Warren NH to spend the week with her cousin Mrs Eros Kittredge.
New York February 10 union bricklayers and hoisting engineers on contracts with the Building Trades Employers Association of New York will be called out on a sympathetic strike Monday to press carpenters demands for a one dollar per day wage increase an announced by the carpenters today.
A father from a town near Cincinnati travels to Indianapolis to meet his army son on leave. After missing each other at Union Station, Red Cross canteen workers organize police and scouts to locate the son. An hour later the pair meet, arm in arm, with joy shown in their smiles.
A concise reflection on heroism noting that true bravery endures beyond changing fashions. It argues every historical hero seems like a neighbor and that telling the plain truth about neighbors could read like poetry.
The piece argues that the national flag embodies liberty and equality while condemning Bolshevism as a gutter autocracy worse than czarist rule. It warns that displaying the red flag signals defiance and invites Leninist or Trotskyist influence into the United States, opposing Americanism.
Jim Buckley of Bear Lake teased the value of rotten eggs and proved the saying true by trapping a silver fox after baiting a trap with a rotten egg. He sold the pelt in Peace River for 346 dollars, remarking the egg produced money. The tale from Chicago Post highlights Buckley as thrifty and profitable.
Scientific American notes a wartime shift turning the cocone nut from a hard to crack shell into a valuable commodity. Government aid funded cracking machinery widening use for cooking, lighting, and nut butter while shells become fuel. This spurs new commerce as a lever against autocratic expansion.
The article notes that many European nobles, including Russian grand dukes, Plantagenet descendants, and French marquises, have taken humble jobs in cities like Petrograd, Paris, and London. It recalls 1890s examples of aristocrats driving cabs, hawking vegetables, or working as innkeepers and gendarmes.
A new antimony deposit has been opened near the Komati river in the Stengsdorp district Transvaal. A mining company is smelting on site with three shafts down 50 feet and open workings. One shaft runs continuously. A furnace can smelt ten tons daily and ore remains ample to sustain operations during development.
The article recalls Lord Roberts in Canada ten years earlier at the Plains of Abraham dedication predicting a major European war. He warned Britain and France would endure severe trials and that a French general Ferdinand Och would ultimately win the war, noting Och was a professor at a Paris military school.
The piece notes Dr. van Dyke remains loyal to the theme of little rivers in his war ode and his book Little Rivers. It suggests the streams are as significant as drops of water forming the ocean and ties freedom to the source.
The San Francisco Bulletin notes a stormy petrel revisits Stow Lake after a brief absence. A seagull replaces the lost bird, staying two weeks among ducks and mudhens. The creature befriends pelicans Anthony and Cleopatra and may face rivals among the mud hens.
A Yorkshire Post piece notes how Boer War episodes echo in later conflicts. It highlights Private Erle Wis i of the Duke of Cambridge's Middle Regiment, lauded for bravery during a June raid near Voormezeele. He led a trench clearance under heavy fire, while his comrade Private Wiselnisen was wounded in hospital in Lowestoft. home town Hornsey.
Geologists cannot explain why in Osage county oil wells drilled next to Indian cemeteries yield strong production. Burial sites have been invaded by drillers and several wells have spouted crude. The area near Pawhuska features a major producer beside a graveyard on a rocky hill overlooking the town.
Alligators must be fed only from May to August while they enter a hibernating geosen from September to May. Their skins yield bags purses and belts and the teeth and bones become jewelry and tools. Florida reportedly earned over a million dollars annually from alligator trade.
Apollo Lodge No 2 of the Knights of Pythias to hold a regular meeting Tuesday evening February 11 at 7 30. Rank of Page to be worked on two candidates.
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