Front and back yard clean-up urged to avoid fines
Officials warn property owners to trim weeds and tidy both front and back yards or face penalties. The notice stresses maintaining clear lots and adherence to local beautification rules.
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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1918
Page
4
Officials warn property owners to trim weeds and tidy both front and back yards or face penalties. The notice stresses maintaining clear lots and adherence to local beautification rules.
Warn merchants to beware a female con artist traveling through Illinois who poses as producing a church directory. She solicits local advertisements, orders printed directories, pays a deposit, and promises to return for the directories to collect funds, then vanishes with the money. Look out for her.
The July Army Recruiter, a US Army publicity monthly, lists unit strengths: army corps 60,000. infantry division 19,000. infantry brigade 7,000. infantry regiment 3,000. battalion 1,000. company 250. platoon 60. corporal squad 11. firing squad 20. supply train 283. machine gun battalion 260. engineer regiment 1,008. ambulance company 66.
A French mother writes Madame Woodrow Wilson praising American mothers for supporting allied troops and requests correspondence with other mothers. The note, published with permission, reflects shared sorrow and solidarity as sons fight abroad for freedom.
Lieut. George F. Shaw of the Signal Corps files a vivid travel letter from France describing transportation oddities, crowded roads, and stark living conditions. He notes pigs and oxen, hay loads, and an old woman in a cart pulled by dogs, alongside modern trucks and aircraft passing overhead. He jokes about billets for troops and reconnects with Princeton classmates and Eastern Shore friends.
Several weeks ago the Germans initiated a grand peace storm aimed at splitting Allied lines and pushing toward Paris. They were repelled by the Marne, then driven back across the river. By the third week their line was shattered and withdrawing to the start, a complete reversal not seen since September 1914.
Washington. General March said Marshal Foch follows the rule of hitting without relaxation. When you get the enemy going, keep him going. He warned against assuming the war’s end is near but urged continuing the offensive to keep the enemy guessing and to hit hard.
The Philadelphia Evening Telegraph notes a string of absent experiences by famed figures. Shakespeare never drank tea coffee cocoa or smoked a cigar. Napoleon never saw a steamboat or railroad. Lincoln never saw electric light or used a telephone. St Peter’s Cathedral was Michael Angelo’s idea though he never read a printing press book. Raphael painted the Madonna yet never ate a corn muffin. Cleopatra Meyer owned a velvet gown and Helen of Troy never owned a gown.
A satirical meditation questions what brings common people palatable food, easier land and sea travel, personal connection, access to books, stylish attire, comfortable shoes, and mass cinema. The answer offered is advertising, seen as the force behind these conveniences and trends.
Public notices from Guilford County include an action for absolute divorce on grounds of adultery, summons for payment of 325 dollars, and attachment, plus executorship and administratrix notices requesting claims against estates by August 1919. Also includes dissolution certificate for Dol Lumber Co. signed by Secretary J Bryan Grimes.
Mrs. R. B. Atkins of 500 Willowbrook St. testifies that Doan's Kidney Pills cured her backache and headaches after kidney issues and that three years later she reiterates strong faith in the remedy. Price 60c at dealers. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY.
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