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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1917
Page
6
The American patrol boat Alcedo was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine early Monday, with a crew of 92. One officer and twenty enlisted men were missing or lost, and four minutes after the hit the ship sank. Other vessels searched for survivors as details remained sparse.
Orrin Bar, a leading Chicago potato dealer, claims daily food dumps lose five thousand dollars worth of produce for months. Authorities say they found no legal violations after investigating reports of over 100 carloads of potatoes cabbage onions and other vegetables discarded due to slight rotting.
Nine arrests followed a raid on the Wite headquarters of the LW W here nine suspects admitted LW W membership and produced red cards. A man named Herbert Vowel! threw a bottle of nitroglycerine at an officer. the device failed to explode and Vowel! was wounded in the leg and detained.
Bar on Hayashi told Pekin government that Viscount Kik ji ro and Secretary Lansing signed an agreement on November 2 recognizing Japan's imperial interests in China and reaffirming the open door policy, ending the controversy.
Health commissioner Neh-Dr M W Connell reported an epidemic of sore arms among ten children at the Madison grade school, tracing the issue to polluted vaccine.
John Alathorpe, president of the First Bank and Trust Co. and former head of the Illinois Blaze Bankers' association, killed himself at his Cairo residence bringing turmoil to the local financial community.
Clarence Love age 24 was killed and his father Elijah Love injured when their car struck a cow and plunged down an embankment in Fulton Missouri. The crash occurred while they were riding together and the vehicle rolled over after hitting the animal.
The board of school commissioners voted after a heated debate to remove the study of the German language at the Polytechnic Institute and substitute another subject.
The text describes the German Colonial Society's aims to acquire a vast empire, arguing that Germany must overcome “pusillanimous scruples” to seize colonies in Africa and beyond. It names leaders including the Duke of Mecklenburg and Bernhard Dembers, and frames the empire as essential for Germany's needs in South America and elsewhere.
San Angelo Texas reports Adolf Hitler era tensions as German firms and merchants in Buenos Aires and Montevideo are accused of supplying and storing food for Germany. The piece notes intense anti German feeling, rioting and a push for wartime supplies and cattle deals, with government actions against hoarded German goods.
Washington reports retail food prices in the United States have fallen about 20 percent from peak levels. Meat prices are easing and officials predict further declines. Measures such as meat storage limits and licensing of packers are cited as factors, while costs remain well above June 1914 levels.
New York The Champion silk mills of Brooklyn operating day and night on war orders were seriously damaged by fire. The mill manufactures silk bags for government gunpowder orders.
Washington The Kansas corporation tax law requiring both foreign and domestic corporations to pay annual taxes on their capital stocks for intrastate business privilege was upheld by the state supreme court.
An American soldier was killed in a German trench raid with his throat slit in hand to hand fighting. Wounded Americans in the rear hospital show no improvement. officials expect recovery and readiness for return to duty. Artillery fire on the American sector remains unusually brisk as the conflict continues.
Norwalk, Conn man Charlee Sraith, the only American widely known to escape, reports five additional Americans held by the Moewe raid. Tarhay Loyle, William FitzGerald, Oscar Hird, Harry Mason, and Walter Mason were prisoners taken in spring and used on a ship bound for slick hola, with fertiliser cargo misrepresented. The escapeer claims these men remain at a German prison camp in Lubeck.
London reports German authorities in Belgium fined East Flanders 200000 dollars for missing the delivery of 4000 tons of later ore by November 1. The penalty underscores German demands for resources in occupied Belgium during the war era.
The Northwest will have ample coal for the coming winter as more than 80 percent of the required supply has already been shipped, according to the railroad's war board. The threatened shortage is prevented.
Washington reports an American mission has arrived in England on the eve of the first great war conference. Edward M Howe, Wilsons adviser, leads the party with Admiral Henson and Gen. Biles. Secretary Lansing confirms the mission is for war strategy, not peace talks, aiming to map a campaign against Germany.
Austrian deputies in the Austrian tower received a letter from Bohemian women in Moravia urging peace. The prelates replied they sincerely appreciate the desire for peace and noted Austria Hungary and its allies have repeatedly declared readiness for peace and proposed a peace program.
A Petrograd dispatch reports the provisional Finnish government accepts the draft plan for Finland to establish central relations with Russia while retaining its own legislature and government. It would be declared a republic with supreme executive power entrusted to an elected ruler.
In Ohio with 5,752 out of 7,448 precincts reporting, prohibition led by 1,446 votes. The tally stood at 519,984 for prohibition against 519,??? for prohibition. Voting results reflect early returns from the prohibition race.
T. A. Riordan reported deaths of several thousand sheep in Navajo County amid suspected malicious poisoning. authorities investigate possible case of livestock poisoning.
Four electrically controlled boats, similar to the one destroyed earlier, have been destroyed in London. The incident mirrors the prior admiralty announced loss and highlights ongoing fears for naval devices and harbor security.
Three hundred thousand workers in the Ivanovo-Voronezh district walk out in a major strike, hitting the city one of Russia’s key cotton industry centers as unrest spreads.
Raleigh reports Major George L. Peterson of the Thirtieth national guard division at Camp Sevier was arrested on a charge of embezzling seven thousand six hundred dollars from the quartermaster's staff.
Washington reports a plentiful supply of Thanksgiving turkeys at reasonable prices. The food administration says stocks in cold storage are large and profits will be regulated to keep costs down.
Mr W Innes Paterson of Red Cond Neb notes the dry law change on July 4 produced a quiet town celebration with an intoxication-free crowd. He observes many families own cars, farmers well dressed, and no accidents, adding that elites doubt the need to reverse the change and argue there is no case for its continued use in any civil land after the U S demonstration.
A telegram to President Wilson from Savannah officials argues prohibition boosts economic value. It cites reduced arrests for crime with figures for murder burglary and larceny, notes Jewish calls for patrols, and claims prohibition raises labor efficiency and grain needs for prohibition materials. The piece urges national prohibition during wartime as vital.
Kate Adams, a Chicago worker and author, accuses the federal government of sustaining a white slave ring in segregated towns. She argues that cities with dry regimes fail to thrive, noting widespread female exploitation linked to local liquor and state control.
The text argues government liquor bans prove prohibition in principle, urging extension to all workers, especially those serving at home during war. It contends health and efficiency justify protection from alcohol for enlisted men and war workers to sustain physical and mental power for reconstruction after the war.
The passage discusses brewers needing 48 ten bushels of grain annually in cargoes for over a thousand vessels, each about 1 00 tons. It notes German submarines sink about twenty vessels weekly across classes, with a small percentage landing grain, prompting questions about which delivers better service for the United States: submarines or brewers.
The Country Gentleman suggests tobacco growers consider grain farming, citing a Wisconsin farmer who plans to switch his tobacco lands to crops for food. The piece humorously imagines placing figures like John Tartey corn and My Lady Ricotine on a toboggan for a push.
Kaiser Harlercorn is labeled a die terrorist and traitor in a harsh political note from the Denver Labor Bulletin. The piece warns of internment and fears of escape, calling for harsh action during wartime.
A mouse samples liquor from a cellar cask and soon feels giddy. It dances around the room, then leaps onto a chair and cries out to challenge a cat.
New York correspondent describes war hall tents showing Allied and American flags amid floral arrangements and veterans. Intermingled greetings occur between Georgia and Virginia locals, with French sail connections and doctors from the South mingling with New York, Chicago peers, and Distay Atlantic Row community.
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