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Newspaper
Jacksons Hole Courier
Location
Jackson, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1917
Page
5
Salt Lake City item notes Brown Banks interest in business and Green 10 percent. Splendid Nerve recalls Janet nervous about driving alone. Lost person run over identified as a traffic cop. Dialogue includes first and second girl discussing Mr Blank the writer at a reception and his old fashioned clothes.
A friend recalls Mark Twain walking with a cigar box as a warning about smoking. Clemens replies with humor that he is merely moving, not smoking, illustrating his nimble wit in youth.
A watcher asked a pupil to write about London and found the essay states the population is very dense. The student explained that textbooks describe London as dense, prompting the teacher’s surprise at the blunt note about Londoners.
A plumber, a thin carpenter, and a talkative T discuss a scheme to contact paymasters across the country on payday. They plan to steal uncalled for pay envelopes and share them fifty fifty with the paymasters. The carpenter laments the former respectability of the schemer.
London August 19 reports a bloody Sabbath on the western front as Britons and Frenchmen press gains in the Somme center near St. Quentin. British attacks around Havrincourt and in Priests Wood meet German resistance. German heavy guns lash Verdun and Ypres fronts while Bavarian troops push forward. German air raids strike a British prisoner clearing station, killing ten and wounding nine locals. Russian and Romanian fronts show standstills in Vilna region and Moldavia as Teutonic forces face stiff opposition in Santa sector.
London reports Germany shifting from continuous trench lines to a dispersed defense in France and Belgium. German forces build scattered, deep shell fortified positions and dugouts to withstand British artillery and maintain resistant garrisons as fixed front lines prove untenable.
German envoy presents Emperor William II acceptance of conditions for hospital ships. Ships to be protected under international rules, carrying only the sick and wounded, with guards against attacks by submarines and ensuring safe transports.
Londone Amsterdam dispatch reports Berlin government to seizure and sale of state property in Germany. Awuler's Limited notes the action as a major government move impacting assets and public holdings.
Petrograd reports that Russian forces on the Vilna front repelled a German assault near Brakhovny. The enemy attack reportedly broke down under Russian fire, with casualties and no breakthrough claimed by Moscow authorities.
Spokane reports twenty seven I W W members including district secretary James Rowen were arrested by Idaho National Guardsmen amid a four state strike threat. Authorities said arrests aimed to prevent property destruction and industry disruption as lumber workers walk out across Montana Washington Oregon and Idaho. The arrests occurred Sunday without explicit authorization, with officials citing general orders. Release of detainees was tied to a potential halt to the strike, contingent on leaders’ actions.
Washington reports the war department plans to send over 800000 infantrymen to France with a 2 to 1 infantry to artillery ratio. The expeditionary force could reach about 1200000 fighting men overseas while the remainder stays in the U.S. as depot troops to fill vacancies, though officials had kept details secret.
Washington reports Judge Robert Lovett, head of the Union Pacific executive committee and council of national defense figure, selected as dictator amid wartime controls. Hoover urges wheat economy to avert a 400000 bushel deficit and conserve by substituting cereals. San Francisco reports 540 strike breakers, including many Negro workers, arriving from St Louis to join the United Railroads. two more trains on the way from Chicago.
Fragmentary OCR describes a college unit proposing women drivers amid a convoluted mix of names and events including a mining expert’s death, a political figure, and a regional college scene. Details are garbled but indicate a sensational sequence involving Purti-Sis American figures and local authorities.
A powder pit blast at Curtin and Harvey company in Lid. injured several workers and caused one death. The accident occurred at the Curtin and Harvey works in Rigned, Omar. Si, one worker, is reported dead and others are listed as injured. Further details are unavailable at this time.
A clipped excerpt attributed to Leslie's Weekly offers life advice on using time wisely and excelling in one niche. It urges youths to work hard, stand out, and balance effort with personal growth, stressing practical ambition over trivial pleasures.
An ad touts Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment as fast relief for eczema, itch, and irritations after a ten minute bath routine and toilet use. Free samples offered by mail from Cutlerua Dept L Boston. Also includes a stray humorous dialogue snippet about Sherlock and Simson with a line about hope in pictures.
A jumble of misquoted phrases, blurred names, and garbled dialogue appears. It blends jokes about dinners, medical fog, a French soldier, a brass-tinged wound tale, and courtroom humor with broken lines and shifting speakers. The fragmentary text resembles overheard scraps from a newspaper page.
Fragmentary OCR text appears as garbled quotation with unclear names and actions. The readable portions mention a wife Lenfrad and an implied nocturnal event, but details are too damaged to determine a coherent news item or outcome.
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