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WILL EXTINGUISH ALL LIGHTS THURSDAY NIGHTAhlftcaiine will learn Thursday nlRlit whitf. it means to mask a cltv I In war, darkness.At !) o’clock every lJKht in the city lh to be oxtflriRu1lt;ibcd for two minutes.El ?£.thli^ not » In tooo ion. visible anywhere. Struct lamps, business bo us oh and private (joint's will bo thrown Into complete darkness.Tho cities of England ami Kruuco UiaL aro exposed to aerial attack are masked at night. Stygian darkness pro vails and not a glimmer of II ght?ri i .0Wt,(I to H,lIne lH istreet, rhls Is jmrt of the war program ami st measure of safety to protect.thecfiJos from nn unexpected night attack.AIukculino Know# of those event s-onJy from prlntcMl stories and froim public speakers. It cannot comprehend yet what ft moans for u city n-bo in absolute gloom. To the person, who has been accustomed to the brilliant lights of Hie city, the on fore*-,| darkness mado necessary in Lho European war zones, is incomprehensible until ho has undergone the experience.It Ik to give the city a fasie of what a dark city really means that the Iiglihs will be extinguished on Thursday night. „
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Muscatine Journal

Muscatine, Iowa, US

Mon, Apr 08, 1918

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