Nation weighs revenue options for vast army and navy plans
Parliament faces heavy debate over funding to meet running costs and a new defense program. Wilson and Daniels back a five year naval build up with dozens of ships and hundreds of submarines, while army plans push for training camps aerial units armored vehicles and larger forces. Budget for 1915 16 eyeing about 184 million for army and 248 million for defense this year.
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Navy
Daniels
United States Navy
Wilson
Congress
Allies' Contracts Point to Two More Years of War
The article notes twenty five months of war ahead with U S contracts for munitions and supplies through 1917. Banks back credits for these orders as manufacturers plan capacity. A midwestern machine shop coalition aims to produce shrapnel in bulk with about 50 million dollars in contracts. Barbed wire stocks are running low and now arrive finished with a single gray paint coat.
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United States
Middle West
Drug prices soar as war disrupts foreign drug supply
The American Druggist and Pharmaceutical Record reports severe drug shortages and skyrocketing prices due to the European war. Quinine and other botanicals from Germany Austria Hungary and Turkey have surged. foreign quinine is unavailable and domestic output has shrunk, driving unprecedented price increases.
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American Druggist and Pharmaceutical Record
American Pharmaceutical Association
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Turkey
Monitor torpedo proof ships join British fleet at Dardanelles
Saloniki dispatch reported by the Chicago Daily News says several torpedo proof monitors armed with fourteen inch guns have been placed in commission by the British navy to lead the fleet through the Dardanelles if opened. The raft like craft draw two feet of water and rely on tows to maneuver.
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Chicago Daily News
Saloniki
Dardanelles
Navy Receives First Dirigible Balloon
Secretary Daniels announced the arrival of the United States Navy's first dirigible at the aeronautic station. Lieutenant Commander F R McCrary and Lieutenant L H Maxfield will be assigned to duty with the new airship on its acceptance. A catapult and airplane launching device are also being tested by the aeronautic corps.
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Daniels
United States Navy
F. R. McCrary
L. H. Maxfield
Aeronautic Corps
The Same Old Stall in a Busy Phone Call
A dramatic scene unfolds as a frustrated caller berates a wireless operator and shouts a coded number. The weary operator responds with calm humor noting the atmosphere is busy as she explains the delay.
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Madagascar
New York American
Old Hoss Room and the Two Horses Tale
The Argonaut recalls Alvin Adams pioneering express business with an office in New York City and two horses one fast and one worn. Urgent packages rode the swift steed while slower items waited in the old hoss room for undelivered loads.
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Hoss
Alvin Adams
New York City
Express
Oll Hoss
1915 Greatest Suffrage Year Prompts National Meeting
President Wilson says he will vote for the suffrage amendment, boosting New Jersey voters on October 19 and elevating hopes for nationwide progress. The National American Woman Suffrage Association plans its forty seventh annual convention in Washington December 14 to 19, with strong attendance anticipated from states voting this fall.
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Wilson
National Association
Washington
United States
New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Anna Howard Shaw
Stanley McCormick
Katharine B. Davis
Henry Wade Rogers
New Haven
Susan W. Fitzgerald
Boston
Orton H. Clark
Michigan
Walter McNab Miller
Missouri
Medill McCormick
Chicago
Typhus Toll in Servia Reaches 130000 to 150000
Harvard professor Dr Richard P Strong head of the American Red Cross anti typhus campaign in Servia reports that 130000 to 150000 people have died in the past year. He says the Servian army is now free of typhus and in strong health with local plants producing medical supplies and extensive education on cleanliness and prevention.
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Servia
Richard P. Strong
Harvard
American Red Cross Sanitary Commission
Evening wrap with velvet and metallic embroidery detail
The article describes an attractive chiffon velvet evening wrap with metal embroidery, a large collar and gray raccoon cuffs, trimmed with durable silver lace. It highlights the fashionable use of Wis taria velvet and bat ornaments in ANNA Mtv i i potential display.
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Wistaria
Anna Mtv
Princeton trial of student waiters marks campus democracy
Princeton University introduces about seventy student waiters who will have their full board bills remitted in exchange for serving as head waiters and waiters. The schedule avoids conflicts with classes and keeps students connected with peers while professional staff handle dishwashing and cleanup.
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Princeton University
L. A. Hillyer
Princeton
Eloped in Scottdale as Father Prayed
A Scottdale Pennsylvania girl eloped with the help of her sympathizing mother while her father prayed on his knees with eyes closed.
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Father
Scottdale
The Unexpected One Faces Death With Fearlessness
The piece contrasts a fearless man who faced death without fear with another who trembled at every shadow. In twilight and in sun, one meets death upright, the other collapses in fear, showing varied human responses to the last foe as described by MFO Ruhler in New Varies Simoes.
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Mfo Ruhler
New Varies
Simoes
Oakes
Chamley & CO
Valencia St
San Francisco
Cal
Nurse risks life to prove gangrene cure
Mary Davies, a young English nurse, injected virulent gangrene cultures into her thigh to test a treatment by Dr. Kenneth Taylor at Neuilly. The rapid swelling followed within hours but the disease did not progress, with Taylor calling the act dangerous yet brave and suggesting the medicine may help future soldiers.
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Kenneth Taylor
Taylor
Medical College of the
University of Minnesota
Neuilly
Mary Davies
Miss Davies
Dr. Taylor
Yearround Songbirds Robins and Wrens Lead
The robins and wrens are the sole birds described as singing all year, while other birds show seasonal silence. This observation highlights winter and summer song activity patterns among avian species.
Glad Wilson to Marry Prompting School Off Request
A schoolboy from Easton Pennsylvania writes to President Wilson at the White House asking for time off from school to attend his wedding. The note asks for a response in any spare time and is the first letter he has ever written to a president.
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Easton
White House
President Wilson
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