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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1918
Page
2
A wartime appeal emphasizes that society must unite to finance and sustain the war effort. It argues liberty bonds and taxes are essential sinews, equating volunteering with bonds and urging citizens to support the government to defeat Germany and protect national independence.
Observers of the British Royal Flying Corps describe six Allied observation balloons shot down by German airplanes behind the lines. A parachute escape unfolds for one crew member as another balloon is set ablaze.
Royal British Field Artillery Sergt Christopher Jones testifies in a psychopathic court about his WWI service in France. He details wounds and gas exposure at Ypres and Albert, including a 40 foot pit captivity and a daring escape with fellow prisoners.
Miss Alcyon Robinson and eleven college girls joined the Denver Flying squadron to harvest cherries on a 1000 acre orchard. They camped ten days and picked 6000 pounds, noting safety overalls as essential. The effort aims to ease farm labor shortages on the western slope and showcases fruit picking as a practical service to orchardists and their families in Greeley and surrounding areas.
A vigilante poem recounts a comrade’s blood staining ration red and the vow to fight imperial wrong. The speaker asks for sorrow to fuel strength, aiming to complete the dead man’s task and harm the dragon or themselves in the war.
War department order warns officers at Camp Sheridan Montgomery Alabama to watch for loan sharks preying on soldiers. Lenders reportedly take Liberty bonds valued at 250 75 and 100 and charge up to ten percent interest on short term loans.
Harvey Smith, mayor of St. Mary's, issues a directive to police to arrest loiterers both men and women in Wapakoneta area. The slogan Go to work go to war or go to jail frames the crackdown on vagrants and idle loafers.
Aubrey McLeod, a Purdue-educated veteran, had both feet shattered and legs amputated after a German bombing near Walter Reed. Despite multiple surgeries and gas gangrene, the cheerful 23-year-old soldier vows to return to duty with artificial legs and hopes for a typewriter to aid rehabilitation.
In Evansville Indiana thirty five female workers at a buggy factory vote to switch from skirts to overalls to ease work while many men serve in France. The move marks the first use of factory overalls by women in the city.
In Portland Oregon a cleanup drive collected paper at fire stations. During sorting more than twenty Bibles printed in German were discovered among the waste material.
A special Great Northern train traveled 115 miles from Belfast to Dublin in 107 minutes and returned in 106 minutes setting a new Irish rail record.
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