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Newspaper
The Rathdrum Tribune
Location
Rathdrum, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1917
Page
2
The text urges citizens unable to serve in battle to contribute through farm work, essential industries, Red Cross aid, YMCA support, Liberty loan bonds, or knitting for soldiers. It emphasizes these tasks as meaningful, necessary, and truly worthwhile efforts during wartime.
The message acknowledges teachers and pupils taking vacation days, praising instructors for their painstaking and conscientious efforts in training young minds and guiding them toward useful citizenship.
A contemporary remark equates a commendable home guard with a well tended home garden. It presents a playful comparison implying strong domestic care mirrors vigilant protection in a household. The sentiment links vigilance to cultivation in everyday life.
Men in conscription years urged to play safe and work. Idaho residents asked to subscribe to seven million dollars in Liberty Loan bonds. A parallel appeal seeks one hundred million dollars in Red Cross donations with Idaho’s share set at three hundred fifty thousand dollars.
Western front sees heavy fire with artillery duels while action shifts to the Austro Italian border where Italians gain ground capturing 25,000 soldiers and heavy guns in days. Russia begins Galicia offensive as industrial woes darken, Paris notes U S aid offsets Russia’s weakening after revolution. Eighteen British merchant ships sunk by submarines last week.
Gideon Westcott, a shy insurance man in Little River, admires three women. After Estelle Lyon marries, Anne Prosser wed, leaving Anne Barnes as his only hope. A misread marriage license leads Gideon to confess to Anne Barnes, whom he truly loves, and they marry in a storm of fate. Ellen Blair, his housekeeper, ends up joking about marriages as Gideon finds happiness with Anne Barnes.
Ogden Armour defending packing house methods at a luncheon in Chicago says Americans eat more wholesome meat now than before. He recalls a story of a boy who ordered leg of mutton and later asks to countermand the order, citing improvements in meat quality.
Over six years the paper published health pieces on common diseases and eating corrections. Readers are invited to send ten cents for the cause and cure of a personal difficulty or twenty five cents for three magazines with articles of interest. The Hygienist Publishing Co Majestic Bids Denver Colorado.
Excerpt cites Dr. J A Kellogg on milk as a food to chew and sip slowly for proper digestion. It warns against swallowing milk rapidly as a beverage, notes saliva dilutes milk, and argues milk digests best alone or with simple foods. Also mentions county treasurer calling outstanding warrants and wire worms devastating crops near Athol.
A. Murphy, a N. Y. druggist from WilburG writes that Chamberlain's Tablets are the most satisfactory remedy for stomach troubles and constipation he has sold in thirty four years of drug store service. Obtainable everywhere.
There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together. It is a constitutional disease requiring constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, made by Reg. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional remedy. It is taken internally and claims to reach the blood. Sold by druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Rathdrum Idaho village trustees announce enforcement of Nuisances Chapter X and Ordinance No 43. Offenses include obstructing streets and leaving offensive refuse. violators face fines and possible imprisonment. Notice also enforces stock running ban with five days to comply. Dated Rathdrum May 25 1917.
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