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Newspaper
The Evening Current
Location
Carlsbad, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1918
Page
4
Two hundred suspected slackers were jailed in the Tombs on the first night of detention. They provoked anger among other inmates including burglars and drunks. An older prisoner asked how they could endure the situation and compared it to facing the Huns.
A burglar broke into Edward Daly's home in St Louis and helped himself to a hot supper and jewelry valued at about 100 dollars. No injuries reported and police are investigating the break in.
Detectives Kincer and Mar chased a suspect in St Louis and captured Lawrence Russell, a farmer, who then attacked Maraag, damaging his hat and striking him. Russell fled to police headquarters where Chief Hannegan had him released after paying Marsan $5 for a new hat.
Frederick D. Pridham of Baltimore, after four years researching bone diseases, claims double nitro oxide salt heals bone disease from within by absorbing diseased marrow. He reports 89 cures in three weeks to seven months and has set up a sanitarium and hospital. The method has been donated to the United States army.
A brief wartime appeal urges thrift stamp purchases to support the war effort. The notice references Uncle Sam and calls for continued financial backing through stamps to sustain military needs.
A British soldier on the way to a field dressing station displays a steel helmet with a hole torn by shrapnel. The helmet saved his head from a fatal wound and likely kept him off the casualty list.
In England landscapes vary, but in East Africa and other eastern theaters pilots fly hundreds of miles over desert to reconnoiter. Lieutenant Walmsley of the RAF recalls boredom, drowsiness, and the cure of taking along light reading such as Punch and Rider Haggard while navigating tough routes. A rare mail arrives midflight, its perfume letters read en route and back, with plans to reply.
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