Progress of War Across Western Front and Air War Losses
British troops seize Neuve Chapelle Lens and Queant while gaining ground along the Vermand Epeby line. Over 19,000 British casualties reported for the week ending Sept 7. 465 enemy aircraft down since Aug 8. Australians capture Mont St Quentin Feuil lacourt. Americans advance from Vesle to Glennes and near Villers-en-Prayees. French occupy Vaux Fluquieres Happencourt and push along Oise and Chemin des Dames.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neuve Chapelle
Bussu
Vermand-Epeby
France
Flanders
Wulverghem
Kemmel
Berlin
Mont St. Quentin
Feuillaucourt
Rheims
Ypres
World News Focus: War Losses and Political Shifts Abroad
Norway reports thirteen vessels totaling 22 976 tons lost to war in August. Moscow reports a British consulate attack and Leningrad dispatches note Lenine ally Hsu Shih Chang elected Chinese president. Paris plans a sword for Marshal Foch. Lafayette anniversary marked by Philadelphia flag over Paris city hall. Alaska Seward peninsula residents contribute $81 each to war effort. German retirement near the Aisne. Lenine government actions announced. diverse wartime items include executions in Moscow and labor strikes in Buenos Aires. Boston leads in the World Series as baseball dominates soldiers and sailors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norway
Moscow
Central News of
London
Lafayette
Seward Peninsula
Alaska
United States
Aisne
Dora Kaplan
Nikolai Lenine
Lokal Anzeiger
Berlin
London Fire Brigade
France
War Bonds and Court Rulings Highlight Hoosier Era News
Advertising funds for the Fourth Liberty Loan rise as campaigns begin September 28. Missouri Chief Justice Bond halts a fare restoration order, letting 6 cent fares stand pending Supreme Court review. A Denver man aboard Mount Vernon, Philip C. Taisey, listed as assistant engineer, is not among the casualties of the torpedoing. Senate-House oil leasing talks fail to resolve amendments. Pershing cites 41 officers for distinguished service crosses. War revenue hearings urge higher income taxes and smaller bond issues. railroad wages board backs 15 to 25 percent raises, affecting 300000 workers.
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Bond
State Supreme Court of Missouri
Circuit Judge State
Kansas City
St. Louis
Supreme Court
Philip C. Taisey
Denver
United States
Mount Vernon
Food Ration Retained and War News Updates
The Food Administration kept the sugar ration at two pounds per person monthly. American women telephone operators in France protest their label “hello girls” to the War Department. Henry Ford may run for the U.S. Senate in Michigan. Haywood and 92 IWW members convicted in Chicago are in Leavenworth. 200 Army officers with front experience arrive to train draftees at camps. 209 wounded and sick soldiers arrive on the same steamship. Fruit pits and nut shells for gas masks will be collected at home. Lake Owens sunk by a submarine with five civilian crew lost. Beer brewing cut off affecting manufacturers with large investments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Atlantic
Navy Department
Lake Owens
Arizona News Roundup Highlights War, Politics and Local Events
About 11 000 voters registered in Cochise county Nogales raises 611 25 for Greek Red Cross A public school protective league organized in Phoenix I W W campaign in Globe district Watermelons shipped to Camp Cody from Pomerene Prisoner and other war and civic notes including Tucson army Y M C A recruiting Bisbee business price protest and several local appointments and incidents including a border skirmish at Nogales and a governor race injury to Fred Coulter
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Cochise County
Nogales
Greek Red Cross
Phoenix
Globe District
C. E. Lopez
Benson
Camp Cody
N. M
Pomerene
C. J. Roskruge
Tucson Rifle Club
Arizona Rifle Association
Camp Perry
Ohio
Robert L. Morton
W. F. Burlison
Cottonwood
Consul Heads Held Captives Report
A dramatic report claims captors hold consuls as ransom with threats to take lives if Lenine dies. The piece emphasizes political tension and potential international repercussions.
Bolsheviks gain aid from German artillery west of the Volga
Dispatches report German artillery aiding Bolsheviks west of the Volga from Penza to Kazan as Czecho Slovak forces hold the Olovyanna Penza rail line. Bolsheviks reportedly retook Samara threatening Orenburg Simbirsk and other keys. Western officials arrest consular staff as allied talks continue with Soviet authorities.
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Volga
Washington
Russia
Amsterdam
Great Britain
London
Olovyanna
Penza
Kazan
Teuton
Samara
Orenburg
Simbirsk
Western Mining and Oil News Prices for Metals
Prices for metals list silver copper lead spelter tungsten and ore values. Five carloads of manganese ore ready for shipment from Bunker & Burmeister Agua Fria. Holbrook Oil drills to run in next thirty days. Maintop ore body Jerome Verde to resume production about twenty tons daily. Jerome connects Maintop to 1100 level. ore from 900 and above soon. New manganese finds in Harshaw district and continued activity at Silver Queen Kokomo. Leadville Anderson tunnel work resumes. Gray Eagle lessees discover new manganese at 600 foot level. Montezuma district active in silver lead and lead-silver properties. Chrysolite Fryer hill opens silver-iron ore assay 46% iron 5 oz silver. Upper Yankee Doodle producing manganese. Breckenridge placer mining prospering with summer cleanups. New drift on Matchless Fryer hill reveals silver-bearing iron at 92 feet. Mosquito gulch prospects in Gunnison county locate vein near gulch mouth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holbrook Oil Company
Jerome Verde
Kokomo
Leadville
Anderson Tunnel
Prospect Mountain
Birdseye
Gray Eagle
Carbonate Hill
Fryer Hill
Gunnison County
William McKinley
Arthur L. Pearson
Mosquito Gulch
Allies Near Cambrai As German Front Holds
Paris reports a French advance north of the Somme toward Clastres and occupation of Somot farm with crossings near Liez. British push toward Cambrai and St Quentin continues. French near Laffaux and Celles sur Aisne face counterattacks while French gains threaten La Fere and Servais outskirts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Somme
Clastres
Somot Farm
War Office
Crozat Canal
Liez
Vendeuil
Cambrai
St. Quentin
St. Gobain
St. Gobain Massif
Villerque
Boisel
St. Emilie
Laffaux
Celles-Sur-Aisne
Laon
Rheims
Mennessis
Tergnier
la Fere
Servais
Bedell Brothers Drill Depth Sets Colorado Record
At a Butte picnic two Cornish miners, the Bedell brothers, drilled a twenty seven and seven eighths inch hole in Gunnison granite, exceeding the prior record by several inches. Gunnison granite remains the standard rock for contest testing as Anaconda Copper Mining notes August output at 24.9 million pounds and July at 25.4 million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Butte
Bedell Brothers
Gunnison
Colorado
Government Crop Report Shows Corn Decline Wheat Rise
Washington reports a sharp drop in corn crop condition cutting forecast by 317 million bushels from last month. Spring wheat output rises by 21 million bushels, lifting total wheat to 899 million bushels this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Montrose Man Adelbert Armitage Killed in War
Adelbert Elmer Armitage of Montrose becomes the first local resident to lose his life in World War II. A Navy telegram to Thomas Armitage confirms his son, an assistant fireman on the transport Mount Vernon, was killed when the ship was torpedoed 200 miles west of the French coast during a return voyage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montrose
Colo
Adelbert Elmer Armitage
Navy Department
Thomas Armitage
Mount Vernon
Oil Work Delayed By Hard Rock Formation Near Aztec
Progress on the oil well near Aztec slows as a hard rock formation halts advance near Columbus. The Carter Oil Company of Tulsa gains access to 90,000 acres of the Las Vegas grant with a 30 day land inspection and potential drilling by November 1. Sinclair Refining Company of Maine gains state admission with $8 million capital and Tucumcari HQ. Production in the Gallup mines rises after Governor Lindsey calls for patriotic speed in work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Sinclair Refining Company
Maine
Tucumcari
Gallup
Lindsey
E. M. Barber
Las Vegas
Carter Oil Company of
Tulsa
Okla
Las Vegas Grant
Carter Oil Company
Grant Board
Glenhurst Oil to Drill Again in Big Muddy Field
Glenhurst Oil Company plans new drilling on section 31 in the Big Muddy field twelve miles north of Greybull in Basin country. U S Geological Survey data show Wyoming oil production for the first half of this year at 5,774,060 barrels versus 4,350,153 in the first six months of 1917.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glenhurst Oil Company
Big Muddy
Greybull
United States Geological Survey
Wyoming
Change of Life Relief Reported by Urbana Woman
Mrs. Frank Henson of 1316 S Orchard St Urbana reports a winter grippe left her weak. After using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she regained strength, reduced menopausal symptoms, and can do housework again.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Urbana
Lydia E. Pinkham
Frank Henson
S. Orchade St
Unnamed Irish Angler Compared With Atlas Of Old
The passage calls a southern Ireland fisherman stronger than George Hackenschmidt and weaker than Atlas, noting his odd fishing gear a three inch hawser line a 600 pound anchor hook and baiting his boat with sheep. It contrasts a world with fewer people and little machinery to modern times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Hackenschmidt
Ireland
Tristman
Alf
Atlas
Wilbert Robinson
Bill Taft
Kansas City Star
Photographers discuss union forming in the West
A passerby notes photographers intend to form a union in the West and to conduct proceedings and reports in camera. The remark hints at a unionization move and private handling of affairs.
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Queant
Vesle
Glennes
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Hamel
Oise
Barisis
Anizy-le- Chateau
Chemin Des Dames
Hindenburg
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St. Gobain Forest
Craonne
Marcel Hutin
The
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Alexander Kerensky
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Buenos Aires
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Farmers’ National Committee On War Finance
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Henry Ford
United States Senate
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William D. Haywood
Industrial Workers of the World
Federal Penitentiary
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Kan
Arizona State News
Western Newspaper Union News Service
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Samuel Schafer
Sonora
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L. R. Bailey
Miguel Grijalva
Frank Spence
Arizona
Augustin Cavaletto
Amadeo Cavailetto
State Council of Defense
C. H. Young, Jr
Mass
Courtland
Great Western
Fort Oglethorpe
Field Artillery
Board of
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University of Arizona
George W. P. Hunt
Mrs. Marshall
Rudolph Rasmussen
J.H. Chapman
Winslow
M. W. Whittmore
Tombstone
Leo
Red”) Barclay
Camp Funston
Charles A. Seaman
Safford
Mt. Graham
Cottonwood Wash
Ash Creek
Seaman
Greenlee
Greenlees
Willie Lee McCulloch
J. G. McCulloch
Duncan
Clifton
Pattee
Oliver B. Dawson
Mines Metal Extraction Company
Louise Scheutting
Fred T. Coulter
Lenine
Gzechs
Western Newspaper
Stockholm
Helsingfors
Mining and Oil News
Bunker & Burmeister
Agua Fria
Jerome
Harshaw District
Hardshell
Hermosa
Bullwhacker
Montezuma
Breckenridge
Camg3ras
Oise-Aisne Canal
Montana
Government Crop Report
New Mexico
Aztec
Teed
Mediation and Conciliation Board
Eatonic
William L. Chambers
U. S. Board of Mediation and
Judge Chambere
Eatonio
Bobby
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