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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1917
Page
2
Fragmentary wartime note discusses plans to counter enemy plots in munition plants and railways. Mentions Attorney General Gregory, meetings on suppressing subversive activity, and broader push to protect industry and water works.
A plea by President Wilson and labor leaders aims to avert a strike by uniting reformers and workers behind wartime goals. The petition seeks presidential intervention to secure cooperation and avert disruption as negotiations continue ahead of a crucial conference.
Anger in Idaheoams town over alleged utterances by a farmer sparks protests. A teacher and reporters described a tense scene as locals debated duties and wages, with pressure to adjust coal prices and settle printing costs.
Fragmentary OCR text reports a political bust involving Premier Witen. It includes distorted quotes about support for a leader and a claim of weighing the city’s choice. Unable to confirm full names, dates, or context from the fragment.
Fragmented OCR reports a shipyards strike involving several barges and workers in Bewark. A meeting of labor leaders and a War Board official from New York is noted, with an unclear appointment affecting wartime production and port activity.
A War Department review notes German political offensives aimed at undermining Allied morale as Russian contingents threaten to divert German forces. It cites French and British offensives at Passchendaele and the Somme, with rearguard actions along the Western Front and renewed pressure on the eastern front amid political upheaval and fresh rebel outbreaks.
A Methodist Episcopal joint meeting in Philadelphia urged raising 41000 for missions. The conference also outlined plans for five years of visiting and a tour featuring international theatres and meetings with European leaders during the path toward relief efforts.
London reports that England France and Italy appoints a war board to direct the Italian campaign with Cadorna and Italian commanders in field. New heads are Principal in command Ding second in command Badogna and Grandino third. Venice defense looms as Piave river battles intensify. Patrol boat Hall runs aground with no injuries in Washington harbor.
William J. Connors of Buffalo known as Fingy Connor will supervise unloading of American transports and supply ships in France. He will command three regiments of stevedores and longshoremen as they organize. Connors is likely to be appointed brigadier general, a longtime figure in Great Lakes shipping circles.
Girts from the boost branch at the University of Nebraska announce on November 27 a boxing match day ending in a tragedy. A baker near Ban Veriro Col-Noal Beaton died instantly after a boxing incident while Bouton sustained a severe head blow.
In Petrograd a Bolshevik leader declares a plan for a new armistice and a world peace assembled by elected representatives rather than diplomats. Lenin says a just peace is possible but unjust terms will be rejected, as revolutionary committees seize strategic points and soldiers rally near Helsinki and Revel.
London reports overwhelming British success at Gaza with the Ottoman Palestine army in retreat. General Allenby confirms coastal naval forces aiding the land advance. More than forty Turkish guns seized while pursuing fleeing troops and air power supports the retreat along the Mediterranean coast.
In St Louis a large womens aviation volunteers movement forms the Women’s National Aviation Home Guard of North America with about one million members under leader Anna Leimbach. Branches already exist in Aruna Pennsylvania Colorado Kansas Oklahoma and Texas, aiming to prepare women for defense roles nationwide.
A Great Northern passenger train carrying 500 soldiers from American Lake Camp was wrecked near Cedar Lake just outside Minneapolis. Two trainmen were badly injured, several officers hurt, and about a score of soldiers shaken up as the train sped past Cedar Lake on the trip from the national army camp to Mineola.
Jackson Mich The Parwers State bank in Concord ten miles south of Mere was wrecked by burglars early Friday. The bandits fled in cars with about fifteen thousand dollars. Local authorities investigated the bold daytime break-in and sought clues from nearby roads and eyewitnesses.
The Rev Dr Mose ley H. Willams, a noted Congregational preacher and widely known writer of religious subjects, died at his home in Germantown Friday. He was years old.
London reports Kerensky leads about 200000 loyal troops toward Petrograd to restore Russia's leadership amid Bolshevik turmoil. Moscow garrison backs Kerensky. Petrograd troops waver. Tsarskoe-Selo occupied. rumors claim Kerensky escaped deposition via motor ambulance shielding the ailing leader.
Former Hawaiian queen Ranuokalani, long in poor health, died on November 11 after months of ill health. The departed monarch had recently shown strong patriotism toward the United States, contributing to Red Cross and Liberty Loan drives and raising the Stars and Stripes from her Washington Place home urging support for the U S government during wartime.
Juneau Alaska—Collector of Customs J F Pugh reports Alaska’s October exports to the United States topped prior records with a value exceeding 20 million dollars. Canned salmon led the goods, accounting for about 15 million dollars of the total wealth sent to the mainland.
The Greater Berlin butter allowance is reduced for winter to about one ounce per week. Margarine is fixed at fifty grams, but papers note war margarine is mainly water with little nutritive value.
Miss Elsie Calder daughter of Senator and Mrs Calder of New York chairs the Brooklyn comforts committee overseeing 8000 sweaters supplied for Brooklyn and Long Island men in military service. Major General Bell commends the committee’s work in a written note.
President Wilson on November 10 ordered a full reorganization of the draft system affecting nearly ten million registrants. He appeals to lawyers and physicians to join advisory boards and urges citizens to aid local boards in classifying men for military, industrial, or agricultural service. The plan hints at a second draft not before mid January, as a sixty day reorganization period unfolds.
Vienna dispatch notes Fremdoublatt recounts Count Czernin's visit and says the empire aims for a speedy and honorable peace while keeping its program unchanged. The piece frames the policy as still directed toward a prompt settlement.
Admiral von Tirpitz former German minister of marine addressed a new fatherland party meeting in Munich urging annexation as decisive in the war. Kerensky remains commander in chief until the provisional government decides Belgium’s protector.
A Rol Ingram farm raises a unique patriotic corn with red white and blue grains. The crop distributes many colored kernels across the ears showing a vivid display of national colors.
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