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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1917
Page
3
Fragmentary obituary notes a funeral for Claude Schweitzer in Onden City with Virginia and California mentions. Details are unclear as the text is damaged and muddled.
The Verdun bombardment is staged as a fireworks spectacle at Gleywood Park presented by Filat Fireworks. Manager Louie W. Watter says the exhibit blends pyrotechnics stagecraft and military detail to recreate key Verdun moments with dramatic accuracy despite controversial depictions of German troops.
Unusually cold night prompts questions on frost in the county. Orchardists and farmers prepare smudge pots and protective measures while forecasts suggest a sharp frost may hit after next rain. Winds blow many from trees near Ogden but no damage reported. Funeral held for Mrs Lucy Crane at Farr West meeting house with burial in Ogden city cemetery.
National Red Cross official Mia B. Whipper arrived in the city with her daughter after two weeks of lectures in Cheyenne Wyoming. Traveling by auto from Washington she aims to aid western workers in food and medicine relief for Europe’s war victims. She praises western response and plans to stay briefly in Ogden before continuing assignments as directed, inviting local women to confer at the Creston Hotel.
William McFarland of Weet Weber will delay training at American Lake to allow Ivor Jorgenson, Huntsville, to join the expedition on September 22. Jorgenson, with no relatives, requested permission to accompany the next mission, after missing initial examination due to travel.
One of the era’s best and most thrilling pictures, On Trial, is set to play four days starting next Wednesday at the tripbeuna theatre. The production drew packed crowds across the county, hailed as a major hit of the season, with its management tied to Warren Street Navy League under local auspices.
A large audience witnessed Paramount productions at the Alhambra including Left la Transit and Lonesome Luke’s Wild Women with strong laughs and fear in each scene. Cleo Ferguson stars in Mar bary Sheep, while Down to Earth with Douglas Fairbanke is teased. A private three day review of EH: Ughten Thy Daughter, a seven reel Selznick feature, is planned for next Wednesday with city officials, bishops, and church ministers attending.
A Chinese woman described as treaty-linked was detained by federal agents after a raid on an opium den at a harbor area. She was sent to county jail where authorities warned that denial of smoking could worsen her condition, and the case hinges on potential incapacitation penalties.
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