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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1918
Page
6
A Kemmerer notice urges continuous support for the Liberty Loan drive under the 100 Per Cent American Club. It urges every thrifted cent toward bonds, citing a printer who built wealth through frugality and hard work, and stresses regular savings and encouragement of purchasing Liberty Bonds.
A public notice outlines a federal act requiring licenses for manufacturing selling buying or using explosives or ingredients. It names Lincoln county inspectors Harold Fairivan Kemmerer Carl Cook Afton George R Blain Jackson and asks for confidential reports on licensees loyalty to ensure enforcement and public safety.
State school lands yielded nearly half a million dollars to Wyoming and over one dollar per pupil. The apportionment by county lists Sheridan with 4,740 pupils receiving the most and Laramie with 4,324 pupils, totaling the state fund allocations by county.
Uncle Sam, largest rubber user, enters aviation field boosting tire needs. Goodrich has produced airplane tires for over a decade, with Curtis and Wright experiments shaping early adoption. Automobile firms race to repurpose plants, foreseeing growing demand as air travel scales up.
President WilKon Das mobilizes workers for the Third Liberty Loan with Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts leading the drive. Previous campaigns secured substantial bond subscriptions, with educational value and patriotic citizenship benefits noted.
The Wyoming food administrator Pheasor Miers orders removal of sugar bowls from hotels and restaurants, warning enforcement by local police. Sugar consumption is limited to three pounds per month for every ninety meals served, with penalties including ejection after April 11 for bowls on tables.
Columbus Gibson aged 46 collapsed entering the Combination restaurant and died within minutes with pleurisy listed as the cause. He had been ill about a week under private care but was able to be out. Coroner Fitzpatrick took charge. body taken to morgue. Funeral held Friday with burial in local cemetery. Native of Maryland, survived by brothers and sister in Sheridan and Kemmerer.
A wartime prompt compares a Liberty Bond with a $100 bill, arguing bonds bear interest while currency sits taxable. It notes bonds escape state and local taxes, are insured, and face inheritance and surplus tax considerations. It ends urging readers to choose the Liberty Bond for long term value.
Nebraska and Wyoming committees display typewritten slides urging support for the Third Liberty Loan. Slogans warn that money funds the war and that German indemnities are never returned, urging citizens to buy bonds to help defend their sons in the trenches.
Chamberlain's Tab late are excellent, 'try them and ase how quickly they give you a relish for your food and banish that dull and stupid faling. Amy.
A 1918 wartime appeal urges readers to buy Liberty Bonds to aid Allied forces in France and Belgium. It portrays the German threat, praises Uncle Sam, and stresses patriotic duty, personal sacrifice, and the economic means to help democracy and family futures through bond purchases.
A Wyoming editorial urges farmers and stockmen to back oil industry growth. It notes a twenty million dollar rise in assessed property value, reducing the tax burden on other property as oil fields expand. The piece calls for minimal regulation to sustain lower taxes and greater state wealth.
Anson Migpy secretary of the Wyoming state fair at Douglas reports to William Irvine director of War Savings Certificates that the Wyoming state fair commission has decided premiums for the 1918 total fair be paid in Thrift Stamps. The commissioners met on the fair grounds and unanimously instructed the secretary to notify William Irvine and publish the plan in the premium book.
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