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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1918
Page
7
A Texas city community forms a war regiment of volunteers from diverse ages and professions. Members pledge personal sacrifices to support Liberty Bonds and food production, with men and women, doctors, teachers, clergy and aldermen among the signatories. The article urges broader participation from merchants, farmers, and professionals to sustain war effort and end indifference.
A wartime message urges citizens to use resources effectively to win the war. It emphasizes producing and earning as patriotic acts and explains that government sells Liberty Bonds to fund the effort. Buying bonds is portrayed as both personal profit and public service.
The article reflects on facial expressions as windows to emotion, tracing their role from ancient times to modern society. It then analyzes a vast loan, estimating the silver dollars required to cover the earth, the air, and land areas, and compares it with government expenses and national wealth. A penny-a-day saving would repay the principal in 20 years.
The article discusses America's war loan of 7 billion dollars and its vast scale. It notes that at one dollar spent per minute, it would take 13,318 years to exhaust the appropriation, illustrating the enormity of the funds involved.
A new explosive named Nitro-Starch is described as more compact than allied nitro cellulose and gun cotton and likely to offer great blasting power. It is made by dissolving starch in nitric acid, similar to cotton and glycerin processes, with claimed advantages of cheap manufacture, safety, stability, and no hazardous fumes.
R M Washburn in the Lippincott Farm Manual argues the United States will largely shift to dairy products over beef. He cites May Kilma the Guernsey cow, producing in one year food value equal to 30 steers at 500 pounds each, and notes eight acres of wheat could match Duchess Skylark Ormsby’s yearly output. The dairy cow accomplishes this via hay, corn, ensilage and by products.
No objections to money. A Brooklyn English teacher known as the Eastern District Hermit posts a sign seeking a wife to be his companion and aid in his poverty stricken work with foreigners. He says a wealthy wife could fund his teaching.
A terse note asks about the whereabouts of the tax collector, implying a local search or inquiry. No further details are provided.
A prominent dancer who helped introduce interpretive dance to the country performs for select artistic audiences along the Eastern seaboard. Finley Peter Dunne attends one show and, upon leaving, is praised by a patroness who asks about the performance.
Instructions describe fitting mesh gratings into floor register boxes to recover small articles dropped through the grate. Use No 6 gauge wire mesh cut to fit inside the metal box beneath the register, avoiding removal of pipe sections.
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