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Newspaper
The Gallup Herald
Location
Gallup, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1917
Page
3
A Philadelphia woman recounts a four year battle with female trouble, doctors recommending surgery. After seeing an ad featuring a saved patient and using Lydia E Queen Lydia Ham's Vegetable Compound, she reports rapid improvement and full recovery, and grants permission to publish her letter.
Government launches campaign to wipe out rats seen as major threat to lives and property. Conservative estimates put annual food loss from rodents at over 200 million dollars. officials promote extermination methods and urge households to buy a 35 cent box of rat killer.
Uncultivated Western Canadian lands face surtaxes and rising pressure to sell to settlers. With grain profits high and land priced from 15 to 80 dollars per acre, many see a future of rapid farming expansion. Prospective settlers are urged to visit in winter and plan to move by spring to start profitable operations next year.
President Woodrow Wilson proclaims Sunday Oct 28 a day of prayer for success of American arms. Congress urged a nationwide day of supplication and prayer, urging all citizens to observe the date according to their faiths and seek divine blessing for the nation’s cause.
Provost Marshal General Crowder announced a sweeping draft reform approved by President Wilson. The plan divides the 9,000,000 remaining registrants into five classes by eligibility to simplify the draft machinery, with officials at local and district levels shaping its details. Every registrant would know his position and could arrange affairs, and no essential worker will be drafted unless military need becomes desperate.
A soldier returns from the front to discover his girlfriend walking with another man. She explains it was kindness on his part, as he escorted her to the library every day to comfort her with the thought he might have been killed.
The War Department orders discharge from the army of all non Mexicans by birth. The policy targets both men and officers as the country tightens military eligibility.
London dispatch reports large postwar price hikes in England with beef up about 18 pence per pound and sugar rising around 1900 percent in the government Labor Gazette. Butter bacon and milk show strong gains, while overall living costs for working families climb near 80 percent, even after allowances for tax increases. A death from long illness is noted for George H Burton of Los Angeles.
A fragmented advertisement claims a cure for catarrh or mucus-related illness. Mentions Hall & Co. Toledo Ohio and selling location in a vintage catalog style. No coherent details beyond product claim and price reference of 100.00.
An American mining man reports 1 600 Yaqui Indians in mountains near Conchi east of Campas Sonora await a 150 strong border party with a gun fleet to arm them. He reached Douglas late Saturday and noted about 400 Yaquia in the area under Gen P Ellas Callen.
Dr. Harry A Garfield addressed over 2000 coal operators in Pittsburg urging unity behind the government for wartime coal production. He warned the government could seize mines if needed and pressed operators to focus on duty rather than wage disputes while noting no date for wage scale changes.
Chicago reports the first U S fix of fair prices for staple foods. Illinois Food Administrator Harry A Wheeler announces retailer and consumer prices for flour potatoes and sugar. Prices rise with shortages and customers face purchase limits and stricter selling rules.
Paris reports say French forces pierced German lines north of the Aisne to a depth of over two miles. They captured more than 150,000 prisoners and twenty five guns, with several villages falling to French control. Washington notes Germany lost about half of its airship fleet in a October 20 raid over England. Rome reports Italian and Austro German forces clashed in Cadore near Monte Plana. Potrograd notes a Bolshevik–Red Army action at the Bosphorus area.
Mr Was, of Rogersville Tennessee, writes that after a severe grip and bad cough in 1909 he used five bottles of Peruna. He reports his cough ceased, catarrh cured, and weight increased from 115 to 148 pounds. He urges others with catarrh to try Peruna.
A 1918 style homemaking notice urges strict cleanliness to banish mice. Remove all food remnants in kitchens and bedrooms, seal entrances to basements and walls, and choose traps or a cat. It condemns leaving pests as wasteful and unpatriotic, then promotes Red Cross Bag Blue product.
A remark about Army draft screening contrasts physical and mental test outcomes. The speaker notes that being rejected for physical reasons may feel preferable to failing mental evaluations.
A quirky cultural note argues against slogans claiming instant happiness and suggests practical living. It playfully invokes a dog as a counterexample to extravagant marital or romantic ideals. The fragment hints at humor and social critique without clear event details.
An ad promotes Cuticura Soap to cleanse and purify and Cuticura Ointment to soothe and heal skin troubles including itching burningeczmas pimples and dandruff. It claims immediate relief and daily use prevents worse issues with a free sample by mail. It also includes a light joke about melancholy thoughts and moving to an apartment.
The excerpt notes that in Egypt and the Sudan nine out of ten people are Mohammedans, indicating the dominant Islamic faith among men women and children in the region. The passage reflects demographic language from the period.
A witty remark notes that golfers have little time to discuss neighbors, highlighting their single minded focus on the game and a light social dig at their tendency to avoid personal chatter.
Amid gasoline scarcity on battle fronts England introduces coal gas powered motorcycle converters. A gas balloon mounted above the bike makes it resemble a Zeppelin and runs cheaper on coal gas than petrol. The novelty sparks speculation on broader wartime fuel solutions.
An inbound Chicago Northwest railroad derailment near Northfield, forty miles north of here, killed engineer Kameron Wright and injured fireman and two passengers when the pilot struck loose planks at a crossing. The engine, two baggage cars, mail car, smoker, and day coach left the track. Mrs Isiir and Miss Helen A Golden among the injured.
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