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Newspaper
Bloomfield Democrat
Location
Bloomfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1917
Page
3
A broad World War I briefing notes U S military mobilization figures including 1 631 000 under arms within a month via voluntary enlistments and the draft. It mentions German espionage cases in Texas Laredo and Swiss suspicion around Col Reichmann's brigadier general promotion amid senate inquiries. It also cites strikes in New York shipyards and court rulings on draft constitutionality.
London reports show British casualties for the week ending Tuesday totaling 14 243 officers and men with 2 878 soldiers killed. An Zeppeli n airship was destroyed off the Sutland Denmark coast with no survivors. Allied forces claim across the Isonze front 7 500 German prisoners and a French Verdun victory with heavy shelling on Aleuse. Paris says over 4 000 unwounded German prisoners taken after a long French attack aided by air support. An engagement between British and German scouting ships left one German destroyer and several minesweepers disabled. British ships unharmed. In Monastir area Serbs report extensive bombardment by Austro Hungarian forces. fire caused significant damage to one quarter of the city.
Washington lawmakers confront calls to reduce living costs to prevent destitution amid antiwar sentiment and a looming embargo on meat exports. Miners from West Frankfort Illinois report labor concerns as federal actions shape coal transport and ally loan plans.
Foreign reports warn of a threatened strike by about 1,000 engineers and firemen on British railways. The action could disrupt services across key routes and impact maintenance crews and signaling teams. Authorities prepare contingency plans and seek to avert a walkout.
A 1916–17 fiscal year expenditure table for the Central Indiana Hospital for the Insane shows broad price rises across all items, led by food and coal. Nine month subsistence costs rose to 122 878 50 from 61 647 48, with per patient daily maintenance at 70 cents. Enrollment exceeds capacity, with 222 more men and 66 more women than capacity.
The state council of defense promotes self‑carried groceries and goods to reduce prices and save money for families. It urges deliveries by fit workers, freeing others for military or productive work and condemns unnecessary charges as wasteful. The mortality abstract notes 1916 figures including infantile paralysis and typhoid patterns.
Norman Lee, an eighteen year old Red Cross ambulance driver in France near Soissons, writes of gas shells. He recalls a gas cloud, masks worn, a single candle, a war dog in a special mask, and a grim dugout scene as gas lingers and soldiers endure. He calls gas a rotten way to wage war.
The piece explains bauxite as the ore yielding aluminum via electric reduction and notes clay’s aluminum content. It outlines France’s deposits, wartime German control, Swiss processing, and distribution of the metal used for shell tips, linking trenches to orphan funds through metal from France.
The Ute Indians of Utah have taken to wearing glasses, sparked by a chief buying yellow-lens spectacles from a white trader. About two hundred tribe members now own eyewear, some wearing three pairs to signal status, with tortoise-shell rims proving popular.
A garbed man in a white waistcoat with blue floral design strutted into a Harlem military census station. He claimed limited knowledge of machinery or marine work, calling himself a gambler and offering to help if needed, joking about cards and dice involving Europe in potential clashes.
Artist John Lavery, staying with Lord Derby at Newmarket, set up an easel to sketch the course, but a racecourse policeman ordered him to come out of it. Lacking written permission, Lavery claimed guest status, yet the officer persisted, noting that many do it.
The text notes Holland once had about 9 900 large windmills with sails 80 to 100 feet long. Their annual cost was reported near 10 million dollars. Mills served many uses from sawing timber to heating hemp and grinding, but primarily they pumped water from lowlands into canals to protect the ice country from flooding.
Oregon and California Rail Road Co grant lands finally resolved with title revested in the United States. Act of Congress orders two million three hundred thousand acres to be opened for settlement and sale. The tract includes prime timber and agricultural lands, with a large copyrighted map detailing townships, sections, soil, climate, rainfall, elevations and temperatures, offered postpaid for one dollar by Grant Lands Locating Co of Portland Oregon.
For sale a house and lot 99 by 132 feet north Stein home ATI or part. A bargain. Contact L. S. Graham at 209 W. Washington street Indianapolis Indiana. Also offering reliable abstracts on short notice at low cost by M. F. Pate.
An editorial note argues against ostentatious dining and prefers simple, hearty eating at home to avoid making a display in front of company. The piece reflects a practical, homey approach to meals and social dining norms.
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