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Newspaper
The Gallup Herald
Location
Gallup, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1918
Page
7
Doctors warn sore throats can lead to serious illness and suggest half hour gargling with warm salt water. Antiseptic gargles and a mix of listerine water and peroxide are advised, plus hot glycerin applications under warm flannel for tickling relief.
Thousands of women suffer kidney and bladder trouble without realizing it. Symptoms include back pain headaches and nervousness indicating possible kidney disease. Dr Swamp Root claimed to help many conditions and urged readers to test the preparation with a sample offer. Also recounted is Lieut B Smiths McLean an Australian who survived six days in a cellar after being wounded during a patrol with iron rations for sustenance and eventual rescue by British troops.
Advertises Othine-double strength for freckle removal with money back guarantee. Then reports Waikato Beekeepers Association meeting noting 4,801 apiaries and 50,528 colonies in New Zealand. One beekeeper reportedly sold 80 tons of honey at up to 730 dollars per ton, signaling a prosperous industry.
Fragmentary page notes GARTORIA infant remedy and Fletcher's Castoria. A fisherman or bystander recalls an ovation of three hundred young men. Mentions Red Cross bag, blue, style, and scenes of bargaining at grocers and clothes, with stray dialogue about electricity.
Washington observers note a rising death rate in both Senate and House with seven senators and numerous representatives dying within a year. The piece argues overwork and constant busyness as a probable cause rather than dissipation or vice, citing a letter from Arthur W. Overmyer of Ohio reflecting on time management and relentless duties.
A Literary Digest essay flags alleged German female behavior and warns of harsher penalties for acts of liaison with officers. The Frankenfurter Zeitung reports women near POW camps communicated with imprisoned officers, but authorities stopped such attempts. The piece highlights broad social guilt and calls for severe legal penalties and public exposure for any lack of self respect. Cuticura ads and a note on Iceland’s potato plan follow.
The United States flag draped on American soldiers lost with the Tuscania was made by five Scots at Islay House. The relic, sent by Frank M. American of the Associated Press, was requested for President Wilson to place in a museum of his choosing. Morrison, who led Tuscania relief, helped fund two cemeteries where the fallen lie.
Government room registration shows hundreds more rooms listed than six weeks ago yet officials fear May 1 room shortage. Otto M Bidlit leads building program as Washington plans housing for potentially 100000 workers this year. Dormitories Maltby building remodels and office spaces expand to house over 5000 additional war workers beyond existing placements.
An elderly colored messenger in the post office department, long serving, was reduced from 900 to 720 dollars. After a congressman inquiry and a visit by Postmaster General Burleson, the department reinstated him to the 900 dollar salary. Also notes on Japanese student pressures and a Lincoln hymn anecdote.
A British shipboard sailor was attacked by sharks in tropical waters as a sea man’s leg was bitten off. Fellow machinist Wallage Odell Prater leaped into blood stained water and saved the wounded man, earning a gold life saving award from the secretary of the treasury in Stafford Kansas.
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