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Pueblo and Arkansas Valley towns were active in alertness for America's access into Europe's Great War, according to The Pueblo Chieftain the anniversary of April 9, 1917.
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In the Valley, a Colorado National Guard additional abettor alleged Joseph Mock was acclimation companies to alternation for accessible war participation. Mock said he capital to accession two regiments in both Pueblo and La Junta and added units in Canon City, Fowler, Manzanola and Rocky Ford.
Workers at CF&I pitched in and bought a 19-by-36-foot American banderole that they flew from a 90-foot pole on the grounds.
Marine recruiting actuality was bottomward to one being a day, off the antecedent anniversary aback the cardboard said the Jar Heads were affairs in six men a day to go over there.
But the Army was accepted actuality especially, The Chieftain said, aback a cardinal in Washington said a bout of assignment would end aback the war did. Sixteen recruits were beatific to Fort Logan on Friday, a almanac day for Pueblo. Two "negro" recruits were listed, as the racist Woodrow Wilson administering aback saw a acumen for blacks to assignment for the federal government.
On Friday, an bearding Pueblo man was alone by the Navy because of his weight. He was 16 pounds beneath the minimum for enlistment. But he was undaunted, and on a alternation to Denver to try afresh to get in, he ate six eggs, two bowls of grape nuts, two glasses of milk, six biscuits, 17 confined of Swiss chocolate, 16 bananas and drank several quarts of water. He didn't accomplish weight and said he had Saturday and Sunday to backpack in the chow and would try afresh to enlist.
Three hundred and fifty Puebloans were demography Red Cross first-aid classes in case of bounded or all-embracing problems.
A affectionate affair in Canon Burghal drew bags of Fremont County residents, the cardboard appear on Thursday.
Maybe D.W. Jones, 1437 E. Evans, anticipation he was out, but they pulled him aback in. The Puebloan was home for aloof two months afterwards an application in the Navy had ended, but he was ordered to address for assignment by the sea-going service.
Because of the charge for atom grains and amoroso beets with the war approaching, farmers were giving aloof baby acreage to cantaloupes for 1917. "You'll charge a fat wallet to allow the adorable melons," the adventure said.
A federal adjustment put into abode that anniversary by Pueblo Post Appointment admiral denied the commitment of belletrist and bales to Germany.
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Fred Frick, of "German parentage," was a blacksmith for 30 years at his 1618 E. Fourth St. shop. Frick had abiding for Germany to win the war and vowed not to barber until the Fatherland accepted victorious. But aback America abutting the conflict, Frick bought a ample American banderole and flew it from his shop. A few canicule later, however, Frick, 65, angry a cord to his toe and the added end to a activate on his shotgun and dead himself. Friends said he anticipation his acreage was activity to be confiscated by the federal government.
There was added account that anniversary as well.
The anniversary previous, the Armour Packing Co. had promised its military-enlisted workers would be paid the aberration amid their account pay and their bulb pay for the continuance of their application and would accept their jobs aback they returned. In addition aware move, Armour gave its workers a benefit because "of the skyrocketing amount of living."
At CF&I, workers in the company's mines were accepting a 10 percent pay accession alpha May 1, which would about-face out to be a absolute workers' day.
The Pueblo Oil Exchange was accomplishing so able-bodied it opened a annex in Bessemer, 406 W. Northern. The appointment was affairs and trading banal for the new oil bang actuality (which had not yet calm a atom of oil). Stocks for Wyatt Oil, Wildhorse Valley Oil and Big Eight Oil were activity strong.
As were abounding advertisements in The Chieftain for oil banal purchases. On some days, there were 10 quarter- to half-page ads gluttonous investors.
In Ordway, the boondocks board had afresh ordered cine theaters to abutting on Sundays. Added businesses there didn't booty attentive to the act, and groceries, cafes, biologic stores, newsstands and confectioneries bankrupt their doors on the Sabbath as a appearance of adherence with the theaters.
The Pueblo Architecture Trades Board complained to the Burghal Commission that bastille bedfellow activity at the new Burghal Hall armpit was costing its members. "Aliens who accept appear into this burghal and accept been arrested as vagrants are demography the aliment and adulate from the mouths of our own citizens," the board said in a statement. The adventure did not say how the commissioners reacted.
But the commissioners voted bottomward the abstraction of a South Ancillary stormwater avenue system. Association on that ancillary of boondocks had reacted angrily and in concert adjoin the idea.
The Lions Club, CF&I and the burghal were architecture a esplanade alleged Lions Green beyond from the Pueblo Union Depot. The park, 140-by-100 feet, was amid on the bend of Victoria Avenue and B Street, the armpit of the above Southern Hotel.
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The Rev. J. Gordon McPherson, the "Black Billy Sunday," was in boondocks to deliver at Bethlehem Baptist Church for a few canicule of revival. The ablaze McPherson had them angelic rolling in the aisles, the cardboard said (but not in absolutely those words).
In abomination news, the cardboard said that "Mexican" Seddia Carranza accepted to cutting his acquaintance Emios Garcia to afterlife at a "Mexican basin hall" on Union Avenue. Carranza had aloof active his adolescent babe at Rosemount Cemetery and was distraught. He additionally attempt addition friend, who survived. A anchorman showed affinity for Carranza's wife, autograph about her abstruse affliction in accident her little babe and bedmate aural a few days.
Charlie Blanda, 17, "an Italian boy," was arrested on Northern Avenue for accustomed a buried weapon. Blanda had been accursed at CF&I beforehand in the day for angry with "a black lad." Blanda would after become one of Colorado's added acclaimed criminals.
In sports news, the Taub Brothers baseball aggregation took the opener of the CF&I League, 4-3 over the Rail Mill. A "large crowd" watched bullpen Herb Stover "twirl a acceptable game," in his Taubs' debut.
In added news
April 9 -- Vimy Ridge in France stormed by Canadian troops.
April 9 -- The amount of amoroso rises 75 cents per 100 pounds.
April 10 -- Ammunition branch access in Eddystone, Pa., kills 133 workers.
Headlines
Much accord allocution in German press
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To accession 50 percent of war amount by taxation
Young chickens charge to be fed 5 times a day
Fear of federal ascendancy causes bazaar slump
Ask actual conception of federal aliment commission
House assures $7 billion war measure
Enemies of U.S. doubtable of huge ammunition bulb explosion
Socialists cast war as crime
Food prices in Denver up 50 to 300 percent in 3 years
Birthdays
April 14 -- Marvin Miller, American activity leader. Died 2012.
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April 15 -- Hans Conried, American actor. Died 1982.
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