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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-05-08

an American soldiers send money
home on payday
r. a. Hungerford, one OF tho Y, NJ.
G A. men at tho front who helps
tho boys In khaki with their arrange
ments for sending money home ana
who In In n good position to- know
how their finances stand. writes
back MS follows
The American soldier Is the
thrIftlest American alive"
II have Liberty bonds. war snv
lngs stamps, military Insurance and
have allotted SO month 10 the
folks back home said an artillery
man who was In the hut last even
! ing. There are thousands OF lucl'
Sans soldiers In France who ear
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-05-08
Pny Your Water Bill.

Your water bill Is now due and
must be paid on or before the 10th
or service will be discontinued or
penalty added. This is your last no.
tice. Receipts returned only when
accompanied by postage.-Adv.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-05-08
OFFICERS AND SIX MEN
INJURED AT FORT SILL
aged Fuse Believed Responsible
for Accident.

LAWTON. Okla, May lone Of
ficer and five enlisted men were
slightly injured at the school OF fire
at Fort Sill, near here, Monday
afternoon when six-inch howitzer
OF Battery p. ninth field artillery,
exploded and was blown TO pieces.
The cause OF the accident is not
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-12-17
Stands to Reason.

"More money! Do you think I'm
made of money!"
"No," replied his wife quietly. "If
you were made Of money you'd be apt
20 shed q little now and then"
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-12-17
Prisoners OF Duty.

The Turkish government is shortly
to effect an exchange Of 1000 British
prisoners. but there will be still many
left over there, and naturally they will
need doctors. Under the Berne agree
ment of December last II is arranged
that n British doctor and five of
the medical personnel of the ranks
should be detained for every 1000
prisoners. No inspection of prison
camps under the Berne agreement has
vet been made, but 1t is very probable
that conditions there may necessitate
rore doctors being detained. There
are some things in warfare which are
harder than actual fighting, and to
stay behind In a prison camp tending
wounded and nostalgia men when
others Joyfully set sail for home or
active service requires all the unset
fish devotion to duty with which doc
tors are credited by the laity.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-12-17
DUBLIN B00TBLAcKS IN 1880
blnatloa Of Lampblack and
Rotten Eggs.

Among the populace Of Dublin In
1880 the shoeblacks were a numerous
and formidable body. The polish they
used was lampblack and eggs, for
which they purchased all that were
rotten In the markets. Their imple-
ments consisted OF a thr~ee-legged stool,
a basket containing a blunt knife,
called a spudd. a painters brush and
an old wig.
A gentleman usually went out In the
morning with dirty boots DR. shoes,
sure TO find a ~shoeblack sitting On his
stool at the corner Of the street. The
gentleman put his foot Ia the lap of
the shOeblack without ceremony, and
the artist scraped 1t with his spudd,
wiped 1t with his wig and then laid on
his composition as thick as black paint
with his painters brush.
The stuff dried with a rich polish, re-
quiring no friction, and little inferior
to the elaborated modern fluids, save
only the intolerable odors exhaled from
eggs In a high state of putridity, and
which filed any house which vas en-
tered before the composition was quite
dry, and sometimes even tainted the
air of fashionable drawing rooms
University Magazine.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-12-17
ICELAND PROUD OF CULTURE
Little Nation, Long Isolated From the
Rest Of the World, Has Maintained
Its Spiritual Life.

There are few nations that can
point to a brighter record of culture
thar this little nation of n hundred
thousand people (Iceland), practically
isolated on their arctic island for
nearly one thousand years. Why did
they not revert to b~arbarism. as has
been the fate OF many white groups
out of touch with outside civilization
There Is but one answer The Prone
thean fame which klndled the genius
OF the old, nov nameless, monks-the
saga authors-has never died In Ice
land. II could not die SO long as the
sagas lived, firing the spiritual life
of the nation.
Each period of national prosperity
since the saga age has seen a revival
OF literary activity. Now Iceland is
more prosperous In a material way
than W. In its history, and behold
there is a pen scratching In every cot
tage; there Is a poet apostrophizlng
every waterfall. dedlcating the sum
mer crop of peoples and daffodils, and
charming, or at least trying to charm,
the innumerable host OF fays and light
elves. trolls and water sprites and
"~landvaettir" which have endowed the
bleak hills and mountains of Iceland
with an immortal soul.-From the Dial.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-12-17
PIaXlnd blackboard.

Do you know what blackboard is7
It's a kind of a game first played in
a primitive and mild sort of fashion
by Rocky mountain goats and since
modernized and made difficult by the
American army. The apparatus on
which one plays blackboard is a mixed
breed c~ontrivance, by dashboard out
of Corduroy Road, TO use the racing
vernacular. 1t is made up of narrow,
slippery strips of rounded wood laid
crosswise about two inches apart. and
is supposed to keep ones feet out OF
the mud. 1t doesl While playing duck
board ones feet are usually | n the air.
1t Is called blackboard, / suppose, be-
cause of some silly belief that a duel
could walk 1t without falling. Even
airplanes flying at a height of less
than 5000 feet have been e e to wig
gle and dip drunkenly while passing
above trench lines fioored with duck
boards. And when Ii Is laid upon the
surface of the earth and there are no
handy trench walls to help out-well,
It's lucky for Charley Chaplin that the
wide world didn't see me operate.
Nothing could ever again be funny to
a man who saw me play blackboard out
there In the comparative open of that
wood William Stevens McNutt, In
Golfers Weekly.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-12-17
CALLED FOR QUICK THINKING
Skipper Of Burning Ship, With Cargo
OF High Explosives, In No POSI-
ton to Hesitate.

The Cephalonla was deeply loaded
with shells, and her chill-roOms we're
filled with T. N. T. for the Italian
army, writes r. E. Cropley In the At
lantic. She was well in the midst
of the convoy proceeding down the
Thames, and had just passed beyond
the submarine net, when a thin pencil
of smoke was seen to rise from the
corner Of No. / hatch. 1t happened
to catch the third officers eye first,
and he called Sammy's attention to it.
In two shakes Sammy had sounded
four blasts on the siren, and a flag
futtered from the yard-arm, which
caused all other ships to give him a
wide berth, al the propeller Of the
Cephalonia churned up the sea In her
frantic effort to back and turn as II
to return to London. A ship on fire
should return to port, but Sammy, with
a cargo OF T. N. T. wasn't the kind of
a skipper to risk blowing cottages and
Riddles into the next world In an eff
fort to save his own skin. No; he
turned the Cephalonia till her stern
was head to the breeze, and slowly
kept her backing seward to restrain
the fire, II possible, from spreading
aft to his chambers of T. N. T.;
backed her away from port and other
ships, so that. II she did blow up, the
military loss would be confined to the
C~ephalonia alone. And all the while
hn ufoo vyArAa~tnx .uhos 1o~.a TT
boat would pop up and send a torpedo
into him, or he would strike a drift
ing mine.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-12-17
Soldiers Appreciation.

Recently a woman well known In
America, who has devoted all her
time to relief work since the war be-
gan, was visiting a hospital. The COM
handing officer had sen a military
car for her. She entered the car just
as an ambulance filed with wounded
passed. by. AS she noticed the thin,
pale faces, tears came into her eyes.
The soIdler-chauffeur asked IL she
was Ill.
mo" she said, 'these are tears OF
gratitude and pride"
Madame" replied the boy, simply.
IF l thought that my being a soldier
was worthy of but n of your tears,
1 should feel that 1 had not lived In
vain."-Red Cross Magazine.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-12-17
KIno Salmon Ran Late.

Big king salmon, which run in mil
lions up the Yukon river every sum.
mer, were about four weeks late in
making their appearance this year,
AS a result white residents and ma
lives along the river who depend on
the u for their winter food talk
ed of salmon famine and the horrors
Of a fishless winter.
Delayed winter ice in the Boring sea
st the mouth of the Yukon, It is be-
lieved here, made 1t impossible for the
fish TO enter the stream. Boring sea
fee, this year. according to reports,
moved later than at any time IN the
last decade. The fish are taken from
The river In nets and wheel traps and
are cured In camps along the shores.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-12-17
Huns to Wear Bark Shoes.

To help out In the present great
scarcity of leather and the consequent
dearth of footgear. a German army
authority recommends the introduction
of linden bark moccasins such as are
worn by the Russian peasantry. Made
from the bark of young twigs. these
shoes are said to stand two years
wear: yet they are light and easy
and can be made TO fit well. The lin
den forests of the prince of Monaco,
e a Laon, France, Germans say
would supply sufficient bark to make
100000 shoes, and the making OF
them would furnish excellent light oc-
cupation for prisoners and slightly
wounded.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-12-17
1000 STARVING ARE
SAVED BY AMERICA
Red Cross and Navy Get Food
Supply to Isolated Island
of Madeira.

America has saved the several thou
sand residents Of the island of Madeira
from threatened starvation. The story
Of how she came to the aid Of the lit
tie colony situated off the coast of AZ
RIGA and cut off from its normal food
supply through the ragaves of Ger
man submarines, unable to obtain
any help from Portugal, It's mother
country, is n of the most interest
Ing of the smaller tales of the war.
Residents Of the island of Madeira,
which prior to the war was an object
I've Of many tourists, depend almost
entirely on the outside world for their
food supplies, consisting principally
of corn, rice and Goldfish. The number
of food ships reaching the island has
grown steadily less In the last year,
with the result that the people have
had to practice the most rigid econ
omy to keep alive. They had money
to purchase what they wanted, but
other countries could not spare the
ships to carry 1t to them. The sinking
OF a food ship bound from Africa to
the island about six weeks ago brought
the affairs of the colony to q crisis.
They were facing starvation.
Word Of their plight was sent to the
Red Cross headquarters in Washing
ton. Red Cross officials took the mat
ter up with the state department and
notified the latter hat the Red Cross
was prepared to advance $4,000 for
supplies If they could be obtained In
Portugal and that country could trans
port them to the island.
Portugal said 1t had neither ships
nor corr to spare.
About this time the navy department
through Admiral Niblack arranged
with the governor general of Morocco
to let the ~hard-pressed islanders have
500 tons of corn with the understand
ing that the amount taken would be
replaced by the American Red Cross
through shipments from this country
to France.
The United States shipping board
provided the space for ~transporta-
ton of the corn and a Red Cross rep
resentatlve Is accompanying the cargo
to assist in its distribution. In the
meanwhile arrangements have been
made with the navy department for
the shipment of 1900 tons from here
by the Red Cross on a navy transport.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-12-17
Fewer Works OF Art Imported.

According to a compilation by IRE
National City bank. the value Of art
works imported in 1918 is about SILL
100000, as against $23,000,000 In 1917
and $35.000.000 In 1914.
In automobiles the value In 1918
was about $4,000, against nearly ST.
100000 in 1913 and more than $1,000
600 In 1912, while the average value
per machine imported In 1913 was less
than one-half that before the a
Decorated chinaware imported in 1918
was about $3,500,0O0 In value. against
$S.OOO.000 In 1914. Almost the same ra-
tho was shown In decreases of precious
stones and jewel inspirations
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-12-17
D0DGlNG THE GAME LAWS
Man Finds New Way to Provide
Venison.

Kehow tribe of Red Men of Norfolk,
Conn.,, were perplexed to know how
they were going to get some venison
for their annual game dinner. A
few days before one of the members
of the tribe while driving an automo-
bile to Canaan struck and fatally
wounded a buck deer weighing 400
pounds. The animal was blinded by
the headlight of the machine, s. the
driver says. The car was not serious
ly damaged, and as the deer was acci-
dentally killed the use of the venison
for the game dinner did not interfere
with the state game laws.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-12-17
Marrying His Best Act.

San Francisco.-Marrying rich wild
W has been e. L. Settles only means
of earning a livelihood, according to
Mrs. Julia Settles, his fourth wife.
who has secured an interlocutory de-
cree here. She testified that Settles
lived with her until her money was
gone and then admitted that he had
married three other women. living OF
their money.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-12-17
HELP BRAVE BELGIANS
DRIVE OUT ENEMY
American Red Cross Aids With
Supplies and Comforts in the
Equipment of Valiant
Army.
TT is particularly interesting to Amer
leans to know the tremendou,

N a 10 RAA lANNAEHAllE W III
leans to know the tremendous
work which the American Red
Cross has done toward relieving dis.
'tress In Belgium. Among the many
things done for King Albert's gallant
little army by the Red Cross the fol.
lowing are a few:
1t established a dining room and
reading and writing room at the ware
houses Ia lie Havre.
II gave a plate and a bowl to 5000
munition workers In - to use at
their meals.
1t fitted up recreation rooms for
workers at munition plants.
1t installed a cooperative restaurant
for the military personnel Of the Mari
time Agency at lie Havre.
II Installed shower baths and a bar
Der shop for the army garrisons In
lie Havre.
In army training centers the Red
Cross gave household comforts, phono-
graphs. games, etc.
II established a dormitory for 200
men at the Home for Permlssionalres
at Calais.
1t established q canteen and library
at Calais
II established another canteen for
the personnel OF sanitary trains.
II gave material and games for a
canteen for the personnel Of the naval
base at -
II gave the same for q canteen for
the personnel OF Belgian seaplane
units
1t equipped a mess for the personnel
OF the unit at Calais.
II gave tents. canteens, reading
rooms and shower baths for the per-
sonnet Of the Bourbough bakery.
II organized dining rooms for
~searchlight companies and artillery
batteries having fixed environments,
and installed shower baths In them.
1t distributed 10000 enameled plates
and cups for soldiers IN the trenches.
II rave prizes for organized athletic
tournaments.
II Sent presents 20 each man deco
rated for bravery. These presents are
Usually razors. pipes. fountain pens
and such. Up TO now this work has
only applied to- the infantry.
The Red Cross provided the appa-
ratus and films Dor cinema shows.
Eight thousand soldiers see them
every day.
1t supplied books for all soldiers.
II Installed a recreation and writing
room at the large canteer Al la Panne.
II presented TO every infantry and
cavalry regimental surgeon a medical
travelling case. holding a set OF medi-
cal instruments for Geld service.
This work required an appropria-
ton OF approximately 100000 francs.
Straight from the front Is this COM
ment Of a Belgian colonel. II was
made recently while he was sitting In
his dugout talking of the work Of
n canteen for which the American
Red Cross had just provided quarters
on very short notice.
zone live demonstration like this Is
better than a year Of talk"
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-12-17
Winnemucca Is Years Ago Today
From The Daily Silver State

Q The nan who advertses is not only helping himself, but every N Q
. who buys from him. See the lev ads of the Eagle Drug Company, .
. E. Renhart Company, Brown & Piper, A. Kleinhans, f. C. Robins Co, Q
{: the Lafayette Hotel, the Busch Hotel, City Bakery, The Gem, The Q
{. Louvre, Reception Restaurant, Humboldt Soda and Bo1ing Works, the Q
. Palace Saloon, N. dofmans Store, Fashion Livery Stable, and the .
. Winnemucca Livery, Feed and Sale Stable Q
9 An exchange is quoted rs saying that a certain Nevada lady said she .
Q must hurry home and sew o N a Democratic badge for her husband. .
. When pressed TO explain, she said: "A Democratic badge is a patch IN {:
. the seat of his trousers, needed for sitting around looking for work" .
9 Q
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-12-17

WINNEMUCCA COMMANDERY No.
4, Knights Templar - Stated
conclaves of Winnemucca Comman-
derry No. 4 will be held at their hall
at 8 p. m. on the second and fourth
Tuesdays of each month. All Sir
Knights r cordially invited to at
tend w. A. BROWN. r. G..
T. NJ. PATTEvr, Recorder,
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-12-17
d

WINNEMUCCA LODGE No.
10, +. b A. M.-Stated COM w
munications will be held at w
their hall in the Silver State
block until further notice at 1880 p.
m. on the Fir, Friday evening If
zach month. Al Master Masons in
good standing are cordially invited
to attend. T. M. PATTEN, W. NJ.
CHRIS WOLF, Sec'y.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-12-17

American Red Cross has erected a
barracks at Dillon. France, TO serve as
n day nursery for the children of the
French women who work In the United
States Army camou1age factory.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-09-17
WINTER SPORTS MAY BE STAGED
 CN THE TANANA

With the departure of the young men of Nenana who have been call ed to the colors. it is felt that the dances that used to be very attract i've to a great many of the people of Nenana, will no longer draw the crowds it did in the days gone by, and in order to relieve the monotony and dullness during the coming win ter and to take the place of dancing 1t is suggested that tobaggan slide and skating rink be built as soon after freezeup as possible.
 This suggestion is made for what it is worth and there may be others who will be able to suggest some form of amusement to relieve the dullness of the long Arctic winter. Any such suggestion will be wei comed.
 The hill across the river offers several good sites for the building at practically no cost, of a toboggan slide, and of course, skating rink can be fixed up anywhere on the river.
 It is felt that the necessary lights can be arranged for with the A. E. C., and it is to be hoped that Nenanaites will take hold and work up the suggestion, which will provide the townspeople with plenty of healthy exercise and distyactiol un- til springtime comes agan.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-09-17
WAR ICE CREAM

Ice cream, made without milk, cream of sugar to comply with gov ernment regulations, has been all the rage this summer at the soda fountains of London, says a cores pendent of the Associated Press. The recipe was conceived by an American, Charles H. Boeglin, of New York City, soon after the Brit ish government prohibited early this year the use of milk products or sugar in the manufacture of ice cream.
 Here's the way the mock ice cream is made: For a gallon of the ice, two pounds of glucose or four pounds of honey. If honey is used it should be boiled down in quart of water, and before being poured into the freezer should be allowed to cool for three or four minutes. Then add the white of one egg and any flavor desired, and freeze. Fresh fruit adds considerably to the flavor of the ice which really tastes like ice cream.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-09-17
OLD KLONDIkE CAMP
 ... IS STEADY PRODUCER

DAWSON.-The Yukon is turn ing from gold to silver mining
 While the value of the former, or Its purchasing power, has decreased. that of silver has been doubled There is great activity in two sil- yer bearing areas tributary to Daw- son, the Mayo district on the upper Stewart river and along the Twelve Mile creek. These fields are 15O miles apart. Silver was discovered Tn these areas years ago, but no work was ever done.
 The Canadian government has dis. patched a party of geologists to in- Vestigate the prospects of developing the silver mining industry in this section.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-09-17
BRITISH WOMEN ARE
 MAKING TANK PARTS

LONDON.-British women have proved their ability in the making of "tank" parts, and in one factory the whole process of tank manu- facture is now carried out by women says Miss Anderson, inspector of factories.
 Shipyard work is considered by inspectors as ''hard but healthy", while others see the same benefit to women in the heavy work of steel and iron works, blast fur naces, brick works and spelter works. A foreman in charge of blast fur mace said he would be willing to undertake any ferro-concrete work with women only.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-09-17
ALLIED NATIONS MUST BE POLICE
 AFTER THE WAR

LONDON.-"The United States, Great Britain and France will be the foundation of any League of Nations and they must accept this burden at once", declared Sir Fran cis Trippel to an Associated Press correspondent Sir Francis recently issued an appeal for the immediate formation in England of Council for the Advocacy of a League of Nations"
 "The first thing to be done. is to divest the scheme of illusions" he said. "A League of Nations is not an absolute substitute for war. It is not an absolute guarantee of peace. It does not mean, for the present, total disarmament It can not be forgive and forget panacea.
 "A League of Nations must have the power to enforce its decrees. That is the crux of the whole ques- tion. If it has not, it will go the way of all the rest.
 Its chief function will be to remove the causes of war. It must make it easy for nations to cooper ate and hard to stand alone. If a nation knows that League has no power to enforce its decrees, it has scant respect or scruple for it.
 "Does anyone in his senses believe that such league is even remotely possible with dominant Germany? She is the pariah nation of an anger ed world. If the fight ends in a draw, she remains dominant. If it ended tomorrow, she would snap her fingers at the ideals of the uni verse. Germany, as she is, is a menace to the worlds peace.
 "No propaganda is more import ant at the present time than the propaganda of the League of Ma tions. And it's existence depends upon Germany's defeat at her own particular game-the game of war.
 "A council for the advocacy of a League of Nations will be necessary In every country as far as possible. If imperialistic tendencies and dyn- astic desires for conflict are to be checked. We can begin at any rate with the United States, France and Great Britain. These three Western democracies are bound to form an influential portion of any League of Nations in the near future
 "A preliminary council for Great Britain should be formed from pub- lie men of all opinions.