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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1917
Page
11
Saturday morning promotions urge shoppers to visit crowded stores for groceries. The ad touts shoe polish, canned soups, oysters, salmon, sugar, pancake mix, buckwheat flour, Log Cabin syrups, coffees, cigars, and wholesale pricing logic. Includes garbled phrases and repeated lines.
Holland faces a growing gold shortage crisis as gold loans and credit paper flood in from belligerent neighbors while real goods and coal access shrink. Sweden refuses gold payments, preferring goods, forcing Holland to sustain a war economy with rising national debt and mounting costs for food and defense.
Five hundred copies of the House Keeper's Apple Book have been received by the city for distribution among community housewives. Published by the International Apple Shippers' Association advertising committee, the book promotes wartime use of apples and contains many tested recipes. It was turned over to the Women's Warcloth Conservation committee.
The Orpheum hosts What Next a mystic and musical comedy with lively costumes exuberant performances and a big cast. It follows Go Long Lallys and parallels the success of Bo Long Letty with a three hour burst of rousale humor and star power.
Southern Pacific bulletin quotes C T Helping urging shippers to cut loading and unloading time to 3 4 hours per car. He argues 60 percent of car time is spent on loading and unloading and proposes cooperation to reduce detention, increase efficiency by 25 percent, and match motor truck efficiency. He stresses loading trains promptly and using cars fully to avert shortages.
Atlantic port dispatch notes German submarines attacked three American vessels. The Pacina, a 1198 ton bark, was torpedoed near Brest and later sunk by bombs after looting. The crew escaped, rescued by a French destroyer. A second ship, the Crockett, was torpedoed near Brest months earlier and towed to Brest. The Henry Lippitt, a four masted schooner of Philadelphia, was previously reported sunk.
Omana Neb Oct 19 Former President Taft spoke to Omaha crowds on a speech titled A Meal Peace, Not a Patched up Promise, under the Nazne Society of Fine Arts. He was hosted by Fort Omaha officials and entertained by the Army Balloon School before the lecture as part of a League to Es forra space event.
Seishman wireless device draws favorable notices in Salt Lake with public and press reactions cited. Pantages theater in Salt Lake City to host later if the act continues to draw crowds, Ogden’s Orpheum manager notes strong interest from Seattle to begin tour.
Southern Pacific reports the fortified telegraph office at Union Depot handles about 2,000 messages daily over a thirteen hour period. The Morkruin Printing Telegraph unit serves Arden to San Francisco and could manage 25 percent more with added capacity. It frees a wire for direct Valley office links to Carlin Wells and other stations.
The Oregon Short Line railway reversed a prior order that allowed perishable freight to move in common box cars to western destinations during mild weather. Due to recent frost, the company now requires perishable goods to be shipped only in refrigerator cars or Well cars with false floors and rides, and with a stots provided.
Washington report cites Dr. John W. Trask urging health education columns in medical and public periodicals to aid personal education and community hygiene. He proposes editors devote well edited departments on sanitation and hygiene to inform the public.
A mixed 19th century classified fragment seeks a 16 year old male for work including road trade and loaders with a 2423 Grant address. Also listing lost clothing and purse items and a plea for female help for travel, plus a Through Train note from Amsterdam to Antwerp dated Oct 19 and Ostend shipping details.
Louisiana’s Welale Carriere, labeled a “bad man,” was executed today for the July murder of Sheriff Everett Swords. He fought isolation and attempted suicide last night, ripping plumbing and slashing his throat with a hidden razor, as guards moved him to the gallows.
In Louisville on October 19, a circulated report claimed that the federal food administration planned to fix bogs at 10 dollars per hundred, lowering market prices. The report prompted a denial from Administrator Hoover, who said the price fixing rumor was unfounded and addressed to all federal food administrators.
Zurich dispatch reports former Greek king Constantine in grave condition after operations at Bauerbruch clinic. Two procedures were performed as doctors fight to heal a reopened wound, with unconfirmed rumors of pneumonia and pleurisy, while officials deny certainty of his fate.
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