Sixty Billion Dollar Fourth Liberty Loan Aims to Beat Kaiser
New York, Sept 14 William G McAdoo secretary of the treasury announces the fourth liberty loan campaign starts Saturday The minimum subscription is six billion dollars with New York district allotted 1 8 billion dollars 30 percent of the total The 4 percent bonds run 20 years maturing Oct 15 1938 or redeemable after Oct 15 1955 He urges big corporations and wealthy individuals to subscribe noting only 22 500 of 18 000 000 Americans who subscribed to the last loan held over 10 000 bonds />
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New York
United States
William G. McAdoo
Italians Advance In Albania Amid Allied Balkan Push
London reports unofficial press dispatches from Paris that Italian troops have begun advancing in Albania. The move is timed with broader Allied activity along a 300 mile front from the Adriatic to the Aegean. Allied forces near the Bulgarian frontier threaten Prilip and Vales as Bulgarian morale sinks while Palestine prisoners rise toward 25,000. St Quentin remains under sustained British French pressure.
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London
Albania
Paris
Macedonia
Adriatic
Agean
Bulgaria
Stroumitza
Bak
Vardar
Serbia
Malnitsa
Lake Doiran
Cerna
Prilip
Prilip-Gradsko
Prilip-Vales
Vales
Gradsko
Istip
Palestine
St. Quentin
Meigs County Tops War Savings Stamp Quota
Meigs County and chairman Edgar Ervin exceed the campaign quota, selling War Savings Stamps to $7 per capita over two weeks. George E. Sidwell of Russellville earns praise as Bray county chairman for surpassing county averages, with Coshocton and Madison counties also reaching large totals. The state list grows as Ohio counties push toward victory with Liberty Bonds.
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Columbus
Ohio
George E. Sidwell
Russellville
Bray County
Sidwell
Luccas
Toledo
Coshocton County
George M. Gray
Meigs County
Edgar Ervin
Madison County
Xerxes Farrar
War Savings Auto
Night school holds meeting next Monday at 7
Superintendent Morgance announced this morning that night school classes are full and cannot accept more candidates unless withdrawals occur. The commercial department has twenty two typewriters requiring limit to that number. The first meeting will be Monday evening at seven in Room 16. Details on textbooks hours and course work will be given. Miss Beatrice Osborne will lead, and the work will be equal to day school classes.
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Morgance
Commercial Department of High School
F.gan
Beatrice Osborne
County Fourth Liberty Loan Quota set at 1,036,800
Athens County Chairman Fred L. Alderman announced the county quota for the Fourth Liberty Loan is 1,036,800, nearly double the previous third loan. The figure reflects intensified fundraising efforts and local mobilization.
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Athens County
Fred L. Alderman
Swedish Runboat Gunhild Sunk by German Mine
The Swedish runboat Gunhild was sunk by a German mine in the Skagerrack. Nineteen crewmen are reported missing. The loss was announced today from Stockholm.
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United Press
Stockholm
Gunhild
Skagerrack
Retail Mer chants Association stores to close on Loyalty Day
All stores of the Retail Merchants Association will close from 10 a.m. to noon on Thursday September 26 in observance of Loyalty Day.
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SUY Liberty Donds
Retail Merchants Association
Clock Will Be Moved Back In Very Few Days
The daylight schedule ends at 1 a m on Oct 1 and clocks will be set back one hour to standard time, matching the March 31 change. Western Union trains to adjust electric clocks by holding hands for 12 hours. time keys will be supplied for renters to open and adjust the faces.
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Western Union
Ohio to tap all ages for farm labor in 1930s
Ohio farmers face a labor shortfall as the upcoming year may exhaust available experienced help. Thomas D. Phillips of the U S Employment Service says boys, old men, and women must supply emergency aid, the system already sending over 6000 workers this year. Farmers and state agents credit the program with preventing crop losses.
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Columbus. O
Ohio
Thomas D. Phillips
U.S. Employment Service
Federal Employment Service
Loyalty Day Program Plans Detailed Street Parade and Events
The complete Loyalty Day program lists activities from a 10 A.M. regimental band arrival at Camp Sherman to a torchlight parade by Boy Scouts at 7 30 P.M. and a mass meeting at 8 P.M. Inscribed are speeches by Governor Cox and Camp Sherman officers, a government trophy train arrival, and a dinner at the Colonial Hotel. Airplane arrivals from Dayton are expected around noon with handbills promoting Liberty Bonds.
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Camp Sherman
College
Union
University Terrace
Armory
Howard Hall
Cox
Ellis
Governor Cox
Hotel Berry
Court House Corner
James Ginnan
Ostendorf
McCray
Colonial Hotel
College Street
Mill
Court
Ewing Hall
J. M. Foster
Major Ostendorf
Mc Cray
Dayton
Liberty
Liberty Bonds
Influenza Claims First Local Fatality in Wellston
Wellston Ohio September 25 Spanish influenza caused the first Jackson County fatality as Cadwell Stroth a 33 year old coal operator died after a week with flu and pneumonia. Three brothers home on furlough from the Great Lakes Training School fell ill after returning two weeks ago and eight other family members have contracted the disease. He is survived by a wife and daughter both ill.
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Wellston
Jackson
Cadwell Stroth
Great Lakes
Loyalty parade gathering at B. K. Bruce Lodge hall
Members of the B. K. Bruce Lodge are called to meet at the lodge hall at 9 30 tomorrow morning to participate in a Loyalty parade. The call emphasizes orderly attendance and parade participation.
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B. K. Bruce Lodge
Hertling open to peace under Wilson fourteen points
German Foreign Minister Von Hintze told the Reichstag committee Germany will oppose the enemy with full force and noted attention to events in northern Russia. Chancellor von Hertling said he is ready for peace in principle on Wilson's fourteen points, citing no reply from Wilson to his Feb 25 speech. He urged general disarmament and freedom of the seas and vowed to back Prussian franchise reforms, warning of other constitutional measures if needed.
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von Hintze
Reichstag
Russia
von Hertling
Wilson
von Her
Bulgarians Prepare Peace Move To Block German East Path
Washington reports Bulgarians are staging a peace initiative to open a path for Allies to block Germany’s advance to the East. Bulgarian routs on the Macedonian front and internal unrest press officials toward peace appeals. Bulgarian Minister Panarettoff’s return fuels speculation on proposed moves.
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Washington
Germany
Pana
Retoff
British Take 1 000 Prisoners
British forces advanced west and north of St Quentin and repelled counterattacks. A total of 1 000 prisoners were taken during the day. American raids succeeded Tuesday and artillery activity rose in the Woëvre sector. The Bulgarian army retired toward Wales thirty miles north and east of Prilip. A German attack near Moissy Farm was repulsed by French forces.
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London
St. Quentin
Haig
Woevre
Eral Pershing
Wales
Prilip
Prilip-Gradsko Road
Moissy Farm
Chemin des-Dames
French War Office
Officers testify in Brashear case at Muskingum grand jury
Sheriff Lowry Deputy Park er and Chelf of Police Porter journeyed to Zanesville to testify in the Howard Brashear automobile theft investigation now before the Muskingum county grand jury. Brashear reportedly confessed to local officers about the Athens county link and the recovery of a stolen Hudson touring car. The report notes four Ohio army camps seek farm supplies, especially potatoes and onions, urging local growers to contact camp quartermasters and bid when requests arise.
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Lowry
Parker
Chelf
Porter
Zanesville
Muskingum County
Howard Brashear
Brashear
Athens County
Ohio
Grain Board Advances Flour Price in Winnipeg
The Board of Grain Supervision in Winnipeg on September 25 raised flour prices by 50 cents per barrel. A 98 pound sack now costs $5.42.
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Winnipeg
Board of Grain Supervision
Famous Catholic Prelate Archbishop Ireland Dies
John Ireland aged 80, archbishop of the St. Paul Diocese for thirty years, died at 3 55 this morning in St Paul. He advised presidents on Catholic issues including Philippines property questions and was known internationally for his Vatican ties and French education. He helped fund the St Paul cathedral and authored The Church and Modern Society.
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St. Paul, Minn
John Ireland
St. Paul
John) Ireland
Pope Benedict
Vatican
Roosevelt
McKinley
Ireland
France
America
Chaplin
Minnesota
Corinth
James J. Hill
Northwest
St Paul
Yale
Legion of Honor
North American Review
Church and Modern Society
Disease grip tightens on enlistees at Camp Devons
Spanish influenza dominates for enlisted men with 10,789 cases reported at Camp Devons Ayer Massachusetts and 22,975 army wide. Great Lakes Naval Training Station reports 8,218 cases with 869 new infections and 68 deaths in the last 24 hours.
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United Press
Washington
Camp Devons
Ayer
Mass
Chicago
Ill
Moffett
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Americans Interred in Germany Listed by Berlin
Geneva reports the American Red Cross has received from Berlin a list of 260 Americans interned at Metz Stuttgart and Karlsruhe.
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Geneva
American Red Cross
Berlin
Metz
Stuttgart
Karlsruhe
Clarks Chapel League Social to Feature Pie Auction
Clarks Chapel Community League plans a social at Rock Riffle school house Friday evening September 27. An old fashioned pie auction benefits the Pupils Reading Circle. Ladies bring pies and gentlemen bring pocketbooks. Program includes talks by Prof. T. N. Hoover Supt. Vernon and others with music.
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Clarks Chapel
Loyalty Day Parade Reminder for Elks
Elks are urged to gather at the Club room tomorrow morning at 9 30 to join in the Loyalty Day parade.
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Seerty Bones
Spanish influenza hits Camp Dix base hospital
Two thousand soldiers were at Camp Dix with eighteen hundred in the camp base hospital today. About 150 have developed pneumonia and are in serious condition as the influenza toll rises.
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Newark
N. J
Camp Dix
Spanish influenza hits Washington city families
Scores of cases believed to be Spanish influenza are reported in Washington and nearby. As many as seven in one family have been down with the illness. There have been no deaths.
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United Press
Washington, D. H
Draft Board Plans Three Mechanics to Cincinnati Institute
Washington reports Marshal General Crowder urges registered men answering questionnaires not to let chivalry motives block deferred classifications if due to occupation or dependents. Local draft board to induct three white mechanics for Sept 28 to the Mechanics Institute in Cincinnati for training as blacksmiths carpenters electricians and machinists. Ohio quota is 362.
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Washington
Crowder
Mechanics Institute
Cinccinnati
Ohio
Money should not be neutral in the Fourth Loan
A short note argues against neutrality in the Fourth Loan, urging active support and participation. It emphasizes financial backing and civic duty. The item reflects wartime funding appeals and public fundraising language. It mentions government bonds and national effort without naming individuals.
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