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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1918
Page
11
Washington reports a disaster in the cotton industry as July and August drought devastate the crop. Government forecast suggests production will be far below earlier hopes after record sowing, with July and August reductions totaling over 1.6 million bales and a sharp overall decline.
In a McAdoo policy move a railroad employee faces must resign to pursue partisan office. Oscar A Pele, aide to the director general, is noted among those affected as candidates weigh their options. The Ronceverte Times, a Democratic weekly, is reported for sale amid political inquiries and possible resignations of railroad officials.
The act proposes amending section 2 of article 12 to allow exemptions for evidences of debt secured by mortgages, with ballots provided at the November 1918 election for voters to approve or reject the constitutional change. The secretary of state certifies the act as a true copy, dated July 20, 1918, in Helena.
From Mexico comes word of a bloody battle southwest of Carel Via where about two hundred were reported killed and many more wounded. An American from Chiliuativa described the engagement as intense and chaotic with towers and smoke filling the scene.
Soldiers from the army post at Vancouver engaged in fighting several brush and forest fires spreading across tributary sections. Near Manor and Yacob areas farms and green timber along the upper Wash River were burned or threatened. Widespread smaller blazes were reported across multiple locations.
A scattered montage of items includes agricultural trials in New Zealand with various grains and clover, a Massachusetts inventor's water delivery system, Milwaukees James Gorman writing home, and funds to the University of Chicago for veterans education. Also mentioned are a poison-preventing bottle design, a Harold Carter chimney lightning incident in Ellsworth Maine, an Eskimo kayak near Provincetown, and the Koszta incident setting a US Austria early diplomatic clash.
A description notes the rapid violent explosion of fulminate of mercury used in percussion caps and the need to mix with potassium nitrate or other chips for stabilization and proper use.
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