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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1919
Page
2
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Henry Clews outlines an encouraging business outlook driven by peace revival, postwar gains, and real estate boom potential restrained by wartime factors. Inflation looms as a major influence alongside rising commodities and uneven securities performance, with widespread confidence and cautious optimism in markets and industry.
Henry Ford’s counsel won a point in a libel suit against the Chicago Tribune by forcing editor Blake to concede the paper paid its wartime employee yet did not compensate men who served in the world war. The Tribune clung to a war with Mexico while opposing German aggression, aiming to show German aid, not treason.
A petition to city commissioners blocked the erection of a gaudy billboard fence at Washington avenue and Twenty six street. The decision followed persistent local opposition led by a courageous neighborhood woman. The Standard had planned to attack billboards but waited on official action, praising the commission for its judgment in forbidding the nuisance at the old Lawrence hotel area. Billboards elsewhere have faced similar protests as dangers to home districts and loitering spots, with county efforts also pushing back against sign placements at entrances to towns and canyons.
The Weber county drainage survey may reveal up to 50 000 acres reclaimable around Ogden once floodwaters are stored and drainage installed. California model farms show ten acres sustains a family, implying potential for 5000 more households. Strong leadership and funding are urged to overcome 30 years of inaction.
Ogden seeks inclusion on the continental motor transport route and warns that past neglect and state efforts to divert traffic from Weber canyon threaten its future. The Standard urges persistent sustained action by Ogden and Weber county officials to secure highway funding, avoid discrimination, and pressure Washington to place Ogden on the main line of auto travel.
A summary notes that Germany used government linked cartels to control chemical production, restricting American access to patents and blocking development in the United States. It framed the industry as a state nation’s key to explosives and described global reach through German research, production, and distribution, with $20 billion capitalization cited for cartel strength.
The Red Cross Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men and the Red Cross Institute for the Deaf have issued a poster exhibit on the rehabilitation campaign. Displayed at the Carnegie Library this week, the exhibit uses motionless pictures to explain rehabilitation and will be refreshed daily to cover the full program.
The Weber County Boy Scout movement organized at a meeting in Ogden with George W Goddard as president and GA Goates overseeing. Volunteers, committees, and divisions were formed to avoid overlapping work, with 44 to 50 Scout masters anticipated to handle up to 29 boys each under direct supervision.
The Ogden city monthly police report totals 36 arrests for June with fines and forfeitures amounting to 1442 dollars. Offenses include drunks, possessing liquor, vagrancy, speeding, larceny from the person, burglary, and issuing bad checks. Several cases sent to district court and some bail forfeitures noted.
The report describes a presidential convoy heading toward New Jersey with the George Washington aboard under escort by two destroyers and a battleship followed by additional destroyers and transports. It notes crossings of the Atlantic and references the first landfall near the New Jersey shore.
The George Washington arrives near the New York coast from Brest with 208 officers and 2,282 troops, including Peace Commission guards. Gompers leads a labor delegation from the Americas to welcome the president. The fleet, gaily decorated, passes Sandy Hook as a shore salute is fired.
Our July Sale presents deep price cuts on stock well suited for fall needs. Merchants urge consumer cooperation to stimulate manufacturing and employment during Reconstruction. Early visits are advised as stock may not last, with uniform pricing and courteous service.
Weather officials warned of at least a 48 hour delay in the start of the return flight of the British divisor. The forecast was sent to the ship at Mineola Long Island by the Navy Department. Read The Classified Ads. Read 5 Classified Ads.
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