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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1917
Page
15
A local Red Cross appeal urges 10 million members by Christmas Eve. The piece urges readers to join, pay the initiation dollar, and support wounded soldiers, contrasting donors with those who refuse to join. It emphasizes sacrifice and urges those who have not yet given to find a representative and contribute.
President Wilson in a war message to Congress extols democracy as essential for lasting peace. He warns against autocratic rule and calls for a partnership of democratic nations to honor covenants and prevent brutal ambition from overturning free peoples.
A fragment notes that several publications and individuals from Wyoming and distant locations are mentioned in a Camere dee hin week roundup. Names include The Rock Springs Advertiser The Greeniver Star The Juck Spring Miner and others in the state.
A lyrical meditation on the passion and resurrection of Jesus Christ set in Judea and Galilee. The poem follows Mary, Magdalene, and the faithful at Calvary and the tomb, culminating in the Resurrection and a joyful reunion with the shepherd.
On Monday evening Mr and Mrs Ed Sutton and children were awakened by a basement fire discovered by their daughter Mariv. The blaze started above the furnace in the basement and was extinguished with minor damage after quick action by Kemmerer fire crews. The cause was a defective flue.
The American Red Cross launches a ten million member drive urging Kent County and Lincoln County to lead in membership. Officials highlight wartime needs, hospital supplies in Paris, and the duty to support wounded and displaced in war zones. The appeal frames joining as Christmas charity and national duty, urging every American to pay a dollar and come across.
Montpelier hosts the annual ball under community auspices with attendees from western Wyoming and eastern regions. The program highlights Idaho's feature act as part of the event, as preparations move forward tonight.
Fragment of a World War I era song praising American forces in France. Mentions soldiers in trenches and sacrifice for liberty and democracy. References Lafayette and Rochambeau as historical parallels, urging courage and national service.
The letter salutes Jota of MEN I know and readers like Muggsy John McGraw, praising rapid fame in New York with Hugh Jennings plans. It recalls Garfield and asks readers to imagine reverence ten thousandfold for the fighting men who died, hopeful for lasting peace.
A British inventor patents a rifle mounted camera that fires just before the gun trigger to capture a snapshot of the target. The device attaches to the rifle under the barrel with a parallel focus, allowing evaluation of aiming accuracy from the developed plate.
The passage notes how jealousy provokes conflict, stating that even when a man neglects his wife, learning another man shows interest can enrage him. It urges self initiative to gather the world’s attention, arguing the world won’t worry or act without effort, and that one’s own actions influence outcomes.
A fragmented note mentions markmen and blue eyes, plus a mix of alloy trivia. It vaguely references fifteen technical colleges in Queensland with eight thousand students. It also notes watercress can be grown under perfect conditions, with a day of planting.
A correspondent notes swift changes in Moscow era culture with smiling faces replaced by wary looks. Street hawkers sell revolutionary papers from improvised stalls, signaling shifting loyalties as readers choose Maximalist Pravda or Rudical Den and Novoe Vremya, amid exiles and government chatter.
A concise roundup notes Teeland lacks saloons, Ohio boasts 195000 war gardens, Britain reports 7000000 house cats, England uses tea tablets, Spain irrigates a quarter of ite farms, Kansas City seeks more factories, US aniline output at 25000 tons, Pennsylvania pensions for all school employees, and Virginia boy scouts strike over low farmer wages.
California operates a seagoing kelp harvesting craft as part of government experiments to extract potash. Blades at the bow cut kelp underwater, belts haul and chop it, then conveyors fill the hold. Daily yield about two hundred tons fresh, twenty tons dried, five tons of potash. rising potash prices boost kelp value. Farmers have long used kelp as fertilizer.
The article notes trees power wartime industry by supplying charcoal for gunpowder and cordite, and by providing wood vinegar for acetic acid. It emphasizes hard weed charcoal, snake less powder substitutes, and supplies for bellicose munitions, plus indirect contributions to making explosives like loidite.
The London Globe laments postwar fiction still reusing prewar puppets. It says writers, tired subalterns, and spies can continue briefly, but soon must abandon old, unrealistic figures. Standards will rise, and even famed melodrama will revolt at dilettante dukes and marquises. New world, new puppets, new reality.
Experiments show a ton of banana stalks yielding 188 pounds of dry matter with 20.7 percent potash, about two thirds the amount found in Pacific kelp. Banana stalk composition indicates total potash content around 1.06 per dry matter and 0.08 per one unit.
Protestant Episcopal services mark the Fourth Sunday of Advent with lessons from 1 Kings and Matthew alongside special music at James Church and Kemmerer. A union Red Cross service unites all churches, with no evening service. Christmas Day offerings include special music and a Kew meter service.
Hospital notes list C. L. McDonald of Diamondville admitted December 17 for several days. Mrs. Mary Oran of Diamondville operated on last Friday and recovering well. Mrs. H. R. Harrison gave birth to a daughter last Saturday night. Frank Clark of Glencoe to have a tonsil operation Wednesday. William Dickson of Diamondville referred to an eye specialist in Salt Lake City this week. A. J. Wideman convalescing well. M. Graham of Star Valley admitted Tuesday threatened with typhoid. The New Remmerer theatre presents Vera the Medium on Sunday December 23 with a plot of revenge and dramatic battles of the sexes.
Notice is hereby given that the annual stockholders meeting of the First National Bank of Kemmerer will be held in the directors room at Kemmerer Wyoming on Tuesday January 16 1918 at 1000 o'clock A M for the election of the Board of Directors to serve during the ensuing year and for the transaction of such other business as may legally come before the meeting P J Quealy President Morank Ppelpul Treasurer
The notice states W A McKinney vs Western Wyoming Mining and Milling Co in the Thint Judicial District of Lander County Wyoming. It lists levied items including two movie cars four Trails four Champion Hower one anvil sixty pieces of cut steel 100 pounds of uncut steel shovels plows and other hardware. Sale to be held Monday January 10 1917 at 2 oclock in the afternoon at the Holt County Hall in Kemmerer for cash to the highest bidder.
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