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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1918
Page
2
MATLMO To hn Malmo aged 51 years died yesterday at the family home on South Washington street. The body was removed to Whites Undertaking Parlors. Notice of funeral will appear in later papers.
New York on January 20 announced free women chosen for the executive committee of the League to Enforce Peace. They include Dr Anna Howard Shaw honorary president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Mrs Eva Perry Moore president of the National Council of Women. Mrs Thomas J Preston of Princeton. Miss Carey Thomas president of Bryn Mawr College. The selection aims to bolster anti creature peace efforts and to promote after the war a league of nations.
Mortimer Sullivan and several relatives are mourned as funeral arrangements are made. Remains were moved through Sherman Reed's parlors for services at Holy Cross Cemetery. Also noted are rites for Talsto Henry and other local deaths with interment planned in nearby towns and parlor holds.
Maj Grayson M P Murphy describes extraordinary Red Cross work in Europe especially France on arrival at Atlante Port He says supplies line behind the front will be used by American troops and plans to return to France with Pershing’s staff He notes growth of Red Cross from 17 to 2600 workers and 500 motor ambulances in France and 200 in Italy with projected $88000000 spend by May 1 and no American soldiers seen intoxicated by liquor by French observers
Washington reports little improvement in railroad movement as temperatures remain frigid in the central U S. Officials warn only a moderation and snow melt may ease the bottleneck. Wages and labor issues to be reviewed by a new railroad wage commission led by Secretary Lane.
Nationwide alarm over seed corn cites eight years of tests in 33 Iowa counties showing home grown seed outyielded imports by about 20 bushels per acre. Do not import seed unless absolutely necessary. test existing stocks, keep old 1916 crop for seed, and maintain corn acreage to support meats for soldiers.
Washington January 20 Hundreds of war savings committees formed in cities counties and states may be repurposed as agencies to curb nonessential building and enterprises not vital to war bonds. The plan, tied to private securities, aims to ease treasury approvals by letting local committees judge which manufacturing extensions or projects can be postponed or scrapped to free steel and transport capacity. The move follows Federal Reserve discussions and leverages already organized representative committees to apply closest scrutiny to expenditures during the war.
The sequence shows social evolutionists clamoring for assembly admission while Bolshevik guards enforce order. M Sverdloff calls for calm as social revolutionists sing the international hymn and Bolsheviks protest the congress program. A separate note details a harvest yield claiming 526 beans from a single pea bean plant and 88 pounds of dry beans from 117 hills of cranberries.
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