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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1918
Page
5
The poem contrasts how society honors fallen and wounded soldiers with how fathers back home pay the family bills. It praises Corporal E. T. Dawson and other dads, who support bonds and letters while enduring hardship, often unseen amid praise for mothers and sweethearts.
A government shell loading factory in New Jersey will begin shipments at 52 000 shells per day. The plant spans about 2 500 acres with 100 buildings and 1 300 000 square feet of floor space and employs over 5 000 workers. It features a self contained town like facilities, health safeguards for poisonous gases, and 13 independent loading units capable of handling 15 shell sizes up to 16 inches.
Secretary Daniels commends Thomas Olsen and Ensign Elwood L. Houtz for bravery during sea emergencies. Olsen helped rig boats and evacuate Wakiva Maund crew after collision. Houtz seized a depth charge cable to prevent an explosion aboard Corsair during a storm. Both men enlisted in New York.
The United States shipping board ends a four month wait as 3,000 Holland officers and seamen who manned Dutch ships taken over by the U S last March are repatriated. Chairman Hurley praises their conduct and thanks Netherlands Consul General Spakler for assistance.
Wheat sells for 50 dollars a bushel in Turkey per the American and Syrian relief commission. Before the war prices ranged from 50 to 60 cents. The postal censorship board posts that Spanish translators are in demand at New York and other ports, open to women. The army medical department unveils a mobile X ray outfit for frontline care using a Delce gas electric set, high tension transformer, and a Coolidge tube.
Worland residents Joe Cook M A Kent and L E Baird receive monthly royalty checks of about $3000 from Elk Basin field. The Elk Basin group began when eight men invested 150 each and formed leases with Elk Basin Petroleum later operated by Midwest Refining. Five locators sold their one eighth royalty for 100000 each, while the remaining seven retain their one eighth shares now yielding large monthly sums.
Anecdote from The Fighting Man recalls Ned the collie as Corbett’s protector during training for the Sullivan bout. Ned’s jealousy of a rival dog led to a rift, a fight between pets, and the next day Corbett slept with his door closed and Ned frozen stiff outside, timing the boxer's loss.
An eastern inventor tests a self adjusting suspended bunk for steamships to prevent seasickness. The bed remains level amid ship motions, isolates passengers from engine vibrations, and resembles a lawn swing in appearance. Trials aboard a New York to Norfolk steamer drew praise from passengers and officers.
A wartime observer describes German troops laying steel machine gun plates under a green screen. A nearby shell explodes, toppling a tree and burying the work area in dirt, ending their parapet repair for that afternoon.
United States Consul General Albert Halstead reports that the daylight saving experiment in Vienna reduced lighting costs and boosted health by extending sunlight in working hours. He notes Vienna saved 158 million cubic feet of gas and $142000, with street lighting needing 14 million cubic feet less.
A cargo of 400 tons of cocoa recently landed in London from the former German colony of Cameroons. Before the war Cameroons was Germanys chief cocoa producer, yielding about 4,000 tons annually from Cameroons and Togoland.
A Fort Sheridan incident reports an army auto overturn after a glare from an oncoming car blinded its driver. The crash involved several ladies aboard and may have serious or fatal consequences.
A vintage health note urges waking with a glass of hot water mixed with limestone phosphate to cleanse the stomach and bowels. It claims internal cleansing prevents toxins entering the blood, improves complexion, breath, and head clarity, and costs little to implement.
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