Boys of Ghties Work on Farms to Link Two Departments
A Missouri conference in Columbia discussed recruiting boys from the United States Working Boys' Reserve to a central training camp. They will receive two weeks of agriculture and military training before being sent to camps near fertile regions to work with farmers under military discipline. Wages will help fund the camp upkeep.
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Missouri
Columbia
Cc. B. Mumford
College of Agriculture
University of Missouri
United States Working Boys’ Reserve
Department of Agriculture
Missouri defense council to meet in Kansas City
The Missouri council of defense will convene in Kansas City on September 10 to consider removing W. F. Saunders secretary and Robert A. Glenn publicity agent and all other officials tied to the attack on senatorial candidate Joseph W. Folk two days before the recent primary.
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Missouri Council of Defense
Kansas City
Joseph W. Folk
W. F. Saunders
Robert A. Glenn
Council
Folk
Saunders
Train Hits Car In Missouri, Four Die
A passenger train struck an automobile at a railroad crossing near Martinsburg Missouri killing four people and injuring a fifth who is believed fatally hurt. Victims include Mrs. John Bunch and her son Clarence Mrs. Eden Moulder and her son Howard. Mrs. Winnie Bunch is hospitalized with critical injuries.
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Mexico
Martinsburg
John Bunch
Clarence
Eden Moulder
Howard
Winnie Bunch
Red Cross Seeks More Workers Under Draft Changes
Washington permits the Red Cross to enlist men with deferred classifications and married men ages 18 to 21 and 31 to 41 subject to draft under a pending congressional bill. The organization urgently needs workers abroad and expects about 5,000 more men needed before year’s end.
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The
Red Cross
Washington
Congress
Rate hike protest against electric bills in St. Louis
James E. Allison of St. Louis representing large consumers told the public service commission that no emergency justifies Union Electric Light and Power Co. proposed rate increase. He argued the higher charges would be unjust burdens on consumers due to coal, labor, and tax costs.
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St. Louis
James E. Allison
Union Electric Light and Power Co
Public Service Commission
Allison
Missouri inmate Frank Fores holds record prison terms
Jefferson City reports Frank Fores, 75, has sixteen terms across Missouri Illinois and Iowa totaling over 50 years. His actual Missouri time totals 26 years after reductions. He says he cannot work and must live, explaining repeated incarcerations. Major home robbed. Mrs. Elliott W. Major reports entry by a thief. Stolen items include $6, a pearl band revolver valued at 13 and a silver card case.
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Jefferson City
Missouri
Illinois
Iowa
Frank Fores
Missouri Penitentiary
Fores
Training in High Schools Under 18 and 45 Age Rule
The number of registration age youths entering state high schools will drop as many enlist in the armed forces. A telegram from Congressman Dyer says the War Department plans compulsory military training in all high schools this year.
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Dyer
War Department
Wilson
New Pettis Fuel Chairman Appointed Food Administrator
Sedaliah A. Lamy, chairman of the Pettis county fuel committee, is named food administrator for Pettis county succeeding Prof. R. Luckett who resigned due to duties as county school superintendent.
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New Pettis Fuel
Sedaliah A. Lamy
Pettis County Fuel Committee
Pettis County
Prof. R. Luckett
Hedge row height law urged by Missouri officials
Missouri road laws require hedge rows to be cut to not more than five feet. Road overseers must enforce the rule as dense growth often obstructs views and leads to accidents. The State Highway Department calls on county road officials to enforce compliance.
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Missouri
States Highway Department
Brave Mother Rescues Baby From Cistern in Jefferson City
Mrs. Chris Coffelt of Jefferson City jumped into a 14 foot cistern to save her 18 month old child who fell in while playing with others. She stood in water as neighbors lowered a ladder and both mother and child escaped unharmed. Mrs. Coffelt is married to a city fireman.
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Jefferson City
Chris Coffelt
Coffelt
Allied Forces Break German Lines on Multiple Fronts
News from the front reports French and American forces dominating the Soissons plateau and advancing south of Bullecourt. British, French and American troops push German positions from Flanders to the Lys, with Haig's troops crossing the Hindenburg line near Bullecourt and German retreats noted around Arras and Noote Bohm.
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Canal du Nord
Noyon
Soissons
Aisne
Chemin Des Dames
Laon
la Fere
Flanders
Ypres
Field Marshal Haig
Hindenburg Line
Bullecourt
Lys Salent
Noote Bohm
Bailleul
Hides Mailing Galleys in Steel Safe at Missouri Volksfreund
Jefferson City reports the Missouri Volksfreund editor J F Koester has placed the paper’s mailing galleys in a steel safe to protect the mailing list. He said no incident prompted the action and that the paper has long supported government campaigns. Original text also notes plans for farm aid through the Y M C A and figures like Elwood Mead and H T Cory.
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Jefferson City
Missouri Volksfreund
J. F. Koester
Koester
Libee
Ross
Germans Retreat On Entire Front As Allied Pressure Rises
Washington reports German forces are withdrawing along the 150 mile front from Ypres to Reims with American and French patrols close behind. Pershing's communique notes advances to Bazoches Perles Fismette Dassieux and positions near Vauxcere Blansy Le Grande Hameau. Allied air units bombed Longuyon Domary Daroucourt and Conflans yards.
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Washington
Ypres
Reims
Flanders
Champagne
Foch
Artois
Picardy
Vesle
Soissons
Aisne
Noyon
Soissons-Reims
Bazoches
Fismes
Perles
Fismette
Dassieux
Pershing
War Department
Vauxcere-Blansy-Le Grande Hameau
Longuyon
Domary-Daroucourt
Conflans
Bomb wrecks Chicago federal building during deadly blast
Four people died and more than seventy five were injured in a bomb explosion at the crowded entrance of a federal building in Chicago at 3 10 this afternoon. The dead include William H Wheeler J B Ladd E R Kolkov and Miss Helen Michike with Ladd a sailor from the Great Lakes Naval Training Station. The blast shattered first floor windows across the street and was blamed on the N W W by Phillip J Barry of the justice department’s local office.
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Chicago
Federal Building
William H. Wheeler
J. B. Ladd
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Salina
Kan
E. R. Kolkov
Helen Michike
August Shipbuilding Sets New American Record
New records in U S shipbuilding were set in August with 295 849 gross tons of merchant ships built including 88 seagoing vessels totaling 283 099 tons For the eight months of the year output reached 1 414 260 tons and the 12 month total ended August was 1 787 730 tons Early in August production exceeded the previous year’s record set in 1917.
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Washington
Department of Commerce
Air raid over Lat terday targets Longayon lines
About thirty American planes crossed the German front last night and dropped a few bombs as part of ongoing air operations.
Expedition totals pass 1,600,000 troops
General March announced the U S army has surpassed 1,600,000 men in the expedition as of August 6 a report from Washington dated September 5 states the milestone was reached and noted in dispatches from the war office.
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Washington
United States
McAdoo
Freezone Promises Easy Corn Removal
Ad claims Freeze on corns relieves pain instantly and lets the corn lift away with fingers. Warns that Freezone, sold by druggists for a few cents, targets hard corns between toes and calluses without soreness or irritation. Attributed to a noted Cincinnati genius.
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Cincinnati
Navy Expands American Naval Effort With Allied Cooperation
The eight destroyers and under 1,000 men that started American naval cooperation with the allies have grown to twelve vessels and 40,000 men with 3,000 officers, according to the Manchester Guardian’s appreciation of the scale of the U.S. naval effort.
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Cers
The
Manchester Guardian
Unclear OCR Intake From Toledo Case Fragments
Fragmentary OCR text from Ohio Toledo area shows a sworn oath or filing reference involving Cheney and a cash amount. The legible pieces mention Toledo City, county and state entities and a medical or product name Catarah Cine, with garbled words around claims and surfaces.
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Ohio
Toledo
Frank
Cheney
Ch & Co
Ledo
Local Witnesses Describe Odd Pavement Scene
Report notes a small white substance on the pavement as a man carefully gathers it up while loudly lamenting. The exchange is captured in a Birmingham Age-Herald fragment.
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Birmingham Age-Herald
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