Italians Break Austrian Resistance Near Mont esanto Advance Toward Carniola
Italian forces press forward near Mont esanto breaking Austrian lines despite fresh German reinforcements. No progress details released for the Trieste push. In Verdun and Aisne sectors French actions advance blocked by German counterattacks. Berlin reports Russian positions captured between Riga s and Dvinsk. Russo-Rumanians retake ground northwest of Soveia.
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Montesanto
Carniola
Triest
Verdun
Aisne
Berlin
Rigas
Dvinsk
Soveia
Tales Unusual Told By Survivors Of Attacks
An Atlantic Port reports that a British steamer torpedoed by a German submarine was destroyed by a British U-boat. Survivors in lifeboats were rescued and returned to the ship as a German submarine was sunk. Captain Cyrus Crooks of the Christine was entertained aboard the U-boat and given a receipt for his vessel signed by Captain J Erlinger.
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Atlantic
Cyrus Crooks
Christine
Azores
Crooks
J. Erlinger
President tightens export controls as war weapon
The president orders a license system curbing shipments to European neutrals and Germany. All meats sugar and most exports require licenses to prevent benefits to the enemy. Exports to Germany and allies are blocked while Treasury rules extend to coin bullion currency and debt instruments.
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Associated Press
Washington
America
Germany
Secretary of the Treasury
Postmaster Aids Farmers In Securing Seed Wheat This Fall
Athens postmaster J H Rucker urges Clarke county farmers to request seed wheat for fall sowing. He has contacted the postmaster general and Food Administration to list needs and forward them to the U S Board of Food and Grain Control to secure seed wheat at a reasonable price.
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J. H. Rucker
Athens
Food Administration Bureau
Clarke County
Rucker
United State Board of Food and Grain Control
Matriarch Hemphill Celebrated On Her 100th Birthday
The First Methodist Church in Athens hosted a tribute to Mrs. Sarah A Hemphill the city centenarian honored by pastors judges and Atlanta church leaders. A birthday cake with three sections symbolized three generations while family and friends attended a program featuring prayers songs and tributes. A silver pitcher gift from Athens representatives was presented and a reception at 297 Prince Avenue followed in the afternoon.
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Fke
Sarah A. Hemphill
S. R. Belk
D. D
Andrew Cobb
Shephendy
Jerusalem
Belk
Atlanta
First Methodist Sumolay School of
Robert Hemphill
Orphans Home
Decatur
Mra
Hemphill
Camp 159
Confederate Veterans
Sarge Plunkett Wier
DeKalb County
Bisn
Warren A. Candler
God
Judge Cobb
Athens
Judge Lumpkin
BE. K. Lumpkin
Yarbrough Lang
Yarbrough
Chancellor
Barrow
Washington City
Dozier Speke
Dozier
Col. Avery
First Methodist Sunday School
W. S. Withan
W. Woods White
R. A. Hemphill
Sara
White
Joe M. Hodgson
Goa
Prince Avenue
Fourteen Men Pass Medical Exam in Local Draft Call
The first third of a 375 man draft call proved routine as 14 examined yesterday passed without exemption claims. Seventeen or more were listed as PE or PD, with 39 rejected for physical deficiencies mainly weight, hernia, or bad eyes, and many others noted as absent or postponed.
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Jackson
Crawford
Smith
E. M. Coleman
J. P. Proctor
W. A. Clarke
First Soldier Back From France Is Herbert Lester
Herbert D. Lester of Clarke County, United States Infantry Company K Twenty-eighth, is described as the first soldier back from France. He left Hoboken for Athens Ga to reunite with his mother, recounting eight hours daily drill near the front and a wish to see home after a bully time abroad.
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France
HD. Lester
Clarke County
the Banner
Herbert D. Lester
The
New York World
Young Lester
Hoboken Pire
Kilady
First Expeditionary Army
Athens
Noice
Company K
United States Infantry
Lester
Negro Found Guilty of Double Murder Quickly
Special to the Banner Crawfordville Ga Aug 27 Superior court opened and after the grand jury acted in the Jones murder case Os car Allen colored was tried for killing Mr Seah J Jones and his negro cook. A witness said Allen confessed to both killings. The jury found him guilty and Judge Walker sentenced Allen to be hanged privately on Sept 17. Local sentiment praised orderly court action after a brutal crime.
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Crawfordville
Jones
Onscar Allen
Seah J. Jones
Allen
Walker
Albion
Great Glacier Discovery Reported From Arctic Expedition
New York August 27 Arctic explorer Donald McMillan telegrams the American Museum of History announcing a newly discovered enormous glacier. He sets the position of two new islands and reports surveys on Ellesmere Island. At Cape Herschel he found legible records from the 1876 British expedition left by George Nares. McMillan has reached Sydney Nova Scotia arriving Thursday.
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New York
American Museum of History
Donald Mcafillap
Ellsmere Land
Cape Herschel
George Nares
McMillan
Sydney
Nova Scotia
Coal men invoke figures to prove prices too small
Washington delegates from Alabama and other coal producing regions arrive to argue that government price controls are too low. The sessions aim to present schedules and data to the Federal Trade Commission, challenging the rationale behind the fixed rates amid reports of production costs and market factors.
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Washington
Alabama
Federal Trade To Commission
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Isaac
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PE Doggett
George Milton
Bates
Will Henry
Philips
Robert
PD Wiggins
Albert C
PE Mauldin
Melvin
PD Garrison
Arthur Paul
PE Arnold
Fat Hodgson
PE Moore
Ephram
Malphurs
Horace Edgar
Graham
James Howard
PE Marable
Otic
PC Collins
Walter
Days
John
Redding
Samuel
Briscoe
Henry Carlton
Daniel
Carter W
Navy
Mason
John Harris
Lumpkin
Joseph
PD Long
Charles Calvin
Ab. West
Andrew Lewis
Center
Walter McCall
Ab. Blackwell
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Eberhardt
Paul
PD Hadaway
Thomas Milton
PD Smith
Willie
Ab. Wilkins
Stephens
PE Stephens
Will
PE Black
Flem
PE Coleman
James Richard
PE Watson
Douglas
Pde Rucker
Monroe
PE Elder
Clarence
Lampkin
Eugene Herman
PE Brown
John Henry
PD Hill
Jimmie
Ab. Lanier
David Walter
Mack
Jesse
Pdh
Edwards
Willie Wm
Nestos
Harry
PE Hill
Thomas Bank
P Sims
Theodore
PE Parr
Frank Hunnicutt
PD White
P Mooney
Otis
P Brown
Wedford
Cooper
Mustang
Liniment
Oscar Allen
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Callie Richards
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St. Athens
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