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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1917
Page
2
Three American naval patrol airmen were picked up by a French patrol boat after being lost at sea for nearly sixty hours. The trio, among them Ensign Kenneth Smith, a former Yale student, and Frank J. Brady of Newark, NF, left a French base in a hydro airplane seeking four enemy submarines.
About 150 pro German Creeks have been arrested in Athens on espionage, propaganda and diffusion of false news charges. They face expulsion. The Vatican is accused in a London Morning Post editorial of influencing pro German propaganda linked to recent military reverses. Leon Trotzky stated in Petrograd that the government seeks no separate peace with Germany. The Bolshevik government reportedly sent representatives to meet German Socialist delegates, likely in Stockholm, to arrange an armistice. Lenin announced a class conscription reform taking immediate effect. A note from Trotzky to allied embassies announced an armistice proposal. A major German chemical works, Greishiem Hlekton near Frankfurt, was destroyed by an explosion per Zurich dispatch.
A bomb exploded in the Central street police station squadroom in Milwaukee killing ten people including police detectives and a woman. The article notes other crimes including a Michigan case where Alice Karlson was acquitted after shooting her father in Scotts near Kalamazoo. It also mentions an inquiry into milk production and distribution costs in Chicago and a temporary halt in wheat shipments to the seaboard due to rail movement.
Washington reports Herbert Hoover the United States food administrator warned that crooks and confidence operatives are going door to door claiming government authorization to seize food. He stressed no government department makes such demands and urged householders to report these petty frauds to police as investigations continue.
Miss Tatiana Nicholaevna Romanoff, daughter of the deposed Russian emperor Nicholas II, has escaped Siberia via a fictitious marriage to a chamberlain’s son and travels toward the United States, aided by an Englishwoman, as disclosed in New York by Russian relief sources. John Renfield, an expressman aged fifty two, was arrested in Peoria by government agents and faces confinement after a hostile remark about the Kaiser.
Rear Admiral Frederic R. Harris is named general manager of the Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation replacing Rear Admiral Washington L. Capps. Secretary Daniels cites laws restricting foreign decorations as the British offer is declined. The wage dispute talks avert transport suspensions with Brotherhood leaders. Surgeon General William C. Gorgas heads a war department committee to probe army camp food conditions. Departmental commanders are relieved of guarding industries to support a state cooperation plan. The destroyer Chauncey sank after a collision. Lt. Cmdr. Walter J. Reno perished at his post. Vice Admiral Sims relayed the tragedy to Washington.
Allied forces punch through German defenses with the British Third Army under Byng and French troops in the Verdun region report capturing first and second German lines. British gains include Bourlan village and Bourlan Wood with tanks crossing No Man's Land under light fire. General Pershing observes the action with Haig as casualties run high for the Germans while Dutch boats are sunk near the barred zone.
London dispatch reports a major breakthrough as British forces penetrate the last German defense line before Cambrai. Infantry tanks and cavalry advance more than eight miles, capturing thousands of prisoners and heavy guns. Cambrai shelled, railroads severed, and German defenses rendered vulnerable.
A playful exchange notes a woman obsessed with shopping. The speaker recalls her visit to a prominent surgeon to price several operations, highlighting the humor of excessive consumer focus and vanity.
Fiery red pimples and severe eczemas claimed to clear with a hot bath using Cuticura Soap followed by Cuticura Ointment. Perfect for itchings and burnings, they also suit daily toilet use. Free sample by mail with book. send address postcard to Cuticura Dept. Iy Boston. sold everywhere.
A reflective line noting that trouble reveals how much better one could endure it. the speaker admits, after hardship, the insight into stronger resilience and wiser limits. The text emphasizes hindsight on suffering and personal growth.
Thousands of women endure kidney and bladder trouble and may not know it. Symptoms include back pain headache loss of ambition and nervousness signaling potential kidney disease. Dr Kilmer Swamp Root offered as remedy with sample bottle available by sending ten cents to the company in Binghamton New York.
A doctor urges an anaemic patient to take an interest in outdoor sports, but the patient says he already does as they are his main daily reading.
In Youngstown Ohio about 2000 women are employed in the steel mills. The workforce confirms a significant female presence in the industry and reflects wartime labor shifts.
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