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Newspaper
Hamburg Reporter
Location
Hamburg, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1916
Page
8
A retrospective on events of May 29 1915 recounts French seizure of Ablain Saint Nazaire after weeks of combat, Italian gains on the Isonzo nearly reaching Caporetto and near Plava, Austrians bomb Venice, and heavy fighting across France, Russia, Gallipoli, and the Tyrol fronts with naval actions, aerial raids, and a German regret over a mistaken ship torpedoing.
A patchwork of notes cites industrial and health facts: steam brick production, 110 degree ripening rooms for bananas, a drive to train 46 600 citizen soldiers in Philadelphia, and a sharp drop in tuberculosis mortality in 1882 to 1914 across New York Philadelphia and Boston. It mentions granite’s role, Pike's Peak ascent, and a US Public Health Service warning about trachoma. An Alaska bureau promotes safety with maps and data on recent losses in the Alaskan waters.
The piece reviews a Lancet statement favoring alcoholic medicines, notes it was a bluff by liquor interests, and cites Carnegie Institution tests showing alcohol as a depressant. It quotes Vermont doctors opposing alcohol as a beverage and shares an anecdote about a misattributed WCTU tale. It also reports on the Bessemer & Lake Erie railroad Water Wagon Club promoting abstinence and reducing saloon activity in Albion, Pennsylvania.
The article extols Western Canada dairy and cheese production amid war demand. It notes high prices boosting farmers and predicts a strong year as supplies grow. It highlights Alberta foothills as future cheese zones, praises hog markets with rising live-weight prices, and cites a Calgary table on monthly hog prices from 1919 to 1915.
Savings bank deposits in Sioux City jumped by about 10 000 in the first week after saloons closed on January 1 1916. About 350 new savings accounts were opened, many by people who had never used banks before. Water Wagon Safest quotes and a short verse about prohibition appear, urging a sober path to home and friends.
A couple returns from the theater on a dark dismal evening. The wife asks why few actresses travel under husbands, and the husband notes it is hard for the average man to manage his wife. A humorous quip ends with the wife remaining speechless for fifty seven seconds.
Dr Kalner's Swamp Root is praised by Kansas druggists for kidney liver and bladder relief. A Dee 1915 letter from J Haines confirms customer satisfaction and urges readers to try a sample from Kilmer Co Binghamton NY. Regular sizes sold nationwide with note to mention the big paper.
In the Boston Evening Transcript excerpt, an older man asks why Ethel won’t marry the young man, while his wife suggests she would rather he stay at home. The dialogue reveals tension over marriage and parental control amid daily life.
A reader voices humor about military drills, noting how an officer’s command makes the whole regiment advance rather than a single soldier. The quip contrasts the officer’s pace with the simplicity expected by the onlooker, an old countrywoman observing the scene.
Mrs Wat Green of Addison Street Indianapolis says pain and weakness kept her bed and weight at 109 pounds. After five months on Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she reached 133 pounds and can do housework again. She urges other women to try the remedy and notes its widespread use.
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