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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1919
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR text from a local newspaper item mentions standard press entitlement and service terms. It lacks clear names places or events but preserves a scope of a news brief context within a community publication.
A Huntsville citizen warns editors that the region is extremely dry and a single carelessness with fire could ignite a massive blaze. He urges stockgrowers, campers, and hunters to avoid matches and be vigilant to protect property and lives from wildfires.
A natural parasite, a small black fly at Pleasant View, attacks alfalfa weevil larvae, potentially wiping out the pest in a few years. Spraying with arsenate of lead also helps in large fields, offering relief to alfalfa growers after heavy losses from the Mediterranean-origin insect.
An early report notes committees are actively pursuing water storage, with urgency likened to wartime effort. Farmers and all concerned acknowledge the need to act promptly, favoring daily conferences to reach a decision and form a concrete plan, delaying measures could jeopardize success.
The Jews of the United States are pushing for reforms to aid workers through universal health insurance, compensation for industrial accidents, and a national employment system. They demand an eight hour day, minimum wage, abolition of child labor, and safety housing provisions, aiming to achieve industrial democracy and social justice integral to Judaism.
A relief committee reports thousands of Polish children in Nazi territories and major cities who are blind or nearly so from starvation and malnutrition. In Vilna an American Jewish relief aid effort describes eyes twitching and patients unable to open lids. recovery hinges on proper nourishment, but convalescence is slow amid wartime deprivation.
States report progress against disease but urge continued aid to children. News notes hundreds of child beggars in Warsaw and Vilna as armies clash, highlighting wartime brutality toward women and children and the lingering horrors of the great conflict.
The report from New York enumerates Utah servicemen arriving from overseas, including Field remount squadron 332 members like Weivale Clauburn Endrickson and Sergeant Willam Baker, with numerous ranks and hometowns such as Salt Lake City Payson and Ogden. Casualties and further names appear alongside addresses, family ties, and units, reflecting a broad roll of honor and duty.
In Mazaire France on June 19 French brides of American soldiers are sheltered at a YWCA house while awaiting transport to America. The facility opened May 1 and offers medical checks baths and clothing changes and a dormitory. They learn English sew and exercise before joining husbands for afternoon activities. The program aims to ease civilian life for new wives amid troop movement and potential crowding at hostels.
British leader J. J. Cope announces plan for an Antarctic expedition aboard the Terra Nova. Aircraft makers offer planes for the trip, with Prof R. C. Morrison and A. H. Larkman among key scientific and engineering figures named for the voyage. The shore party will include Lt Mealy of the Dublin Fusiliers and others from Shackleton era teams.
London dispatch reports JP Morgan of New York donated a collection of stained glass to the Victoria and Albert Museum. The five windows span early and late medieval periods with panels illustrating Temptation in the Wilderness, Miracle of the Feeding of the Five Thousand, and a scene from St Nickolas. The German and Sings origins provide material for studying late medieval and early renaissance art development.
In Rome on June 17 an American child prodigy, Willy Fors rere, age 12, leads 100-pie ce orchestras in selections of Wagner, Beethoven, Verdi, and other masters. Born in Maine, he has attracted European attention since age four, his father telling The Associated Press the name he has chosen.
A Twin Falls county threshing price scale was set by a committee of fifteen threshermen farmers and laborers following a farm bureau meeting. Rates include wheat six cents barley four cents oats five cents per bushel with additional one to four cent adjustments for straw burning machines. $7 per hour when threshing by the hour. farmers supply coal and board for workers. Westminster abbey sees a full octave of bells for the first time in history with two new bells named Faith and Roth donated by sisters.
A mail airplane carrying 500 pounds of letters from New York to Cleveland was forced down by a fierce storm near Albany county. The aviator Lieutenant J. D. McAlden was mined. Mail was sent to Kempton by train afterward. The second item notes Charles E Ellis College for the Nation of Fatherless Girls in Philadelphia, endowed with 5 million dollars to educate girls, with capacity for over 200.
A disastrous range fire has burned for ten days in Millard County in southern Utah. Local reports say firefighting crews are being organized to combat the flames near the Fillmore forest. the blaze’s size and exact location are being assessed.
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