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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1917
Page
6
The editorial calls for tight public health measures in Anniston to protect soldiers and mobilization camps. It demands meat and milk inspection enforcement, sewer and trash reforms, and higher tax funding, warning against neglect and urging Mayor Scarbrough to act with public backing. It stresses housing for workers and cautious growth to avoid a boom.
The piece touts Alabama’s momentum with Birmingham Anniston and Montgomery attracting investments while Mobile is positioned for large shipbuilding plants. It argues waterway traffic must expand and Mobile as the seaport should link with state industrial growth to unleash development and lift regional limitations.
Birmingham Age Herald notes a southbound return of emigrants who had moved north for about a year. The Anniston Star reflects no alarm, arguing the exodus was abnormal and caused by bad advice and conditions. The South gains a clearer view of the negro as an industrial and agricultural asset.
The article extols Anniston as devoid of slackers with every man employed and every woman contributing to the war effort. It describes a city humming with industry where residents balance work during vacations and household duties to aid the wartime cause.
In a wide voiced exchange of editorials Birmingham and other Alabama papers laud Mobile as a future shipbuilding hub praising port improvements and a rebuilt economy. They urge cooperation between Birmingham and Anniston to share wartime prosperity and civic progress.
An op ed endorses meat and milk inspection highlighting safety and standardization. It argues uniform equipment and methods benefit producers and consumers, discusses past errors and ongoing improvements, and stresses public effort over individual control for public health.
Continued details note plans to finish current building outlay by August 24. Afterward carpenters begin permanent facilities including hospitals remount depots storehouses Y M C A buildings chapels and more. Major Dulin Captain Hare and officials commend Anniston merchants for cooperation.
Petersburg dispatch reports several local successes by King Ferdinand’s troops and Muscovite allies. Four hundred prisoners were taken in Bukovas, while a Teuton advance was halted near Brody. Rumanian front news warns of Mackensen's push toward Moldavia and retreat near Olina with 300 officers and men captured.
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