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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1917
Page
4
Pennsylvania health commissioner argues for valuing and caring for the body as national strength during wartime. He compares human bodies to well maintained horses and urges lifelong attention to digestion and overall health.
The text discusses historical property rights of women from minority to marriage. It contrasts femme sole and femme covert status, noting that a single woman could own property, while marriage shifted ownership to the husband. A nun or widow status is mentioned as limiting social constraints.
A wartime prayer pleads for divine support against Germany, invoking God of our fathers to strengthen resolve and deny peace with the Hun. The verse vows continuing the fight to topple the German war lords and restore freedom, with calls for guidance and protection.
California soldier writing from France describes censorship rules for U S troops, local policing by Americans, whistling misunderstanding, American spending in Paris, hats becoming fashionable, and rumors of local marriages as American troops prepare for potential combat. He notes strict censorship, shifts in liberty, and cultural frictions with French hosts.
The American field service prints a poem by its workers in its Service Bulletin titled C est la guerre. The verses describe transformation from carefree air to frontline danger as ambulances and drivers confront death and the loss of comrades in France.
Whisky and Soda two lion cubs of the Lafayette escadrille sparked a mass evacuation as German Gotha bombers raided near Verdun. The flag of the United States flew over the field, and despite shells the Lions fought, saving pilots and crew who then watched scattered wreckage and the unit inactive for over a week due to losses.
In Hazelton Pennsylvania coal crews uncover ice layers in culm banks from the 1960s and 1970s. They note dry summer layers and snow filled winter strata at Cranberry and Yorktown banks, claiming the ice proves coal piles retain value despite weather.
Maude Bride and Marie Shadel, Madison teens aged 18 and 17, rode freight toward Texas to visit soldiers Herbert Ward and Len Nichols after stealing eight dollars from Maude’s father’s coal fund. Police found them in Princeville and held them in a detention home as the wallet went empty and winter coal needed.
Mrs. John J. O'Brien, mayor of Moorehaven Indiana, fined $10 after her horse strayed and trampled gardens violating local ordinance. The event underscores ongoing questions about municipal authority and animal control in Moorehaven.
Mrs. P. J. Simmons of Flushing New York forms a painting class to cover work left by men at war. She leads several girls earning four dollars a day, a photo shows her with a brush in painters overalls and a hair cap.
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