1275 Hamilton County Men Enlist in War Bond Parade
A crowd-fueled march celebrated 1,275 Hamilton County men who enlisted to defend the nation. The city honored the volunteers with cheers from Garfield Square to Government Square as Smittie’s Band played My Country Tis of Thee and the flag was raised.
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Hamilton County
Sam
Paul
Ft. Sherman
Chillicothe
Garfield Square
Government Square
Esplanade
Cincinnati War Council
Cincinnati Home Guard
Smittie
Domo
Ohio Suffragists Lose First Court Win on Referendum Petitions
Ohio suffragists lose first decision in suit to block Reynolds Presidential suffrage law referendum. Judge Frank Rathmell rules Franklin County election boards must certify signatures and can throw out petitions from thirty three counties if action changes the outcome, potentially affecting about 23000 names.
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Associated Press
Columbus
Ohio
Fulton
Frank Rathmell
Franklin County
Thirtythree
Weather Across States Shows Showers Then Fair Skies
The weather section notes Thursday showers or clouds from Ohio to Indiana and Tennessee with Friday fair and cooler in most areas. Regional temperatures list Montreal to Phoenix and others, followed by a September 19 1917 Cincinnati record with 7am and 7pm readings and a clear day profile.
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Ohio
Kentucky
Indiana
West Virginia
Tennessee
Montreal
Denvepsehen
Ci Uc
Jacksonville
Phoenix
Pittsburg
Seattle
Chattanooga
Portland
Chicago
San Francisco
St. Louis
Winnipes
Wvccompiee
Omaha
Kamlgops
Cincinnati
Hum
Boy Scout Presents Onions to Local War Camp
George Strietman a 14 year old Cincinnati Troop 9 member brought a bushel of his home grown onions to the First Regiment camp at Sharonville. He said he grew them in his war garden to feed a soldier and urged follow scouts to support the effort.
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George Strietman
Cincinnati
Sharonville
Sergeant Treadway
Ohio Elks Delegations Open 19th State Reunion in Columbus
Ohio Elks gather in Columbus for the nineteenth annual state reunion. Cincinnati Lodge 5 promotes James Richardson for Grand Lodge Secretary at Atlantic City in 1918. Delegations from Toledo Sandusky and 150 from Washington Courthouse attend with a 60 piece brass band.
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Columbus
Elk Lodges
Ohio
Ohio Elks’ Association
Cincinnati Lodge No. 5
Columbus Lodge
John G. Price
J. W. Ranney
John W. Kaufman
Albert Bennet
Edward T. Gettrost
Cincinnati
John C. Daller, Jr
Frank A. Moeller
Oscar Schroeder
George W. Rhein
Michael Kuhn
Lawrence Birmingham
John Brennan
Charles Hall
Cincinnati Lodge
Jesse W. Smith
Washington
Thorofares
Toledo
Sandusky
State Association
John Galvin
Harry Davis
Cleveland
Fred Harper
Lynchburg
Bruce Campbell
East St. Louis
Ill
Grand Lodge
Fred Hoffmann
Richard B. Witt
Karle
Elks
Ohio Dry Fight Explodes Over Bribe Allegations
Attorney Rudolph A. Mack, leader of the Law Enforcement League in Ohio, accuses the Anti Saloon League of trying to pay him to endorse its actions in Cleveland. He says the league aims to corrupt legislators ministers and officials to advance a broader prohibition agenda. He recounts a Cleveland meeting with men linked to liquor interests who offered funds to support the league.
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Ohio
Rudolph A. Mack
Law Enforcement League
Mack
Cleveland
Antisaloon League
Commerctial Tribune
Ohio Dry Federation
Hollenden Hotel
Hill
Publishers Protest War Tax as Grossly Unfair
The Publishers Association of New York renewed its protest against a special war tax on publishers. It argues newspapers bear war costs, gain no profits from the war, and such a tax would throttle freedom of information and hinder government communication efforts. It urges all businesses to bear taxes equally while noting publishers have funded policies like conscription and liberty loans at great expense to themselves.
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Associated Press
New York
Publishers’ Association of New York Today
United States
Army Mobilization Progress and Funding Request
Secretary Baker and War Department leaders testifying before the Senate Appropriations Committee seek 287 416 000 more to equip a 2 300 000 strong national army. Dispatches report smooth mobilization, enthusiastic crowds, and cantonment preparations as 45 percent of the first call force moves toward training.
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Associated Press
Washington
National Army
Baker
War Department
Senate
Altho
Twelve thousand shoe workers to return after factory agreement
Lynn Massachusetts reports twenty shoe factories will reopen Monday morning after a late today conference agreement between union representatives and manufacturers ends a shutdown that began April 18.
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Associated Press
Lynn
Mass
Sawdust Used to Dress Soldier Wounds in Rumania
A Red Cross cablegram reports Romania lacking medical supplies so wounds are dressed with sawdust. Urgent needs include surgical instruments hospital supplies bandages and bed linens. The Romanian railway system is crippled and ambulance transport with drivers and mechanics is scarce. The commission led by Henry Watkins Anderson aims to reach Jassy on Saturday.
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Associated Press
Washington
Rumania
American Red Cross Commission
Jassy
Petrograd
Henry Watkins Anderson
Six Thousand Soldiers Added to Camp Sherman
Camp Sherman at Chillicothe Ohio welcomed 3800 selective draft men from Ohio cities and counties swelling civilian soldiers to over 6000. Cleveland contributed nearly 1600 as regular and special trains delivered the arrivals. Detachment of late arrivals occurred under portable army flood lights after sunset.
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Associated Press
Camp Sherman
Chillicothe
Ohio
Cleveland
Another Aviator Killed at Scott Field
Special Dispatch to The Commercial Tribune from Belleville Illinois reports Sergeant A L Alexander age 30 of New York was killed when his head was crushed by the propeller blades of an aircraft. It marks the first fatality at Scott Field caused by an aeroplane.
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Commercial Tribune
Belleville
Ill
A. L. Alexander
New York
Scott Field
Government raises pay to end row on Pacific coast ships
Washington reports a Shipping Board cost sharing plan to pay half of wage increases for firms with up to 10 percent profits on commandeered ships. San Francisco builders with iron worker strikes may accept higher pay. Hurley delays coast trip as talks with Gompers and AFL officials progress.
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Associated Press
Washington
Pacific Coast
San Francisco
Shipping Board
Hurley
Department of Labor
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Seattle
Portland
The
Rhodes official calls revising U S history to end distrust
George RR Parkin secretary of the Rhodes scholarship fund and vice president of the Royal Colonial Institute of London says Americans must revise school histories to remove distrust of England. He predicts July 4 will become an anachronism ten years from now.
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Chicago
George RR. Parkin
Rhodes Scholarship Fund
Institute of London
Parkin de
Riot in Philadelphia Ward Sparks Fatal Police Shooting
In Philadelphia Fifth Ward a faction feud within the Republican party led to a riot that killed Officer George Eppley and wounded several political workers. John Marsdia and John Costello faced murder and assault charges connected to the shooting, with Costello linked to election work from Jersey City. Police identified men wearing white ribbons used to distinguish electioneerers.
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Associated Press
Philadelphia
Republican Party
George Eppley
James A. Casey
Hos
Costello
Marsha
Jersey City
Marsdia
John Marsdia
John Costello
Carey
New York
Villages Burned as Germans Press Riga Front
Special Cable reports Russian forces advancing toward Riga after driving back German units. Villages are burned and the countryside laid waste as the front shifts. Odessa and Romanian front notes add context to broader operations and casualties exceed 27 000 for the week.
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Riga
Commercial Tribune
Petrograd
Muntz
Korniloff
Russia
Germany
Odessa
Moldavia
Altho
Kherson
Flanders
London
Longshoremen at New Orleans Strike Over 5-Year Wage Pact
About 2,100 longshoremen including white and Negro workers walked off docks in New Orleans after stevedores refused to sign a new five year contract with higher wages.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
Argentine Senate Votes to Break Relations with Germany
In Buenos Aires on September 19 the Argentine Senate approved breaking off relations with Germany by a 23 to 1 vote. The resolution moves to the Chamber of Deputies amid strong public support for final passage.
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Associated Press
Buenos Aires
Germany
Chamber of Deputies
Argentine Senate Votes to Sever Diplomatic Relations with Germany
Washington reacts with gratification and surprise as Argentina's Senate overwhelmingly votes to break off diplomatic ties with Germany. The move follows disclosures of German minister cables through the Swedish Foreign Office and Germany's sinking of Argentine ships. Officials had hoped for Berlin's explanation before action was taken.
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Associated Press
Washington
Germany
Berlin
Buenos Aires
Submarine Battle Near Shetland Ends With Sinking
German submarines attacked an American freighter near the Shetland Islands. One U-boat was sunk and all but six crew perished. a second submarine damaged, torpedo attempts failed, and the British ban on aiding attacked ships remained in force.
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Commercial Tribune
London
Bergen
Norway
Shetland Islands
Platuria Torpedoed. 45 Survivors Landed by Ange
The American steamer Platuria was torpedoed by a German submarine on September 15. The master and eight crewmen were drowned, while forty-five survivors were landed by the Italian steamer Ange.
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Platuria
British merchant ships sunk in week reports
London report shows eight ships of 1600 tons or more sunk by mine or submarine in the past week. Additionally twenty ships under 1600 tons and one fishing vessel were lost, according to the Admiralty.
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Associated Press
London
Admiralty
Music of Tipperary under suit over authorship
New York on September 19 Miss Alice Smyth Burton Jay filed a $100000 damage suit against Chapell & Co publishers over the famous song Tippe rary alleging the original music was written in Green River Washington in 1908 as a regional apple industry anthem with the chorus about Yakima The suit says the song was first performed at the Alaska Yukon Fair and later heard in Honolulu as Tipperary a referee will be appointed by the court
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Associated Press
New York
Tipperary
Alice Smyth Burton Jay
Chapell & Co
Jay
Green River
Wash
Yakima
Honolulu
Watson to appeal draft law case to Supreme Court
Georgia publisher Thomas E. Watson plans to test the constitutionality of the draft law before the U S Supreme Court. Lawyer L D McGregor filed the appeal papers after habeas corpus actions for two men jailed in Richmond County for failing to register. Judge Emory Speer previously ruled the draft law constitutional.
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Commercial Tribune
Augusta
Thomas E. Watson
Georgia
United States Supreme Court
L. D. McGregor
Watson
United States
C. J. Skinner, Jr
Richmond County
Emory Speer
Russia Reaffirms War Commitment to Endurance
Ambassador Bakhmetieff, the Russian Republic's representative in Washington, pledges the government will stay in the war against Germany until victory. He files to Lansing that rumors of a separate peace are baseless and likely enemy fabrication.
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the Commercial Tribune
Washington
Bakhmetieff
Lansing
Russia
Germany
Pension scheme exposes couple posing as siblings in Ohio
In Reynoldsburg and Columbus a suit reveals Freeman B. Christopher lived as Mrs. H. H. Johnson’s brother for twenty two years while both were actually married. Christopher seeks half her estate claiming their arrangement was a ruse to preserve her government pension.
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Associated Press
Columbus
H. H. Johnson
Freeman B. Christopher
Reynoldsburg
Christopher
Chicago
Johnson
Ohio coal price fixing laws to be enforced
J J Hickey of the Interstate Commerce Commission arrived in Cleveland to work with District Attorney Wertz on enforcing coal price fixing laws. Wertz met with local coal men, planning a second meeting with Chamber of Commerce and coal producers to avert a potential coal famine threatening many industries.
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Associated Press
Cleveland
J. J. Hickey
Interstate Commerce Commission
Wertz
Hickey
Chamber of Commerce
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