WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY.
Civil marriages are now legal m Russia and m certain districts boys of 16 and girls of 13 are permitted to marry. Turkey still leads m kindergarten marriages. . . The Toronto Mail takes a "rise" out of Secretary .Baker by suggesting tsat American infantrymen are sometimes railed "dough-boys" out of compliment to his name. "Remember the wheatless day and l-^(»n it wholly." enjoins the Chicago Tribune. The fact that the "wheat" is largely composed of bran, notatoes and <-»ther substitutes makes the strict ob•fPTvance of the food commandment mther difficult. German dye manufacturers have reajjah ♦o feel blue. An American che^fft >m. discovered the secret of maffig indigo. On© hundred and forty-four thousnnd baseball bats have been shipped to the American troops m France. The Sammies expect to give the Kaiser's batteries a lot of trouble before tho big war league season ia over.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14593, 1 May 1918, Page 10
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