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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1918
Page
23
The water situation is grave. The mayor and city council passed an ordinance levying fines from 19 to 19 cents? on persons wasting water through leaks or defective fixtures and improper flush devices. Anyone using city water to wash cars or sprinkler lawns faces fines from 1 to 100 dollars.
Special to The Washington Post from Petersburg Virginia reports 500 to 600 colored soldiers redeployed from Camp Dix New Jersey are mustered out today. Most are Virginia natives. Officers training school unenlisted men receive honorable discharges while remaining enlisted await graduation and reserve commission exams set for February 15. Camp Lee houses 50 000 troops including 10 000 from the Eighth division with many from Western states and about 4 000 from California.
Secretary of the Interior Frank H. Lane spoke in Wilmington about settling soldiers on unoccupied lands in the South and elsewhere. He toured New Hanover and Pender counties, praising the soil and climate. He planned to visit Bolton in Columbus County and Charleston next, as part of a tour of southern land developments. The day included agricultural colonies and inspections of farm projects.
Fragmentary OCR text references aircraft, gas, battery loot, and various misread terms. No coherent events, dates, or identifiable entities emerge to form a factual card.
Grain and live stock prices shown for Baltimore and nearby regions with references to Creamery Western prints and various firsts and extras. Includes prices for poultry, ducks, turkeys, hogs, cattle, and corn soybeans with regional quotes and odd figures.
Frederichsburg December 4 Mrs Bettie Desmond died at her son Pins in Grane county in the ninetieth year. Howard Rasmond Wachtel of Spotsylvania auntie preparing to enrich his Richmond family died of influenza at Memorial Hospital. Attorney for Col Dye sentenced to pay 1000 dollar fine and six months in prison for paying preference to coal firms while manager at Coal and Coke Railroad. Appeal to United States Court of Appeals in Richmond suspended until December 10. Hagerstown influenza spreads as Boonesboro High School closes and county superintendent Raymond Staley falls ill.
Mrs Martha Riggs Moulden widow of Eli Moulden died yesterday at her Rockville home after several years illness. A lifelong resident of the county she was 78 and survived by five daughters and a son. Daughters May Burroughs Julia Moulden and Mrs Lille Wilkinson and Mrs Bertie Dann with Percy N Moulden of Washington. Memorial services were held for Chaplain Her T Howard who died in France on November 6 while serving in the United States Army.
A letter from a nursing student in Salemburg NU was read by clerk Clifford Robertson detailing her son’s death in France from bronchitis while serving in the army. Addresses by Pastor Rowland Wayne and pastors from New John R Henderson and others framed the service.
A dated health ad urges meat avoidance to protect kidneys from uric acid. It touts Jad Salts as a grape and lemon juice lithia medicine that cleanses kidneys and prevents urinary and bladder issues, claiming quick relief with daily morning doses.
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