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Newspaper
The Evening Press
Location
Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1919
Page
9
In a Saturday Evening Post piece Samuel G Blythe recalls the origin of sub chaser officers. He notes a shoe salesman accountant and actor among the first flotilla officers who rose to command roles. The navy recruited broadly and trained them quickly, turning amateurs into capable sailors.
After a vessel is sunk salvage crews begin work at once. Divers measure the hole size, patches of wood are fitted, and weights up to twenty tons are used to seal large breaches. Vessels are pumped out, cargo removed, and towed to port for permanent repair with some ships later torpedoed again after refloatation.
Herman Whitaker recounts two near miraculous survivals at sea during Mediterranean submarine warfare. A destroyer crewman washed overboard clings to a logline and crawls to safety. another lad is swept to a different ship a half mile away before returning aboard. The captain warns the young man he has exhausted all luck and should quit the Navy while possible.
Revenue officers arrested an Atlanta man with fifteen gallons of whiskey in his car. A letter from a Georgia farmer claimed fine pigs for sale at seven dollars each and a sow with a litter of thirty. Investigation revealed the sow to be a moonshine still and the thirty jugs as moonshine whiskey.
Victoria Nelson of Denmark claimed to be en route to Denmark when picked up in a rowboat by the steam pilot boat New York off Ambrose Channel. She was taken to Staten Island Hospital for observation, later escaped, but has since been returned after wandering Stapleton streets. Doctors consider her of unsound mind.
A New Orleans Picayune aphorism notes that many people who sift others character with a fine tooth comb could uncover more fault by examining their own character with a horse rake. The wry reflection targets vanity and self scrutiny.
The article notes Lloyd George's Paris return to resume work on the peace treaty while labor unrest eases. It says President Wilson faces congressional doubt on the league of nations and that Britain’s role is scrutinized, with hopes for a faster conclusion to the treaty as Clemenceau recovers and Wilson travels back to Paris.
National Crop Improvement Service outlines free pamphlets from the National Lumber Manufacturers Association to aid planning for farm and residential buildings. The service targets farmers, county agents, teachers, and builders, with topics from poultry houses to dairy barns and fire safe wood construction. North Dakota adopts state ownership of key industries, creating a state bank, grain elevators, flour mills, a home builders association, and an industrial commission to manage these ventures under Non-Partisan League leadership. The program, backed by constitutional amendments, aims to expand state intervention in industry amid a sparsely industrial state economy.
Workmen engineers and superintendents who fled north of France as the German army invaded have returned to Paris. They report that practically nothing remains of industrial establishments in the invaded districts, as repatriation proceeds.
Government reports by June 1 show mule prices higher than horse payments for war use. Wheel mules bring 228 dollars, lead mules 189, pack and riding mules 184, horses 161, light artillery 188, heavy artillery 221, and young horses 142.
A fragment from a wartime account notes Bill accusing the speaker of insulting him over claims of enemies killed and captured. The reply states no words were spoken and that only a gas mask was worn during the exchange.
A fragmentary Buffalo Express item hints at gambling in town with garbled names and unclear details. read as a brief odd note in late edition columns suggesting local betting chatter without concrete participants or outcomes.
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