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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1917
Page
3
Railway derailment near Lovelock Nevada derailed eight freight cars and halted passenger trains for several hours. No injuries reported and damage minimal as officials investigate cause.
A jumble of names and notices from Elko to Idaho includes Christmas club offers, home delivery pitches, and social events. It mentions a promissory note, bank recovery actions, and a local merchant selling Mexican dishes for takeout. Market chatter notes growing distribution of goods.
Tre W Ht C will meet at the Lb O F hall Saturday at 2 o clock to practice for inspection. Mr and Mrs Jack Tackett of Or den will leave today to make their home in Salt Lake City. He joins a Salt Lake newspaper adver tising staff after earlier work with the Examiner. They are well known among Ogden’s Younger people and depart with regret. P Meet Tonight Women’s Conservation commit tee will meet at the city ball. All members and interested persons urged to attend. Addresses will be given by Mayor Heywood and Demonstrator Mites Edna Ladwig.
October closings mark the year for the Empire Copper mines at Mackay Idaho in 1917 with leasing continuing amid 150000 dollars of improvements. About fifty leases remained active and many miners profited. notable leases included Muka viox Co, Peterson Co, Vantagen Magon, Muffett Co, and Jerkovich Tukayina. A new compressor plant and shaft project from Bossak to Davie tunnel aims to cut costs and boost operations.
In a tense session of the chamber of deputies Maurice ang urged that sequestration of German vessels in Uragil be considered. The goal was to ensure tonnage for Allied food transport, amid a backdrop of wartime diplomacy and past actions seizing German ships. The Brazil government announced plans to seize German merchant vessels to aid allies.
Classified note offers one of the crotess bungalows on Grant avenue Will Inade for a larger home or for apartments or amallee home Must be a Road location Contact numbers 26930 and 2444 Grant avenue plus an assortment of misc items including a Kemnomy engine and other hardware with prices and a female help wanted line and reward offer contained among garbled text
The University Club of Ogden will formally open at the club house next week or the following week once rugs arrive. About eighty members and their wives are invited. date to be announced. The new home at Twenty Watzth Street and Washington Avenue has six rooms and will feature joint speaker events with the Bonneville Club of Salt Lake, four meetings monthly.
The city under J F Scott directs 10 000 letters prepared for walling to the farm, ore and stock raisers of district four. The circular covers raising data, addressing envelopes, stamping return stamps, and assembling forms for return replies. Volunteers work overtime to help, a major effort for the service to increase meal production during wartime.
A cablegram from E. A. Ted Littlefield reports he has arrived in France to serve as a truck driver with the French army. The message says Nowhere In France, Sate. Mappy. Ted.
Honolulu reports the fate of the German commerce raider Seeadler. Captured by a British cruiser after disguising as a lumber carrier, the vessel later sailed as a motor schooner under Lt. von Luckner. After sinking thirteen ships in the Atlantic and imprisoning 300 aboard a French bark, the Seeadler was finally pursued, captured, and its crew dispersed, with depredations previously announced by the Navy on October 4.
Adolph Germer before United States district court declared he aided antiwar pamphlets printed by a group linked to the national Socialist party. He denied involvement in any antiwar conspiracy and stated the pamphlets bore no direct connection to his organization. The government argued the pamphlets contained a loyalist message and that Germer did not personally mail or disseminate them.
Washington Oct 12 government reduction for seamen's insurance about twenty five percent now applies to vessels trading between American ports and European and African ports on the Mediterranean. A further one third cut in war risk premiums follows recent actions. The new rate is fifty cents per hundred dollars, replacing seventy cents, and becomes effective immediately for ships sailing to Azores Canary Islands and ports of Morocco.
The Great Aqueduct Festival marks the completion of the new water system linking the Catehill mountains to New York City. Officials plan a nationwide program with notable guests including former mayor George McClellan and Mayor Mitchel. The event features illumination, a pageant, and a celebration of eight years of labor and hundreds of millions spent on the project.
A Central Park event promotes understanding of a new water system. The Catakill aqueduct will feed four lakes along a long route from mountains to the city, digging under valleys and through rock to reach Manhattan at great depth. The project aims to deliver vast water daily. In Logan, Oregon, a Commercial Club meeting discusses seeking a common price rate on sugar and related commodities for Cache county.
Committees for the California Grains corporation propose conference with railroads and state commerce commission to cut rates. Wheat from Australia will be milled in California and transshipped from Gulf ports to Europe, reducing shipping space and costs for galveston and new Orleans routes.
In San Francisco on October 12 the Southern Pacific Railroad announced a new rate scheme to ship Australian wheat to California for reexport to Europe as flour. The plan lowers freight to sixty cents per hundred pounds in carload lots and takes effect November 19, applying only to wheat and flour shipments bound for Europe.
Mexico City assigns export duties on cowhides at 25 percent ad valorem, osulce ples and horse skins at 6 centavos or 2.20 pounds, alligator and crocodile skins at 10 centavos per kilo, deer and goat hides at 20 percent ad valorem, and guaygle rubber from the rubber plant at 4 percent ad valorem. a clerical note refers to the “Classified Ads.”
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