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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1918
Page
12
An Associated Press despatches republication notice appears in the paper. The text notes republication rights and reserves despatch content for the local edition.
Ten prostitutes in Anninton Alabama were each sentenced to one year in prison by US District Judge Little Rock Arkansas. The case funds a program for law enforcement and social hygiene with a target of ten thousand dollars. The quorum court contributed one thousand dollars to start the fund. Hattiesburg Mississippi reports jail terms replaced fines reduce prostitution activity. Patterson New Jersey allocates about thirty thousand dollars for an isolation hospital to treat venereal disease.
More than 12 917 graduate nurses aides practical nurses and volunteers were assigned by the American Red Cross to battle the Spanish influenza epidemic. Final reports show 3 978 graduate nurses many enrolled as Red Cross and Home Defense nurses and 8 939 pupil and volunteer helpers. Camp Dodge Iowa reports rapid nurse staffing growth and makeshift dormitories as the Red Cross doubles its nursing force nationwide. The article notes civilian and military camps faced severe shortages and praises volunteer efforts. A final note mentions Liverpool’s immense clock in a tall insurance building.
A ninety fifth anniversary remembrance notes Monroe’s 1823 Monroe Doctrine addressing European colonization and interference in the American continents. It highlights Monroe’s message to Congress and the U S stance against European interference in North and South America.
The piece notes Germany seeks to pin responsibility for starting the war while Allied powers prepare tough terms. It references historic German leaders like Frederick the Great and William II and frames the shift from autocracy to postwar accountability.
The report recalls German soldiers marching from Strassburg vowing to return as conquerors, urging firmness against a revived Hun threat. It argues Germany remains unregenerate and capable of hatred, warning that Allied victory must erase foundations for renewed aggression and freedom assaults.
Republican papers attack President Wilson over General Pershing’s command of the expeditionary forces claiming dirty politics. They accuse the administration of rewarding Pershing while balking at peace talks and Versailles participants.
Reports show substantial Russian American participation in Fourth Liberty bonds with New York purchases of 28 million and Russian Day events. A 600 000 strong Russian American community organized through a coalition committee to support the effort with speeches by the Russian ambassador and finance officials. Leaders listed include D Staal Soskis Tolstoy Boublikoff Ingerman Oberoucheff and Agafonoff among others.
In a patriotic display, Russians in New York and across the country contributed to the Fourth Liberty Loan and additional national drive, supporting President Roosevelt's pledge that the United States will back Russia and defend oppressed peoples.
A message from Charles Lathrop Pack, president of the national war garden committee, urges all American families to plan a conservation week food program December 1 to 7. He calls for victory gardens to feed Europe and stresses saving and increasing production to avert famine, disease, and pestilence while supporting the war effort.
The Salt River Valley Water Users Association has begun drilling the first of wells tapping an underground reservoir of about 200 000 acre feet beneath the Salt River valley near Mesa Arizona. Three rigs are active with two more planned as farmers voted to spend 500 000 dollars to add 40 to 60 pumping plants to irrigate and drain the valley.
In San Francisco on December 2 Miss Gertrude Huckwell president of the National Federation of Women Workers cites a British union statistic. Lt. Col. Faunthorpe reports a war time doubling of members and significant recent joins to the National Amalgamated Union of Shop Assistants.
A vault of the United States Shipping Board holds rare ship chronometers, finely crafted in rosewood and mahogany, with engraved name plates. G B S Killam of Pawtucket oversees overhaul and testing to supply accurate timepieces for the merchant fleet, including a Dent London chronometer dated 76 years old once owned by Captain Buckle.
The article explains how navigators use chronometers set to Greenwich time alongside sun observations to determine longitude and latitude. It notes the value of reliable chronometers for ships and mentions Emergency Fleet Corporation tests and the U S Bureau of Standards evaluating larger comparing watches as cheaper substitutes.
San Francisco Dec 2 Three hundred thousand young women found wealth and profit through service in Great Britain's army of land workers during the past season, according to Lieutenant Colonel W Faunthorp of the British information bureau here.
The Eskimo reports that 68 native schools are run in Alaska by the U S Bureau of Education with a total enrollment of 3666 students.
A local testimonial from Henry Willis of Sandy Point praises Foley's Honey and Tar for relief after a severe cough. The ad claims the product contains opiates and is sold widely, noting many prefer it after trying other remedies and spending four dollars.
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