23 May 1918
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Newspaper
Canton Daily News
Location
Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1918
Page
1
A News Reporter notes Red Maple Leaf emblem of honor seen for a man killed in service. The piece highlights how homes and schools serve as hospitals as men and women devote energy to winning the war.
Local fuel committee announces fixed domestic coal prices effective Friday to limit charges via rail. Consumers warned not to pay above set rates. selling coal above fixed prices may incur fines up to 5000 dollars and imprisonment or both.
Col Roosevelt is reinstated as a member of the Republican club and an oil painting of him is re hung near Taft. He was dropped in 1912 after the party split. In a letter to Secretary Dennison he expresses pleasure and plans to visit the club soon.
Friday marks the third anniversary of Italy entering the war. Governor Cox urged unfurling the flag nationwide and Mayor Poorman announced no special observance locally. Italian residents are expected to hold an all day celebration.
Benefit to all trainmen and stationary engineers set for Saturday May 25 at The Bear's Hall. Employment daily news want ads invite readers to use the service for selling items or services.
Reports from May 22 in Toronto recount 60,000 men sent to the front and 2,500 wounded in city hospitals. A homecoming train of 180 wounded soldiers sparked mixed joy and sorrow as shell shock cases surfaced and veterans faced civilian life with courage and strain.
The piece portrays Toronto’s wartime scene as veterans arrive with many maimed. women wear service pins and purple armbands, knit socks, fundraise, and convert homes into hospitals. Professors serve in trenches and city life centers on supporting Canadian troops despite heavy losses.
Miss Maud B Marshall reports from Canada on four years of war, noting Canada’s battle fruits and how American conditions may mirror the future. She stresses Red Cross YoML OGAY and kinship aid, optimism amid hardship, and the need for Cantonians to support war work and medical relief.
A story of Americans and Canadians contributing to the war at home and abroad. Women and girls fill munitions plants and drive ambulances while Toronto plans to put women in charge of streetcars. Prominent Toronto women, including Mrs A C Ransom, aid Red Cross and war work as Mayor Tommy and Sir John Hendrie leaders rally support.
German airmen raid a large group of hospitals in France killing or wounding more than 100 women nurses patients and attendants. Gothas attacked dropping large bombs and numerous shrapnel shells as the Red Cross sign was visible, with injuries to many.
Jorge Mitre director of La Nacion was feted at a banquet in Buenos Aires before his departure for the United States. Romulo S. Naon Argentine ambassador to the United States attended and congratulated him on behalf of associates.
Canton residents responded to Mayor Poorman's call to convert idle land into war gardens. The planting campaign ran from April 1 to the Wednesday close and has mobilized 420 city plots plus additional private lots, yielding widespread cultivation and weed removal.
The ad column notes new music rolls including Belgian Rose Kiss Me Again Don't Leave Me Daddy and hundreds more now in stock. Also lists tile lumber brick and second hand prices from Canton Wrecking Co and Klein & Heffelman Co with a plane sale and an adjourned Elks Club meeting at 12 30.
Haig reports raids on Ayette Boisieux and St Mart with successful casualties and machine gun captures. German artillery fire hits Ancre valley near Lens Robecq and Nieppe forest. One post near Aveluy wood overrun with two missing. British air forces drop several tons of bombs on enemy strongholds in raids Tuesday.
Classified ads note weekly Kanalks Garden fishery on Thursdays and Saturdays at Meyers Lake. Promotions highlight Big Stock Now Carried with classic rolls, and daily new rolls arriving. Seed potatoes offered by Klein Heffelman Co. Premium $1.00 per bushel. Letherman Gehman Co. advertises at 814 Tasest E. Federal Motor Tracks Canton Motor Car Co. ad.
The Camp Sherman intelligence department received orders from Washington to destroy any of several hundred anti American publications found in the cantonment. A roundup began and possession of such literature will be severely punished, according to senior military officers.
Washington May 23 Maj Gen Leonard Wood the senior major general on the army list will soon be in foreign service His friends expect him to command a corps on the western front after his recent study of conditions abroad He may lead the first field army assigned to the front becoming semi independent in planning and operations under Pershing.
Provost Marshal General Crowder outlined a work or fight policy to reassign draftees to useful war work if their current jobs are nonessential. Enforcement begins July 1 with Canton’s labor shortage highlighted. Local boards will weed out idlers and non-essential workers, drafting those failing to justify war-related employment. The plan targets gamblers and other groups, with further details on page 13.
All brothers of McKinley Council No. 218 are requested to meet at the hall Thursday at p.m. to attend funeral services of Brother John Underwood Ackerman C G Trew R8.
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