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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1917
Page
6
Anniston salutes Major General Morton and Brigadiers Barber Gaither Vaughn Rafferty and Lt Col Goodale at Camp McClellan. The article notes Alabama politics, wartime unity, and the use of colored troops to guard northern bridges and arsenals to avoid racial friction.
The Anniston Star rejects Selma Journal’s harsh review of Anniston’s sanitation moral climate and health record. It asserts Anniston’s twenty year sanitary achievements prove the city’s readiness for national attention. Selma is urgedto wait until it improves before government scrutiny.
The piece praises Anniston residents for patriotism shown through Liberty Bonds subscriptions and Y M C A and Red Cross support. It urges a warm welcome for arriving soldiers, asking business and homes to fly American flags and repaint signs, led by the Alabama Power Company funding a large Welcome display.
Alabama small daily newspapers expand as communities prosper. The Anniston Star will use United Press leased wire service to 10 000 words a day while the Tuscaloosa News moves to a new home. Other dailies in Huntsville Dothan Selma and Gadsden also thrive.
Read reflections from Alabama papers on unity for business in Florence and fiscal strain in Montgomery, the war’s lessons urging self reliance, and a warning that boll weevil damage will rise if farmers do not switch from cotton to hay and grain.
More than 150000 railway men serve in the British army. A U S warship will carry a Y M C A unit. British tanks used 2000000 gallons of gas in the Somme drive. An aerial torpedo shaft brought $540 at a London raffle. Royal figures say $500 buys Britain’s war bill for about 113 seconds. Royal Statistical Society cites Greater London price rises costing 7 million people $300000000 yearly. General Freyburg rose from private to brigade general with the Victoria Cross by age 27. A bakery in France produces 126000 two pound loaves daily for British troops. Front noise audible from southeast England. Dublin heard Messines explosions 450 miles away. Some planes carry phonographs with a mouthpiece for observers to record notes. A German U boat can be built in under 15 days with standardized parts dispatched from many plants. Thousands of machinists await ore shipments and the process continues.
Timeline notes Wellington’s 1808 victory at Rolein the first Peninsula War action. 1817 death of Andrew Pickens at Pendleton. 1889 death of John C. Brown. 1892 New York National Guard mobilizes to quell Buffalo rail strike riots. Also listed are 1906 Valparaiso quake, 1914 French advance on Strasbourg and 1915 Zeppelin raid casualties. Public notice details an administrator sale of land in Calhoun County Alabama.
In France wild birds help artillery observers locate concealed batteries. Birds take flight near firing guns. during lulls many return to perches. A trained observer reads bird movements to approximate battery locations previously unseen.
Rear Admiral Seaton Schroeder U S N retired marks his 68th birthday. He is a Washington DC native and US Naval Academy graduate class of 1868 with a career spanning Korea Egypt Guam and the Atlantic Fleet. Emperor Charles I of Austria Hungary Julia Marlowe Grace Roosevelt Baron Bertie and Congressman Humphreys also have birthdays today.
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