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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1918
Page
7
Government actions curb tin shortcuts and require full filling of cans amid war. Agencies ban odorless poisons like bichloride of mercury in packing houses and mandate hot water sanitation. The effort aims to boost safety for soldiers and civilians as the nation increases meat and milk production with 1.25 million cattle in 275 facilities.
As a result of this year's campaign, 100,000 more square miles will be freed from the tick and an almost incalculable quantity of meat and milk added to national production. The campaign requires cooperation from every cattle owner in infested territory, with only a few men still resisting tick eradication methods.
A World War I era message urges Americans to eat less beef and avoid canned beef to support U S troops overseas. It emphasizes the sacrifice of armed forces in France and Flanders and calls on civilians to reduce meat consumption as a patriotic duty.
The British admiralty recounts the Ostend raid by the Vindictive and the Brilliants with Sirius, Brilliant, and destroyers. Despite smoke screens and air bombardment, the Vindictive breached the harbor entrance but sank after heavy shelling. Commander Godsal perished alongside others. Crutchley and Alleyne survived, the mission ending with partial harbor disruption and a narrowed passage for larger ships.
Washington reports a wartime effect on crime noting a shortage of counterfeiters as the ten-dollar notes vanish from circulation. Secret service operatives tie the decline to mobilization and draft activity while remaining vigilant for new talent and continuing currency scrutiny.
In Atkinson a one horsepower tractor paired with a road machine replaces six to eight horses. Two workers replace four, doubling ground coverage. One driver can smooth state roads with the tractor and road drag in half a day, compared with a day and a half for horses. The tractor hauls gravel faster, with a $24 work value at an $8 cost, saving 25 to 50 percent in time per project, per Popular Science Monthly.
King argues for a national highway network branching from big cities to rural areas. He outlines trunk lines with durable surfaces for heavy traffic, with secondary roads in macadam or gravel and native soil wagon ways. He warns against road dragging and narrow formations, urging practical, economical construction.
Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture the article argues improved roads will strengthen the country school system. Centralized rural schools serving children within four to five miles improve buildings staffing and facilities at lower costs, boosting education nationwide.
A plan to test road upgrades using a carpet of straw hay or wire grass sprinkled with tar on the Baraboo Kilbourn road. Thirty four hundred sections staked with varying treatments. Ohio road posts to bear enameled signs to mark cross and main roads. county commissioners to supply signs. Day when airplanes boost auto travel may see many communities still debating hard surface roads.
Western Canada reports unprecedented seeding conditions with April weather ideal for field work. Farmers, inspired by patriotic duty and expected higher returns, sowed crops across the plains by early May. J D McGregor of the Federal Food Board says crops have gone in better than ever with good moisture and optimistic forecasts for a record harvest.
A woman with a long troubled throat grows impatient with slow progress and tells her doctor she speaks carefully. The physician replies he can’t cure unless she stops talking and gives her throat complete rest. The patient objects claiming she avoids harsh language or anything that would strain her throat.
An advertisement touts Freezone as a painless corn remover. It claims instant relief and easy lifting of hard and soft corns as well as callouses. The copy urges keeping a small bottle at hand for convenient use and notes it costs only a few cents. It presents Freezone as a sensational Cincinnati discovery.
A friend recalls an army camp tale about the first colored troops and a blunt query on where their remains should be sent. The piece notes locust eggs treated with acid and lime used as fertilizers in the Mediterranean. It adds that nearly all women are victims of the vase-cleaning microbe.
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