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Newspaper
Van Buren News Eagle
Location
Van Buren, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1918
Page
3
A Van Buren News-Eagle editorial decries the overburdened housewife as working mothers, soldiers, and volunteers stretch resources. It argues for relief and support for mothers balancing farm, family, and war effort duties.
The excerpt highlights postwar opportunities including vast reconstruction in Europe and the Americas, rapid growth of the airplane industry, revival of merchant marine, land ownership shifts, and a surge in Pan American commerce led by returning soldiers. It notes epochal domestic and international political events to come.
The text envisions end of isolating oceans as barriers and predicts new international brotherhoods and movements will flourish. It states the old world will undergo rapid growth in the 25 years after the war and urges wise men to seize their opportunities.
A quip on missing mother figures and an absent Congress. The speaker ponders who will remind the President to sit up straight and the Secretary of War to wash behind his ears until Congress reconvenes.
The government plans to seize telegraph and telephone systems and assume control of all physicians in the United States, likening doctors to live wires in its broad takeover.
The message declares that whenever a Red Cross hospital or hospital ship is at risk, Germans will act decisively. It emphasizes a relentless push toward Berlin, signaling intent and determination in wartime rhetoric.
Four fighters named H for Heroic, F for Foxy, P for Pershing and W for War Weary Willie are listed in a playful lineup with references to strength and resolve. The monikers suggest a boxing or wrestling themed event or cartoonish parade of characters.
A remark notes it is cheaper to settle a debt than to spend time and effort walking streets to dodge a creditor, reflecting on avoidance strategies and costs.
A brief wartime note underscores letters from home as a crucial lifeline for soldiers abroad or in cantonments. The message stresses affection, morale, and the enduring bond that sustains troops during separation.
A fringe dispute over terms like sharpness chronical and neuralogy surfaces in online discussions. Participants clash over correct usage while some call for moderation and others defend free expression.
A reader notes language convention stating that the adjective form of German in English should use a lowercase g when referring to the language. The letter argues for consistency in capitalization across texts.
Poem praises the flag as it passes with military display and nationhood. It honors veterans battles sea and land, justice, law, and national pride. The verses celebrate endurance, sacrifice, and loyalty guiding a strong united state.
For sale three or four hundred bushels of new oats at the bin offered by Wm Saxon of Van Buren Indiana. 3rdl.
Rev. E. C. Brown attended the missionary meeting at Messick last week. Mrs. Julia Merrill, secretary of the missionary association, could not attend due to the death of her grandfather Jonathan Kelly. She was re-elected and Miss Lottie Kelly was elected organizer.
A Des Moines man recalls a Ashland Kansas caseman praising Chambrlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy after his daughter, near death from dysentery, recovered. He and his family used the remedy with successful results.
Mrs. Williams and her daughter from New Kensington Pennsylvania are spending several weeks with Mr. and Mrs. Howard Garrigus located west of town.
Catarrh is described as a local disease corrected only by internal remedies. The ad claims Hall's Catarrh Cure works through the blood to mucous surfaces and is made from tonics and blood purifiers. It cites testimonials and promotes the product from F. I. Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio.
The Federal Food Administration announces a wheat flour exchange plan allowing farmers to receive eight pounds per month per capita of flour for self grown wheat, with strict limits on sale or barter. It also bans selling sugar at 11 cents a pound and warns against buying damp wheat, undervaluing grades, or thresher practices. Violations risk license forfeiture and loss of business.
A. R. Powell, operator of two Linton groceries, was found guilty of misrepresenting sugar stocks on July 1 and barred from selling sugar until October 1. He claimed 1,000 pounds, but an investigation found 5,560 pounds on hand.
Officials vow strict enforcement of Sunday closing rules as grocers face loss of supplies and licensed commodities from the Food Administration. The move targets unfair noncompliance and aims to protect those obeying regulations.
A historical notice states sugar will not be used in vinegar production by households, especially across rural districts, where various vinegars are made by residents.
The article notes that Victory bread may contain 75 pounds of wheat flour 20 pounds of substitutes and 5 pounds of rye flour. The rye provision covers carryover stocks and incoming new rye while substitute regulations for bakers remain unchanged. Animal fat restrictions are lifted with the caveat of economic use.
The Food Administration bans butter speculation and requires licensees to sell butter at not more than a reasonable advance over cost regardless of existing market or replacement value. The rule targets price gouging and ensures fixed pricing for consumers.
Don Herold underscores wartime speed in obeying food rulings. He praises Hoover’s Food Administration with 400 experts tracking world supply and demand. Quickness in adopting new rules boosts food patriotism as the public responds to timely requests.
A horse owned by Charley Griffith collapsed and died while cutting oats, witnessed by his son and him nearby in the field. It is the fourth Griffith horse lost since January. Another horse, belonging to Mr. Henry Creviston, died Wednesday morning with suspected poisoning. Local ad note urges Witmer and DePoy for land.
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