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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1918
Page
7
Authorities in the Virgin Islands announce firm measures against obeah practices. Matilda Francois is jailed as an obeah woman, with officials pledging swift action to end the belief in charms love philters and fatal concoctions. Court cases often hinge on police investigation and plots as superstition lingers.
Eucalyptus trees tolerate many adverse conditions provided frost is excluded. Seedlings are frost sensitive, limiting growth to favorable California and Southwest areas. Large commercial plantations, run by railroads for ties, lie along the Pacific near San Diego, relying on sea fog for moisture.
An eminent engineer predicts rivers will transform into sluggish lakes with electric power stations between them. Small streams will vanish as their waters are diverted to feed the major waterways for heat light and power in the future.
The article notes apoplexy is largely pre disposed by medical opinion, while courts and laity sometimes see it as traumatic. It explains physicians focus on blood pressure heart hypertrophy and vascular degeneration, with emotional stress as a lesser factor, and cites minor or absent provoking causes such as cold exposure.
The House approved drafting men who turned 21 since last June 6 on April 25. They will be placed at the foot of the list and called only when current eligible draftees are exhausted. Divinity students lose exemptions. registration for 21 to 41 year olds was postponed to avoid delaying the main bill. Final action on the measure was unanimous.
A Paris report notes French aviators reconnoitering at very low altitudes during the German advance. After Noyon fell, planes flew over the town just above roofs. They skimmed roads so closely that soldiers scattered or hid, while returning craft bore over a hundred bullet holes in their wings.
New York report says only three of 700 aboard the American liner St Paul were unaccounted after it sank at the North River pier. Two men drowned while swimming to escape the suction, and a third was believed trapped in the hold. Survivors heard faint taps as they fled, signaling failed pleas for aid.
Washington reports Households will be urged to save every tin can as war industries boards warn of a severe tin shortage. Detinning efforts, which conserved 17 000 tons of tin last year, will be intensified to save 0 000 tons this year.
Aberdeen Washington Elmer Heinrich returned from a 650 mile trek over 51 days to fulfill a government pledge he would be ready for the second draft call He was permitted to go to Alaska to set up a cannery and promised to return in time for the second call for men to the olor
Major Raoul Lufbery of Wallingford Conn destroyed his eighteenth German aircraft on Tuesday. Lieutenant Paul Frank Baer of Mobile Ala claimed his fifth German machine the same day becoming the newest American ace.
Washington expects income and excess profits taxes to yield about 4.0 billion dollars in June, topping prior estimates by roughly 0.5 billion as tax returns are processed.
A Thursday fur sale offered only St. Louis otter and toluk pelts. Ten thousand otter pelts brought 180000 dollars and 115 good mink pelts sold for 462400 dollars.
The United States Department of Agriculture urges increases in corn production for 1918 using labor-saving machinery. Recommends tractors, larger plows, two-row planters, harvesters, elevated cribs, and machine huskers to cut labor, boost yields, and reduce hand work while aiming for a crop near 1917's record.
The article emphasizes corn as the world’s key grain and U.S. staple, urging a 1918 acreage near the record 119,755,000 acres from 1917. It notes the Agriculture Department’s February 1918 plan to maintain corn areas, with slight reductions possible in some regions to free land for spring wheat.
Department of Agriculture report supports spraying potatoes with Bordeaux mixture to combat late blight. In Aroostook County Maine 1917 trials at Aroostook Farm showed sprayed plots yielding 181.2 bushels per acre versus 148.5 on untreated plots, an 87.7 bushel per acre gain or over 26 percent. The measure is presented as proven in bad infection seasons.
The article urges testing seed corn using a rag doll germination method as a crucial step before planting. It notes many stored seeds may not germinate well due to last season's conditions and recommends counting germination, with 60 percent or more preferred, 40 percent or better acceptable if supply is short. County agents and agricultural colleges can guide usage.
Brief items report regular drills by home guards in Thermopolis, road and sewer plans in Douglas and Moorecroft, a new water system study in Jackson, and church work in Casper. Fire damage at Laramie glass works, deaths including Mrs. Bartlett and Joe Lydon, plus multiple arrests, oil finds, and Liberty Loan efforts across the state.
A persuasive wartime editorial urges citizens to support the Allied cause by buying Liberty bonds. It brands neutrality as cowardice and frames aiding the Kaiser as collaboration with murderers while stressing the moral duty to back U S war efforts and protect future liberty.
A fragment about a fragile elderly Alsatian-born woman, teacher by trade, visiting New York from Strasburg during 1914 summer holidays. She supports herself by French lessons and governessing, refuses to be a tax, and has bought Liberty bonds, showing steadfast war spirit.
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