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Newspaper
Warren Evening Times
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1918
Page
3
The piece argues motion pictures have transformed childhood since the kinetoscope era. It notes low admission prices draw 35 million US schoolchildren, and questions whether films, unlike schooling, are carefully curated for young viewers. It warns about lasting impressions and the need for responsible curation.
A discussion on film as a powerful but potentially harmful medium for youths. It urges careful selection of plays in programs, warns against lurid realism and unwanted publicity, and calls for higher standards before broader use with children.
The article weighs the Star Spangled Banner against evolving patriotism and urges patience for a truly national hymn. It argues a perfect song must be loved and sung publicly to become national, while noting existing popular tunes and the slow, organic growth of national identity. It also notes wartime morale, local civic notes, and social hints amid the broader discussion.
Warren minstrel group performs through rehearsals for a skit to be shown at Camp Lee. The piece, titled Kitty the Rookie, features Mickey Larson Bill Lessler and Davy Hughes with others in Berlin Germany and relates humorous campus antics for Times readers.
Camp Lee dispatch recounts a humorous letter about men in uniform, praising the 80th Division and their training. A warfront tale features a wary recruit who prefers a razor to a rifle, jokingly avoiding infantry in favor of cavalry.
A five man recruiting party from Buffalo arrives in a city to enlist men for the United States Navy. They seek gasoline enginemen internal combustion carburetor and magneto workers with trainees at Great Lakes and air base posts. Also seeking carpenters and other sailors aged 18 to 35 for service on ships at sea.
Railway mail clerk examination announced for August 10 1918 with 1000 annual salary and Form 304 applications. P H C lodge installs officers at last meeting with eight new members and upcoming picnic planned. A Fosmile farm dog bitten by a rattlesnake shows signs of recovery without medical care after the snake was killed. fourth rattler killed on the farm this season.
Fred C Hertzel of Melrose Place dies at Warren General Hospital at about 7 30 am aged 45 after years of poor health He was born April 17 1873 and lived in Warren most of his life He leaves wife Eva Stevens Hertzel a daughter Lilian B and a son Herman W serving in France Funeral services Sunday at 2 pm conducted by Rev W C Beck with private burial in mind Also survived by brother Alfred Hertzel and calls may be made before the service Also in the issue is an ad noting the last day of a Mid-Summer Men s shoe sale with reductions on work and dress shoes and a note on The Times circulation.
A vintage advertisement touts a new pain killer and rheumatic remedy called 20th Century Liniment. It promises fast relief for rheumatism lumbago neuralgia backache sprains and bruises simply by applying from the bottle, with Newell Bros as the supplier.
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