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Newspaper
Baker Sentinel
Location
Baker, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1917
Page
8
Washington reports completed plans to adjourn early in October. The Senate advances the soldiers and sailors insurance bill with speed while big bills remain in conference. War tax, war bond, and trading with enemy measures head to talks as alien draft resolution awaits House action.
The first complete account from General Grayson M. Murphy describes a German air raid on the American hospital base in France on September 4. Lieutenant William T. Kitzsimmons, the first American to die in the war, was killed along with three officers, six privates, a nurse, and 22 patients. the hospital with 1,800 beds housed surgeons who continued operations after the raid and faced a fresh influx of 200 wounded the next day.
Eyewitness fragments recount four victims dying in a disaster. One man named Licut. Fitzsimmons likely never knew his fate as his body was torn to shreds. Two others plummeted about a hundred feet beyond into a ward crowded with patients. The final fall struck the reception tent.
A Hartford socialist hall gathering of the Peoples' Council of America for Democracy and Peace ended with the arrest of speaker Mrs Annie R Hale of New York and chairman Alfred E Whitehead after a breach of the peace charge. Both were held on $500 bonds as police halted the meeting amid a rousing disruption.
Mayor Jar ston of Kern County California asks county commissioners for data on treating gumbo and adobe roads with crude oil. If justified he will test a small frontage of taker streets, applying crude oil as a solution to keep streets in good condition. From current data it is understood that low crude oil will cool into a hardened surface on gumbo, promising a substitute for asphalt.
Guests at the Hotel Baker on Sunday included Ira Hendrickson Billings A B Smith Great Falls Emmet Matley Helena Simon Louisville Wy 1 Kratz Milwaukee A L Culbertsen Miles City W J Martin Parker bing C F E Hoover Chicago J I Olm Milbank S Do W L Lachy tridger S D Otto E Mathias Mandan ND.
Eastbound trains No 32 No 38 No 16 are listed as arriving in Baker with times 725 pm 1243 pm and 3235 am respectively. Westbound services No 15 No 17 No 31 show arrivals at Baker with times 4212 am and 714 am.
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