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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1918
Page
6
In a furious session Congress approves vast war measures including a $21 billion day. The Senate passes the army bill and naval appropriation while House action backs the Alswell power grant to seize telegraph and radio systems. Debates touch draft age, price controls, and public order amid multiple state and local updates.
Germany will not send delegates to the Berne conference on August 5 due to timing. The Comfort hospital ship sailing is delayed after the Llandovery Castle destruction. Isaacs reports he is in a German prison camp. Pershing visits Alsace troops and Germany accepts Berne invitation for talks on prisoner exchanges.
The German submarine sank the 11 000 ton British hospital ship Llandovery Castle 116 miles southwest of Fastnet on June 27. The ship homeward bound from Canada carried 258 people including 80 Canadian Army Medical Corps men and 14 women nurses. One boat with 24 survivors reached port. twelve nurses drowned when a boat capsized.
Gov. Peter Norbeck’s Fourth of July address proclaims American resolve in World War I. The report also covers a flag insult arrest near Wilmot, a missing county ag agent vacancy, a German atrocity tale from France, and local war savings stamps success in Elk Point and Union County.
A reflective piece outlines a hopeful program for aging with dignity. The speaker vows to avoid pretensions and complaints, seek cheer, welcome youth, and cultivate solitude and friendship with children, viewing old age as spiritual opportunity rather than downfall.
The Annales de Medicine reports via Delille and colleagues that a major malaria outbreak infects modern forces across Macedonian valleys and marshes. It notes extreme gravity, high pernicious cases, failed quinine prevention, malignant tertian malaria, and frequent hemoglobinuria in the army.
An old Exchange note recalls how early Moravians settled marriages by drawing lots from a bowl. Homes were placed in, prayers offered, and couples chosen providentially. The practice, once common, produced surprisingly successful matches though now long abandoned.
In response to a food administration request to limit artificial ice, a large New York hotel posted a room notice urging guests to use ice sparingly. The measure reduced ice water requests as shortages of ammonia, needed for artificial ice, affect explosives manufacture.
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