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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1918
Page
2
British forces report gains across France and Belgium with captures at Neuve Chapelle Lens and Wulverghem while advancing along the Vesle and Aisne fronts. Australians take Mont St Quentin and Feuil laucourt. French move on Vaux Happencourt and Oise regions. American troops reach Glennes near Revilleon.
Foreign news items include Norway losing thirteen vessels totaling 22 976 tons in August due to war. Moscow reports an attack on the British consul. Hsu Shih Chang elected Chinese president. Paris to receive a sword of honor for Marshal Foch. Lafayette’s birth anniversary marked by American flag ceremony in Paris. Alaska residents in Seward peninsula donate an average 81 dollars for war work. Russians advance crosses Aisne as Germans retire. Dora Kaplan executed in Moscow dispatch. London fire brigade votes on strike. French restaur ant prices to be shown on placards in large parishes. Bolshevik arrest orders hit relatives of Kerensky. Dutch protest German submarine bar zone and seven Dutch fishing sunk Aug 24. Buenos Aires postal strike spreads to 10 000 workers. Boston wins third World Series game. rest of series in Boston. Y M C A stats show baseball top sport for soldiers. Miss Detroit III wins Toronto race heat. opening World Series attendance and receipts listed. 1918 and 1917 series figures show large crowds and payouts.
The article notes display advertising will be relied on more than ever to sell bonds for the Fourth Liberty Loan opening Sept 28. It covers a range of wartime measures from rail fare suspensions to wage recommendations and tax debates affecting millions, with brief items on court actions, ship casualties, and military honors.
The Food Administration keeps two pounds per person per month sugar rations. American women phone operators for Expeditionary Forces in France protest their label hello girls. Henry Ford may run for U S Senate in Michigan. Haywood and 92 I W W members convicted in Chicago arrive at Leavenworth. 200 officers return to camps with 209 sick or wounded from the Lake Owens sinking. Gas mask pit and shell reuse plans extend to homes. Submarine sinks Lake Owens. five civilian crew missing. Beer brewing curtailed affecting near beer makers with large investments.
About 11 000 voters registered in Cochise County Nogales raises 611.25 for Greek Red Cross A public school protective league organized in Phoenix I W W starts membership drive in Globe C E Lopez ships watermelons to Camp Cody N M from Pomerene and more A Tucson sergeant floors a German alien in a Tucson incident A large state warehouse for institutions planned in Phoenix by the Commission of State Institutions Desertion and missing in action cases Hoovers news and other local items across Arizona with political and military notes.
A brief report states consuls heads are held captive amid threats to take lives if Lenine dies. The item notes political tension and potential violence surrounding the fate of Lenine. No further details provided in the readable text.
Western front dispatches report German artillery aiding Bolsheviks west of the Volga from Penza to north of Kazan. Czecho-Slovak forces hold 2000 mile rail line from Olovyanna to Penza, signaling Bolshevik strength. Samara reportedly retaken, raising fears for Orenburg and Simbirsk. Allied officials arrest consular staff in Bolshevik Russia as negotiations continue.
Prices for metals include bar silver at 1.01 percent, copper at 26.621 percent, lead 8.05, spelter 8.6214, and tungsten concentrates at 24.00 per unit. Five carloads of manganese ore prepared for shipment from Bunker & Burmeister, Agua Fria. Holbrook Oil to drill aggressively in next thirty days. Maintop ore body at Jerome Verde to resume shipments at about twenty tons daily. Jerome connects Maintop to the 1,100 level. extraction from 900 and above soon. New manganese body found in Harshaw district among several producers. Steady work at Silver Queen mine in Kokomo. Leadville Anderson tunnel on Prospect Mountain resumed. Gray Eagle lessees encounter new manganese on 600-foot level. Montezuma district active with silver-lead and lead-silver properties. Chrysolite on Fryer hill opens silver-iron ore body charting 46% iron and 5 oz silver. Upper Yankee Doodle in Carbonate hill leads to heavy manganese production. Breckenridge district placer mining prospers with summer cleanups. Matchless drift reaches silver-bearing iron at 92 feet. McKinley and Pearson locate graphite vein near Mosquito Gulch.
Paris reports another French advance north of the Somme toward Clastres with Somot farm occupied and Crozat canal crossed near Liez. British progress toward Cambrai and St. Quentin slows as German defenses at St. Gobain forest resist. French take Mennessis and Tergnier and threaten La Fere while approaching Servais outskirts.
Anaconda Copper Mining Company produced 24 900 000 pounds of copper in August, down from July’s 25 400 000 and up from June’s 24 800 000. At a Butte picnic, Cornish brothers Bedell drilled 27 7/8 inches in Gunnison granite, a Colorado stone, a ten minute shift, reportedly beating the prior record in a display of hand drilling prowess. Gunnison granite remains the standard rock for such contests.
Washington reports a 317 million bushel drop in corn production from last month’s forecast. Spring wheat output increases by 21 million bushels, bringing total wheat to 899 million bushels for the year.
Adelbert Elmer Armitage of Montrose Colo was the first local resident to die in World War II. A Navy telegram to his father Thomas Armitage says the assistant fireman aboard the transport Mount Vernon was killed in the engine room when the ship, formerly the Kronprinzessin Cecile, was torpedoed 200 miles west of the French coast during a return trip.
Progress on the oil well near Aztec is slowed by a hard rock formation in the Columbus area. The Carter Oil Company of Tulsa has leased 90,000 acres of the Las Vegas grant for drilling with a 30 day land inspection and possible drilling by November 1. Sinclair Refining Company of Maine gains state admission with $8,000,000 capital and Tucumcari headquarters. Production in the Gallup mines rises over the past fortnight, aided by Governor Lindsey urging patriotic speed.
Glenhurst Oil Company plans to drill again in section 31 Big Muddy field twelve miles north of Greybull. The U S Geological Survey reports Wyoming oil output for the first half of this year at 5,774,060 barrels versus 4,350,153 in the first six months of 1917, signaling rising production prospects.
Mrs. Frank Henson of Urbana Illinois credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with ending winter grippe fatigue and lingering symptoms of menopause She reports regained strength and the ability to perform housework noting the remedy helps nervousness heat flashes backache headaches and blues
The article recalls George Hackenschmidt as a strong man and compares him to a powerful Irish southern coast figure famed for bizarre fishing gear. It weaves myths of Atlas and modern heaviness with mentions of Wilbert Robinson and Bill Taft, reflecting on changing times.
A remark notes photographers plan to form a union in the West and suggests all proceedings and reports will be heard in camera. The exchange hints at organized labor among photographers and secrecy in internal matters.
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