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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1916
Page
3
Short notes survey multiple subjects in our country and abroad. It highlights what is transpiring across sections and regions, touching on political, social, and economic topics with concise commentary.
Six Carranza soldiers fell in a Villista attack on a supply train at Palomas Chihuahua. Mexico City announced U S Mexico differences may be satisfactorily settled. Villa and allies seek to turn Juarez garrison to Villa. Funston authorized half a million for screen wire to protect camps from disease. Border travel shifts south with more crossing into Mexico. James Linn Rodgers said U S expeditionary forces will be withdrawn gradually. Reports claim Villa directly leads a Torreon capture campaign. WCTU sent grape juice and fans to thirsty border soldiers.
Out of 20646 trail hitters at the Billy Sunday revival in Kansas City, 5364 joined churches. The item notes revival attendance and conversion figures from the event.
The War Department orders all department commanders to delay border transport for National Guard mobilization until troops are fully equipped and organized. Secretary Daniels announces completion of high power aircraft guns for ships. Senate and House actions on leaves, emergency health funding, and naval appropriations follow.
The Inter national Association of Rotary clubs chose Atlante, Georgia as the convention city for 1917 during their Cincinnati gathering. The piece notes Spain lifting martial law tied to a railroad strike, while press censorship remains.
The German admiralty says on July 11 submarines sank a British auxiliary cruiser and three patrol boats. First class mail from the Danish liners Frederick VIII and Oscar II was seized by British authorities. British shelling on German lines totals about 10.5 million since June 27. Ireland’s cost of living rose 41.2 percent since the war began with bread at 9 cents a loaf and milk seven cents a quart. An Italian decree places German aligned persons and property with Austrians and Hungarians. William Mansfield, cleared in Willisau murder case, was discharged in Red Oak Iowa. Britain again denies Red Cross permission to ship aid to Germany and Austria-Hungary.
A banker who toured thirty Iowa counties reports corn normal, oats and hay crops excellent, tile drainage improving fields, and overall prosperity. Hay leads in value after corn and wheat, with last year’s hay at 48.5 million dollars and total field crops near half a billion. Winter prosperity expected.
Farmers and shippers in eastern Council Bluffs adopt motor trucks after the Yowa Short Line suspends service. First user shipped hogs in one car load via seven trucks, Laredo run to South Omaha in two and a half hours at 25 cents per hundred pounds. By week’s end five more farmers follow with auto truck hog hauls.
Clayton county rushes repairs on bridges washed away by the June 1 flood and shortens travel delays. Restoration work advances rapidly with total cost about $40,000.
Plans to reclaim 50000 acres of Polk Story and Jasper county farmland from Skunk River during high water periods are at a dead stand. Landowner petitions for a drainage district and levee along the Skunk River have been withdrawn and work postponed indefinitely.
Reports from Columbus New Mexico and El Paso Texas indicate Pershing’s column movements, with new truck train units at El Paso and cavalry awaiting orders for a punitive expedition into northern Mexico. Carranza elements and reports of Trevino’s recall, Herrera to replace him, and Villa activity shape a tense border picture.
San Francisco pursues bomb suspects after a suitcase explosion along the preparedness parade route killed six and wounded many. The city offers 5000 dollars, with the state likely adding a similar reward. One witness, William Taylor, described the man who placed the suitcase as about 35 and poorly dressed.
Grand Duke Nicholas forces push through Turkish Armenia and close in on Erzingan. Official dispatches from Tifia report the Russian army only about 15 miles from the city as July progresses.
The article describes the Isonzo River as fully inside Austrian territory, its course from Mount Terglou to the Gulf of Trieste, and its non navigable waters. It notes Goritz as a major city, Trieste proximity, and historical ties to Aquileia, plus Mazatlan Mexico as a separate geographic note with its harbor, economy, and population.
Mrs Twobble suggests Nora has dropped another plate and Mr Twobble proposes a plan to make Nora think the household enjoys broken china. He argues this will make her more careful, reflecting a manipulative domestic tactic.
A city boy asks about animal reactions while a farmer explains tail wagging. The humor hinges on different tails signaling mood, with the dog’s wag clear and the cow’s wag ambiguous or ambiguous to the observer.
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