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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1918
Page
4
The item records the paper being entered at the Warren Pennsylvania post office as second class matter and notes foreign advertising representation by the American Press Association with offices in New York and Chicago and branches in principal cities.
The New York Evening Post notes women replacing men in banks as the war continues. About 20,000 women have joined Wall Street finance since U S entry last April. Many bank presidents already rely on women secretaries and assistants who know bank operations and leadership duties.
A Edward Newton argues that cheerfulness is rare among the rich and even before Browning and Thoreau. He suggests most men lead quiet desperate lives and urges openness to cheerfulness rather than philosophy. A good disposition is valuable and worthy of effort.
The Siemens Stadt complex near Berlin houses the world’s largest and best equipped electric kitchen. From noon to 2 pm daily 3000 people are served in four relays. Features include electric refrigerators, grinders, sharpeners, slicers, cutters, and electric heated oil in cooking utensils. Water heating and dishwashing are electric. Per capita cost is about one-half cent. salon cooking costs exceed one third of a cent.
The article argues for aggressive control of corvids especially crows and ravens due to their amnivorous diet harming crops and seed corn. It notes France's agriculture secretary issuing bulletins to prefects advising destruction of these birds amid rising grain losses.
Capper's Weekly reports an American inventor’s powderless gun that resembles a large grint with an electric motor driving barrels at high speed. It fires hundreds of rounds per minute with bullets in small cups and centrifugal positioning. The weapon is accurate to two miles, cheap to operate, and waterless.
The Ohio State Journal asserts the war teaches that the individual counts less in the broader plan, noting the question Aren’t you going home? and a scene with Bir. Delax and Mrs. Rafferty, who refuses to work more than eight hours, choosing to stay away from home as households endure disruption.
Public notice outlines the 1918 federal income tax deadline and penalties for noncompliance. It explains exemptions for women and dependents, and urges timely filing, extensions, and consulting local deputies and postmasters for forms and guidance. The message frames the tax as a wartime obligation shared by all earners.
A compact cake method uses sour cream and brown sugar with whole wheat flour, one beaten egg, chopped dates, salt, soda, cinnamon and cloves. The batter is mixed and baked in small cake shapes for a lightly spiced treat.
A satirical critique on colleges transforming youths into leaders while warning against excesses. It contrasts past education with modern seminars and mocks a subset of students who chase fame, noting many graduates still wait for opportunity. It cites statistics on presidents, writers, and millionaires as college graduates.
Baltimore boxer Kid Williams, former bantamweight world champion who won the crown from Johnny Conlon in 1912, was knocked out by Joe Lynch in four rounds last week, marking the first KO loss of Williams career.
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