War progress reports from Western front and Archangel
News summaries Allied advances as French capture Travecy and Metz batteries engage. British capture Vermand Attilly Wendeles while repelling counterattacks near Havrincourt Gouzeaucourt. American troops land at Archangel and Pershing reports gains along a 33 mile front. St Mihiel salient reduced as French American forces push along Laon bend with Marshal Foch’s renewed offensives.
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Travecy
Metz
Air Ministry
Vermand
Attilly
Vendelies
St. Quertin
Flanders
Armentieres
la Bassee Canal
Helsingfors
Petrograd
Oise
Paris War Office
Havrincourt
Gouzeaucourt
Archangel
Russia
Pershing
Marshal Foch
St. Mihiel- Salient
Laon
St. Quentin
War Office
Holnonwood
Trescault
la Bassee
St. Mihiel Salient
Global War News Roundup From The Front And Home Front
Reports from Dawson to Victoria note Stefansson en route to Victoria. Nungesser tallies his forty fourth aerial victory. Soissons architecture faces German destruction after Mangin defeat. German explorer Carl Peters dies in Germany on Sept. 10. Clemenceau visits St Mihiel as the salient is cleared past Norroy Jaulay Xammes St Benoit Hattonville and Herbevville. Bolsheviks accused of murdering the former Russian empress and daughters per London Express. Melville Stone honored in Rome with Italo American friendship event. Australian Lt Cecile Healy killed on the Somme after leading 500 swimmers. A troopship with 2800 American soldiers torpedoed. all aboard saved and transferred to escorts. Austria Hungary invites belligerents to neutral peace talks with Holy See noted. Ed Barrow to France if war lasts. Lt Harry A Sullivan arrives overseas with the 157th Colorado infantry. At Logan county fair Nels Peterson defeats Floyd Clymer in five miles. Peterson wins purse.
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Mangin
Soissons
Carl Peters
Germany
Brunswick
Clemenceau
St. Mihiel
Echo de Paris
Norroy
Jaulay
Xammes
St. Benoit
Hattonville
Hannonville
Herberville
Cecile Healy
Somme
Paris le Journal
Mont St. Quentin
Peronne
Holy See
Vienna
Amsterdam
Ed Barrow
Red Sox
France
Harry A. Sullivan
Denver
157Th Infantry
Colorado Regiment
Camp Kearny
Cal
Logan County
Sterling
Nels Peterson
Floyd Clymer
Peterson
Beer Tops Ten Cents A Glass In Chicago
American nurses held by the enemy will be aided in captivity by the American Red Cross. Cotton usage data show August totals of 554,914 running bales and 100,473 linters with year ending Aug. 31 at 6,591,336 running bales and 1,116,385 linters. Henry A. Robinson, 81, dies near Fort Collins former Albany county Wyoming coroner and Civil War veteran. Debs gets ten-year terms on three counts with sentences to run concurrently in Moundsville and Cleveland cases.
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Chicago
American Red Cross
Henry A. Robinson
Fort Collins
Colo
Albany County
Wyo
Eugene V. Debs
Moundsville
W. Va
D. C. Westenhaver
Cleveland
Ohio
Prisoner list shows 166 American soldiers in German camps
War Department released names of 166 POWs including four captains and twelve lieutenants with Lieut Harold H Gile of Colorado Springs listed at Camp Karlsruhe. Pershing sent greetings to the 442000 strong American Boy Scout army. About 13000000 men aged 18 to 45 registered. War Department seeks seven billion dollars for next year’s military operations. Treasury announces sixth bi weekly issue of 600 million in treasury certificates. Crowder says first call to colors will include men aged 19 20 and 32 to 36 from the Sept 32 registration.
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Germany
War Department
Harold H. Gile
Colorado Springs
Colo
Camp Karlsruhe
Pershing
New York
Congress
Treasury
Treasury Department
Crowder
Training 8000 men in 36 free schools for merchant marine officers
More than 8,000 men have received training in thirty six free schools run by the United States Shipping Board over thirteen months to equip them as officers in the American merchant marine. Edward N. Hurley announced the figures as the country readies for war demands.
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United States Shipping Board
Edward N. Hurley
Late Market Quotations for Cattle and Grain Goods
The report lists buying prices for cattle across Colorado and Nebraska upland per ton ranging from 23.00 to 24.00, with prairie hay 20.00 to 21.00 and timothy 23.00 to 25.00. It also notes alfalfa 20.00 to 23.00, South Park and Gunnison Valley tonnage 23.00 to 24.00, and grain prices for oats and corn products with selling figures on sacks and per 100 pounds.
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Colorado
Upland
Nebraska Upland
Nebraska
South Park
Colo
Tomes Couime
Metal Prices in New York and Boulder Tungsten Rates
Lead at 38.05, bar silver 1.01, copper 26.62. Spelter in East St. Louis delivery 9.00 at 9.12 percent. Tungsten concentrates unit 24.00. Boulder Colorado tungsten rates 60 percent 20.00 at 22.50, 24 percent 12.00 at 12.50, 10 percent 9.40 at 12.20.
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New York
East St. Louis
Boulder
Colo
New York Cotton and Chicago Live Stock Quotations
Cotton prices for October to May range from 34.80 down to 33.58 cents. Chicago hogs and cattle quotes show top hogs at 20.75, beef cattle from 19.20 to 6.75 for canners, and lambs up to 18.10. Sugar markets in New York list centrifugal 6.055 and various refined grades between 8.85 and 10.50.
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New York
Chicago
Kansas City Produce Price Listing
Butter creamery 49c and 4444c packing 37c eggs firsts 40c seconds 86c Poultry hens 24c roosters 18c springs 25c broilers 25c listing from Kansas City Mo market with multiple item prices
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Kansas City
Grain Prices Report From Minneapolis Market
Minneapolis grain prices list various commodities with prices and changes including Barley at 86 percent and $1.01, Rye at $1.60 and 1.61, Bran $29.31, Corn $1.60 and 1.64, Oats 67 percent and 68, Flax $4.05 and 4.10.
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Minneapolis
Market prices for hides and pelts listed in ledger
The listing shows Bulls and stags prices for Nos. 1 and 2 flats, salted hides by weight, dry flint and wool pelts, butcher and murrain shearlings, and green salter hides. Several figures in cents per pound and assorted quality grades appear, reflecting a dated commodity market entry.
US rejects Austria-Hungary peace feeler in uncompromising stance
Washington reports the United States, aligned with its co belligerents, refuses any unofficial peace conference. Secretary Lansing states the US will only consider peace on previously stated terms, echoing President Wilson’s Mount Vernon Fourth of July speech. The prompt reply aims to curb enemy impressions of possible negotiated peace.
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Washington
United States
Germany
Sweden
Ehrengren
Lansing
Wilson
Mount Vernon
Saloni ki front offensive. Serbians and French advance three Bulgarian forts
The Serbian army with French support launches an assault on the Saloniki front and captures Teak Vetrenik Dobropolje and Sokul, long held Bulgarian positions. American artillery pounds Metz as US forces push between the Meuse and Moselle. Norroy and Wiley near Metz. Boy Scouts report $17 million in War Savings Stamps sold.
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Washington
Saloniki
Teak
Vetre*nik
Dobropolje
Sokul
Metz
Germany
Meuse
Moselle
Norroy
Wileey
General Pershing
Verdon-Etain Road
Abaucourt
Vilecy
Boy Scouts
W. S. S. New York
Boy Scouts of America
Draft calls 29016 Negro registrants for general service
Provost Marshal General Crowder issued a call for 29 016 Negro registrants from 33 states qualified for general military service and to entrain for national army camps September 25 to 27. The order includes 31 men from Wyoming assigned to Camp Lewis.
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Washington
Crowder
Wyoming
Camp Lewis
American War Secretary arrives in London from Paris
London reports that Newton D. Baker, the United States secretary of war, reached London Monday after a diplomatic visit in Paris. The arrival underscores ongoing Allied coordination as Baker meets British officials on war policy and support.
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London
Newton D. Baker
Paris
Arizona mining boom shifts labor to Mexico and new ore
Oatman mines are drawing labor from Mexico while Globe district firms grant 25 cent raises. Superior reports a new mill at Silver King as Duncan’s fluorspar mine opens. rich copper ore is shipped from Grand Gulch near Kingman and from the American Eagle mine near Parker. Production tallies include Inspiration Copper at 9,000,000 pounds in July and Prescott's Arizona Binghamton sending 38,478 dollars in copper to Humboldt.
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Clifton City
Silver King
Superior
Globe District
Fluorspar
Duncan
Pearce
Central Butte
Mossback
Oatman
Roosevelt
W. J. Mitchell
Tucson
Mowry
Inspiration Copper Company
Arizona Binghamton
Prescott
Humboldt
Grand Gulch
Kingman
Arizona
Superior & Boston
Globe
Salt River Valley
American Eagle
Parker
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Endorsed
Oregon Illinois resident Mrs. D M Alters says the remedy restored her health after organic troubles that left her unable to work on her small farm with 600 chickens to feed. She urges other women with similar issues to try the product and contact Lydia E Pinkham’s Medicine Co. for advice based on 40 years of experience.
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Oregon
Ila
Lydia E. Pinkhams
D. M. Auters
R. R
Ill
Lydia E. Pinkham
One Lack. Iron Man Not Well Tempered
A terse Baltimore American note describes a man of iron, noting his resilience yet pointedly saying he is not well tempered. No further details are provided in the excerpt.
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Ft. Huachuca
Charleston
Baltimore American
Cuticura Soap and Ointment Advertisement
Soft, Clear Skins. Night and morning bathe the face with Cuticura Soap and hot water. If there are pimples first smear them with Cuticura Ointment. For free samples address Cuticura, Dept. X, Boston. Sold by druggists, and by mail Soap 25, Ointment 25 and 50.
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Dept. X
Boston
Baltimore Advertises Red Cross Bag Blue Soap
Fragmentary ad text praises a soap product named Red Cross Bag Blue and claims it whitens laundry and makes clothes whiter than snow. Mentions grocers and a general promotional tone.
Hardly What You Expected Christmas Proposal Joke
An Indianapolis News tale depicts a pregnant wife awaiting a proposal as a visitor explains the cost of papering the dining room and kitchen at fifteen dollars, while the husband sits nearby listening to the exchange.
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Christimas
Indianapolis News
World’s people share common traits and faults
A reflective remark on human similarity and tendency to judge others. It suggests that criticizing one person echoes across many, highlighting universal judgment and shared behavior among people worldwide.
Memory Flaw Sparks Unoriginality Claim
A witty remark notes that many claim originality stems from a defective memory, suggesting creativity is hindered by faulty recollection rather than true inspiration.
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