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Newspaper
The Evening Caledonian
Location
Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1919
Page
1
American soldiers ordered home after the armistice are bringing home pay saved in England. A Red Cross officer reports thousands of men have at least two months pay, with many holding 100 dollars or more, despite souvenir buying and war prices.
The Dairy Department offers a short course January 27 to February 1 for butter makers unable to leave creamery work long. Intensive hands on training at the university creamery plus lectures by Agricultural College instructors and the Commissioner of Agriculture. Open to experienced butter makers if up to fifteen applications arrive by January 22. Contact Prof H B Milenberger, University of Vermont, Burlington.
Fragment notes reflect a Wilmington Journal line about today being the fatal tomorrow people feared. The brief suggests a reflective, editorial stance on concern and inevitability.
General Mesrop Azgapetain spoke at the Armory Monday night describing Armenian soldiers in the war and urging American aid. The talk highlighted Armenian patriotism, Turk oppression, and the hope of national reunification, with subscriptions totaling about 700 dollars and a 3000 dollar relief goal by week’s end.
Saturday Story Hour proves popular with children of all ages as about 70 attend the illustrated talk on Attracting Winter Birds. Next Saturday January 18 the topic is Little Boys and Girls of Japan. A series on South American wildlife aids sixth graders. New library titles include African Game Trails and Along Four-footed Trails. Winter birds are plentiful with many snow buntings and grosbeaks seen locally.
Department of Industry and Commerce reports cost of living in Mexico has doubled since 1910 with large increases in beans beef rice rent clothes and more Adoption of war era price lists appears alongside a Duisburg Soldiers Council appeal for return of looted hospital supplies and a market price snapshot from Athens and municipal notices Weather in the region shows cloudy and colder conditions.
London reports show the American Y M C A distributed over 10 000 meals to soldiers and sailors, with about 4 000 meals in London. They sent 21 000 cigarettes in 5 000 packages and issued hundreds of theater tickets. The Hospitality Committee provided entertainment for 3 000 men and arranged private-home visits for 1 500 to 2 000 guests.
The influenza epidemic hits charcoal burners in the mountains around Mexico City, driving a 500 percent price rise for charcoal used in cooking. Authorities plan to buy large quantities for distribution. A Mexican paper notes that about 90 percent of indigenous fuel suppliers have died from the epidemic.
In Baltimore 71 of 200 blinded World War I veterans are housed treated or educated at the Red Cross Institute for the Blind designated as Evergreen a US general hospital. Colonel James Bordley cites a training program including Braille typewriting and tactile development after initial medical care as the only government supported school for the blind.
The St Johnsbury Woman's club engages Miss Anna I Kubovec as district nurse with hours 8 am to 5 pm. Emergency calls require a doctor. Patients may pay what they can and the nurse provides care and information. Telephone numbers 173 M and 164 W for Miss Kate Wakefield.
An official letter from General Petain confirms Miss Evelyn Garnaut Smalley, M C A secretary at Foyer du Soldat Bouy France, is awarded the Order of the Corps d Armee for unusual bravery during bombardment. She aided wounded and refugees, praised by Marshal Foch in a November 1918 communique.
Philadelphia reports an enemy spy case unearthed by Frank H. Gaskill of the Protective League. A trip hammer operator at a Delaware river industrial plant sent coded messages predicting a raid on a fishing fleet and a sinking by German submarines offshore New England. The operator, a former telegraphist, was intercepted. The source notes the signal chain and unresolved questions of who supplied the notices.
Six men work at Pillsbury Baldwin and National Flooring plants to prepare for Skinner Lumber Company ey mill. Lumber arrives for partitions. machinery expected soon. Steam power in the upper building, electricity in the lower. Finish ready in about six weeks with 40 to 50 workers planned for lumber dressing and box shooks manufacture.
In Coblenz the American Army of Occupation seizes a premier German officers club on the Moselle near its confluence with the Rhine. The facility, its furnishings, and kitchen are ready for immediate use as the American officers assume control and repurpose the building for allied needs.
A Paris despatch says Wilson may make a speaking tour of the United States upon his return from Europe with plans to visit many principal cities possibly reaching the Pacific coast. Other dispatches report Bolshevik agitation in the U S remaining non disorderly and Berlin figures being executed in a court martial.
London reports Queen Mary appears in a film produced with the British Women's Service under Lady Frances Balfour. In the scene at Agricultural Hall aircraft exhibit she speaks with the heroine and shakes hands before walking off, then returns to finish after a polite explanation from a Lady in Waiting.
The casualty list from Washington dated January 14 reports eight Vermonters among American Expeditionary Forces personnel. Killed in action are Pvt. Arthur M. Merchant Burlington Pvt. Vernon C. Buxton Burling Pvt. Rowell J. Lefrance Rutland Pvt. John J. McCready Hardwick Pvt. Carlo Bianchi Montpelier and Lt. Walton J. Godin Burlington among the dead from disease, accident, or aeroplane incidents. others wounded severely or slightly.
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