LaFollette Presses Higher War Tax and Draft Debates
Senator La Follette urges raising war profits and income taxes to fund World War I, arguing elites should bear greater burden while warning of bread lines and rising living costs. He predicts large future war expenditures and critiques consumption taxes and bond reliance. First draft cases move to the U S Supreme Court in St Paul.
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South Carolina Protest Over Colored Troop Training
Governor Manning with Senators Tillman and Smith and the full South Carolina delegation met at the War Department to protest training colored troops in the state. He also opposed sending Porto Ricans to Columbia and suggested Cuba for training. Secretaries Baker will decide. some senators favor local training, others see no friction risk.
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Baker
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Fire Prevention Committee to Inspect Brunswick Industries
Under the Georgia Fire Prevention Committee of National Defense a Brunswick inspection is set for Monday the 27th. Fire underwriters engineers and insurance agents will inspect cotton storage warehouses shipyards cotton seed oil mills wholesale grocers and related facilities to prevent fires that could hinder war efforts. The letter urges coordination with mayor fire chief police chief Board of Trade dock board electric plant waterworks Woman’s Club and other civic groups and to hold a joint briefing during the committee visit.
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James S. Wright Agency
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Germany
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Board of Trade
Dock Board
Woman’s Cld
Hog prices jump to twenty dollars per hundred
Chicago reports choice heavy hogs sold at twenty dollars per hundred, up three dollars from eleven days ago. Government contracts are based on a twenty dollar per hundred rate.
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Watson backs out from anti draft meeting in Macon
The Macon anti draft gathering set for Thursday was canceled after Thomas E. Watson reported receiving numerous threatening letters. C A Yarborough announced the cancellation and said Watson would not attend.
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C. A. Yarborough
Thomas E. Watson
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Nationwide food survey to begin under new law
Washington reports the department of agriculture will start a nationwide food survey immediately under the new food law. The effort aims to yield substantial benefits and improve food management nationwide.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
FTC to proceed against paper manufacturers
Washington report states the Federal Trade Commission found the last year price advances on book paper excessive and unwarranted and ordered proceedings against certain manufacturer practices.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
Coal prices fixed nationwide by Wilson plan
President Wilson fixed bituminous coal prices for all U S mines with district uniformity. Prices will reflect production costs as estimated by the Federal Trade Commission and reviewed by a yet unnamed coal administrator. Judge Lovett, now transportation director, orders northwest shipments prioritized.
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Williams College
Wilson
Lovett
Northwest
Go-Between in Bribe Case Sentenced to Two Years
Kalinat Gruber, acting as a go-between for exemption board members, pleaded guilty to receiving bribes for granting exemptions. He was sentenced to two years in the federal penitentiary in Atlanta.
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New York
Kalinat Gruber
Atlanta
Barrel of Whiskey Seized by Clever Brunswick Sleuths
Brunswick and Glynn county detectives net a barrel of whiskey after a two year elusion. Special Officer Houston and part of the Brunswick force staged a raid at the Atlantic Coast Line depot after a warrant was served on T. J. Wright. The whiskey, consigned to a Windsor club that did not exist, had lingered in the Coast Line warehouse since 1915.
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Yaryan Plant May Resume Work At Once
Brunswick clamor centers on the Yaryan plant closure over labor trouble with 850 local workers potentially affected. Management signals willingness to reopen if majority of Brunswick employees pledge loyalty, with talks planned for a quick return to operations despite earlier shutdown.
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Yeserday
Cuba Transfers Four German Ships to United States
President Monocle signed a decree transferring to the United States four German steamships seized as prizes when war was declared.
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Havana
Mon Ocal
United States
Japanese Mission Reaches Capitol forDinner
Japanese mission will arrive in Washington today and will be hosted by President Wilson at a dinner Thursday.
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Washington
Wilson
Rioting Breaks Out Across Spain Amid General Strike
Rioting flared in Barcelona and other towns after a general strike was proclaimed. Reports say a republic was proclaimed in Bilbao and Zaragoza with many deaths.
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Barcelona
Bilboa
Saragossa
Allils Hammer the Teutons on All the Battle Fronts
Sioux Pallet, S. C. reports fifteen Germans arrested here for violating the espionage act. Six were taken to Yanktown for a preliminary hearing.
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Yanktown
Allies Drive German Line as Zeppelins Fall
Allied commands report hard French and Canadian counterattacks driving Germans from positions near Verdun and Rogneville with many prisoners taken. Russians hold ground in Galicia as Austrian lines crack under Italian pressure and a British force sinks a German Zeppelin off Denmark's coast.
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Verdun
German War Office
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Galicia
Denmark
Opportunity for Georgia farmers to buy Texas cattle
A letter from Wo OW Croxton of the A B and A describes a joint effort with government authorities to move drought affected Texas cattle to Georgia purchasers. Beef cattle including Herefords Short Horns and Angus can be bought at about 40 to 70 per head and financed via local banks. Field agents W R Ticker and L G Proctor may visit Texas to aid buyers with planning and purchases within two weeks.
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A. B
Washington
Texas
Drouth
Georgia
W. R. Ticker
Fitzgerald
L. G. Proctor
Talladega
Ali
United States Department of Agriculture
Hook worm found among soldiers
New York reports hook worm in forty seven of seventy five militia recruits examined. Public health authorities call for prompt examination of all national guard and national army units, especially from warmer climates. Dr Stiles urged treatment to avoid unjust punishment of soldiers and orders to eradicate the disease.
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National Guard
Ntional Army
Stiles
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Public Health Service
American Soldiers in Sham Battles Near Front Lines
American troops in France engage in near real combat drills. A regiment defends trenches while French troops assault with mock projectiles. A large delegation of American officers visits the front to observe training.
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France
Draft change up to President Wilson
Washington reports the president alone holds power to alter draft exemption rulings on marriage. The War Department maintains exemption based on dependency rather than marital status.
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Wilson
Washington
War Department
Grand Army Parades Through Boston Town
Boston observers witnessed several thousand aged men in blue marching in the annual Grand Army of the Republic encampment parade. The route, the shortest in the event’s history, drew veterans who fought for the Union over fifty years ago through city streets.
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Grand Army of the Republic
Belgian War Mission Welcomed at City Hall in New York
The Belgian war mission, fifth foreign delegation to visit New York, was formally welcomed by Mayor Mitchell. The program was simple at the request of mission members, with a wartime color ceremony and the Seventh Regiment present for the public greeting at City Hall.
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