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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1917
Page
3
The Journal publishes a roll of honor with names of Sho shone boys serving in nearly every military branch. Readers are asked to point out any errors or omissions and a free copy will be mailed to each member whose correct address is provided.
Miss Sarah Purdum leads a fifty bed tent hospital in France as a Red Cross nurse. A list of twelve men who answered the draft shows locals from Shoshone and surrounding areas honored for defending the flag. They hosted a grand ball and a banquet for the exemption board and local press.
A 27 year veteran reporter recalls a Washington visit to the Food Administration where Herbert Hoover spoke to fish producers and distributors. He described Hoover’s calm, precise delivery and urged increased U S fish production by 50 percent, detailing food shortages, allied needs, and a national call to eat less wheat and meat and more fish and cereals to win the war.
London telegraph correspondent recalls Miss Evie Greene's belief in a ghost seen during a pantomime. While visiting a fisherman’s cottage in Sunderland, a transparent sailor lad appeared on the stairs and vanished after the attic visit. Later a ship carrying her imagined boy was reported lost with all hands.
Despite high prices, Urals platinum output fell in 1916 to 88,508 ounces from earlier years. Figures show 118,700 ounces in 1915, 158,084 in 1913 and 156,755 in 1914, with 214,042 ounces produced in 1910.
Mount Vernon exemp tiom board mayor cites a brutal German raid comparing it to a Western justice tale about a Chinaman killed by a drunken rancher. He recalls a judge saying no law against killing a Chinaman but warns against repeating the act, lamely criticizing ignorance of some justices.
A school teacher asked pupils for violet compositions and found one saying the flower has a gun. The boy explained he meant pistil but could not spell it, revealing a humorous misunderstanding from the class.
Bethlehem steel works cast a monster ingot weighing about 310000 pounds to supply the 16 inch guns for new United States Navy battle cruisers under construction at Camden. The ingot, 13 feet 7 inches long and 100 inches in diameter, will be machined into a tube 80 feet long after forging and boring. The project aims to produce four rifles per ship with engines of 200000 horsepower, forming a fleet of typically sixty ships with guns that surpass earlier designs.
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