Farmers Hold Up Wheat For Higher Prices
Farmers across the nation delay releasing the wheat crop hoping the government will reopen the price question. Officials warn a flour famine looms if producers withhold grain, while millers expect a conference in St Paul. In Washington Hoover targets cost cuts via waste reduction and standardized bread weights and prices.
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Foor
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War Emergency Council
National Association
Hoover
The
Korniloff Deposed as Kerensky Seizes Control in Russia
Amid a political crisis, General Korniloff is ousted as Premier Kerensky consolidates power. Petrograd reports evacuation and civil disorder as the provisional government rejects Korniloff’s bid for dictatorial rule.
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Teen
Elver
Werensky
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Keenilo
Bill to Lease Nation Oil Lands Favored by Senate Panel
Senate public lands committee issued a favorable report on Senator Walsh’s bill to open 4,000,000 acres of oil and mineral land for use. The measure covers coal oil potash and sodium lands including about 8000 acres in naval reserve No. two in California. The report emphasizes oil supply and warns against delaying action in pursuit of conservation disputes.
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Washington, D. C
Walsh
Naval Reserve Number Two
California
Senate Public Lands Committee
Death Regiment Drives Teutons Back in Cerovolz Fight
Russian troops pressed the offensive near Cerovolz thirty-two miles northeast of Ri-24. The Petrograd report says the death battalion defeated German forces and forced a southern withdrawal while German detachments clashed with Russian rear guards along the Burmesk Line to the Pskoff road.
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Associated Press
Petrograd
Cerovolz
Ri- 24
Ross
Burmesk Ine
Pskoff Road
Yankee Gun Crew Sinks Submarine
An American tank steamer near an Atlantic port engaged a German submarine that hid behind a schooner. The tanker’s gun crew fired eight shots. the U-boat was sunk while the tanker and schooner escaped. The incident occurred about 1500 miles from Gibraltar.
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Una
Gibraltar
Painleve to Form New French Cabinet
Paul Painleve announced to President Poincare that he accepted the task of forming a new ministry to replace Ribot’s. He said the government would be one of national unity, not a party represented cabinet.
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M. Savinkoff
Kernilut
Painleve
Paris
Paul Painleave
Poincaire
Alexander Ribet
M. Painleve
City of Corinth Sunk by German U-boat in Atlantic
The British freighter City of Corinth owned by Ellerman Lines was sunk by a German U-boat off an Atlantic port, according to reports received today.
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City of Corinth
Ellerman Line
U S 10 Clamp Embargo Tightens on Sweden and Argentina
Washington reports new export restrictions tied to Germany Sweden and Argentina probes. The U S will require proof shipments to Sweden are for domestic use and not to Germany Sweden faces accusations of neutral dispatches from its Buenos Aires legation and Denial by Swedish minister Aaron Lowen intensifies diplomatic tension.
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Argentina
Sweden
War Exports Administration
Germany
America
State Department
United States
Bennos Aires
Aaron Lowen
Count Luxburg
Senate Approves Major War Tax Bill
The Senate passed a large war taxation measure, the biggest in U.S. history, late tonight. The bill provides a levy near 82 billion dollars, slightly above the House figure, with a Senate vote of 69 to 4 opposing Senators Borah Gronna LaFollette and Norris.
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House
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Norris
Germans Repulsed at Verdun in Desperate Attacks
London dispatch reports heavy fighting on the western front near Verdun as German forces repeatedly assault French positions along the Meuse. French raids succeed in the Cham pagne and Argonne regions while British forces conduct raids east of Villeret and southeast of Hargicourt. Storms and fog on the Italian front fail to stop furious fighting around Monte San Gabriele and Gorisia as General Cadorna drives Austrian forces northeast of the region.
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London
Europe
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Carrieres Wood
Fosses Wood
Champagne
Argonne
French War Department
Fosse and
Courieres Woods
Villeret
Hargicourt
Sir Douglas Haig
War Office
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Gorisia
Monte San Gabriele
Udine
Cadorna
Second Draft Quota Mobilized Next Week
Orders were issued for the September 15 mobilization of 40 percent of the men drafted with forty-one Cheyenne men affected. Some called had not completed physicals while others had enlisted. An Oct 3 quota of 40 percent follows, with 15 percent later. Cheyenne officials plan a sendoff, parade, and depot speeches, pending final details.
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Ray Olds
Cheyenne
Yielnity
Aternoon
Industrial Club
John J. Chirk
Busiess
IWW member John Ryan arrested after pool hall beating
John Ryan an IWW member was arrested with a white man and two Black men after Nye an had beaten a Japanese pool hall proprietor on West Seventeenth Street. He was jailed and began singing a battle hymn from the IWW before chaos erupted as officers arrived.
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John Ryan
Nyean
West Seventeenth Street
Ryan
Myan
Big State Fair Opens Today in Douglas with Large Crowd Expected
Douglas prepares for the big state fair as crowds are anticipated to fill the gates. Highlights include parades, an automobile display, racing, and performances with prominent regional towns like Cheyenne Gillette and Wheatland expected to attend.
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Douglas
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