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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1917
Page
4
A public health warning urges care to prevent typhoid fever during travel and camping. It warns that seemingly clean waters and streams can be polluted by sewage and faulty drainage, urging water filtration or boiling, carrying pure water, and avoiding drinking untreated water to protect soldiers and communities. It emphasizes vigilance as a civic duty.
A Washington dispatch notes the administration tightens national mobilization to speed U boat chasers rifles shoes uniforms medical supplies aircraft and other essentials in preparation for U S entry alongside the allies.
The department of fisheries plans a campaign to educate the public on whale meat as a cheap, palatable food. Whale steak and other preparations have sold in Seattle and Portland at about 10 cents a pound, with strong demand noted by whaling interests on both coasts.
A verse depicts the old flag unfurling with a thrill then fading to still, capturing a brief solemn moment of reverence and memory.
A humorous remark suggests the government order steel trench hats for several Democratic legislators known for their noisy debates. The line plays on wartime headgear and political theater without naming individuals or dates.
Oscar Hale of Curtis Publishing speaks at the Sons of Delaware annual ladies night in Philadelphia naming twenty terms for girl such as chicken ladybird queen pal beaut cutey peach baby doll fairy angel honeybunch gazelle daisy squab pippin wren dame jane and skirt.
The Oil City Derrick notes that if all U S towns matched Warren in proportional Red Cross giving, the total would approach 700 million dollars. The editorial lauds the enterprising river communities for their contribution.
A man described as an impudent fraud wooed money from others by spinning a sad tale of his widow wife with six hungry children. The Baltimore American quotes conversations exposing the ruse and ensuing disbelief.
Dr Beck from the University of Maryland offers a quick method to estimate ideal weight. Start with 110, subtract 5 feet from height, multiply remaining inches by 5 percent, add the product to 110 to get the ideal weight.
Henry P. Davison, Red Cross war committee chair, urges establishing homes and recreation hubs for foreign troops in Paris and French surroundings. He stresses American soldiers should return healthy and not weakened by illness, with the Red Cross as a true foster parent abroad.
Judge James E. Fulton city attorney of Oneida Scott county died from a wound inflicted by J E Bell editor of the Oneida News last week. The shooting followed editorial criticism and alleged threats by Fulton to settle the dispute with pistols. Bell reportedly confronted the judge in a lawyer's office and fired.
London July 5 post office authorities curb thefts of silks satins and other women s finery by reassigning handling of articles from female to male workers in the postal service thefts ceased after the change
A vivid wartime poem by W. P. Lawson portrays a war bird of crimson tearing across a torn earth. God’s advocate rises as an eagle from the west to strike with furious, glorified force while the world bleeds and nations mourn.
Sir Horace Plunkett urges William O Brien to reconsider joining the Irish convention. He believes the convention’s findings would go to a referendum if the scheme fails to win public favor.
A German court martial sentenced Mlle Grand Prez and her brother of Saint Vlot, Liege province, Belgium, to death for espionage. They were to be shot within 24 hours after the Liege trial, conducted in secret, per an Amsterdam dispatch via Exchange Telegraph.
A New Jersey City court awarded a woman damages of 37.50 for each kiss after she testified the landlord kissed her twice. The case hinges on a landlord-tenant dispute and the disputed conduct.
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