13 Sep 1917
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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1917
Page
1
The News explains wartime price rises for white paper and advertising and urges subscribers to pay promptly rather than delaying. It notes no rate hikes yet for subscribers, warns of potential loss on small accounts, and asks readers to check paper labels and settle arrears to avoid service cuts.
Washington reports Charles Lathrop Pack, president of the national emergency food garden commission, says women are building a vast freedom monument through home canning. Estimates show 160 million jars of vegetables and fruits planned for fall, with large increases in ring club work and commercial canning joining the effort.
Federal order closes 27 Maryland distilleries and about 200 in Kentucky by 11 pm. Many plants will store existing whiskey rather than cease activity until war end. Maryland distilleries employ 6 000 to 7 000, with $8 000 000 to $10 000 000 in plant value. Kentucky warehouses hold roughly 120 000 000 gallons of whiskey.
Catarrhal deafness stems from inflammation of the Eustachian tube mucous lining. A constitutional remedy is claimed to cure the condition, restoring tube function and eliminating permanent hearing loss. The advertisement from FCHENEY & CO of Toledo offers one hundred dollars for a case בלתי cures.
Secretary Baker testifies before a House committee that the United States aims for an army of 2 million by January 30, 1918 and 3 million by year end. The plan excludes the second draft levy of 500,000 to be called after the first 687,000 finish training, likely reaching 2.5 million by July 1, 1918.
Hayti seeks redress for a past German insult as it severs diplomatic ties with Germany. The account traces 1897 events when German pressure led to Luders arrest and a humiliating apology, and outlines a potential 20 million claim if relations stay broken. It links these actions to current calls for punitive German accountability.
As Ishii mission meets in Washington the question of dispatching Japanese troops to Europe gains urgency amid Germany’s pressure on Russia. The War Department weighs shipping costs and strategic sacrifice while Japan seeks concessions. Secretary Baker may host talks on military and logistics, with no firm U S program until Japan proposes concrete terms.
New York reports that Caleb Bragg in a hydroaeroplane with two passengers flew to 12 900 feet at Port Washington New York on August 26. The Aero Club of America sanctioned the flight as the American record for that class.
A fragmented reader note commends Iain's Tablets as mild for biliousness and laxative relief. Mentions Mrs Charleston and a brother who also used the tablets, but the text is unclear and partially garbled.
The article notes early wartime liquor bans from 1914 to 1917 including Czar Nichols banning vodka, France and Switzerland banning absinthe, Norway restricting grain distilling, Denmark imposing tax limits, and Britain cutting grain drink production. It adds Uncle Sam’s 11 o’clock nationwide prohibition of spirits from fruits and grains, marking a second knockout after an earlier absinthe ban in 1909.
German aviators bombarded the Vandelaincourt hospital near Verdun for six and a half hours last night. Nineteen wounded men were killed and twenty were injured as enemy planes returned roughly every twenty minutes from 8:90 p m to 3 a m, striking huts housing the severely wounded.
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