Germans Drive on Petrograd In Northern Offense
News bulletin reports rumors of Russian crisis as Hindenburg leads a major German offensive in the north targeting Petrograd. British and French actions push along Flanders and the Aisne as Italians press in Trentino and along the Adriatic. battles intensify with heavy losses.
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Canton Faces Coal Fuel Shortage and High Price
Canton grapples with a looming coal shortage and rising prices as officials plan a $4.15 per ton average retail target for Hocking lump. State and local leaders urge cooperation with a price scale based on mine rates, while city dealers report unstable supplies and hesitancy to lock in winter contracts.
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Canton Coal Market Thursday Prices and Delivery Quotes
The Canton report lists Pittsburgh No. 8 and Youghiogheny coal as standard domestic grades with prices from five to seven dollars. Dealers offer varied delivery timelines from immediate to September 15 and beyond, with multiple firms citing possible weekly or future deliveries and differing bids.
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Canton
Pittsburgh No. 8
Youghiogheny
Pittsburgh
Peace Conference Delayed by Passport Refusal Across Allies
Officials of the labor party learned from Stockholm that the International Socialist peace conference scheduled to open September 9 in London has been postponed due to the refusal of passports to delegates by the United States United Kingdom France Italy and Japan.
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Japan
Canton Sees Surge of Men Into Local Jobs
The YMCA vocational secretary reports 50 to 100 men arriving weekly in Canton and being placed in factory positions across the city and county as quickly as possible.
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Weather and notices from Canton area ads and events
Government forecast shows showers this afternoon or tonight with partly cloudy skies and cooler temperatures. Ads list Thursday evening events at Jack Kowalk’s Beer Garden and Nelly’s on Mahoning road, a Canton auto ad, and a playroll department item, all referencing local venues and activities.
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Jack Kowalk
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Married Men Exempt From First National Army Draft
Cleveland district board of appeals announced that married men who did not marry to avoid the draft will not be drafted in the first National army. The decision upsets local exemption boards which had been granting exemptions where the wife was not fully dependent.
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First National Army
Federal District Board of Appeals
First Regiment Bids Soldiers Farewell Before Alabama Move
Gov. Cox Adj. Gen. Wood Brig. Gen. Chas. X. Zimerman and officers watched as the First regiment 3000 strong paraded through Cincinnati closing business houses for an hour. Seven speakers from different corners bade the soldiers adieu as they head to Montgomery Alabama in a few days.
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Chas. X. Zimerman
Third Brigade
Montgomery
Alabama
Husbands to Court in Chicago Tonight
One hundred husbands who have skidded on the matrimonial highway will be hauled before Domestic Relations Judge Stelk tonight and ordered to put on chains. The court held a night session so husbands won t have to make embarrassing excuses to their employers.
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Germans killed by own gas during Moronvillers front action
A press dispatch reports German soldiers near Moronvillers on the Champagne front were asphyxiated by their own poison gas after French artillery destroyed reservoirs holding the gas. The rest of the text contains unrelated advertisements and notices about pianos and local business moves.
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Moronvillers
Champagne Front
Canton Company C Prepares for France Move
Co. C Canton scouts the trip to France as 1400 privates and officers ready for deployment. Capt. Herve W. Miner leads the unit which may depart Friday with eight recruits needed for full war strength. The camp near the United Alloy Steel plant shows tents being packed and rail coaches prepared to convey the company to an eventual firing-line assignment. The Eighth regiment, part of the Rainbow division, has a storied history in the Mexican incident.
Socialists confront mayor over street corner speaking ban
Canton socialists led by mayoral candidate T. H. Robertson meet with Mayor Stolberg at city hall to challenge the prohibition on public speaking after the revocation of speaking permits last Sunday. No agreement is reached as the party warns the ban could hurt municipal campaign prospects.
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T. H. Robertson
Stolberg
Nimisilark
Threats prompt guards around ex ambassador Gerard at Blackstone
In Chicago on August 23 detectives guarded the Blackstone hotel suite housing James W. Gerard, former ambassador to Germany and a keeper of Imperial secrets, after a flood of threatening letters to the so called man with the black bag.
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Hogs Prices Slip in Quiet Chicago Markets
Hogs fell sharply in a dull trading day in Chicago with prices 25 to 30 cents lower. Top price reached 19.15 dollars per hundred pounds.
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Corn prices fall as sweet corn at 25 cents a dozen
Sweet corn sold Thursday for 25 cents per dozen, down seven cents from the previous level.
Three Lives Lost In Lake Tragedy Near Ravenna
Aug 23. William David a carpenter Barbara Paska 23 a waitress and Bert Ramsdell a boatman drowned at Stafford Lake. David hired Ramsdell to ferry him and the young woman across in a canoe but the craft overturned mid lake.
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Stafford Lake
William David
Barbara Paska
Bert Ramsdell
David
Ramsdell
Bandit Killed by Police in St. Louis Bank Ambush
In St. Louis on August 23 police killed a bandit identified as B D Whitelaw 40 son of the vice president of the St Louis Milling Machine Co during a roulette style robbery at Steve Razines galoon as he forced six men to surrender with a revolver.
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Navy plans to harden U S ships against U boats
Washington Aug 23 The navy department urged ship owners to cooperate with the war risk bureau and the emergency fleet corporation to make vessels harder to sink. Proposals include dividing cargo holds into watertight compartments and achieving 15 to 16 knots. A 16 knot ship is deemed nearly immune to U boat attacks, but these changes would raise dock loading times and affect postwar trade competitiveness.
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Navy Department
War Risk Bureau
Federal Shipping Board
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Fight for Bigger Tax on Incomes
Washington reports tax battles unfold as La Follette proposes a graduated income tax up to 60 percent for fortunes over a million dollars. Bi partisan supporters seek to resist and defend the war profit tax while lawmakers reorganize ahead of further votes. Dr Laura E Stokey relocates practice to 949 McKinley Ave NW.
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Highay NW
McKinley
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Finance Committee
McKinley Av
Masonic Notice for Camton Lodge Special Communication
A special communication of Cam ton Lodge No. 60 will be held Thursday afternoon August 23 beginning at 1 PM. The M M degree will be conferred. Wm A Beardsley W M E Norris, Seek pay.
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A Beardsley
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