Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-06
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bility If the war lasts much longer,
says a large Chicago shoe dealer.
Rev. Dr. James r. Day, Chancellor
of Syracuse university, says, Hell is
too good for the Stacker.
The deepest oil well in the world
at ~Beallsville, Pa, that cost over half
a million dollars, has been abandoned
as a failure.
A servant employed in a Paterson.
N. j., home. killed the child Of her
employer because Of a grievance
against the family.
President Vail of the Bell Telephone
system states hat nearly ten billion
telephone calls are made a year over
the Bell system.
The senate has approved Senator
Lodges bill to permit Americans to
retain decorations received from for.
etgn governments.
A nurse in a Poughkeepsie. N. T.,
hospital accidentally used carbolic
acid instead Of sweet oil to battle q
baby, and the child died.
A 81 per cent. drop in building OPP
erations since August is reported in
New York City. due to strikes and in
ability to obtain steel.
clares that no peace meetings to
handicap the government shall be
held in Wisconsin While he is COVER
nor. #yssF
AS a result Of increases of wages
steel rollers in the mills at Youngs-
town, Ohio. r now earning as much
as $500 a month or at a rate of &c.,
900 a year
Bishop Henderson Of Detroit has is
sued an order that every Methodist
church in his diocese shall display the
Stars and Stripes for the duration Of
the war.
A Swedish Baptist church in New
York City recently rendered the s
Of their church to a Jewish congre-
CATION which was unable to raise
funds to buf1d q synag0gue.
In the interest Of economy, the De-
partment of Agriculture has issued a
bulletin advising the use of oil for
dressing shoes instead of backing, as
the oil tends to preserve the leather.
The bean production this ear in
America is estimated at nearly 90
O00, 900 bushels. as compared with less
than 100000 last year and 10000
600. in 1915, and is valued at $780,
600, 900.
Mrs. Hattie T. Harl, q school-teach-
er Of Council Bluffs. Iowa, has pre-
pared a pledge for school children. in
which they promise not to find fault
with any food set before them during
the war.
1t is figured that the ashes from
tobacco smoked in this country an
nually would yield over $4,000, 900
pounds Of potash, and 10000, 600
pounds Of phosphorus. valued as fer
~tilizers at 50,000,000.
Church members Of st. Paul con-
gregations have been invited to their
ministers to bring their Red Cross
knitting to church with them, justi-
fcation for such an act being found
in Matthew 1912.
The I. w. w. lumber workers Of
Montana, Idaho and eastern Washing
ton are demanding food served in
porcelain dishes, spring beds n mat
t~resses. free hospital service, n q
minimum wage of IS a day.
A Harvard professor Of chemistry
10 making experiment with lachrymo-
genie gas for use in the trenches. 1t
causes copious weeping that renders
accurate Workmanship impossible on
the part of the enemy.
The police Of Chattanooga are
warning the druggists OF that town
against selling to the soldiers from
the training amp artificial stimu-
lants as substitutes for liquor, In
GLIDING spirits OF ammonia, bay rum
and paregoric.
In reply to women asking How
Can I Help" Major General Wood
says: ''If you love your husbands
and brothers. 2 to It that they arc
given q sporting chance: that they are
we'll trained, well. led, and wen pre-
pared in time OF peace.