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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1917
Page
4
A collage of joke lines, quotations, and society notes criticizing press practice and wartime shortages. It teases misprints and puns about tobacco, macaroni, and peppers, and mentions editor Harry M. Ayers’ brother’s death. It riffs on Quakers and scrap-metal ideas with humorous asides.
The 1914 oil import data shows a shut off supply and notes U S imports 44 549 789 pounds of nuts later that year. Authors urge Alabama farmers to grow peanuts unlimitedly and build peanut oil mills for solid profits. Cotton remains king but peanuts aim for the throne.
Across the country there is acute demand for skilled labor as 3000 carpenters are needed for the cantonment project near Anniston. Automatives, bakers, blacksmiths, draftsmen, electricians, machinists, stenographers and typewriters are urged to train through factory schools to prepare older workers for skilled trades after the war.
South Texas farmers vow to halt cotton production along the Mexican border to curb the Mexican pink bollworm. They seek a barred zone with no cotton to starve or force the pest to retreat, urging nationwide farming adjustments as a patriotic sacrifice.
Charles M. Randall longtime California congressman and Prohibition party pioneer turns 52 born in Auburn Nebraska son of a clergyman and editor by trade. Bishop Janes Bo Funsten Episcopal leader of Idaho is 61. Dr Henry Harke university president Kentucky is 77. Siméon Pednewills former Delaware governor is 50. Actress Margaret Illigton is 36.
Washington reports rising peanut acreage across the South with Texas and Georgia leading gains. The crop is converging with cotton as a dominant staple, aided by drought tolerant soils and nitrogen left in the ground from peanut roots. Hog husbandry further enhances the soil value as peanuts remain partially harvested and the rest enriches the soil for future crops.
Delaware troops will train at a camp near Anniston Alabama in Calhoun County. The location is praised as a fine hearthiest spot with hospitable locals and good surroundings. Veterans James C. Wickes and A W Cummins endorse the site and plan visits after camp setup.
The Delaware County Grange drafted a speech highlighting temperance aims and a call for national prohibition. The note contrasts moral goals with alcohol evils, urging more agriculture, wealth, and harmony while denouncing whiskey, saloons, and disorder.
In 1916 British troops entered a portion of Pozieres. Lieutenant Marshal and a French aviator released proclamations over Berlin during a flight from Nancy to Chelm which forced an emergency landing and capture. German torpedo boats failed to defeat a British light squadron.
Public sale under power of sale in two Draper mortgages will occur at Calhoun county courthouse on August 20 1917 for cash to cover debts. Property includes 190 acres in Calhoun and Talladega counties described as parts of sections and townships with specific boundary calls and creeks. Mortgagee Ida E Ledbetter. Attorneys Rutherford Lapsley Blackwell Agee Bibb.
Under order of the Probate Court of Calhoun County Alabama dated July 21 1917 the administrator of Nettie E Stewart estate will sell at the Stewart Farm on the Talladega and Jacksonville public road two and a half miles north of McFall Calhoun County Alabama on July 30 1917 during legal hours the described personal property includes 25 and 34 bushels of corn 500 bundles of fodder one buggy and harness one stalk cutter one Little Joe Harrow one Pony Oliver A Plow Stork three shoots three pigs one sorrel mare one cow and one bull J F Stewart Administrator
An excerpted timeline lists historic events by year from 1862 to 1915. Items include battles and bombings in Europe, a German unification act, British bombardment of Havre de Grace, Garnet Wolseley’s Nova Scotia landing, Napoleon II’s war proclamation, a Baltimore pier disaster, Talmage's reception by the Russian czar, and massing German forces on the Russian front in 1915.
In Calhoun County Alabama on August 20 1917 at the court house front door a sale of described acreage in section 34 township 14 range 6 to satisfy a May 7 1917 decree. Bounded by Hiram McKenzie Charley Harris B H Denman and Martha Williams. A H Shepperd register.
Letters of administration on the estate of Nettie E Stewart have been granted by the Probate Court of Calhoun County Alabama on July 20 1917. All persons holding claims against the estate must present them within the legal period or be barred. J F Stewart Administrator.
Washington July 23 Regulations for carrying out the Federal child labor law have been drafted in tentative form. A hearing inviting producers manufacturers dealers and others interested will be held tomorrow in the office of the Assistant Secretary of labor in this city. The regulations cover proof of age acceptance of state employment certificates and the form of the guaranty by which a …
A historical notice outlines child labor limits for mines quarries and factories. No child under 16 may be employed in any mine or quarry. no child under 14 in any time. No under 16 may work more than eight hours per day or six days per week or before 7 pm or after 7 am in any workshop factory or manufacturing establishment.
Chicago July 23. Supreme Chancellor John J. Brown designates a Patriotic Week for the Knights of Pythias. Lodges across the United States and Canada are urged to recruit for military service and aid Red Cross and other patriotic funds.
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