Reichstag Faces Bitter Struggle Over Peace Note
A German note to the Pope is seen by State Department officials as verbal fencing with no concessions to Liberals. The Reichstag reconvenes September 26 amid expected bitter fights as pan-German and Liberal factions clash and allied pressure rises on German policy.
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the Commercial Tribune
Washington
Amsterdam
State Department
Reichstag
Germany
United States
Garfield solves private coal use plan for winter
Washington dispatch reports fuel administrator Dr. H A Garfield outlined a plan to meet private consumers coal needs by requisitioning spot coal at mines and selling through local dealers at government fixed prices. State fuel administrators will determine demand and allocate supply among mines, with operators trimming contracts to meet spot needs.
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Associated Press
Washington
H. A. Garfield
Weather summary and temperatures across states
Ohio Tennessee Kentucky West Virginia and Indiana fair Sunday and maybe Monday. Current stations report highs around 80s, some 90s, and scattered rain amounts. Cincinnati records Sept 15 1917 shows highs around 93, lows near 71, with clear and partly cloudy conditions at 7 AM and 7 PM.
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Ohio
Tennessee
Kentucky
West Virginia
Indiana
Montreal
Kansas City
Boston
New York
Denver
Washington
Phoenx
Jacksonville
Senter
New Orleans
Seattle
Galveston
S. Francisco
Chattanooga
Los Angeles
Detroit
Winnipeg
Chicago
Calgary
St. Louis
Kamloops
Cincinnati
Columbus Dog Tax Ruling Doubling Fees Next Year
Attorney General McGhee rules the dog registration law does not exempt the special tax on dogs listed last April. Male dogs face 1 dollar due in December plus another dollar before January 1 under the new law. female dogs owe double.
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Columbus
McGhee
German Crook In King Mystery Stirs Chicago Fire
Federal authorities report partial proof that Mrs. Maude C. King was victimized by an international blackmailing network linked to the German cause. Chicago is described as the Western headquarters, with leaders sought. Gaston B. Means faces a dispute over the alleged second will of James King, triggering a possible court fight.
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The
Commercial Tribune
Chicago
Maude C. King
Gaston B.’ Means
King
James €. King
Means
Secret room found in Means apartment amid King case probe
Federal and municipal authorities in New York force opened a heavily bolted store room believed to hold papers tied to the Maude C. King death and 2 million dollar fortune. They also report Mrs Dietsch left the city after Afton Means appeared, a possible link to the investigation.
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New York
Gaston B. Means
Maude C. King
King
Means
Henry Dietsch
Afton Means
Gaston
North Carolina
Mrs. Foer Arrives in Concord After King's Shooting Case
Mrs. J Benson Foer arrives in Concord accompanied by Gaston B Means in his seven passenger touring car. She is met at the station and registered at the St. Cloud Hotel as Mrs. K Smith from New York City.
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Commercial Tribune
Concord
N. C
J. Benson Foer
Maude C.king
Gaston B. Means
St. Cloud
Blackwellers Spring
Maine to Organize Food Conservation Army
Plans to form a food conservation army of 183000 Maine families for the National Food Conservation campaign. Governor Milliken chairs the executive committee to direct the effort and every household will be canvassed under the slogan Food will win the war. Don’t waste it.
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Associated Press
Augusta
Maine
Milliken
Seven Million May Be Called to Be Examined
Washington report notes Provost Marshal General proposal for immediate examination of 7,000,000 registered men not yet drafted. Telegrams sent to all states seek opinion with replies due early next week. The move aims to tell candidates if they will be selected and help them plan.
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Associated Press
Washington
Eight Hours Daily Training At Camp Sherman Ohio
The next draft quota arriving at Camp Sherman Ohio may undergo eight hours of daily military drill within a week of arrival. Training will focus on soldier, squad, and company drills with long hikes between sessions. Officers report the initial five percent show promise, aiming to match Ohio National Guardsmen after three months of training. The cantonment centers include a theater and library as cleanup in Chillicothe continues. A Sunday bar room was found, with authorities closing places of ill repute not touched in twenty three years. Liquor was blocked for soldiers from Circleville by a new search order for returning autos.
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Commercial Tribune
Sherman
Ohio National Guardsmen
Chillicothe
Circleville
Ohio Engineers Arrive Strengthening Camp Sheridan
Two remaining engineer companies from Ohio join Camp Sheridan as Batteries B and C of Columbus and D E F of Cincinnati arrive. Five batteries of the Third Regiment of Field Artillery also reach the camp with headquarters, supply, medical detachment and eighty horses under Colonel Paul Mitchell of Cincinnati and Lieutenant Colonel Simeon Nash in command.
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Associated Press
Montgomery
Ala
Ohio Engineers
Ft. Benjamin Harrison
Chillicothe
Columbus
Cincinnati
Camp Sheridan
Field Artillery
Paul Mitchell
Simeon Nash
Germany Plans Air War With Bulgarian Turkish Flyers
Amsterdam Sept 15 Germany has begun preparations for the anticipated Allied aerial offensive. Von Hindenburg plans to employ many young Bulgarians and Turks in the German air service on the western front. Fifty Turkish and Bulgarian officers are training at the aviation school near Ostend.
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Amsterdam
Spe
Cial
Germany
Amer
Ica
von Hinden
Burg
Ostend
Strike Begun in Portland Shipyards
Portland and the Columbia River shipyards shut as carpenters strike. About 2,500 workers have laid down tools across eleven plants, demanding a $4 per day minimum for unskilled labor while skilled workers earn about $5. Seattle reports up to 4,000 idle. steel plants keep operating.
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Portland
Ore
Columbia River
Seattle
Puget Sound Bridge
U-Boat Attack Reported Near U S Shore by Two Steamships
Two steamship reports of a submarine near the U S Atlantic coast circulate with claims of a sighting about sixty five miles east of Nantucket. Navy officials question the tale as a hoax while anti submarine patrols intensify along New York and New England.
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U.S
Nantucket
Abby
Abbie
The
Commercial Tribune
Washington
Navy Department
American
New York
New England
White House PicketingLinked to Maine Suffrage Loss
Representative Hersey of Maine said White House picketing helped defeat woman suffrage in Maine. He claimed 75,000 pro suffrage men stayed away from the polls due to banners at the White House insulting President Wilson.
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Associated Press
Washington
White House
Maine
Hersey
House
Wilson
Customs Seize Gold Coin from Spanish Steamer at Gulf Port
Customs officials removed about 50000 in gold coin hidden in ship stores aboard a Spanish steamer minutes before departure for a Spanish port. An investigation is ongoing into the seizure and circumstances.
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Gulf
Joint Pole Rule Fixed By Austria and Germany
Vienna reports a decree moving supreme Polish authority to a three member regency council appointed by the occupying powers. The council will legislate with countersignature by a Premier and require allied approval for major actions. Charles and Wilhelm pledge to consolidate the Polish state and create organs with legislative and executive powers.
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Austria
Germany
Associated Press
Amsterdam
Lublin
Warsaw
Poland
Vienna
William
Charles
Lemberg
May yield to operators in Kentucky strike action
Word from Lexington Kentucky reports a mass miners meeting to be held in Pineville on September 16 to decide whether to continue the strike for union recognition. About 17 000 to 18 000 miners are on strike across Southeastern Kentucky and northeastern Tennessee as operators meet all their other demands.
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Lexington
Kentucky
Tennessee
Pineville
German to Be Dropped at Fifteen Cincinnati Schools
Cincinnati boards vote to drop German in schools lacking classes of twenty pupils. Fifteen will lose the study entirely, five more will see partial reductions, with transfers likely for some pupils to continue the language.
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Cincinnati
Act of Board of Education
Condon
Board of Education
Bond Hill
College Hill
Dill
Douglass
Evanston
Fulton
Highlands
Hyde Park
Drake Colony
Jackson
Lincoln
Linwood
McKinley
Morgan
North Fairmount
Oakley Colony
Pleasant Ridge
Riverside
Stowe
Westwood
Cheviot Colony
Whittier
Avondale
Columbian
Cumminia
Guilford
Harrison
Hoffman
Raschig
Winton Place
Negotiations Break Down Over Iron Workers Strike
In San Francisco on September 15, talks among the California Metal Trades Associations the Organization of Employers and the Iron Trades Council with about 25 unions failed to reach a settlement. The threatened strike affecting some 25,000 iron workers and shipyard employees was set for next Monday but was abruptly abandoned without agreement.
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San Francisco
California Metal Trades Associations
The
Organization of Employers
Iron Trades Council
Conference Call Aims at Midwest Coal Wage Increase
John B. White President of the United Mine Workers of America calls for an interstate conference of coal operators and miners in the central competitive field to meet in Washington on September 25 to consider increased wages. The field covers Illinois Indiana Ohio and Western Pennsylvania.
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Indianapolis
John B. White
United Mine Workers of America
Washington
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Pennsylvania
German General Sets 400 Mark Bounty on US Soldier
Sept. 15 The German commander of the Eleventh Reserve Division offered 400 marks for the first American soldier brought dead or alive into his lines. The note was carried as a price on a U S prisoner and reflected wartime ransom practices.
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Associated Press
France
Belgium
Americans named in today’s casualty list
The Associated Press reports from Ottawa on September 15 that the casualty list includes Killed in Action Nelson Gauthier of Missoula Mont and H. H. Reuss of Guthrie Ok. Missing W. H. Gregory of Pontiac Michigan. Wounded Lester Bates of McKees Rocks Pa and J. E. Harper of Minneapolis Minn and Charles Gruchy of Wilkes-Barre Pa.
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Associated Press
Ottawa
Nelson Gauthier
Missoula
Mont
H. H. Reuss
Guthrie
W. H. Gregory
Pontiac
Michigan
Lester Bates
McKeestocks
Minneapolis
Slacker Charge Is Made Against Mt. Auburn Man
Mt. Auburn Charles Lark and his wife Catharine are charged with making false sworn affidavits to support Lark’s draft exemption claim. The affidavits claimed sole support of the household though Catharine works at a Race Street corset shop earning $12 weekly. Bond set at 500 for September 29 appearance. officials anticipate more cases as similar false statements come to light.
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Charles Lark
Dandridge Street
Mt. Auburn
Catharine Lark
Lark
Board No. 3
District Board
Washington
Frank Bowman
Race Street
Adler
Bahlman Iron
Bruce
Stockholm disavowals signal Swedish diplomacy strain
London report says Count Wrangel left for the continent on holiday as British probes Sweden over the Washington disclosures. Officials in Stockholm say Sweden will stop German dispatches and seeks to explain the misuses, while Crown officials warn the diplomatic ties with Britain remain tense until action satisfies London.
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Associated Press
London
Count Wrangel
Washington
Sweden
Wrangell
Wrangel
Great Britain
America
Stockholm
Lindman
Germany
Submarine Sinks at Dock No Loss of Life Reported
A United States submarine sank at its dock at an Atlantic port with no fatalities. Cause unknown, aiming to raise soon for a full Navy report. Names of the submarine and port withheld for military reasons.
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Associated Press
Washington
Sept
United States
Atlantic
Navy Department
North Atlantic
S.O. S
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