State Treasury reports record September funds in Missouri
State Treasurer George Middelkamp announced the treasury holds more than $97 million, the largest September balance in state history. He expects the remaining $1 million borrowed earlier to be repaid by year end, with no current debts outstanding. Missouri Bar Association met in St Louis with speeches and resolutions, including a proposed vagrancy law and leadership changes. Dr A Ross Hill named to head reconstruction committee. beer production in 1917 reported with economic figures. banker Joseph Block dies at 66. building control under War Industries Board extended through Missouri Council of Defense permission process.
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Jefferson City
George Middelkamp
Commonwealth
Middelkamp
St. Louis
Missouri Bar Association
Senator Reed
James C. Jones
Edward A. Hald
Vinton Pike
St. Joseph
George A. Mann
Hannibal
W. O. Thomas
Kansas City
Dell A. Dutton
Robert Lamar
Houston
O’neill Ryan
W. Q O. Thomas
Hill
A. Ross Hill
University of Missouri
Missouri Council of Defense
Paul Brown
Edmund Brown
Clarence H. Howard
Percy Werner
F. B. Mumford
B. A. Jenkins
A. W. Nelson
Farmer and Stockman
Bunceton
Walter Williams
School of Journalism
Columbia
Hugh Ward
E. L. Hendricks
State Normal School
Warrensburg
Ic. G. Brittingham
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Eldon
Missouri
Bureau of Labor
W. H. Lewis
Missouri Breweries
A. T. Edmenston
Joseph Block
Elsberry
Missouri Baptist Sanitarium
St.uis
Block
War Industries Board
County Council of Defense
State Council
Jasper County appoints Walter Colley superintendent
Governor Gardner appoints Walter Colley of Carthage as Jasper County schools superintendent succeeding L W Kost who resigned. In another item Peaster wins nomination as the supreme court denies mandamus to force St Clair County clerk to alter election returns showing Ross Feaster defeating Senator John Baldwin for representative.
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Walter Colley
Carthage
Jasper County
Gardner
L. W. Kost
Peaster
Supreme Court
John Baldwin
St. Clair County
Ross Feaster
Baldwin
Russell Brothers Report From War Front and Training Roles
Lieut Don O Russell 21 son of R G Russell Webster Groves Missouri now to report to Tulane University New Orleans as an instructor in military training. He trained at Fort Sheridan and graduated from Washington University where he starred in athletics. Roy E Russell 23 and brother has just landed in France.
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Don O. Russell
R. G. Russell
Webster Groves
St. Louis County
Tulane University
New Orleans
Lieut
Russell
Fort Sheridan
Washington University
Roy E. Russell
France
Judge orders Sullivan to show cause on injunction over license tag contract
Circuit Judge Slate orders John L. Sullivan Secretary of State to appear in court on September 30 and show cause why an injunction should not be issued to block his contract with Con P Curran for manufacturing 1919 state automobile license tags. The suit alleges the deal will cost the state $12 000 too much.
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St. Louis
Circuit Court
John S. Sullivan
Universal Manufacturing and Stationery Co
Slate
John L. Sullivan
Sullivan
Con P Curran
Chick Found Guilty in Mortgage Duplication Case
In Kansas City Missouri a jury convicted Joseph S Chick of selling a duplicate mortgage to his former school teacher Miss Amanda Kennedy. He received a two year penitentiary sentence and bond of 1500 dollars pending appeal. His attorneys gave notice of an appeal and the defendant was released on bond.
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Kansas City
Josephs
Chick
Amanda P. S. Kennedy
Butler County GOP Names Hill as Prosector Candidate
The Butler County Republican Central Committee selected David W. Hill to succeed BE B H. Penzel as prosecuting attorney. Hill, away from the city, will be appealed to on patriotic grounds. He formerly spoke at the State House. Road tied up. No trains moved on the Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad for nearly a week due to a strike by 120 Harrison shopmen.
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Butler County
Republican Central Committee
David W. Hill
B H. Penzel
Hill
State House
Missouri & North Arkansas Railroad
Harrison
Ark
Kansas City Captain Returns After War Torpedoed Voyage
Capt Ludwig Graves of Kansas City arrived in New York after surviving the Mount Vernon torpedoing 200 miles off the French coast. He will instruct troops in the United States following months in France, sending a message to his father Judge W W Graves. Missouri capitol dedication postponed until after the war due to limited rail service and lack of civilian enthusiasm, with no 1 cent per mile rail rate offered for a Kansas City home guard regiment.
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Ludwig Graves
Kansas City
Mount Vernon
New York
W. W. Graves
Supreme Court
France
Capitol Commission
Missouri
McAdoo
War Update: Allied Pushs Across Europe and Near East
Allied forces press the German and Ottoman lines across Macedonia Palestine and France. British Allenby and French troops drive deep into Turkish positions, while American raiders poke through German lines in the Woevre. Hoover reports Belgium relief food for 10 million. Italy weighs sending an American army.
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Macedonia
Palestine
France
St. Quentin
Hindenburg Line
British War Office
Washington
Belgium
Commission For the Relief
Herbert Hoover
Influenza Spreads Across United States Prompting Relief Talks
Washington reports rapid influenza spread prompting discussions among the Public Health Service War and Navy departments and the Red Cross. Five thousand three hundred twenty four new army camp cases bring total to twenty nine thousand and two hundred, with two thousand three hundred thirteen pneumonia cases and five hundred thirty deaths. Hoboken leads in new cases with one thousand twenty five.
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Washington
Public Health Service
War and Navy Departments
Red Cross
Wilmington
N. C
Rupert Blue
Atlantic
Pacific
New England
Pacific Coast
California
Minnesota
Iowa
Mississippi
Army
Camp Devens
Mass
Hoboken
Archbishop Ireland Dies After Illnesses at 80
Archbishop John Ireland of the St. Paul diocese died at 3:55 a.m. after a year of frail health due to heart and stomach ailments. He had a Florida trip last winter, a spring breakdown, and a near-death period before a quick recovery. He celebrated a solemn high mass at the cathedral after leaving bed.
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St. Paul
John Ireland
Florida
Ireland
Peace traps not for labor says Gompers in Paris
Samuel Gompers, head of the American Federation of Labor, told more than twenty French labor leaders that U S workers will press the war to a victorious end. He warned there will be no peace talks until final victory and that French labor will stand with America on the home front until arms win.
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Paris
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
France
America
May Fix Price of Hogs During War
The national agricultural advisory committee recommends guaranteeing farmers a minimum hog price of 15.50 per hundred pounds during the war in a report submitted to the Administration.
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Washington
National Agricultural Advisory Committee
Canada’s War Toll Topples Eight-Figure Losses
Ottawa reports Canada’s overseas forces in England and France lost 115,806 officers NCOs and men up to August 1. The figure records total casualties among service members in World War II operations through that date.
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Canada
Ottawa
England
France
Aviators In Italy Use Every Moment For Flying
American aviators in Italy maximize days by starting flights at five every morning and using every minute. Landings occur 200 meters from the beach and a new trainee ready in a boat carries his gear. The process takes under two minutes from engine stop to takeoff, reducing beaching damage and engine wear from taxiing.
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Ators
Italy
James H. Hare
L Weekly
Ruth Learns to Say "Scuse Me" at Home
A three year old Ruth begins using a new word after neighborhood play with friends. She accidentally knocks a chair and blurts out a mild expletive, prompting her mother to question the phrase from the porch. Ruth apologizes with a shy, bright grin.
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Ruth
The Talkative Golfer and Perkins' Wife
A witty exchange notes Parke accusing Perkins' wife of golf antics while Lane comments on her talkativeness and high scoring. The quip plays on a stereotype of a verbose player.
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Parke
Perkins
London
Fish Stressed by Freeze Tests Show No Silant Change
Chemical analysis indicates no significant si lant changes in fish kept under 27 men frozen condition.
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Marshall
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Tad Pinas
Bea
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American Bankers’ Association
Thomas Welch
Joseph Pulitzer
St.Louis Post-Dispatch
New York World Corporation
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
United States Public Health Service
Roscoe Lancaster
Lancaster
Thomas P. Gore
Oklahoma City
Gore
D. E. Herschelman
Porum
Okla
Herschelman
Tulsa
Independent Packing Company
War Finance Corporation
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Copenhagen
Reichstag
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Germany
Austria
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British Independent Air Force
Metz
Coronna
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