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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1918
Page
12
Washington March 30 The war savings fund reports a cash balance of about 100 million dollars with annual inflows near 700 million and an anticipated rate of 1.68 billion after the Liberty loan drive. The government counts cash only. pledged subscriptions exceed 600 million dollars.
The article notes the opening of the third Liberty loan and states the war savings fund should near 160 million dollars. It expects pledges for billions in Dig bonds and foresees little war savings bonds sales rising by about 200 million dollars. Basil Blackett explains England’s sales surged during the Victory loan last year, crediting wartime savings societies for boosting the loan to one thousand million sterling.
A humorous Pearl Street caption from the Louisville Courier-Journal features a man counting noses while a character frets about powder and being counted, illustrating light civic or social humor of the era.
New York dispatch reports a surge in American merchant shipbuilding driven by World War I submarine losses. A sea training bureau will graduate about fifty recruits daily starting April, with the first 50,000 to enter active service. The program, led from Boston, trains landworkers into sailors, offering nutrition, better berths, and potential officer paths through free navigation schools.
Chicago private W. F. Prendergast recalls a 1914 photograph taken in a German prison camp at Sennelager near Pad erhorn. He describes two British POWs tied to a post, soup bowls used as torture, wooden shoes, and starvation days, noting current training in Kansas.
South Carolina papers react to United States Senator Benjamin R Tillmans plan to seek re election. Only the Columbia Record endorses him while The Greenville News The Post criticize his stance and question his influence and wartime service compared to rivals such as A F Laver.
Sioux Falls reports a plan to use the Missouri River as a coal supply artery from Montana lignite mines. Capitalists propose a barges line, with jitney trucks aiding upstream transport and trucks powering return trips, to bypass high rail rates and supply South Dakota after a federal fuel order limits eastern coal imports.
Amsterdam March 30 German postoffice authorities control telegraph and telephone networks and have decided to move all lines underground over the next few years. The conduit system adoption follows repeated wartime failures due to storms and other causes affecting overhead wires nationwide.
London March 30 one of the large marine insurance firms begins a profit sharing plan for clerks. Profits exceeding a 10 percent charge on capital will be distributed to trustees to allot two equal portions. One portion rewards tenure and the other rewards efficient service. The scheme runs as a five year trial.
An ad touts Pinox cough syrup as a fast remedy for inflamed membranes and chest congestion. It claims dramatic results in hours, offers a family pint for about $2.50, and highlights a pine extract formula marketed as superior for relief and sleep.
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