Survey to inventory retail food stocks in 43 counties
The United States Department of Agriculture will inventory food stocks in New York City and 43 counties nationwide on Aug. 31. The effort, directed by the Bureau of Markets with help from the Bureau of Chemistry and States Relations Service, covers stores farms wholesale storages and homes.
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New York City
United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Markets
Department
Bureau of Chemistry
States Relations Service
Boards of Trade
Chambers of Commerce
New York
Cleveland
Cuyahoga
Cleve
Syracuse
N. Y
Dallas
Tex
Altoona
Penn
Tyrone
Juniata
Cuyahoga County
Anonymous letter offers restitution for mislaid watch
Chicago dated August 26 reports an anonymous letter to city custodian De Witt C. Cregier claiming an unclaimed Ingersoll watch from a police station was taken by a police officer and value 8 cents. The writer offers a dollar to cover the mislaid item and requests the funds be placed where due. It is presumed the officer feared exposure.
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Chicago
de Witt C. Cregier
Italians Advance as Austrians Retreat in Rome Battle
Reports from the front show Austrian forces stubbornly retreating at multiple points including the Lower Corso while Italian troops press forward. General Cadorna, asked for an opinion, smiles and says the Italians are doing nicely.
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Rome
Lower Corso
Count Cadorna
Italian Air and Artillery Crush Austrian Lines on Isonzo
The official report credits extraordinary aerial and artillery Italians with breaking Austro lines between Tolmino and the sea. Food stocks burned and Austrian troops starved as Italian forces under Capello crossed the Isonzo at Andovo. The Second Army Corps seized Monte Santo, isolating the mountain and cutting the Austrian retreat. Nearly 100000 Austrians losses include many from the Iron Division.
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Tolmino
Carso
Iron Division
Monte Santo
Capello
Isonzo
Andovo
Reverend MacArthur Hails British Navy in Tremont Temple Sermon
The Rev Robert Stuart MacArthur praised the British navy saying it saved the United States and silenced anti British slurs in a patriotic Tremont Temple sermon. He warned that without Britain's navy many New England sea coast towns would be in ashes.
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Great Britain
New England
Robert Stuart MacArthur
Tremont Temple
Peace proposals spark debate on war timing and duty
The minister criticizes Pope Benedict's peace plan as ill-timed while urging immediate action on French soil to prevent fighting on American ground. Rev. Mac Arthur condemns editors as treasonous for wartime reporting. he praises Foot and Roosevelt as influential figures capable of shaping global outcomes.
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United States
MacArthur
Foot
Brother Root
Theodore Roosevelt
France
Russia
Portland Boy Drowns While Bathing at Peak's Island
Nine year old Robert Christian son of Mrs Jennie Christian Peak s Island drowned this afternoon after cramps struck him while swimming. Rescue efforts were futile and he died before aid arrived.
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Portland
Robert Christian
Jennie Christian
Peak's Island
Lower Draft Age to Save Country
A 1917 statement by Lt Gen S B M Young urges lowering the draft age to 19 to 31 and registering 9,600,000 men. He argues married men dodge exemptions, and only young, unmarried men can defend the nation, citing 21 and under as historically effective.
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Gen. Young
War Department
Beet sugar price cut to save about 30 million dollars
Washington announces beet sugar producers limit price to cut about 11 2 cents per pound from current sugar price. The move aims to save about 30 million dollars this year and lower imported sugar costs next year, as 80 percent of U S beet sugar makers join in the plan.
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Washington
The
Food Administration
United States
West Indies
England
Berry Picker Found Dead After 24 Hour Search
George Tibbets, 65, of Melrose, found in Hundred Acres meadow near the Wilmington line. He and his son were berry picking when he wandered from the auto. A 150-person search recovered his body with heart failure listed as cause.
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Reading
George Tibbets
Hundred Acres Meadow
Wilmington
Tibbets
Militia in Petrograd Quits Over Pay Increase Demand
The Petrograd militia, used since the revolution to police Petrograd, resigned today citing the refusal to grant a demand for higher pay.
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Petrograd
Bomb Attacks Hit Verdun Hospitals in German Raids
Paris reports German planes dropped incendiaries on the Verdun rear hospital at Vadelaincourt. A second bomb struck a pavilion where surgeons worked, forcing staff and wounded to flee. Another hospital at Chateau Mott Hairons was hit, a ward fire killed a wounded man, and ten more soldiers died at Belrupt from a shell. A downed German aviator’s photograph confirmed premeditated targeting of the hospital with the red cross.
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Paris
Verdun
Vadelaincourt
Chateau Mott Hairons
Belrupt
Dead Man Hill
Vadelaincourt Hospital
Red Cross
Big snake found in hen nest at Smith Centre
Will Reddinger, reaching into a setting hen nest, grabbed a snake that bit his hand and led him to break the standing high jump record. The snake, about five feet long, was killed. the setting hen and her eggs are missing.
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