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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1918
Page
4
A circulating verse traces rumors across a web of hearsay from a washerwoman’s sister to a Klondike man. It satirizes the idea of certain knowledge by listing distant connections and implausible sources about when the war might end.
The labor bureau reviews show agencies profiting from labor mobility and misrepresentation. A Knoxville Nashville scheme moved workers for fees, with trains ferrying laborers and agents skimming commissions. The government proposes reforms to balance labor demand and business needs while pursuing fairness for employers and workers.
In a wartime verse, the speaker mocks a ruined pie crust and bitter filling as a metaphor for global conflict. The poem laments heavy burdens of war and recalls maternal pies while condemning rulers and armies for the devastation across nations from Cathay to Omaha.
A World War I vignette from Stars and Stripes in France describes a colonel on a night trench tour who is challenged by a two hour post sentry. The sentry, in rain, asks who is there and the colonel replies friend. The sentry welcomes him to their mist and the colonel ends by laughing at the moment.
Des Moines Capital reports Major Guy S. Brewer of Des Moines led a bayonet dash under artillery fire toward Sergy with his men. Corporal Hard of Cherokee and Sergeant Oscar Johnston of Red Oak also shown heroism. Bugler G Field of Atlantic and Sergeant Major David Livingston of Washington praised. The piece extols UGSth regiment veterans and highlights Junius B. Wood’s cable correspondence from the front.
Fragments describe persistent damp conditions in the American sector northwest of Toul with emphasis on disappointing weather over recent weeks. The passage notes better conditions elsewhere but highlights ongoing moisture and unsettled skies in the contested area.
Captain Sarret of the French air service carries out the first recorded parachute jump from a moving airplane at 8 000 metres over France. He dropped 800 yards with a 12 yard umbrella parachute and landed safely, proving parachutes can save aviators in flames. Rodman Law later jumped from a moving plane at Kelly Field in Texas, descending 6 000 feet with an ordinary balloon parachute during Secretary McAdoo’s visit.
This excerpt summarizes Pat O Brien narrative chapters detailing enlistment in the Royal Flying Corps, training in Canada, combat over France, capture and imprisonment, and perilous escape attempts across Belgium Luxembourg and Germany. It notes grim German hospital neglect and a dramatic canal-boat scene with potato theft and a sentry.
Sioux City news notes Berthelson family as three brothers enlist or depart for Camp Pike and France with Rainbow division in 1917. Mrs Berthelson, former Denmark resident, active Red Cross worker, plans to move to Kansas while sons serve overseas.
Des Moines August 3 The state treasurer will soon distribute 800000 to Iowa counties for road improvements. This follows the April distribution of 728130 from automobile license funds. Total auto license receipts for the year ending July 1 1918 reached 21900082179 with portions allocated to highway maintenance and automo bile department expenses and county road use. Federal aid of 499000 is set aside from this year's receipts for post road improvements.
On the Aisne Marine front American posts near the fighting troops are flooded with German helmets addressed to relatives in the United States. Officers and men along with Y M C A and Red Cross members send helmets, often bearing large bullet holes, as trophies from German retreat paths.
Helmets are enclosed in flour sacks and gunny sacks with addresses pasted on the crown. Some read From the Kaiser others From Hindenburg and the senders' initials appear on the envelopes. Depots for battlefield leftovers are well filled, with a mound of helmets at one site larger than a bungalow.
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