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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1914
Page
3
A Riverside family recounts a four year old boy afflicted with widespread sores that burned and bled, kept from sleep by daily bandaging. After using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment, the child improved within two weeks and was fully recovered in about three weeks. Samples offered by mail from Cuticura, Boston.
An old Musterole advertisement urges mothers to keep a jar at home for prompt relief of ailments such as sore throat bronchitis stiff neck asthma and colds of the chest. It claims it does not blister and markets 25 cent and 50 cent sizes plus a hospital size for 2.50 with a warning to avoid imitations from the Musterole company in Cleveland Ohio.
An advertisement notes binitrate magnesia as an antacid aiding digestion by preventing fermentation and neutralizing stomach acid. It claims tablets now offer the same benefits as powdered compound, a convenient form already prescribed by physicians.
The arbitration hearing on wage demands of 65,000 locomotive engineers on 98 western railroads heard William C Carter of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen testify that freight crews suffer low pay compared with bricklayers plasterers plumbers and other industrial workers. Carter traced wage rankings since 1907 noting engineers dropped from fourteenth to near thirty-eighth in overall industrial pay, while firemen showed similar declines as experts questioned the value of Carter's comparative schedules.
War office releases report German forces bombarded Oost Dunkerque near Nieuport and captured Vermeules while advancing in Rouvroye Parvillers and Le Quesnoy areas. British trade data show November imports and exports declines, with food up and cotton and coal down. Swiss neutrality breach noted with British aviators, and Belgian relief efforts funded by Dutch loan of grain. Separate items report Servian offensive activity, Greek diplomacy, and Prince of Wales front letters censored. Official German statements claim gains in Poland around Lodz with large Russian losses as Austro-Hungarian and German troops repel Russian attempts in the north.
Washington reports the Belgian legation released a statement rejecting the German chancellor’s blame on Belgium for WWI invasions. It notes no published documents prove Belgium surrendered neutrality to England, and calls for full publication of any such papers to prove or disprove the charge.
Messages of gratitude from Elizabeth queen of Belgium and the Duchess of Vendome to the Women of America were received by the American Commission for Relief in Belgium. Written at the Belgian army battle line, the messages were obtained during a recent battle and conveyed to supporters in New York.
A long message reports Elizabeth Duchess of Belgium accepting to be patroness of the American commission for relief in Belgium. It urges American women to support Belgian mothers and children amid dire winter conditions, highlighting solidarity and humanitarian duty.
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