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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1918
Page
12
The event featured patriotic addresses by Kremer and Kelley praising American unity and wartime effort. Attendees enjoyed music, speeches, and a busy program of races for all ages, with charity stalls, a wheel of fortune, and Red Cross stamp sales boosting support for the war effort.
Captain Harold M. Blake describes training officers at a French artillery school near Anaconda. He recalls daily lessons, frontline promises to return to front, and his emotions from pride to sorrow as he writes of war’s horrors and American resolve against German militarism. He highlights unity at home and abroad and the need to crush Germany.
Sheriff Tom Mullen of Powell County, after spotting two intoxicated men on the picnic grounds, arrested Charles Willgress and Joy Johnston. The pair, said to be familiar with Deer Lodge, allegedly transported whiskey and beer in an automobile to the grounds and peddled it. Both men held on $500 bonds as efforts to raise the money continued.
Payments on the first second and third Liberty Loan bonds must be made not before September 1. All bonds are for delivery and records must be updated before the next loan starts. NK and Trust Co of Anaconda. Gift to Muster NK Muster, one of the squad leaders, received a wrist watch at a meeting of St. Joseph's No. 43 Rod. Ake made the presentation.
Wartime diary describes Allied dawn breakthrough across No Man’s Land. Troops captured Delville Wood and Mametz areas, relieved by Welsh forces at Grand Mametz, and advanced toward Laboisele Contalmalcon Longueval with many German shells and unexploded ordnance strewn across cratered ground.
Ottawa dispatch reports Teadale of Butte among wounded in a midnight disturbance linked to wage and union demands. Other injured include A. W. McDuluth and Jin, with efforts to reinstate a discharged union active member. Washington also notes Wilson and McAdoo discuss military rail need and personnel drain.
Miss Catherine Acosta Graham daughter of Clinton and Mrs. Graham of New York married Lieutenant Mays Livingston Lewis son of Alfred and Mrs. Lewis of Amité Ci La. The ceremony at St George’s Church Flushing was moved up from September due to war conditions. The bride was attended by Susanne of Manhattan and Lieutenant Butcheon of the U S N served as best man.
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