Local Notes from Pioneer Days and Nearby Towns
Supt Andrus conducts a teachers examination at Williamsport. The Record notes a June wedding of Anton Senger and Mariana Eisenzimmer and visits by Van Soest and Renskers from Holland Settlement. Townspeople celebrate Lee Streeter support in Winona with bonfire. Five Williamsport ladies vote for State Superintendent Miss Bates. Grandmother Loutzenheiser ill but improving. Mention of livestock losses and local school moves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anton Senger
Mariana Eisenzimmer
Williamsport
Mesdames Boutillier
Armstrong Brock
Streeter
Miss Bates
Truth on Germs Claims and War Work Appeal
The Minneapolis Journal debunks rumors that army doctors and Red Cross nurses were shot at sunrise for germ injections and that influenza was spread via aspirin tablets. The war department calls both stories baseless and aims to bolster morale and faith in the war effort through the United War Work Campaign urging generous contributions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
United States
War Department
Minneapolis Journal
No calendar for 500 years in Christian reckoning
History notes that for five centuries Christians lacked a distinct calendar and counted years by the customs of the nations they belonged to. The article discusses how elapsed time was tracked before a native Christian calendar emerged.
First Train Ferry Crosses English Channel
The first train ferry crosses from Newhaven to Dieppe carrying about fifty cars. This historic voyage marks a wartime shift using rail cars in France by ferry, overcoming high tides with floating bridges and docking chocks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newhaven
England
Dieppe
France
Popular Mechanics Magazine
War Savings Drive Highlights North Dakota Pledge
President Wilson promotes war savings stamps as a way to fund the war by saving expenditures on non essentials and investing in government securities. North Dakota targets a $13,000,000 quota with a June 24 rally and monthly stamp purchases ending January 1, 1923. War savings stamps offer about 4 percent interest and are described as safe investments.
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Wilson
War Savings Movement
North Dakota
War Savings Society
War Campaign appeals for funds and era calendar notes
A wartime appeal urges donations to United War Work Campaign stressing the need to support troops and the “boy at rest.” The piece briefly discusses the Seven Big War Work Activities and contrasts historical calendar systems including Anno Urbis Conditae and the Incarnation with notes from Bede and Camille Flammarion about the dating of Jesus’s birth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United War Work Campaign
Rome
Diocletian
Egypt
Denis the Little
Bede
Jesus
Camille Flammarion
Cleveland Plain-Dealer
Also Mentioned on This Page
Supt
Andrus
Rowerdink M. van Soest
W. Renskers
Holland Settlement
Lee
Winona
Henry van Beek
Shier
Rooks
J. D. Flynn
Lee and
Glanavon
Loutzenheiser
Langhers
Grace Bales
Clarke
Mr. O L. Bales
City
Wahpeton
Mrs. W. W. Putnam
Mrs. Chase
Mrs
James W. Baird
Fort Yates
Roy Bales
Mr. Loutzenheiser
Roy
Uncle Jake
Lew Doerschlag
Cliff Putnam
Lew
Hun Lie Nailed
United We
Uncle Sam
Sam
United War Workers
Sec’y Baker
See’y Daniels
Pershing
Haig
Diaz
Foch
U.S. A
United War Work
Linton Space
Linton Bazar Farmers State Bank
Chai. Coventry Elmer A. Anderson
P. G. Books
Northwestern Motor CO
Feinstein &Cristal
W.E. Petrie CO. ‘the First National Bank
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