Hurley Drives U S Shipping Board to Speed War Effort
Edward N Hurley, as chairman of the United States Shipping Board, overhauled operations and allied with Admiral Capps to speed up ship production. He assembled a forceful team, cut red tape, and vowed to deliver about 10 600 000 deadweight tons of carrying capacity on the seas by next spring to supply Europe.
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Wilson
Edward N. Hurley
Washington
Hurley
United States Shipping Board
Admiral Capps
Uncle Sam
Texas
Europe
United States
Secret Service Help to Hoover on Speculator Clampdown
President Wilson approves head Administrator Elerbert Hoover's request to deploy Secret Service to pursue flimsy speculators and profiteers, aiming to curb fraud and misuse of resources.
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Secret Service
Hoover
Wilson
Elerbert
German Pastor Indicted for Treason in Lowden Iowa
Rey. Dolin Reichert longtime pastor of the German Trutheras church at Lowden Iowa has been indicted for treason. Ernest Mier of the same city is also named in the indictment.
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Rey. Dolin Reichert
Pstor
Germaan Trutheras Church
Lowden
Isrnest Mier
Game
United States rushes 30,000 workers to wood ship program
Some 30,000 men at 40 shipyards along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts rush to complete 20 hulls for the first unit of a vast wooden fleet for wartime service. The government plans to launch hulls by month’s end, adding daily 3,000 to 3,500 ton ships as needed. The Emergency Fleet Corp. aims to build wood and steel ships and require 400 million feet of southern pine in the coming year.
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Gulf
Atlantic
Uncle Saim
United States Shipping Board
W. J. Haynen
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Marrying Parson S R White Quits Rockville Ministry
Rev. Samuel R. White known as Rockville's Marrying Parson leaves Rockville after about six decades of service. He and his wife move to Poolesville to live with daughter and son in law Thomas and Mrs St Gil. White is about eighty five and married more than two thousand couples mainly from Washington DC and Virginia.
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S. R. White
Rockville
Samuel R. White
Poolesville
Thomas St. Gil
Whitt
Eigty
District of Columbia
Virginia
Mother of 28 Children Keeps Family with Husband’s Wages
Mrs. Paul Aguilar of Chino California is 53 and has given birth to 28 children, with only two deaths. The youngest newborn is a boy aged about fifty days. The couple and 14 children at home live on the father’s daily wage of $2.50.
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Paul Aguilar
Chino
Cal
Seven Star Service Flag Presented Before Navy Enlistment
Christopher J. Haughey of Reading Pennsylvania a railroad man joined the navy after his six brothers had already served with the United States He presented a seven star service flag to his mother as two sisters remained at home indicating a wartime family sacrifice tailored to a local audience
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Christopher J. Haughey
Reading
United States
London Mob Burns Pacifist Church After Attack
A London mob attacked pacifist Rev. Flor Swen during a talk at a chapel on Kings Land Round. They dragged him from the church and set the edifice on fire, burning it to the ground.
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London
Flor. Swen
Horrors of War Drive Men Mad and Shape Battles
An American officer on leave eloquently reflects on the brutal truths of World War I. He recalls mud soaked trenches, the sudden deaths of comrades, and the grim power of shrapnel. He notes atrocities on both sides and describes Canadian reprisals that left German soldiers dead after a trench assault.
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Sugar Refineries Ruined in French Territory Liberation
An inventory of forty sugar refineries freed from German occupation this year shows ten to twelve can be restored, while the rest lie as debris. Germans stripped refineries of bronze brass and copper and moved or destroyed equipment. Nearby sugar beet land remains shelled with unexploded shells hindering safe cultivation.
Reverend Wedge Becomes Northwestern Freight Brakeman
Rev Frederick Wedge joins the Northwestern road as a freight brakeman after passing the entrance exam in Antigo. His first run was Antigo to Ashland. He plans to stay in rail work until debts are paid and a nest egg saved, earning about 125 dollars per month.
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Frederick Wedge
Northwestern Road
Antigo
Ashland
Wedge
Capitalists plan hydroairplane routes to Canadian goldfields
United States capitalists plot hydroairplane travel to northern Manitoba goldfields. They expect lakes forests and rocks in the region to hold vast mineral deposits.
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United States
Manitoba
Canada
Italian Captain Riznati Sets Flight Records Over Norfolk
Captain Riznati of the Italian army now instructing American aviators at Norfolk carried 25 passengers 50 miles in a storm aboard a flying boat. He also established a new record by remaining aloft six hours with ten passengers.
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Riznati
Norfolk
Army of Farmers Wins Big Battle in Wartime Food Drive
The nation shows a record food harvest as farmers mobilized 6 million strong. Corn yield reaches 3.248 billion bushels with a half billion bushels above average, potatoes up 462 million, and other crops rising, fueling war effort and world food supply.
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United States
Department of Agriculture
W. A. Pearson
Agricultural Department
Indicts Woman's Fashions in Frederick County
The Frederick county grand jury indicts Woman's Fashions in Frederick Mil urging a city curfew for Frederick and a ban on children in three local moving picture theaters. It also suggests young women dress more modestly to benefit Frederick's young men.
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Frederick
Grand Jury
Mil
Li of Justice
Moving Picture
Growth of Y M C A. in 1916 North America
In 1916 there were 2,757 Young Men's Christian Associations in North America with 689,023 members. They owned 782 plants and buildings valued at $83,263,460 and total property over $106,090,000. Local associations employed 4,353 officers and enrolled 152,160 in Bible courses and 82,358 in educational courses. Total operating expenses were $15,812,250. New buildings opened totaled over $6,000,000 with $8,900,000 pledged for over 40 more buildings by year end.
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North America
Army Tests Gases On Dogs For War Purposes
Stray dogs captured in Bridgeport and other cities will be killed by dog wardens and sent to New Haven for government gas experiments. The army and navy gas experimental committee conduct trials with various gas forms aiming to make them humane and cause minimal suffering, to be later used in European trenches.
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Army
Bridgeport
Conn
New Haven
Army and Navy Gas Experimental Committee
Job Offer Framed With Meals Lodging and Pay
An employment notice promises four hours work daily with three meals a day a dry place to sleep and bathing facilities. It lists pay from 36.20 to 83.00 dollars per month and a minimum eight hour shift structure.
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Mr. Hurley
Edward WN. Hurley
Lelaliarli Blaues
Noyon
Preacher
Army OF Farmers
America
Carl Vrooman
Boston
Committee of Public Safety
New England States
Atlanta
Southern Food Producers’ Association
South
Vrooman
Houston
St. Louis
New England
Maryland
W. R. Mayo
Elmora Hotel
Bloomfield
Indiana
Mayo
Delaware Street
Indianapolis
The
Navy
U. S. Navy Department
U.S. Navy
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