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Newspaper
The Potter Review
Location
Potter, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1918
Page
6
A fragmented wartime memoir recounts German prisoner of war conditions after landing ashore. The narrator describes lack of clothes, brutal discipline, scarce food, and slow starvation. He details bar racks, barbed wire, and a brutal guard, with meager rations and cold, hunger, and injury.
In Neustrelitz the narrator describes captivity conditions after a forced march from roundups of neutrals. Guards separate prisoners by nationality, issue meager clothing, deny socks, and ridicule wounded Americans. The camp’s harsh routines continue as winter worsens with a heavy snowstorm and a fantastical bedtime scene.
A Florida Times-Union item quotes a pretty young teacher asking about waves and a student Ethel answering with three types: ocean waves, thought waves, and Mercer waves, in a playful classroom moment.
The article urges farmers unsettled by high costs to consider Western Canada nationwide, citing Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta prairies. It highlights high yields like 45 bushels per acre for James Wishart, 68 pound wheat at Moose Jaw, and strong markets for grain, beef and butter. It stresses peaceful postwar expansion, low taxes on improvements, good schools and climate, and accessible markets as reasons to relocate.
An overheard funeral exchange in Richmond Virginia praises Dick Williams as exceedingly charitable. Mose Barker and a Black community member recount Williams habit of lending his plug hat to anyone in need, illustrating his generosity without direct evidence.
The Hon. John W. Davis, newly appointed ambassador in London, relates a tale of a small boy trying to lead a large St Bernard along a busy street. When asked where the dog is headed the boy replies he plans to see where the dog itself wants to go first.
A Christian Science Monitor writer describes seven pre Aztecan communal settlements in the Salt River valley near Phoenix. He notes central buildings larger than Casa Grande and traces of these peoples in river valleys to the north and northeast, with migrations to mountains and upper plateaus.
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