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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1918
Page
2
An advertisement extols S. S. S. as the cure for eczema boils eruptions and other skin troubles claiming blood purification erases germs and returns a clear ruddy complexion. It offers free medical advice from Swift Specific Co. Atlanta Georgia.
A second 1,800-ton standardized steel merchantman for the emergency fleet corporation was launched today at a Pacific Port. The launch came 30 days after the first, and 60 days after the second keel was laid, with a keel for a third vessel already going on the ways within hours.
Washington January 14. Daniel H. Willard chairman of the War Industries Board and Bernard M. Baruch head of the board’s raw material division urged in the senate military committee one man control of all war supplies. They favored creating a munitions administration with full power directly responsible to the president but not a cabinet member to regulate procurement and distribution for the army navy shipbuilding and allies.
In Houston on January 14 the northbound Houston and Texas Central passenger train derailed near Hammond switch six miles south of Bremond. Between twelve and seventeen people were killed and nine injured as two steel coaches collapsed behind the mail car. Rescue teams worked by torchlight as soldiers a woman two girls and a baby were among the dead. One more casualty died shortly after.
A seed corn census is starting in the Ninth district led by the federal reserve bank to measure available seed for farmers. The effort follows a January alert urging 178,000 farmers to conserve every pound, with reports noting shortages in central and northern areas and only small 25,000 bushel surplus exists in scattered lots.
Concrete floors can be made almost noiseless by covering them with heavy tar paper attached by cement, a simple method cited as reducing sound transmission in homes and workshops.
A local warning from the Butte and Silver Bow boards urges registrants to return questionnaires under the selective service law. Delinquency is a misdemeanor with possible imprisonment and immediate induction. Families are urged to report noncompliance to avoid delaying the war effort. Local boards emphasize records cannot be changed once certified.
English stockholders and St. Paul businessmen helped Armour & Co. pledge 1.5 million dollars for a packing plant at South St. Paul in a federal trade commission session. Watch was placed on stock transfers and trust arrangements to secure the deal and ensure competition.
Reports from Petrograd indicate a possible breach in Russo German talks as armistice is extended to February 17 and negotiations resume in Warsaw. Lenine returns to Petrograd guiding talks while Trotzky faces criticism from hardline factions.
Reuters cabled from Petrograd reporting Kharkov where the Second Ukrainian regiment surrendered with 7,000 rifles and 18 machine guns after Maximalists opened fire. The regiment commander was arrested and Kharkov residents were ordered to donate 1,000,000 roubles for the unemployed. Rostov’s Trabaltzovo station changed hands three times between Cossacks and Bolsheviks.
Reports say General Kale and Cossack forces move north as Bolsheviks seize Ufa banks and government offices. Fighting expected at Tehelyabinsk on the Transsiberian line. Hunger riots in Kolumna kill 12 and wound 120. Bolsheviks occupy Moscow Union of Zemstvo HQ. Petrograd soldiers bring provisions sold at high prices.
Seattle January 14 E P Marsh of Everett Washington resigns as president of the Washington State Federation of Labor to accept a newly created post in the department of labor in Washington D C He is a member of President Wilsons federal mediation commission and will urge greater cooperation between organized labor and the government in turning out war material He will tour the country to lecture labor bodies on labor power the government and the war.
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