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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1919
Page
6
In a Senate session with scant opposition the measure on war excess profits and incomes faces a crucial vote. Key figures and factions weighed abandonment of the program as lawmakers pushed to finalize action next week amid debate over funding and allocations.
An unclear OCR passage notes moves in a legislature involving providence measures and a Senate, mentioning senators and a House passage before potential presidential action. It hints at financial profits and contested aims but remains cryptic about dates and names.
Fragmentary report notes a planned demonstration linked to the Nae Vena Wagiuta party. It mentions Witsga or President Witsga and a protest march toward New Avenue with scalingsiatteulars and a potential funeral reference amid ongoing tensions.
A chaotic attack at a Cleveland area jewelry store on Euclid Avenue involves rocks and projectiles hurled at patrons and staff. The suspect fled, ran from a pursuing crowd, and was captured after a streetcar evicted it a few blocks away. Police aided bystanders helped detain the suspect.
Private Tarry Vrnnce from Farrell recounts a head wound and hair growth in France. He notes cannon blasts and shrapnel as a strange cause for a remarkable growth, describing battles and a growing scalp rope of mythic tone.
Leavenworth Kansas chief of police J T Glynn warned officers to keep a sharp lookout for German spies and kaiser lovers in America during the war. A group of Germans demanded his removal, but he remains chief.
Acting Chief O'Brien issues an order restricting all ambulance drivers public or private to a maximum of 20 miles per hour. The directive aims to curb excessive speeding by responders and ensure safer roadway conduct during calls.
The River tells of Innes Hardin, a engineer leading a battle against the Great Yellow Dragon to save settlers lives and homes in the Imperial Valley. A president and Casey Rickard figure in the epic struggle that grips the nation and tests loyalty and love.
Salem proposes whale milk may solve Oregon milk supply. Veterinarian Lyle cites domesticated whales as future dairy, with a barrel of milk per mammal and broad potential for the Pacific coast. He also suggests keeping two sheep per lawn to curb milk and wool shortages, noting wool value and lamb trade implications.
The war gardens of 1917 and 1918 are to become the Peace or Victory gardens of 1919 under the guidance of the State Horticultural Society and the State Council of Defense. Fifty six cities ran efficient gardens last year with state aid, and Secretary I Cranefield urges retention of garden organizations as the work continues this year. While gardening this year will be carried on with similar aims.
The Horticultural Society reprints seven popular garden circulars and adds three new titles Strawberries Rasyberries and Troa Fruits all in brief engaging style. Secretary Cranefield offers five hundred copies of each free to cities organizing a garden committee for 1919 with extra copies at cost. Local garden committees should qualify for the offer.
Wood County completes seed corn census with help from beachers, farmers, and the county superintendent. About 2000 bushels raised and cured so far, uneven reports due to flu. Officials urge dealers to buy home grown seed to secure 1919 corn crop, avoiding late maturing imports from other regions.
The War Savings educational committee in Milwaukee met at War Savings headquarters to map a nationwide thrift effort for 1919. Schools will be divided into seven sections and bi monthly instruction sheets will be issued. non school work will include home budgets for farm and city households with guidance on food clothing shelter and savings.
Brigadier General Meng A Johnson of the Seventy-seventh division was severely wounded in the Argonne fighting while leading a battalion in pursuit of the lost battalion. Regular army veteran of Spanish-American War and Philippine campaigns.
London dispatch reports a valet's account of July 17 killings at the Ekaterinburg convent. The former emperor Nicholas II and his family were executed by Bolsheviks as bodies were burned on the city outskirts. The Grand Duchess Tatiana sustained wounds and died in the attack.
In France a U S lieutenant blinded by a high explosive shell clings to faith, saying doctors may cure others but he will see again in a few ponds. In Maine, potato workers in Aroostook county earned 6 to 8.5 dollars daily picking potatoes at 15 cents per barrel, with some women paid by the day including board.
A New York Infantry regiment, the Sixty-ninth now One Hundred Sixtieth, is hailed for a brutal Champagne barrage that saved the day. Troops suffered heavy losses with heroic feats by Lt. J Sapford Bear Mlinots and Chaplain Rev. Ray Jenney noted for leadership and a silver Luger trophy. Bear also swam the Vesle to verify disguises amid enemy fire and earned the Croix de Guerre.
Fragmentary report notes prosperity masking hardship in Uniontown Pennsylvania during wartime. Text mentions real miners earning up to 250 dollars daily and a rising poorhouse population, indicating widening poverty despite macroeconomic growth.
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