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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1917
Page
4
One year six months and one month edition lists a second class postal rate of one dollar in Cheyenne. Public notice appears in the weekly newspaper indicating mail price and distribution specifics for the period.
The Copenhagen government orders all so called strangers to leave the Danish capital to protect dwindling food supplies. The piece highlights fears of food hoarding and starvation as authorities clamp down while wartime pressures strain resources. The text discusses shipping and trade tensions involving Japan and the United States, warning against nationalist scaremongering and urging prudent policy.
Hoover declares the first stage of World War I victory is America’s food production surge. He says millions labored to grow crops and gardens, producing the largest vegetable supply in history, with conservation and distribution to allies as vital next steps.
German liberal socialist newspapers report big business plans to control foreign news and press dispatches via Transocean and the Foreign Advertising company. Krupp Stumm and other heavy industrials back stock holdings to shape editorials in newspapers abroad and in the United States.
The Hague reports Bernard C. de Jonge becomes the first civilian war minister in Dutch history as General N. Bosboom’s mobilization leadership faces scrutiny. Parliament pressed for delaying the 1908 Landsturm levy before the 1918 militia draft, triggering political fallout and the minister’s resignation. De Jonge, with defense experience but no party affiliation, inherits a perilous, unfinished defense posture.
Christiania reports 1915 trade shifts showing Norway importing 50 million dollars from the United States in 1915 and exporting 50 million to Germany. Exports to Britain rose to 53 million while U S shipments dropped to 7 million. 1916 trends show exports shrinking amid embargo fears and domestic pressure.
London August 3 The president of the board of agriculture issued a memorandum to the war executive committees granting authority to compel farmers and tenants who refuse to plough land for food production to proceed with compulsion.
The article chronicles pay day at the post with soldiers counting thirty dollars while jokes fly about discipline and billets. It notes incidents, promotions in Headquarters troop First Cavalry, furloughs for Set Homer A. Grant, and training plans, plus field meets and travel notes involving Battery F and Battery A Twenty-fourth Prov. Artillery with local visitors and mishaps at Lake Minnehaha.
Soldiers of Troop FE First Cavalry mounted guard yesterday at 7 AM with a fine showing. The band and buglers led the formation at the headquarters, reflecting disciplined morning drill.
Dr and Mrs Bierkower entertained at a dinner honoring Captain ilabbizar recently arrived from Fort Robinson Nebraska Captain and Mrs George Piega also attended the dinner Captain Monrow of the Twenty fourth departed yesterday for the fring school at Fort Sill
Toulouse France August 1917 A soldier listed as killed since 1914 is identified by his father a farmer from Saint Roman in a photo from a German prison camp housing seventy two captives from the Lot department.
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