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Newspaper
Piqua Daily Press
Location
Piqua, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1917
Page
1
Piqua Press Publishing Company located at 115 North Wayne Street announces its publishing address and corporate designation. The notice identifies the publisher responsible for local news distribution and print operations.
A wartime editorial urges every reader to conserve heat, meat, sugar, and fats to aid Allied forces. It frames food saving as a crucial business decision and civic responsibility, stressing individual judgment to keep French and British armies well fed and munition workers productive.
A letter to the editor questions Commissioner Garfield’s proposal for electric railways to run fewer cars and halt heating to save coal. The writer mocks the idea, cites rider comfort, and argues railways must carry passengers who pay, while urging calm to save fuel, food, wool, and steel.
A reflective Ohio editorial blends wartime sentiment with local winter concerns. It laments German aggression, warns against sympathizers, notes America’s early wartime losses, and urges prudent coal use, patience with rail schedules, and pre Christmas shopping. The piece keeps a local voice, urging conservation and civic patience amid blizzards and rail delays.
Military sets including brushes comb shaving sets knives forks spoons manicure kits and other gift items for service members. Thoma's Jewelry Store offers good quality products at fair prices for the boys.
Experiments show blight killed chestnut trees yield wood fit for posts poles and angles after preheating. After three years the infected wood proved as sound as that from healthy trees and foresters declare timber preserved by blight is as good as natural wood.
The first Xmerient cent circulated in TAR. Earlier coins known as "Washington pennies" were not government issues and served as medal models rather than legal tender.
Indianapolis man Harry Crawford McKenzie aged about seventy recalls three wars and world travels from Civil War drum boy to captain in Africa and uprising leader in the Philippines. Despite wealth and adventure he mourns a missing home and a girl he once spoke of before breaking into tears.
In Rockville Center L I Thomas Connell and his wife longed for children. He secretly arranged through Parish priest Father Quezler to adopt a baby girl from a financially distressed family. Mrs Connell, unaware, returns with a four year old boy she has arranged to adopt. The children are brother and sister.
A frightened horse, described as second only to the elephant in intelligence, helped a wrecked wagon ridden by Judson H. Van Creat after a vehicle collision on the Passaic River road near Fairfield New Jersey. Van Creat was thrown down an embankment but the horse’s actions aided him despite the crash.
Van Creaf suffers serious injuries after a wagon wreck when a horse bolted onto the frozen river. The horse fled a quarter mile, then returned to the crash site. Van Creaf was found unconscious two hours later by H Vreeland and revived. The horse then resumed toward Fine Brook.
In Joplin Missouri Reverend Ray Cornell and John Russell were found dead in a greenhouse. Officials believe carbon dioxide released by plants caused their deaths, with investigators treating the incident as accidental.
Bees established a hive in the alcove behind the pulpit at ML E church in the village. A buzzing nuisance troubled the pastor and congregation for months. Trustees removed the bees after stings and a forced scare away the swarm, securing fifty pounds of honey later given to the pastor.
Tamaqua Pennsylvania Arlamond Wagner narrowly escaped death at the Reading railroad shops after crawling into a dead locomotive to repair it and falling asleep. The engine was fired up by a foreman unaware of the worker inside, wood in the firebox ignited, and Wagner awoke to a blaze. He escaped with severe bruises and burns from the flames.
Webster Springs West Virginia Joe Donahue 16 who lives near the city has never had a haircut since infancy after a long illness stretched his hair to the ground. He believes cutting it would cost him strength like Samson and keeps it tied tight at night to prevent would be thieves from stealing his locks.
A watchman at Buffalo Arkansas reports 1,000 to 1,509 diamonds recovered in Pike County diamond field over the past year. A caretaker found 260 diamonds by washing coarse material from a field formation. The largest diamond weighs around thirty carats, and overall annual production remains undisclosed due to guarded operations.
Steady operation for several years. The ground fenced by high wire fences, access only with credentials. A large diamond washing plant sits near Miarfreesboro, Arkansas, dirt hauled by a motor railroad about two miles. The main peridotite bed covers about eighty acres with two smaller nearby areas of ten to fifteen acres and about five acres.
San Antonio 14 year old English bulldog Mack owned by H Flint has long been a neighborhood celebrity. He once stopped a burglar escaping with silverware and cut glass, herds chickens, hauls in wood and mail, answers the home phone, and even saved the house from a fire. He is an expert mouser.
In East St Louis at Ti-Jady, a 9,600 pound circus elephant named Judy aged 48 was slain to end suffering from lockjaw. The animal was placed in a refrigerated car, restrained by rope and then strangled after two failed attempts using rope and chain as an engine pulled.
A vintage guide showcases new finish techniques for library table runners and cushions using heavy silk cord and knotted edge stitches for corner weight and artistry. It highlights a simple white dotted swiss apron forming a large pocket to keep sewing materials safe from babies, plus tips on smooth cross stitch and using old cross-stitch canvas as a stabilizer for even monograms.
The passage notes an unstable description of a sonogram process and threadwork, mentioning a completed letter on linen. It reads as a fragmentary historical note with unclear context and sparse concrete facts. No clear people or organizations are identified.
Practical health guidance stresses deep breathing, fresh air, and proper ventilation. It advises avoiding rude reactions to fretful people and suggests airing rooms by adjusting windows and transoms to improve circulation and help resist colds.
A collection of practical old fashioned dishes including HOT SLAW with cabbage simmered in milk and a vinegar mustard sauce, RHUBARB TURNOVERS with ginger sugar pastry and fruit filling, and BREAST OF VEAL AND PEAS showing bone in veal chunks sweated with onions mint and dried peas simmered until tender.
Practical kitchen and laundry guidance from a past era. Use scraps of ham to flavor eggs, scrub flannels with soapy water, avoid sun on feather pillows to prevent oil loss, hang pillows in shade, and use muslin flour bags to keep vegetables fresh. Chill veg bags in cool areas to extend freshness.
In Wellington New York a farmer, after discovering his muzzle loader lacked shot, loaded it with powder nails and brass tacks to shoot a skunk that had haunted the Arba Pary farm. He then switched to a .30 caliber rifle, killed the animal, and found nails embedded in a fence post and tail.
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