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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1918
Page
10
Italy relies on wheat as a staple, with vast areas under cultivation from Lombardy to Sicily. The text details regional yields, varieties, and the wartime shifts in production, prices, and imports, noting the U S. role and the prominence of regions like Fucino and Tavoliere. It highlights per acre yields, consumption, and government controls during 1910s wartime.
The Hanna school bank organized November 21 1918 aims to stimulate savings and deposits totaling 99061. Banking run by students who completed the school economics course. every pupil is granted the privilege to deposit.
Pupils learn to handle deposits by writing slips and checks for thrift stamps. Each student deposits a sufficient amount for a thrift stamp, then gives a check to the school purchasing agent and receives a stamp. When the thrift card fills, it is exchanged for a war savings stamp, a program that has proved very successful and enthusiastic among students.
An old advertisement extols Foley’s Honey and Tar as a cough remedy. Henry Willis of Sandy Point Texas reports strong relief after trying several medicines, saying one bottle provided relief. The ad claims the product contains no opiates and is sold everywhere.
Six young women at Olds Agricultural College near Calgary Saskatchewan undertake a full course to become farmerettes. They practice blacksmithing for wagons and farm equipment and study veterinary surgery, showing skill in shooing horses and tool repair while farmers praise the program.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels lauds the American Red Cross for aiding sailors and families during wartime. He notes home service, communications help, sickbay comforts, and relief to survivors from the Otranto and the Tuscana as pivotal.
Denver report shows the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company holding an annual meeting at the Firestone Club House. President H. S. Firestone presided as stockholders and directors discussed profits of 9,820,442.26 after allowances, dividends, and reserves. Plant No. 2 work is near completion, with a turbine delivered. a new power house and expanded facilities aim to boost efficiency amid reconstruction.
AMERICAN PRESS HEADQUARTERS reports troops watching allied artillery and air strikes with keen interest. British gunners and bombers avoid firing on evacuated villages yet strike at railway stations and depots to disrupt enemy transport and supply lines. A night bomber observed blue searchlights and long range batteries target a station thought to be a transportation HQ.
Yukio Ozaki, former justice minister and constitutional party figure, says the next war will stem from race prejudice as colored nations rise. He advocates Japan push racial and population questions at the peace conference to seek a solution and notes Japan’s fast growing population may push surplus citizens toward arms.
The December crop report from the U S department of agriculture shows Wyoming winter wheat production may reach 2 304 000 bushels next year, up 220 000 from last year as acreage and conditions improve. Nationally acres rise about 16 percent with production near 765 million bushels, aided by better conditions. Rye in Wyoming also expands to 30 000 acres with high normal conditions, while U S rye acreage stands at 6 820 000 with strong yields.
Feverish headaches and body pains from a cold are eased by taking Bromo Quinine tablets. The box bears the signature of iB. W. GROVE as shown in the ad.
I had no severe attack of kidney trouble and for three weeks could not get out of doors and scarcely out of bed, writes C. B. Brewer, Village Springs, Ala. Could not bend over at all without the moat.
A Liverpool Evening Express account tells how a torpedo passed beneath the British steamer Algories and was thwarted by a giant wave allowing a second U boat in league to be struck and explode. The vessel, under Captain Frederick Taylor, carried timber from Roschere to araton amid a heavy sea off Bardsey island.
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company distributed its house organ the Wingfoot Clan to 6500 former employees serving worldwide. Copies reached canteens and Y M C A huts and traveled in pockets to battles such as Chateau Thierry Verdun and Argonne. Soldiers praised the paper for bringing home news and easing long hours during wartime service.
Fort Bayard recruits seek discarded automobiles from El Paso Auto Club to train disabled veterans in auto mechanics. Captain John A. Sixson says 40 plus men on a waiting list will use the cars to learn trades and earn livelihoods after discharge. Fort Bayard is isolated and requests two or three old machines for practice.
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