Shrapnel Causes A Queer Sensation In The Trenches
Letters from Dale Denison and others describe life in Company K of the 168th infantry in France. Shrapnel and shelling punctuate days with hip boots doused by mud and long vigils in dugouts. Several soldiers report minor wounds and a calm approach to front line dangers, while censors limit what can be shared. Excerpts will be printed to inform local readers about their sons’ experiences.
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Dale Denison
D. M. Denison
Randle
168Th Infantry
Fred Randle
Company K
France
Foley Cathartic Tablets Ad Offers Quick Relief
If you wake tired with bilious, coated tongue and bad breath indigestion or constipation Foley Cathartic Tablets relieve and comfort quickly. They are wholesome and health-giving. For sale by J E Lemmon's Pharmacy. adyt.
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J. E. Lemmon
Plarmwacy
Adyt
Handy container for tacks and small fasteners
A simple triangular opening cut in the corner of a tin or box to save time and reduce spilling of tacks screws or nails. The notch should be just large enough to pour a few items at a time, allowing easy hand pouring. Popular Mechanics Magazine.
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Popular Mechanics Magazine
Dr Hand's Teething Lotion Promises Relief For Babies
An advertisement touts Dr Hand's Teething Lotion as easing teething pain and reducing slobber fussing crying and poor sleep. It instructs mothers to apply the lotion to gums with a finger and notes it is prepared by a famous baby specialist and costs 95 cents at druggists.
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Dr. [Land
Allies Demand More Cereals Amid Argentine Delays
The Food Administration urges further bread and breadstuffs reductions as Argentine arrivals lag. Meat supplies are larger for 2–3 months, enabling greater exports to allies while domestic beef and pork restrictions ease. Encouragement to extend home pork preservation to ease transport strain.
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U. S. Food Administration
Pood Administration
Pood
All Roads
Food Administration
Liberty bonds and farmer sacrifice urged for war effort
An editorial urging farmers to borrow to buy Liberty bonds at the limit, arguing inconvenience at home is small beside the front lines in France. It calls for practical patriots, notes banks can lend, and stresses unity in financing democracy and defeating enemies.
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Central West
France
China’s Plague Lessons For America In War Time
A World War II era column argues China’s fight against bubonic plague shows the need for national unity and broad mobilization. It urges Americans to support the third Liberty loan, stressing collective effort to fund the war and defeat a selfish autocratic power.
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China
Mongolia
Great Wall
Rockefeller Institute
America
United States Army
United States
Europe
Washington
Be a Fighter and Buy Bonds War Bond Call
Rousing wartime appeal urges every citizen to purchase government bonds as essential to funding the war effort. It equates bond buying with patriotism and frames nonparticipation as fatal to national victory.
Back Uncle Sam With Bonds in Time of War
The text urges American support for Liberty bonds as essential to back the government against German aggression. It notes Russia’s upheaval and Hun invasion as a lesson, stressing unity and timely financial backing for national defense.
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Russia
America
Clever sparrow trap misreads suet bait verdict
The Ohio State Journal notes that clever sparrows deem a suet bait on a cherry tree a trap, while cardinals and downy woodpeckers benefit, illustrating overreaching wit by a prominent Audubon Society member.
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Audubon Society
Ohio State Journal
The Perpetual Vision Inspires Labor and Virtue
The passage credits a perpetual vision of a better world as the force that tightens labor sanctifies toil and shapes a man to be strong wise patient just benevolent lowly and great, worthy of intelligence and freedom, guiding through life’s shadows.
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Victor Hugo
How Birds Roost One Foot Perched Balance and Toes
Birds roost on one leg with the other tucked. Borelli notes body weight tightens the foot tendons to grip the perch as a nail would. Wind or storm does not disturb the bird or its balance. The long toes help others stand steady on one foot.
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Borelli
Lobster Shell Pigment Turns Red at Boiling Point
The lobster shell contains a black or blue pigment secreted by the true skin which releases calcareous matter after each moult. This pigment changes to red when placed in water heated to 212 degrees Fahrenheit.
Quite a Difference. Lawyer and Mike clash over arrest reason
A humorous exchange unfolds as a lawyer questions why a man was detained. Mike argues the station cited intoxication. The lawyer challenges wording questioning whether the charge is intoxication or bivamy.
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Mike
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de and
Aske
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Central States
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