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Newspaper
Piqua Daily Press
Location
Piqua, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1917
Page
5
The eighth of December Holy Day of Obligation for Catholics with Masses at 5 7 and 8 30 as Immaculate Conception observed. Society items include Mrs Ernest Hirt hosting a Cards club with three tables of five hundred and upcoming hosts Mrs Hd Beck ett.
Mrs. James McCormick and Mrs. Frea Messmer return home after visits. Mary Volker called due to a death in Cincinnati. Several residents visit relatives in Middletown, Tippecanoe City, and Dayton. Marie Guenthner and Harald Ford wed at St Pauls parsonage. plans to Union City and Greenville. Columbian club notes on women’s movement. Grace Church sale in old post office building with soups and noodles.
Mickler spent Wednesday in Dayton for a brief visit while Tack Fujiwara plans to leave tomorrow for a few days in Toledo.
Wash one cup of rice and soak an hour then cook with chopped cold roast chicken and ham fried in lard. Add four tablespoons lard and a pint water, simmer until nearly dry, then optional tomato to taste. Also includes leftover meat scraps fried with rice, and a soup with milk and bread crumbs seasoned with spinach or lettuce and onion.
Do not read books that irritate you and choose another volume. If a night noise worries you, get up and investigate. Use soap modestly only once daily. if skin dries or oils, use almond meal instead. Sprinkle from the can onto cloth and change cloth every other day, rinsing and airing thoroughly.
The article offers practical advice for housework including broiling chicken skin side up, adding a lump of arms root to rinsing water for a violet scent, and how to remove paint from glass with strong ammonia followed by gentle scraping and rubbing with a damp cloth.
Henry D Flood assumes chairmanship of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, guiding the panel’s agenda and diplomatic oversight as the chamber focuses on international policy.
Ohio items report auto license tags to be prison made at the penitentiary starting June 1. Raised letter tags adopted for 1918 will be produced at 10 cents each, with machinery capacity of 4,000 daily. Also covered are a Canton jail incident, a Youngstown lumberyard fire, Austrian citizenship denials, dental society officers, and Coshocton incendiary fire losses.
Urbana Ohio December 6 Dr Thomas Kerr died in Urbana the first in his family in 42 years He married Mary Hart in Canada fifty two years ago next Christmas and they had nine children all of whom survive The obituary notes the couple's long marriage and large family.
Postmaster General Burleson in his annual report to Congress says postal employes organized groups threaten public welfare. He urges repeal of the law allowing such affiliations while forbidding strikes against the government. He notes criticism of these bodies for attempting political influence.
In Chillicothe Ohio December 6 an Austrian select in the national guard fled to New Bremen and faces charges for remarks denigrating the service flag and President Wilson. He is in Battery B of the 324th heavy field artillery. Camp Sherman soldiers heard Major General Glenn outline a home care plan for domestic troubles through YMCA reporting to company commanders and local boards. Measles quarantines among the 320th Infantry show no new cases as the outbreak wanes.
The United States government sent Switzerland a message pledging itself to respect Swiss neutrality. The state department did not explain the occasion, but Germany had suggested that when America’s full force reaches the west front it would aim to overrun Switzerland. The message aimed to counter that propaganda. Austria Ready For Peace reported from Amsterdam on December 5. Emperor Charles of Austria-Hungary told an Austro German delegation that Austria would seek peace but not recognize defeat or yield to demobilization, while continuing to guard its interests.
A Washington inventor James J. Allen introduces a bottle stopper that detects fraud by intertwining a cord through a cork and sealing the bottle with two seals. Pulling the cord breaks the seals and allows removal without a corkscrew, ensuring tamper evidence.
A new signaling method for interurban trolley lines uses third rails along the track to record each car’s position at the dispatcher's office. Contact shoes trigger circuits that log arrivals and control a lever to signal green or red indications to motormen. The system aims to centralize operation by guiding car movements via automated signals.
A derailed or stalled train encountered a siding as a motorman awaited an all clear signal before proceeding. The brief delay affected travel as the crew ensured the track was safe for the next leg of the journey.
Washington officials disclosed that Colonel Judson head of the American mission in Russia and Major Kerth at the embassy acted without Washington instructions in addressing Bolsheviks about an armistice with Germany. Kerth’s protest to the Russian commander in chief contrasted with Judson’s milder note, and the episode sparked questions about who authorized the communications.
A short guide describes making a personal kids table cover from linen with three to four rhyme figures. It suggests white or ecru fabric for laundry ease and offers a second project a kitchen sash curtain using cheesecloth and Dutch blue floss with small kitchen insignia outlines.
Old household guidance covers soaking window shades for towels, vinegar and lemon salts to remove ink, a fine grater for burned surfaces, crumpled tissue for polishing glass, melting chocolate in the kettle, oil on rusty tacks for removal, and silk garments washed in lukewarm water with white soap. It warns borax and ammonia may yellow white silk and advises bread crumbs to clean light stoves after each use.
A six year old girl watching a violent film asks her mother what the villain will do next. The mother explains he will blow up the bridge. The child then asks how he can have enough breath to do it.
A fragment of a farm rally verse repeats a battle cry for Feed Em. It centers on farming imagery with ships money fighting men and a call to rally around the plow and hoe. The text emphasizes agricultural labor, crops like onion beans corn and taters.
Dan Cahill and Henry Stahl were arraigned before Mayor Bell on petit larceny charges. They were ordered to the workhouse for 30 days or leave town. Ray Woodcox pleaded not guilty to opening North Downing Street without a permit. case set for Monday December 10.
Warren Lodge No 24 F and A M holds a Stated Communication Friday evening December 7 at 7:30. Work includes the Master Mason degree. W R Bamber, W M. C W DeArmon, Sec.
An aeroplane from the south moved eastward over Troy around one o'clock Wednesday afternoon. Few witnesses saw it and the craft bore the number 38 with no other identifying marks or names of the aviator provided.
A hopeful note extols a superb ideal where minds are large enough to overlook slights, reject insults, shed jealousy, and open hearts to Enfred, envisioning a harmonious collective spirit. The piece urges communal growth and generous, inclusive attitudes.
Manufacturers of agricultural lime urge farmers to place orders immediately to secure six to eight months of supply, maintaining mill production and avoiding freight congestion next spring. The Department of Agriculture endorses the request, noting fall or winter application is as effective as spring and calling current ordering practice a commendable emergency war measure.
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