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Newspaper
Independence Enterprise
Location
Independence, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1919
Page
2
An Illinois based study reported by American Medicine and Illinois Health News estimates preventable diseases cost the United States about 2.5 billion dollars annually. In 1918 Illinois alone faced roughly 24.87 dollars per person in losses from major illnesses.
Concordia Massachusetts Mrs F J Hannum endured cramps in leg until a physician removed a surgical needle that had been inside her body for over twenty years. The discovery ended years of intermittent trouble and relieved her distress.
The 2-mark and 10-mark German coins once owned by Count von Luxburg were seized in Argentina and ordered expropriated as prize money, turning over to the Canadian government in the admiralty prize court after the steamer carrying the count to Germany docked.
Dr. Charles A R Campbell promotes bat roosts to combat malaria. San Antonio hosts a municipal roost for 250000 bats with 35000 already. Texas laws protect bats since 1917, following an ordinance 1914. Malaria decline linked to roosts at San Antonio and Mitchell Lake.
French farmer M. Vanhee of Reminghe near Ypres loses 13 sons slain in battle and several others gravely wounded or disabled. Father and one daughter shot by Germans for traveling to Lille to mark a relative’s centennial. another daughter died from a German shell at Dunkirk. Vanhee had 86 children, 22 sons and 14 daughters, all living at the war’s start. One son served as valet to Pope Pius X and fought, wounded four times. another son lost both legs. another returned blind and deaf. another underwent trepanning.
Lieut M Leroy Wightman saved himself after nearly falling from an aircraft at 8000 feet by tapping a telegraph message to his driver Sergt John Morse. He signaling Come out enabled Morse to right the plane and return to land safely.
The Eiffel tower ends its military role and will be accessible to tourists after four years of restricted access. The wireless station remains and is to be strengthened to rival Nauen. During the war the tower housed machine guns on the top platform, four inch guns and searchlights on the first platform, and a siren for air raid warnings.
Reports from arrivals in Brussels say Spanish flu has ravaged the Belgian Congo, with many villages losing nearly half their inhabitants as the disease spreads through the territory.
State health records show warehouses in Boston stored 17,760,000 pounds of food last month amid high prices. The figure reflects storage volumes in the cold storage facilities across the state.
Virginia Reeves Harris Ware known as the kissless bride describes a secret marriage to a youth who urged pity for married couples with children. He urged not to live together on 150 dollars monthly, then denied support. she told her parents triggering the breakup. The bride, popular in Washington and Philadelphia society, is stepdaughter of Commander Archibald L. Parsons of the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
In Seattle a single juror sat for a damages suit after six jurors were drawn. Furl EB Barr, a returned soldier, was the sole juror and delivered a verdict for the plaintiff amounting to 603.18 with Earl J Burr as foreman. The trial followed brief examinations and oral instructions from the justice of the peace.
Twin brothers Jexe Th Brace and Robert Hf Brune, discharged after returning from overseas with the 8630 San Francisco's Own, have re enlisted for service with the Army of Occupation. They asked Colonel Gardner to assign them together, saying they fought together in the Argonne and wish to stay together in Germany.
Adolph Lewisohn hosted a pardon party at Ardsley to mark a meeting of the national committee on prison reform. The gathering raised 840,000 for a national campaign aimed at abolishing county jails, with Lewisohn asserting that about one half of county jail inmates are innocent.
Medford firemen at the central station completed and commissioned a new combination motor truck. Built entirely by the department at a cost of about $500 for materials, it uses an engine rebuilt from a discarded piece of apparatus.
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