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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1918
Page
3
Government label to be placed on rural free delivery mail boxes. Six million labels will be issued through district committees to loan subscribers. The emblem helps visibility of the subscription window card from country roads and will be important to rural residents.
A brief explanation of sugar as a food and flavor, noting sugar as fuel for the body and detailing common and technical names for sugars such as glucose dextrose fructose lactose maltose and sucrose. It also lists natural sources of sucrose and how different sugars are digested into simple sugars.
A collection of aphorisms urging virtue and self discipline. Notable lines touch on purity of spirit, personal perception, restraint of bigotry, true gentleness, and the vigilance required for liberty. Each adage reinforces moral conduct and character.
The United States uses about 6,000,000 pounds of bronze powder yearly with 35 percent formerly imported from Germany. Local manufacturers claim Corman control of the bronze industry by offering inferior tires, while bronze powder is produced in over 200 trades with varied colors and textures.
Wheat production in France for this year is estimated at 50 190 000 quintals 183 500 000 bushels up more than 25 percent from last year according to Intransigeant.
The Food Administration promotes a official test for clean threshing, usable by any farmer. A straw blower directed at a canvas during five weighs trips should record two and a half bushels. more than one pint of wheat indicates waste and loss rises with more. If improvement fails after a second test, county threshing committees may halt operations until waste is corrected.
Poem urges heart to find calm after sorrow. Speaker counsels tempering grief, trusting the gracious Master, and living with hope for future morrows. It emphasizes resilience, emotional restraint, and renewed gladness despite past tears.
The New York Medical Journal notes a landmark shift as mental hygiene gains prominence in military care. It reports the surgeon general has organized an extensive program to identify and treat mental disturbances in camps and among soldiers, reflecting lessons from England and France in the current war.
A Magoon quotation argues that true strength in leaders lies in kindness not rank. Politeness builds confidence in the timid and encourages the deserving, because good manners trump mere eloquence.
Under the sale terms the United States bought the Danish West Indies now the Virgin Islands from Denmark. It was stipulated that German vessels in the harbors of the islands should not be commandeered if the United States went to war with Germany.
The Lusitania could be raised using an innovative salvage vessel designed by Carl J. Lindquist. The plan features a retractable hull, extended pontoons, deep search lights, and a movable steel tube to mine away sand, with potential to recover $14 million in valuables and possibly others sunk nearby in shallow European waters.
A cookbook fragment emphasizes economical substitutes for olive oil in dressings, with corn oil proposed as a fair alternative. It provides recipes for Combination Salad Sweetbread and Almond Salad Ceylon Tomato Salad and instructions for making coconut cream and dressings.
In Durham two people died and several injured in early morning accidents. Harry Mangum, manager at Five Points Automobile Co., died after a car overturned near Holloway and Dillard streets. Lena Strayhorn, 18, died from a bullet wound, while Wesley Vickers, 14, is implicated. Brunella Teer, Walter Umstead, and Lucille Umstead are injured. Manning and Morton also hurt in the same crash.
A crew of Spencer workmen salvage freight cars lost along the Catawba river during the July 1916 flood near Catawba station. They have recovered 22 cars so far, some washed miles away. heavy cables and a large derrick drag cars across water and swamp.
Albemarle resident William Furr died from injuries after slipping from a coal chute trestle at Norwood while employed by a railway company. He was taken to a Winston-Salem hospital where he died.
Raleigh committee of Baptist schools sets a November drive to secure the entire one million dollars in subscriptions. Subscriptions may be paid in war savings certificates or Liberty bonds per the plan agreed after recent conferences at Hickory and Wilson.
J A Jones a Charlotte contractor pledged to buy 15000 in war savings stamps joining a limit club with 1000 for each of his 13 children and himself. The pledge is tied to paying the government costs of keeping his son Ray mond A Jones, an officer overseas in France, supplied by purchases.
A December Bankhead Highway tour from Memphis to Baltimore to attend the Southern Commercial Congress December 8 to 12 is arranged. Scores of cars from across the South are expected with Durham eager to be well represented as Bankhead Highway directors issue resolutions guiding the trip. Pathfinders will pass Birmingham Atlanta Charlotte Durham Raleigh Petersburg and Richmond.
British forces with French and Arab allies pierced the Ottoman line from the Jordan to the Mediterranean. In a single day they depth penetrated twelve miles along a sixteen mile front, capturing over three thousand Turkish prisoners and seizing rail and road junctions as coastal gunfire clears enemy positions. Large quantities of war material fell into Allied hands.
President Wilson proclaims October 12 1918 Liberty Day marking the 426th anniversary of American discovery. He urges nationwide participation with commemorative events to boost the fourth Liberty loan and commit to defending American ideals. Federal employees may be excused for the day.
Czecho-Slovak units from the west and Vladivostok have joined at Tokita and are now massing at Irkutsk. A war office statement says the relief force will be commanded by General Gaida and expects prompt, important results from the operation to aid Czecho-Slovaks in European Russia.
British headquarters report very heavy German casualties at St Quentin as fighting subsides. The sixth Brandenburg division suffered severe losses while Holnon and Lempire villages were cleared of pockets of German forces.
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