The Leedey Times and Herald (Leedey, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 17, 1918 Page: 7 of 8
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THE LEEDEY TIMES
372 LOST ON U S TRANSPORT
OTRANTO COLLIDES WITH
ANOTHER VESSEL
English Destroyer Breves Possible
Disaster To Rescue Men On
8!nklng Ship
Ice Boxes on Wheels
Refrigerator cars for carrying meat are ice
boxes traveling on wheels
Most people in America would have to go
without fresh meat or would have to pay
more for what they could get if it were not
for these traveling ice boxes
Gustavus F Swift the first Swift in the
paicking industry ‘ saw the need of these
traveling ice boxes before others
He asked the railroads to build them The
railroads refused They were equipped and
preferred to haul cattle rather than dressed beef
So Gustavus F Swift had to make the cars
himself The first one was a box car rigged
up to hold ice Now there are 7000 Swift
refrigerator cars Bach one is as fine an ice
box as you have in your home
Day and night fair weather and foul
through heat and cold these 7000 cars go
rolling up and down the country keeping meat
just right on its way to you
Thus another phase of Swift & Company’s
activities has grown to meet a need no one
else could or would supply in way that
matched Swift & Company ideas of being
useful
When you see one of these Swift & Company
cars in a train or on a siding you will be
reminded of what is being done for you as the
fruit of experience and a desire to serve
Swift & Company U S A
Lend the Way
They Fight
Buy Liberty Bonds
r
Golden Spoon Handicap
“I presume thin great artist once
starved In a hall bedroom as moat
tnen of genlua are supposed to do early
In their careers?”
“No Strange to aay his people
were wealthy I think he deserves all
the more credit for his achievements”
“Why so?”
“He won fame without ever missing
9 meal or having bla trunk confiscated
hy a hard-hearted landlady” — Btr-
mlnghnm Age-Ilernld
Japan U buying army horses In Vermont
A Land in Mourning
At dinner parties In France no flow
trr are now seen on the dinner tables
i cu jteople never go arm-in-arm
This custom of “no flowers” always
prevails among families In mourning
atiG as long as French territory Is In
the hands of Invaders a “deuil du
pays” will be observed” — London Express
It's a waste of time to advertise for
lost friendship or lost umbrellas
Nowadays a patriot and his money
are iuon parted
One good way to save wheat is to use
a flour which insures baking perfec-
tion There can be no wasted bread
or biscuits when the housewife uses
-mmjh
The Always
Reliable
— A favorite flour for every house-
hold purpose with discriminating
housewives in more than a dozen
states Ask for it by name there is
none just as good
— At Your Grocer's
Oklahoma City Mill & Elevator Caw
A British Port — A large number of
American troops bare been lost aa the
result of the sinking of the transport
Otranto in the North Channel between
the Scottish and Irish coasts in a col-
lision with the Steamer Kashmir The
Otranto after the collision was dashed
to pieces on the rocks off the south
Scottish coast with s probable loss
of 372 Amerloan soldiers
Three hundred and one men were
taken to Belfast by the British de-
stroyer Mounsey the only vessel which
made an attempt at rescue in the
terrific gale Seventeen men were
picked up alive on the Scottish coast
Of the 699 American soldiers on
board the Otranto 310 were landed
Seventeen were rescued alive at Islay
leaving 372 unaccounted for
The Otranto and the other vessels
of the convoy were battling with the
heavy seas and high winds The storm
was so severe and the vlsability so
bad that the Kashmir a former Pen-
insular & Oriental liner crashed Into
the Otranto suaqrely e midship The
Kashmir backed away badly damaged
but was able to make port
As the bows of the Kashmir were
pulled from the great hole In the
side of the Otranto the water rushed
In put out the fires and the Otranto
drifted helplessly toward the rocky
coast of Islay Island where most of
the Tuscanla victims met their deaths
Thirty minutes after the crash the
damaged by the heavy seas appeared
out of the haze In answer to the dis-
tress calls of the Otranto
The destroyer stood off about a
hundred feet and then gradually came
nearer against the great odds of high
waves and wind which threatened to
mometarlly carry her entirely away
from the Otranto or dash her to
pieces against the side of the wound-
ed vessel
As the destroyer neared the side
of the Otranto the men began to
Jump from thirty to forty feet from
her decks 1
Four times the battered destroyer
came along side and each time the
previous scenes were repeated At
the end of the fourth trop she bad 310
Americans 236 of the crew thirty
Prench sailors and one British officer
on board Tho bow was full and
having done all possible she started
for port
298 DIE IN FOREST FIRE
Twenty-One Minnesota Towns De
troyed By Disastrous Blass
Duluth — Twenty-one towns hav
been destroyed with a known death
list of 298 by the fire which swept
northeastern Minnesota The Injured
In Duluth hospitals total 106 The
towns totally or partially destroyed
are Cloquet Moose Lake Kettle Riv
er Kehler Adolph Munger Five Cor
ners Harney Grand Lake Mapls
Grove Twig Barnum Mathews At
klnson French River Clifton CareV
ton Brookston Brevator Pike Lakt
and Pine HalL Nearly 100 buildlngi
were destroyed In the suburbs of Do
luth
A dispatch received at the Minn
sots state capital from Adjutant Gen-
eral Rhinow at Moose Lake stated
that the general forest fire situation
was well In hand No further spread
of the fires Is feared
A revised count of the bodies at tht
several buildings being used as mor
gues places the total number of deed
brought to Duluth at 106 and there
are 103 Injured Most of the Injured
are confined to hospitals More bodies
are being brought to the city each
hour "
BILLION DAILY IS NEEDED
Five Days of Campaign Left In Which
To Rales Nation's Minimum
We will win this war —
Nothing else really matters until we dot
The Flavor Last i
sss
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Washington — Coincident with the
president's statement urging support
of the fourth Liberty loan the treas-
ury department announced that with
only a few days left In the campaign
half of the six billion dollars total
remains to be subscribed This means
that the country must Invests nearly
ons billion dollars a day In bonds from
now when tbs three-week drive ends
Subscriptions officially reported to
the treasury department now total
only 82798tll960 but officials were
confident that reports yet to bs made
would carry the total above the three
billion dollar mark
The Minneapolis district claims the
distinction of being the first to suh
scribe Its quota 8210000000 with
ovary ststa oversubssrlblng The Kan-
sas City district has subscribed 42 per
cent of Its quota
ALL PUPILS IN LIFE’S SCHOOL
Each Day Gives Opportunity to Learn
a New Lesson Even Though
End Is Near
We did not ask to be bora and have
our names entered In the school of
life but here we are — willing or un-
willing pupils which Is It? Are we
learning life’s lessons cheerfully glad-
ly optimistically or do we chafe and
fume and fret 'and worry? There nre
so many lessons and life Is so short
Every day our wonder Increases at
our Father’s never-falling goodness
at the discovery of new virtues and
powers In some life where they have
long been dormant or In some new
beauty of this wonderful world that
we had long viewed with unseeing
eyes We need hearing ears and see-
ing eyes If we would acquire knowl-
edge In the school of life We need to
open our hearts Godward every morn-
ing and say “Lord make me teachable
today” -
My aged grandfather often said to
me “George I learn something new
every day" Ah! Is not every day a
fresh page of life? Is It not half the
charm of life to know that each dewy
morning Is a door opening Into a won-
derful field where we have not yet
walked where the flowers of knowl-
edge bloom and there are new tasks
aw-altlng us and new lessous to be
learned? — Exchange
Suggestion on Patches
All men who are wearing their pants
on a wln-the-war schedule must be
careful that the attrttive pressure he
distributed so that the two rear patch-
es may become necessary simultane-
ously A new patch with a worn com-
panion patch Is not sightly aud Is not
Indicative of even and symmetrical
war service — Houston Tost
Her View
Sunday School Teacher — What do
you understand by suffering for right-
eousness’ sake?
Little Girl — Please miss It means
nving to come to Sunday school—
New llaven Register
Hep
“On to Berlin" cried the Britisher
"Awgwan” replied the Tank “we’ve
been ontb her fer years"
It’s awfully hard on some men's
es when they look for perfection in
themselves
Vmbss Granulated Eyelids
I Q y £ Eyes inflamed by epo-
fure to Saa Dast and Vlii
quickly relieved by Martas
1LVCS Cystsaedy No Smarting
w just Eye Comfort At
Your Druggist or by mad Me par Bottle
For Bask ol the Cys free writs 1
Martaa Cya Rsosady Chicago
One of the big things the war Is
teaching us Is how to get along on
1SS
Helpless as a Baby
Bent Like an Old Man and
Suffered Terribly— Quickly
Cured by Doan’s
Jno Bleurake Jr 2553 Conrtland
St Chicago 111 says : “I was
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terribly and wbea I
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back hurt I finally
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Just felt sick aU over
and was helpless as a
baby My kidneys act-
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secretions were scanty
and highly colored I
had terrible pains In the back ef my
head and I felt drowsy all the time
I finally used Doan's Kidney rills
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pelvic catarrh wlcaratioo and Inflaw
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Bradshaw, A. C. The Leedey Times and Herald (Leedey, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 17, 1918, newspaper, October 17, 1918; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1934451/m1/7/: accessed June 20, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.