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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1918
Page
8
A satirical meditation on kickers from mules to humans, arguing critics disrupt progress. It traces how a kicker resists action, taxes, roads, and daily life, noting Friday birth, rearward greetings, funeral slowdowns, and an odd note on Egyptian embalming and heavenly constraints.
A wartime exhortation urges workers to commit to duties beyond comfort, condemns critics, and praises cooperative conduct toward women conductors. The piece frames loyalty as action in a total effort against German aggression and domestic disruption.
Visitors at Burlington House inspect forty uniforms worn by women in service including messengers munition workers and nurses. The exhibition organizers appeal to place women in out of the way positions and add these jobs to daily increasing lists across England.
In Pasco Washington workers report a large gas well tamed after three years of discovery. A misdriven settler drilled for water and caused a four inch pipe blowout, a passerby sparked a flare and gas burned for months. Now development proceeds with a new one inch pipe sunk into the reservoir to provide fuel for local industry.
Dr David I Macht of Johns Hopkins University announced at a meeting of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine a new opium substitute named benzyle benmoylate. The coal tar derivative relaxes muscles and provides the same beneficial effects as opium but without its ill effects, according to Macht and endorsed by Dr Brown of Johns Hopkins.
Sergeant H Clyde Balsley, first Texan home from France, recounts his three years in the flying service and wounds. He urges renewed American patriotism, criticizes American braggadocio, and calls for greater comrade ship with French allies as U.S. forces build for larger action in 1918 and beyond.
Waco Texas reports Carl M Palmer twelve year old from Sunfield Michigan believed to be Uncle Sim's youngest soldier. He enlisted last summer claiming to be eighteen until his sister visiting camp disclosed his real age. Captain Hogarth confirmed the boy’s age remark.
Mrs Benjamin G. Lathrop, director of the Paris depot, says 4000 French military hospitals and civilian relief stations need aid. She notes shortages of anaesthetics and rubber goods, with operations performed without anesthesia during invasion years. American shipments helped but acute need remains.
The desert rubber plant guayule shows profitable cultivation potential after Dr. W B MacCallum’s genetic study. Researchers identified several elementary species that do not readily interbreed. Tucson desert lab studies accompany a local firm buying 7000 acres to establish guayule culture.
County surveyor F Kellis recalls a 32 year old find from a well bore 18 miles southwest of Sterling City. A cowboy sold a black stone for 800 dollars to a jeweler, triggering further prospecting by Chicago interests. A shaft runs 88 feet, revealing blue clay dope and resilient pebbles, some black and translucent, others white and very hard.
A farmer questions winter pumpkin pie while noting cows’ fondness for pumpkins and the seasonal feeding needs of his herd. The exchange centers on pumpkins as livestock feed and a casual rural meal consideration.
Legal notice brief notes a general law business at 410 Pennsylvania Avenue West offering prompt collection services. No further details on entities, dates, or actions are provided.
Readers urged to recruit correspondents in underrepresented towns and send weekly letters. More community news will strengthen the Warren Mail as subscribers are asked to help by sharing local updates.
A refined landlady hosts intellectual meals while discussing a theory that souls of the dead inhabit animals. A quiet guest, Mr. Cutting, agrees and humorously asserts the chicken may house the sole of a shoe. The conversation blends superstition with wit in a high class setting.
All kinds, new and used. REMINGTONS $15 up. Instruction book with each machine. Empire Type Foundry, manufacturers of type and printers supplies. Buffalo, Deer.
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