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Newspaper
The Spanish American
Location
Roy, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1917
Page
3
The article lays out minimum road widths for horse drawn and automobile traffic, with shoulders along each side, and discusses widening on curves, embankments, and necessary slopes. It covers grades, pull of horses, and the impact of surface and slope on safety, including ditch and berm requirements and grass cover for earth slopes.
Burt H. Clark, a high-salaried ad man, reports a troupe of fortune tellers and materializers claiming to channel spirits have moved into his home. They pressure him with trumpet seances and debt-collecting tactics after researching his family through directories and public records. Clark plans to complain to Commissioner Couzens to break up what he calls a cult of mind readers and swindlers.
Six year old Marion Gleave from 8812 Highland avenue prayed four days for Buff the dog to live after neighbors reported dog bites. Judge Joseph Kelman allowed Buff to go home tied up. Marion thanked the judge, saying Buff should be alive.
A visiting Ohio woman, Mrs. A. H. Dellinger, becomes confused about hotel rooms in New York. She asks for a key to room 1071 at the McAlpin, finds the register missing, and learns she and her husband stayed at the Waldorf Astoria by mistake after a redirection from the clerk. The incident ends with light humor as staff note such mixups occur.
Hoboken officers chased a capering ape from Ringling Brothers’ show, lassoed it in St Francis churchyard, and escorted it to the pound. William Harper seeks damages from Ringling, but the animal remains in Hoboken custody as the case unfolds.
The article cites official Canadian war casualty figures. Sickness deaths in camp and trench total 1,240, while gunfire deaths reach 20,871 plus 1,619 presumed dead. Overall sickness deaths are under 5.8 percent of all deaths and about 1 percent of casualties, equating to roughly one sickened death per 411 enlisted men across about three years of camp and trench life.
Frank A. Vanderlip of National City Bank argues the government's 2 billion dollar Initial war loan and future issues will be funded mainly by expanding bank credit. He says education is needed on what the large bond issue means and that financing will rely on future savings and credit expansion rather than past savings.
President Richard Cockburn Mac Laurin offers MIT as a mobilized resource to the government after Wilson breaks relations with Germany. He pledges the institute’s entire teaching staff and laboratories, highlighting skilled engineers and prepared research as essential wartime strength. Mac Laurin, born in Edinburgh, educated at Cambridge, formerly New Zealand university dean, has led MIT since 1908.
A Russian revolutionary cabinet justice minister Kerensky warned that unless disciplined liberty is restored, salvation for Russia is impossible. He spoke to troops at the front congress, lamenting lost daring and faith, and argued a virile liberal leadership could unite the nation, army, and allied efforts to push Austria back.
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