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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1918
Page
2
An account from a transport ship details vast food orders to feed thousands at sea. It cites 180 daily varieties, 210000 meals, and figures for bread, beef, eggs, potatoes, ham, bacon, butter, sugar, flour, sausage, sauerkraut, fruit, onions, and beans. Dental staff expanded from 58 to 5810 with mass fillings and new infirmaries established in camps.
Major rank officers may approve shipments to France amid a surge in parcel post to the expeditionary forces. A War Department board examined 6,000 sacks and found many items unnecessary and undesirable. The study estimated up to 500,000 pounds weekly with rising trend. Relatives told to fund purchases in France, where goods arrive cheaper via the army store network.
The Army Medical Department intensifies camp sanitation to curb flies and mosquitoes. Measures include draining swamps, ditching streams, oiling stagnant water, nightly oil sprays, and screening food buildings. Public Health Service to extend control within one mile of camps. Over 22 million square feet of screening and about 6 000 flytraps per camp are used. The Dental Corps can serve more than 5 000 000 soldiers with existing staff. no new additions planned soon.
The government eases temporary bans on importing Mexican labor for unskilled jobs to supplement Puerto Rican workers on government contracts. The plan aims to bring in about 75 000 islanders if transport remains available, with safeguards against employer exploitation and assurances of wages housing and sanitation. Applicants must file with immigration or employment service officials detailing laborers, job class, wages and work location.
The quartermaster department supplies gas proof containers to troops in France to prevent food contamination. Rations are carried in sealed tins and packed food is hermetically sealed using paraffin seals. With tin shortages, wax paper boxes are being tested as an alternative while ensuring vermin and water proofing.
Information Belbes reports an extensive sale of paper products in Berlin. The listing includes paper material for dresses aprons business suits upholstery upholstery and tapestries trunks bags pillow cases and mattresses. A splendidly assorted lot is offered for sale.
The nation operates 42 theaters in camps and cantonments costing over $600000. About 100 vaudeville acts from major circuits and 40 from chautauqua and lyceum bureaus are booked. Thirty five comedy troupes perform exclusively, including some New York originals for summer runs with expenses cut roughly two thirds. Circuits split into large 3000 seat venues and smaller 1000 seat houses, with 14 to 25 weeks needed to stage a production in each theater.
The Department of Agriculture reports better box car availability for wheat handling with the Railroad Administration moving cars into wheat territory since May 1. Rail lines are expected to carry more than normal cars, and parking has resumed in wheat-loading areas, with continued car placement as long as demand persists.
The Navy begins enrolling women stenographers and typists into the naval reserve as yeomen, expanding opportunities for women in military service.
More than 3 000 women labor in gas mask production at the Long Island defense plant. About 50 army subsistence inspectors attended a Washington school to learn standard inspection methods. The post office sets freshness rules for soldier magazines. Expeditionary forces report no mustard gas penetration of American or English box respirators.
The construction division of the Army erected three temporary office buildings in Washington in ten weeks without a contractor. The over two story complex spans 491 feet by 260 feet with 270000 square feet of floor space and was ready for occupancy 24 working days after earth was first moved.
The army medical department has developed a mobile N ray outfit for use near the front mounted on a modified army ambulance. It includes a Delco gas electric set a high tension transformer a Cooliyre tube and an X ray table with a complete apparatus set for locating foreign bodies. Some outfits are already abroad and 55 are in shipment.
POWDR-SORNGAN CO urges farmers to place orders for the entire year to January 1 1919 due to expected severe shortages of harvesting machinery. The notice promises delivery if stock allows but no guarantee if shortages persist and offers to carry goods if crops fail. Read above for safety and ordering details.
A Savannah Missouri reader shares a letter from October 12 1916 praising Chamberlains Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy for flux and dysentery noting it cured a recent relapse after a bottle used about nine years ago and that they have recommended the remedy to many people.
A German statesman is quoted saying the drive to peace is justified as Germany does not wish to see its soldiers spend a fifth winter in the trenches. He notes many would not endure another winter in the trenches.
The New York Academy of Medicine hosts a discussion on whether doctors should medicalize well people to boost national efficiency. Doctor Meltzer argues against screening well individuals, saying examining healthy people creates illness and that physicians should focus on the sick rather than the well.
Manesseh Cutler founder of the Ohio colony and father of the 1787 ordinance keeps a diary now owned by Charles G. Dawes. It records a February 6 1802 White House dinner hosted by President Jefferson with Cutler and six House members present. Food includes rice soup beef turkey mutton ham veal cutlets macaroni dish onions or shallots ice cream and various fruits with wine and tea.
Mandy, the housemaid, explains her late arrival after attending a spree at the Sisters of the Mysterious Ten party at Cullid Odd Fellows hall. She reports a crowded, boisterous night with dancing and loud laughter echoing through the street.
The Birmingham Age Herald recalls stokers who toil 50 feet under water beside roaring fires. They endure unseen danger as torpedoes and mines threaten ships, while gunners and captains receive praise. The piece honors those who sweat and grind to keep battleships moving on hazardous seas.
The piece notes how seventeenth century romances stretched to vast lengths with examples like Mile. DewQeudery’s Le Grand Cyrus in five folio volumes and La Calprenede’s Cleopatra spanning 23 volumes. It cites Partheniss and Roger Boyle Orrery where the plot lingers as characters introduce themselves into hundreds of pages.
Mrs. Joseph Osweller of Great Falls Montana endorses Dean's Kidney Pills for kidney backache and irregular function. She credits one box with curing her weak kidneys and ongoing relief from dull constant ache. Price 60 cents at dealers. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY manufacturer.
As war began American opinion favored Ireland home rule. The prompt questions who bears responsibility if sentiment has changed today, implying a shift in viewpoint and accountability for current positions.
A patriotic statement about finishing the war contrasts with England's rapid expansion of production, as the country builds thirty additional jam factories. The irony highlights wartime measures and domestic industry mobilization during the conflict.
Advert says Chamberlain's Tablets aid stomach troubles biliousness and constipation. They cost a quarter and are described as a first class medicine. The excerpt also mentions a conspiratorial claim about Gutzon Borglum and aviation disclosures as camouflage against the Kaiser.
In Washington the notion of a water shortage is criticized as inappropriate for a city resolutely committed to prohibition. Opinions attributed to George reel are seen as well meant but troubling in tone. The public debate centers on how such statements are expressed.
A meddling critic, known for asking sharp questions, now risks being mistaken for a spy as his conduct draws scrutiny and embarrassment in public.
The report portrays Emperor William as resolute in pressuring Austria to remain compliant, underscoring a strong will to enforce discipline and dominance in the region.
A critic asserts the finest dramatic writers are ad writers, suggesting Geo. Gree as part of the elite group. The remark highlights a provocative link between advertising copycraft and high drama.
President Wilson leverages the Overman act to terminate what he calls excessive legal proceedings, promising efficiency and reduced government red tape across agencies. The decision signals a push for streamlined administration.
Readers recall a playful scene where Taft and Roosevelt meet in a humorous exchange. The men flirt with each other’s influence, one flashes a sly smile, while Taft walks away, leaving the others to talk on.
An economist who championed direct taxation long ago has disappeared from ongoing discussions, leaving the field to other arguments and reshaping the historical record of fiscal policy debates.
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