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Newspaper
Corona Daily Independent
Location
Corona, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1918
Page
1
The Pacific Division trains refugees and urges Corona women to join the Red Cross effort. A daily need of at least fifty women plus twenty five in garment and surgical dressings work. A September 30 deadline requires consistent daily participation and personal responsibility.
Women teachers led prize essay awards in a 15 state contest by the National Board of Historical Service. The essays on Why the United States is at War drew over 600 contestants. The board, formed April 29 1917 with 12 members, included four women scholars among its aides.
The report shows eight million eight hundred thousand dollars and eleven million in six dollars? The text notes a 1927 Senate reference and calls for investment in East Asia to spur elite interests, indicating fiscal context and international finance concerns.
Italian official reports show more than 12,000 women now occupy roles once held by men. Peasant women relocate to cities for munition jobs, with factories offering meals, rest rooms, rest periods, and health care. Day nurseries, housing controls, and pension schemes support workers as factories edge closer to wartime production.
The Los Angeles Y M C A annual outing brought back eight Corona boy scouts from Catalina after a week near Seal Rocks seven miles below Avalon. They traveled in two cars with P L Nourse wife and daughter Jane and Max B Fitch. The group of ninety stayed in nine tents and hiking and meals were noted as decent but the boys wished for more food at times.
Mrs. Vikova Kuneticka is noted as the first woman in Central Europe elected to a legislative body. Reports say she attended the Prague constituent assembly on January 6 as the only woman in the Bohemian Diet but was deprived of her mandate by the Austrian Government for excluding women from election under the Austrian constitution.
Announcement invites Corona girls to join the Nurses Reserve with recruitment beginning at the Public Library. Local girls are urged to sign up, with emphasis on duty over personal ambitions as California aims to rally 9000 nurses by August. Parents urged to support training to keep nurses overseas ready. Information at the Library.
Chief Ramsey reports no clue to a banquet ticket he handed out earlier this week as one of his candidate cards. He recalls meal tickets once voting lines but fears that era has passed and requests the return of his intact banquet ticket.
County and city boards told to scrub German influenced material from textbooks and music. State board and council of defense push 100 percent Americanism amid wartime concerns. Separate note mentions Y M C A ties with Italian troops and a Welsh ancestral home donated to the British Y M C A.
The first Moro girls earned nursing diplomas as part of the class of 1915 at the Philippine General Hospital. The trio Ais Usna Mustafa and Jating Mustafa along with Matilde Selick passed their exams brilliantly, celebrating a milestone in modernization and education under the Minecanoa and Sulu administration.
Reports from the front describe American troops driving back German units amid heavy fighting. Prisoners praise American bravery while German officers concede losses and fear the Allies may soon overpower their defenses. Allied advances include a village recaptured and a machine gun nest taken after costly assaults.
Article explains two accident classes: vehicle to vehicle and vehicle to pedestrian. It urges caution to reduce 97 percent of crashes, promotes road rules, proper signaling, and safe night driving with anti glare laws. Pedestrian risks rise in downtown areas, with signals and intersections emphasized.
A motion picture adaptation of Mr. Gerard's My Four Years in Germany chronicles the war from the Zabern incident to the American army gathering. The film argues for American unity against Germany and previews showings at the Majestic theater on Saturday matinee and night.
Fragmentary OCR text references the idea of Americans and power transfers in a legal context and mentions French civil law. no clear event, names, dates, or places are identifiable. The readable portions suggest a discussion of jurisdiction or charges but lack concrete facts to summarize further.
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