War Effort Sways Headlines Across States and Military Progress
The piece notes Nebraska leads in third liberty loan coverage and editorials, plus Nebraska cartoons and display ads. It then details Secretary Baker’s praise for wartime gains, with Congress records on army growth from 1917 to 1918, deployment to France, death rates, and vast industrial mobilization including rails aircraft rifles and artillery production. It highlights railway engineers, planes, engines, machine guns, and ordnance expansion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aint
Federal Reserve District
Colorado
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Kansas
Ne- Newspapers
Braska
Liberty Loan
Men of
France
War Department
Baker
House Committee On Military Affairs
Congress
America
Regular Army
National Guard
Reserve Corps
National Army
United States
C. M
Batte
Suite Dale
Local residents spend week visiting friends and family
Hemingford Frank Spellman returns from Omaha and Fullerton. Many locals travel to Alliance Crawford Marsland and Chadron for visits and business. A Red Cross fundraising play nets about 100 dollars, with community effort praised.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Spellman
Omaha
Fullerton
Neb
President of Peru Normal Resigns After Eight and a Half Years
D W Hayes resigns as president of the Peru state normal after eight and a half years to take a higher paying post with a New York colonization bureau based in Omaha. He cites a long tenure and a flattering business offer with greater financial return, and expresses thanks to the faculty and board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. W. Hayes
Peru State Normal
State Normal Board
New York Colonization Bureau
Omaha
Ihereby
Nebraska State Normal
Peru
State Normals
Nebraska
West
Learn English Initiative From Uncle Sam Poster
A city message titled Uncles Sam Requires You to Speak English invites foreigners and non English speakers to learn the language. It notes a City Mission operated by the Council of Defense and signed by Robert Graham as Chairman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam
Council of Defense
Robert Graham
Court of Defense
Notice to Creditors in Watkins Estate Nebraska
Notice to creditors in the estate of Richard H. Watkins in Box Butte County Nebraska. Claims must be presented by October 5, 1918 and debt payment by April 12, 1919. The county judge Ira E. Tash will sit October 8 1918 at 2 p.m. to examine and allow claims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard H. Watkins
Box Butte
Nebraska
State of
Said
Ira E. Tash
Army and Industry Efforts Expand War Logistics and Supplies
The ordnance department demonstrated a five ton armored artillery tractor capable of traversing shelled ground while hauling a 4.7 inch howitzer. U.S. plans allocate about 90 million dollars to nitrate plants to secure explosive materials and later fertilizer. American engineers develop French port facilities to handle up to 750000 tons monthly, with foresters and sawmills creating docks to move troops from ships.
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Ordnance Department
Chile
France
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the Alliance Herald
LLOTD
Thomas
John W. Thomas
the Herald Publishing Company, Owners (Incorporated
Alliance
Bvery
THE
Newton D. Baker
Washington, D. C
Committee On Military Affairs
Kahn
California
S. H. Dent, Jr
Hemingford
Arthur Dow
Dr. Curtice
Rev. Burliegh
This
Crawford
Etta Mitchell
Clark Olds
Long Pine
Frank Olds
Daisy Cahn
Scottsbluff
Ben
D- J
T. Butler
Ray Snow
A. M. Miller
D. W. Butler
Frank Wagelachneider
Mrs. Palmer
Council Bluffs, In
Mrs
Fred Neeland
Glen Pierce
Chadron
Mrs. Wiltse
Wm. Cory
Mr. Cory
John Walker
Jireh
Wyoming
Ira Phillips
Marsland
Alex Muirhead
Mr. Enyeart
F. W. Melick
Mr. Melick
Mrs. Melick
Bennet
Nebr
Francesa Freil
Etta Michanel
Mrs. Gee
Jenkins
Mr. Jenkins
Seattle
Colonel
Mrs. Fosker
B. A. Shepherd
McClung
Elmer Vaubhan
Cheyenne
Wi'l Pruden
Kenneth
Bandolph
J. Wildy
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Missouri
Opera House
Red Cross
Vance
Mrs. Franzen
Mitchell, Neb
G. F. Hedgecock
Peru Normal
State Board of Education
Lincoln
Roy C. Strong
Alliance Home Guards
Box Butte County
James Whitcomb Riley
Loose Leaf Farm and Ranch Records
Income Tax Report
Herald Publishing Company
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