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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1918
Page
7
An article continues detailing the life of American soldier Arthur Guy Empey. It recounts his early service, writings on military life, and his influence on wartime morale.
A wounded WWI soldier recounts his trench raid, death-yard losses, and long march through No Man's Land. He describes a brutal recovery across hospitals in England and America, the Red Cross nurses, and ward banter among regiments while awaiting convalescence.
The narrator recalls inoculation for tetanus before an ambulance ride along a shell-lit road to a dugout hospital. He describes bandage removal, a quick drink of ale, and the drift into dreamland under anesthesia. He awakens among wounded Tommies on stretchers and hears the distant engine hum as ambulances arrive.
French geometer Maurice Sauger studied shell and bullet velocities and concluded a stone would take about 20 minutes 24 seconds to reach the Earth's center. Other scholars offered different times and Sanger discusses the forces as the stone travels, noting unknown density variations and a hypothetical shaft through the Earth would produce a complex travel chart ending with a return to the start and a reappearance after 1 hour 17 minutes.
A brief humorous exchange from a pasted piece shows a bank cashier correcting a woman's check missing the amount while noting her husband’s name is signed. The satirical line plays on the idea that a signature alone proves nothing without a specified sum.
Reports from Nantucket detail a German submarine attack near Georges Bank rescuing four survivors on the Helen Murley. Fire in Jacksonville, a La. storm damage tally at one million dollars, and 19 dead with 20 seriously wounded in Lake Charles aftermath. Allied offensives across Picardy, Somme, and the Vesle flood front with 30,000 prisoners and hundreds of guns taken.
The text suggests a dry mash formula for poultry using three parts corn meal to one part beef scraps. It also mentions another ration combining one pound wheat bran one pound wheat middlings six and a half pounds beef scraps and sixteen percent pounds of cornmeal.
The text urges dairy farmers to restrict calf access to dairy cows to a short period and stresses the importance of keeping book records. It notes that a simple cash book and ledger improve cost and profit awareness and compares manure from poultry fed with grain, meat, and bone meal to guano as a rich plant fertilizer.
A cow used for dairying should be kept strictly to dairy handling and care practices. The text emphasizes proper management of dairy cattle to ensure milk production and welfare standards.
St Augustine oldest U S city adopts modern manager system limiting mayoral control of appointments. Niagara Falls lacks state legislation to empower managers. Sherman Texas reports a complaint system reducing calls by 30 percent in six months. Public works bonds of 150000 dollars pass. San Jose to save 5000 dollars yearly by depositing funds in a bank under the plan.
The department of agriculture urges cleaning up vacant yards and patches used as war gardens to destroy overwintering insects. Clear and burn remnants after harvest to prevent insect resurgence and protect the next crop this summer.
A New York paper recalls Elbert Hubbard and the Lusitania victim as Roycroft members in East Aurora. The annual Roycroft convention is open to all with speakers who may speak on any subject in the grove theater, focusing on useful and beautiful crafts.
A fragment advises minimizing earth moving in landscapes to avoid wasting effort. It notes that rooms reflect their occupants and warns that a room with fretwork suggests a fretful or worrying disposition in the user.
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