03 Jan 1917
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Newspaper
Indiana Evening Gazette
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1917
Page
1
The article outlines advertising rates at one cent a word and discusses Allied and German positions on peace proposals. It questions whether the German government will shift public sentiment and how the Allies may respond, emphasizing the impact on war continuation and liberty.
A 1917 New Year address by W. J. Lampton urges readers to consider the deeds and promises of the coming year. It questions prosperity, war, Mexico, suffrage, and whether the year will bring improvement or continued hardship, closing with a hopeful but cautious note: you can only hope for better than the past two years.
New York Herald notes confusion in American minds over the President's peace note and its aims. Washington officials express dismay at the diplomatic move’s effect on Entente morale as the description unfolds.
The text argues that a concealed fear driven note behind submarine threats betrays cowardice and warns the nation to seek Lincoln style leadership. It condemns word juggling over frankness, urging clear, resolute guidance like Lincoln’s during a great crisis. It stresses that true leadership steadies a republic in danger, not adroitness.
Berlin dispatch reports Vossische Zeitung printing the last will of Lieutenant Otto Uegerer a German reservist killed on the Somme. He had sought a furlough to marry his fiancée but died after a British shell shattered his legs. He dictated his testament in a field hospital stating he dies for his country and leaves a fortune.
A father urges his daughter to marry an honest man after the war, expressing love and leaving money for a comfortable life. He asks her not to remain single because the fatherland needs noble mothers' children, and promises to watch over her from heaven and bless her future children.
A rambling box car carried an unusual gift to J. W. Bradley, a Southern Railway car inspector, when he spotted a sleek Minorca hen perched on freight rods as a Birmingham bound train rolled in at dawn. The hen, described as a first-class bird, will not be eaten and is valued for eggs at a nickel each. how far she rode and where she boarded remains a mystery.
In Birmingham Alabama January 3, workers cannot attend dances, yet those arriving early will be paid. Dances at the Country Club and Motor Country Club begin early with a scheme offering five dollars in gold to the first three women arrival times.
In Gadsden Alabama on January 2 E C G Drew formerly of Monroe Louisiana faced arrest as he attempted again after four years to form a company to drill for oil and gas in Alabama. He was charged with an offense connected to the plan and held for further action by authorities.
The article notes excitement in Walker county as drilling begins and a first hole yields 150 barrels of oil per day with natural gas found in another well. It contrasts past Alabama tests by geologists and highlights pending outcomes near Drew’s prior Alabama operations and potential new gusher zones.
More than a thousand Georgia farmers gathered in Antivens for the opening of the Boll Weevil School to be continued through January. The courses will train farmers in methods to combat the boll weevil, the worm that bores into cotton bolls and can destroy crops.
Applicants seek licenses for various temperance brewing and sale operations in multiple townships and boroughs. The list names individuals and districts including Montgomery, Ward, and Creekside with a public hearing date set and clerk Ayers overseeing. many spellings are uncertain due to OCR.
The boll weevil, long a pest across Texas Louisiana Mississippi and Alabama, has now reached western Georgia. Farmers must grow and protect cotton crops this season, with railroads and the agriculture college promoting a demonstration school to aid growers.
An application will be made to the Court of Common Pleas of Indiana County by Lion J N Langham President Judge on Monday January 8 2017 for the charter of a corporation to be called the Greek Catholic Church of Dixonville to support public worship of Almighty God in the Greek Catholic faith according to its doctrine discipline and usage and to enjoy all rights and privileges of the Corporation Act of 1874 and supplements.
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