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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1917
Page
8
The column notes that cold weather drives up colds and urges Poley’s Fancy and Tar Compound as a remedy. W G Glazier of Benterville Ark claims it cured a years long cough thought to be consumption. The product is sold by Collins Anetin Drug Co with warnings against imitations and mentions an Edison Mazda cemetery event that Sunday afternoon.
President Hoover reports to the government that allies and neutrals will need about one billion bushels of cereals next year while Britain, France, and Italy face heavy meat, fat, and sugar needs. He appeals to the American people to increase production and conserve supplies as the war effort depends on food. He notes wartime strains reduce foreign grain, with frost and manpower shifts limiting crops in Britain France and Italy.
In a day of fierce combat at Ypres British forces unleash vast mine explosions and heavy artillery. Hill 60 falls as tanks play a key role and German positions are struck by more than a million pounds of high explosives. Casualties are light for the British and observers note the surprise and scale of the assault.
Rear Admiral Lacage told the chamber of deputies that submarine sinkings are advancing and that a more efficient method may be developed. He defended naval leadership amid criticism as eighteen hundred voyages by cruisers between Algiers and France were cited, noting only the Medioda had been sunk. The Texas Wonder ad claims kidney and bladder cures with testimonials and mail order offer.
American transport carrying wheat for troops reaches a French port under naval protection. The Jupiter naval collier arrived in France with 10,400 tons of wheat and other supplies. The voyage and unloading details were reported from Washington with the ship’s departure noted as having occurred without prior notification.
The assault employed a curtain of lighter field guns and deep throated heavies delivering high explosive shells on German trenches. Additional guns saturated German guns and gunners with gas shells. Infantry reports later indicated minimal artillery interference and very low casualties for the attackers.
The British forces launched a second drive and captured Oosttaverne and adjacent German positions over five miles. German casualties were heavy and the British took more than 5,000 prisoners, along with numerous guns trench mortars and machine guns.
Reading the article notes how women too often accept fatigue and backache as fate, suggesting these pains may stem from underlying disorders rather than gendered fate. It calls for recognizing potential medical causes and seeking remedies.
Mrs. Mary V. Bunker of Milton-on-the-Hudson New York reports using a second bottle of Foley Kidney Pills and says they are just what she needed. Ad promotes purchase through Collins-Austin Drug Co.
The jury to try Mrs. Rena Mooney for the bomb explosion that killed ten people in San Francisco last July was completed late today.
A violent hail and rain storm swept from Baltimore through western Maryland causing about 1,000,000 dollars in damage.
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