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Newspaper
Encampment Record
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1916
Page
7
An excerpt discusses why women write letters praising Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. claims its Vegetable Compound has aided female health. It asserts no fictitious letters or unconsented quotes are published and highlights relief from displacements, inflammation, irregularities, nervousness, and related ailments. The page also folds in humorous lines and short ads.
Western Newspaper Union news digest reports British destroyer sunk by a German submarine. French claim Maurepas taken with 1,000 Germans captured. Berlin offers Romanian neutrality terms. Teutons push on Balkan front and seize Florina. Half a million British tried to break Somme lines. 9,000+ Turks killed near Suez. British seize more German positions near Ginchy and Guillemont. Jablonitza falls to Russians. Austrians retreat in Gorizia and Trentino. French advance near Maurepas and Mau repas to Clery. Brussiloff’s Russians report 358,000 captured since June 4. Teuton successes claimed on Russian front and Somme. Turks now with Austrians in Galicia. Gen. Ramos reports defeats of Villa’s band in Chihuahua. German counterattacks near Pozieres repulsed. British gain trenches near Bazentin. Gasoline drops to 17.5 cents in Chicago. Youths charged with murder in New Orleans. Prohibition fund gifts increase. miners in Wyoming gain higher wages. Great Western Sugar contracts two new refineries at Brighton and Missoula. Senate passes naval bill. Hay reintroduces army bill without war clause revision. Funston urges Pershing withdrawal. A 140 million bond issue proposed to cover Mexican crisis.
The American financial commission heads to South America to bolster trade relations in Rio de Janeiro. Reports from Trieste, Taranto, and Berlin describe air raids, disasters, and political tensions as World War I continues. Major items include the Cottenham marriage and Romania's potential territorial compensation, plus stock market and naval movements.
The article samples a London Observer note on German spy Von der Goltz eating papers in Petrograd and cites historical anecdotes of paper meals. It also reports a Rockefeller Institute study on infantile paralysis in monkeys, identifying a small brain and spinal cord germ. Monkeys inoculated with the virus developed paralysis. nose and throat membranes can spread the virus despite no illness, with the virus persisting months after inoculation.
The club president Jones steps down amid questions over his role with the “Triplets.” The brief notes no further details on the cause, leaving the reason described as insufficient cause.
A fragmentary quote exchange questions gender strength with the retort that weakness is tied to being unmanned, reflecting a period remark on gender roles. The source presents the exchange without additional context or attribution.
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