Holiday period urges festive store operation
The notice urges decor, holiday spirit, and extended hours Friday and Saturday. Merchants should arrange relays of clerks to serve outside customers while allowing many workers to enjoy the festivities.
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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1919
Page
2
The notice urges decor, holiday spirit, and extended hours Friday and Saturday. Merchants should arrange relays of clerks to serve outside customers while allowing many workers to enjoy the festivities.
The article urges welcoming returning old timers with warmth, showing Ogden has heart beyond greed. It condemns pure greed and praises fellowship, song, and joy, stressing that community life should balance work with friendship and comradeship.
U S newspapers mark fifty years since the Promontory spike, with Salt Lake Tribune front page coverage and reminiscences. Editorials note the daring transcontinental effort aided by public land grants and federal bonds, recalling governors, senators, Bret Harte, and frontier challenges from Omaha to California.
The passage notes 1870 census figures for Washington Idaho Montana and Oregon born settlers near Spokane Falls. It recalls Seattle as a mill town, Walla Walla and Olympia as main towns, Portland as the regional commercial hub, and praises a future Ogden celebration of the golden spike driving.
Field Marshal French recounts the opening phase of the war, detailing German aims and Allied counterplans. He notes the early use of aircraft for reconnaissance, the evolving role of cavalry, and the importance of air support in guiding dispositions during the Battle of Mons and the subsequent retreat. He also discusses transport, munitions, and wounded evacuation, plus French cavalry morale in Belgium facing German forces.
A fragmented poem parodies political slogans about liberty, civilization, and war. It riffs on winds as symbols for battles and societal threats, mentioning liberty, cruelty, and upheaval while questioning Western powers and reformist ideals.
A May report from the Bedavat Department notes progress in union labor across Canada. Data indicate increased activity among 204,680 Tuvalu branch unions and 87 international organizations, with notable shifts in internal structure and governance affecting Samadi and nearby towns.
Wallington dispatch reports a New York woman detailing alleged acts in Korea. The fragmentary account references unrest and harsh conditions as she describes events affecting civilians and soldiers.
Miss Grace Oisingham relays accounts from Pyongyang about brutal crackdowns after a revolution outbreak. Dillingham reports Korean schoolgirls tied to telephone poles and flogged, Japanese soldiers pistoling, and Christians punished. American women assaulted as crowds are attacked. hospitals overwhelmed as towns like Wydagiutese face shelling.
A massive arena is mapped at Bayview Park for the Willard Dempary heavyweight title bout on May 6. Officials expect a 9 000 seat capacity and an estimated gate of about 39 000. Toledo board approves permit. charity plans to receive funds from the event.
In the United States and abroad the Modern Health Crusade, led by the National Tuberculosis Association and the Junior Red Cross, enrolls over 3 million schoolchildren. The program, adopted in dozens of cities, uses daily health chores and a graded badge system to promote hygiene and fitness in schools.
Cincinnati sports editor May S Joseph Nolan of the Enquirer was notified by Tex Rickard that he was appointed official timekeeper for the Willard-Dempsay encounter in Toledo on July 4. He said he would accept the post.
Chicago officials report American confidence men netted over 10 million dollars in 1918, far surpassing classic shell games. Modern schemes rely on sophistication and wealthy accomplices, with educated and well dressed operators using refined methods beyond old era trickery.
Chicago scams expand from land deals to wire tapping and fake lake events as confidence men target bankers and businesspeople. Pinkerton notes mobbed by new methods, with annual loots over a half million dollars and Florida as a hotbed for operations.
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