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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1918
Page
12
An editorial sways between praising soldiers for slaughter in war and condemning civilians and engineers for deadly negligence. It argues military justice should be stricter than civil law to deter fatal carelessness.
Washington County Indiana residents are urged to harvest and conserve food amid a possible shortage. A Department of Agriculture bulletin endorses Sunday farm work when needed to produce crops and defeat Germany, citing Indiana rural churches and Purdues conference.
A wartime poem lauds American workers harvesting wheat to feed soldiers and defeat the Teutons. It compares field labor to chivalric quests and praises endurance, courage, and patriotic zeal in turning golden fields into sustenance for fighting legions.
They argued that people would be far less numerous if escaping responsibility were harder and if the ideals of military discipline were more visible in civil regulations.
The Indiana rural church conference at Purdue urged Sunday labor on farms to save crops against a perceived German threat described as a savage religious menace. The Journal editorialized that farmers might face emergency work on Sundays if necessary, echoing ministers’ bulletin views.
In Mount Clemens Michigan Lieut Raymond Templeton Pendleton Oregon and Private Edgar Sawyer Hertford Connecticut of the Eight Hundred and Thirtieth aero squadron were killed when their plane spun crashed 159 feet away catching fire. In Rantoul Illinois Harold Carothers Noble York Pennsylvania cadet from Chanute flying field died after a fall near Ludlow during a sudden rainstorm believed to cause loss of control.
A boatload of 24 sailors from the Dwinsk, sunk by a submarine, was landed by a fishing vessel at Shelburne. The men were picked up 60 miles south of Seal Island after drifting eight days on bread and water.
In this brief reflection the writer argues our current woes could be exceeded by worse possibilities and urges a measured, hopeful outlook amid local concerns.
Don Esteban Varona guards a vast treasure hidden in a plantation well learned by his slave Sebastian. After a tangle of murders schemes love betrayals and wartime danger Rosa and Esteban endure captures and escapes as O'Reilly Norine Evans and allies pursue safety and final reconciliation in Cuba and beyond.
Norine, timid yet admired, retreats when called Lenora O'Reilly as Esteban's proxy, while Rosa and O'Reilly join Esteban at the cabin. Norine calms, kneels by the hammock, and overhears a tender overvoice. Rosa whispers hope that he will recover, aided by God and the remarkable girl.
Esteban resumes a steady coastward journey while Jacket falters. YReilly plans to depart for the States prompting Cubs to her fate as he renounces Cubs and proclaims himself a loyal American citizen.
The town of Peterhof lies 18 miles from Petrograd and was founded in 1711 by Peter the Great. Its imperial palace echoes the style of the famous Versailles palace.
The garrison flag is bunting with 86 feet fly and 20 feet hoist. It has 18 stripes and in the upper quarter near the staff the field of stars equals the number of states on a blue field. It extends to the lower edge of the fourth red stripe from the top.
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