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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1918
Page
3
A sensational snippet from the Youngstown Telegram shows a back and forth about treating a corn with drops and a freesone solution. The dialogue references local figures Marcella Bennie Beanbrough and Waverly describing home painting as camouflage for residences in Cincinnati.
An old advertisement promotes a lemon juice skin lotion made from two lemons and a jar of white ointment to create a quarter pint of fragrant lotion. It claims to reduce sallowness freckles and tan, soften rough skin, and keep for months with daily facial application.
A terse wartime message proclaims Laberty bonds as the nation’s lifeblood with a shout of OUR DEFENSE, signaling an appeal to public support for financing defense efforts.
GELETT BURGESS urges Liberty Loans and Red Cross support to sustain the war effort. He warns of German deceit and autocratic aggression, calls for vigilance against pro-German propaganda, and frames dollars as soldiers aiding the frontline. He appeals to patriotism, urging subscriptions for the cause and condemning seditious chatter at home.
A vivid World War I style appeal calls for total commitment and daily action. It urges rapid, thorough work, warns against waste as treason, and stresses that allies need food, clothing, and munitions while Americans must save wheat, meat, and wool to keep democracy afloat.
The poem recalls a young man who faced danger and spoke his name at last. He is one of the first to go, receiving the Croix de Guerre after meeting Teutons and standing with the sons of France. The narrator recalls fear, shadows, and courage on the stair and in battle.
Hans Beltke from Portland escaped internment as an enemy alien by a close shave. Federal officers picked him up after leaving a logging camp, deeming his whiskers bolshevik like. He borrowed a rotor in the county, and the van revealed him as an eighteen year old youth.
Marionette Sia of St Louis seeks work as a shipbuilder offering carpentry skills. She volunteers services to Uncle Sam and can build items from toys to ships, advertising talent and readiness to work.
London reports British seaplanes under heavy attack from three German submarines and three destroyers. One U-boat sunk after direct hits from bombs dropped from 8 30 am patrols. A second sub disappeared after further explosions. A third U-boat was depth-charged from 4 000 feet to 1 200 feet, collapsing and sinking after a direct hit behind the conning tower.
Report from New York tells of David Burns of East Twenty-First Street who left work to volunteer when Lincoln called for volunteers. Sacklin of Beekman Street notes Burns stopped work and hurried to battle, leaving a tidy bank account in his haste as rightfully awaiting claim.
Western Newspaper Union cites metal prices and mining activity across states. Arizona copper output expected to rise in April. Miami Copper Company shows profits of 3.2 million in 1917 and 7.3 million in 1916. Leadville and Boulder districts report mill work, tungsten demand exceeds supply, and widespread mining expansion from Colorado to Montana, Alaska, and Wyoming amid porphyry and molybdenum growth.
A Gainesville Florida baking firm with chemist B F Williamson introduces peanut bread made with peanut flour from peanut cake after oil extraction. The flour offers high fat content and about 44 percent nitrogenous value, nearly twice that of dried beef, and a mix of one fifth peanut flour to four fifths wheat flour forms a balanced ration.
A fragment from a dialogue mix reflects on marriage refusals and consolations, wise cautions about loving two people, and a quip on faithfulness and money. It ends with the line Nobody ever regrets having done the right thing.
A garbled OCR fragment references social promises and personal pasts, noting Europe and a vague cottage industry claim. It mentions Russia in a disputed context and hints at political rhetoric, prosperity, and wellbeing as themes within a broader historical discourse.
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