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Newspaper
Wahpeton Times
Location
Wahpeton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1918
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR text signals a discussion on America buying feathers from China and evaluating it as a good customer. The garbled lines suggest scattered phrases about trade, pricing, and production reportedly exceeding $100, with unclear attribution to firms or individuals.
Seasonable Dishes and recipes appear amid a wartime prose piece. It lists Corn California Style and Mexican Rice along with Beet With Vegetables and Spaghetti Meat and Apple Casserole as suggested dishes. The piece includes a casualty note about First U S Soldiers killed in France, naming Corporal James B Gresham and others, with dubious garbled details.
Fragmentary OCR describes Wisconsin's oldest frame house in Green Bay, noted as a historic site linked to early settlers and notable citizens. References to renovations, ownership transfers, and a 1905 event involving a rector are incomplete but point to preservation history in the city.
A garbled historical OCR row presents fragments of a civic tribute, hinting at vows and duties to a nation and people. The readable lines reference a national figure, a pledge to emulate, and a sense of shared service amid a church and community context.
TP O'Connor argues Cartoons Magazine on Ireland shows how British rule sparked lasting resentment. He cites a doomed crackdown led by a soldier who killed with secrecy and forced executions that provoked revulsion in Ireland and America, shaping centuries of conflict.
A humorous exchange among club members about a talkative expressman Hallowerby and his fate. The men joke about ego tist behavior, card games, and royal golf phrases, while others riff on household workers and odd anecdotes. The chatter bounces among quips and partial stories.
An official from the Southern Pacific calculates that the rise in Mallet locomotive cost over two years would cover a 100 acre farm at 295 per acre, a 5,000 residence, 2,500 in farm implements, a Matry contract at 75 each, 700 for teams and wagons, 1,500 for an automobile, and 100 feet of dental lines, illustrating the overall impact on early locomotive costs.
A wartime poultry program details breeding stock selection to improve meat and egg types, confining mothers post-hatch, promoting free range where possible, conserving grain, and producing infertile eggs after breeding. It urges backyard poultry, uses scraps for fowl and egg production, and requests county advisors and poultry reps to provide guidance.
Government reserves in Alaska aim to ensure a steady coal supply. Bureau of Mines experts describe leasing units as small, expandable tracts designed to deter speculative prices and suit varied transportation needs. Outlook remains uncertain as coastal coal faces stiff competition from oil and hydroelectric power.
A Mobile Register report cites conflicting views on cigarettes' effects for wounded soldiers. A Serbian theatre of war anecdote notes cigarettes ease pain and boost endurance, while another scientist warns smoking harms heart performance. Mrs. Farnam recounts heroic sergeant work and lectures on nicotine's role in war surgery.
State and county officials push prison labor for road building and other war related tasks. Arkansas Governor Brough plans 75 to 100 convicts on continuous road work. The bill includes wage payment to prisoners to support dependents and avoid unfair competition with free labor. The measure, backed by the national committee on prisons and prison labor, aims to accelerate wartime labor needs and curb exploitation.
The excerpt outlines economical cooking during meatless and wheatless times. It suggests rice with eggs, tomato rarebit, rye popovers, and Mexican rice using pork or bacon fat, onions, peppers, and paprika. It emphasizes boosting volume with small amounts of eggs and cooked rice to feed five or six people.
A fragment lists notable occurrences on a Friday including Washington's Birthday, Shakespeare's birth, America's discovery, Bastille destruction, Queen Victoria's marriage, Napoleon's birth, Caesar's assassination, the battles of Marengo Waterloo and Bunker Hill, the Mayflower landing, the Battle of New Orleans, and the Declaration of Independence.
Popular Mechanics notes a salt water oyster propagation project planned for Bear River Bay near Salt Lake City Utah this spring. The article asserts that water salinity affects oyster seed survival, similar to other bivalves, and discusses practical methods for starting the operation.
The post office department will establish an airplane mail service next summer with bids called for five planes. Daily trips will carry first class mail at the outset, marking the start of wartime aviation use in civil mail service. The coming peace is expected to expand aviation nationwide, creating employment for many aviators.
An ether based cure is described for heat related illness in the Metta Reserve area. The note mentions a water remedy and a relief method to ease octne. Local officials caution about medical accuracy and safety.
The article notes spectacles were invented in Italy around 1286 and were initially very costly, worn by wealthy nobles. It mentions rising rank associated with glasses and cites a few surviving busts of Italian gentlemen wearing spectacles, describing lenses of significant size.
The piece muses on growing old and the fading of youth and happiness. It recalls a long journey shared with Fortune, amid rocky paths and evolving love, concluding with the sense that beauty and vigor fade while memories remain.
In a fragmented exchange a doctor cites constitutional inertia in a daughter while a woman cries for arrest after alleged domestic violence. A police captain confirms awareness of the emergency as the scene hints at a general public dispute.
A captured bomber carries a device with a telescope on gimbals and a floor mounted level to indicate vertical alignment. A prism lets the bomber sight forward to release bombs at calculated angles, such as 15 degrees for a target a half mile away from 10,000 feet up, though atmospheric layers introduce error.
The article discusses Oxford English Dictionary entries for sun phrases such as Place in the sun and the empire, noting their origins from Pae cal and the Spanish empire about 800 years ago. It mentions Thackeray using the sun phrases in Pusch as a joke.
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