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Newspaper
Bloomfield Democrat
Location
Bloomfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1917
Page
2
The Bloomfield Democrat details weekly and semi weekly editions with editor W L Slinkard. Subscription costs and terms prepaid include one year 1.50 six months 0.75 and single copies 0.05. Advertising rates per line with minimum 0.25. Entry as second class mail matter at Bloomfield Indiana Postoffice.
Edward B. Clark reports in Washington that opposition to universal service fades as war aims shift to democracy. Britain’s Bridges notes officer shortages after Marne losses, urging kept training programs. Aldershot drills show recruits learning to climb, dig, and fight through hazards for rapid Europe deployment.
The M. E. Church Mothers Day service drew a large crowd with 171 in Sunday school and many more arriving after the count. A special feature included two recitations by junior members, and the pastor thanks the committees for their loyal work.
Indianapolis May 14 Thousands visited Fort Benjamin Harrison where Army Officers Reserve Corps housing lags behind barracks construction. Many will be quartered in permanent barracks until the tenth or Twenty-Third regular troops arrive. Inoculation day saw Majors Ruffner Grinsger and Keene vaccinating six hundred men for typhoid and smallpox using a new two arm method. New York May 14 The high cost of living could be solved by taxing unimproved farm land and untaxing improvements, urging twenty eight states to amend constitutions to shift tax toward land and labor products and speed food supply.
Thirty interurban trainmen of the Indiana Traction Company based in Anderson began a walkout in line with a union declaration by the Order of Railway Conductors and Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. Twenty six left cars early, four more joined later, with expectations that more will quit soon and a wider strike may reach Union Traction Company lines.
Portland Indiana May 14 Harvey Beougher aged 75 was fatally injured in a morning automobile crash three miles northeast of the city His wife is reported not to recover William Monroe and his wife suffered minor injuries in the same incident Shelbyville Indiana May 14 Leo Lusk son of Trustee W R Lusk of Needham Township Johnson County while en route to Shelbyville struck a team of horses at a crossing eight miles west Both horses were killed in the collision
Secretary McAdoo will tour the Middle West beginning May 17 in Chicago and extend to Denver. He aims to rally representative audiences to secure unanimous cooperation with the government in the Liberty Loan campaign as subscriptions open today.
An itemized May 1917 record lists numerous jury service payments to individuals such as Henry Lester Calvin Figg Carl Lowder and others, grand jurors bailiffs and court staff, plus expenses for commissioners auditors assessors and various public services and fines. The document enumerates amounts next to each name including per diem and retainer fees with additional totals for court related departments and public printing and road viewing.
An advertisement promotes a combined subscription to The Bloomfield Democrat twice weekly and The Terre Haute Tribune daily for one year at a price of three dollars.
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