Woman suffrage victory in Senate expected by narrow margin
Washington September 25 Associated Press reports the Susan B Anthony amendment to the federal constitution faces a tight Senate battle. Supporters expect one to three votes over two thirds, opponents confident they can defeat it to delay action until December 1919. Readied for a brief debate with heavy attendance and organized campaigning on both sides.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate
Congress
Advon
House
Susan B. Anthony
Jones
New Mexico
Ambassador Davis Leads Swiss Prisoner Exchange Effort
John W. Davis of West Virginia now Solicitor General and chosen by President Wilson to replace Walter Hines Page as Ambassador to Great Britain heads the joint American and German missions in Switzerland handling prisoner treatment and exchange.
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Page
John W. Davis
West Virginia
Great Britain
Switzerland
French Troops Take Dallon In An Assault
British and French forces push along the Macedonian front and in Picardy, with Selency taken west of St Quentin and Dallon captured by French troops after heavy bombardment. German resistance crumbles as Debeney’s men exploit a creeping barrage to seize key crossroads and villages.
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Dallon
Associated Press
London
Selency
St. Quentin
Field Marshal Haig
Fayet
Epehy
France
Debeny
von Lachevallerie
Debeney
Francilly- Selency
Marjorim
L’ep
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la Panneterie
Canal du Nord
Colonel Wood Transferred to Rainbow Division
Adjutant General office reports former Adjutant General George H. Wood of Dayton has become Colonel of the old Third Regiment and is now in charge of all military trains with the Rainbow Division. The Rainbow Division acts as reserve for the Thirty seventh Division (Ohio National Guard) after recent heavy fighting.
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Associated Press
Columbus
Adjutant General's
George H. Wood
Dayton
Ohio National Guard
Rainbow
Weather Outlook by Regions and Temperatures
Ohio partly cloudy with possible rain in the north and cooler conditions in the south. Indiana cloudy with showers in the south and cooler air. Kentucky local showers Thursday with partly cloudy and cooler Friday. West Virginia cloudy Thursday warmer in the east, possible late night or Friday rain. A note shows temperatures around 56 to 76 with city readings for Omaha Denver San Francisco and Winnipeg, plus historical comparisons for September 25, 1918 at nine p.m. meridian time.
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Minimum Hog Price Proposed by National Advisory Committee
Washington September 25 The National Agricultural Advisory Committee recommends a minimum price of 15.50 a hundredweight for hogs during the war to protect producers and provide fair consumer prices. The Food Administration lacks power to set fixed hog or corn prices but could regulate via army navy and export orders. The panel suggests a monthly price basis for packers purchases and ties hog pricing to the farm value of corn, using eight leading states for calculations.
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Washington
National Agricultural Advisory Committee
The
Food Administration
the Food Administration
Chicago
President to Launch Fourth Liberty Loan Drive in New York
President Wilson will speak in New York City on the eve of the three week drive to launch the Fourth Liberty Loan. Treasury officials deny reports that only $200 or more will be accepted, noting a record number of $50 bonds printed for broad small-amount subscriptions. About 1,500,000 bonds, mostly small denominations, have been completed and shipped to federal reserve districts as the campaign opens after next Friday midnight.
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Associates Press
Washington
Wilson
New York City
Treasury Department
Nho
Bureau of Printing and Engraving
Federal Reserve District
San Francisco
Social revolution predicted by Samuel Untermyer in Chicago speech
Samuel Untermyer of New York foresees a peaceful social revolution in America driven by service not wealth. He predicts public domain and resources returned to the people, universal child labor prohibition, compulsory arbitration, and a broader justice for labor and capital as World War I ends.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Samuel Untermyer
New York
America
Liberty Loan
Credit urged for banks to back essential war needs
Governor Harding of the Federal Reserve Board urged national banks to widen credit for foodstuffs cotton wool coal and essential manufactured goods to support government conservation policies. He warned against rumors of deposit confiscation and called for active robust bank cooperation in the Fourth Liberty Loan drive.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Harding
Federal Reserve Board
American Bankers’ Association
High Court to hear appeals on Reed amendment liquor shipments
The government filed two appeals in the Supreme Court challenging federal rulings that partially upheld the Reed amendment restricting interstate liquor shipments to dry states. The cases question whether transport through a dry state counts as interstate commerce and if the amendment overrides state quotas.
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Associated Press
Washington
Supreme Court
West Virginia
Ford Declares Independence at Democratic State Convention
Henry Ford, running for the U.S. Senate, issues a letter from Detroit stating he will be free to back measures based on merit, not party ties. He emphasizes he has not spent money to win the August primary nominating process.
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Ford
Rapid influenza spread prompts nationwide action
The Public Health Service and military and Red Cross officials agree on measures as Spanish influenza spreads to 26 states. Washington reports 5,324 new army cases, 29,002 total, with 2,313 pneumonia cases and 530 deaths since September 13. Camp Devens shows decline in new cases.
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Associated Press
Washington
Public Health Service
War and Navy Departments
Red Cross
Wilmington
N. C
Rupert Blue
Public Health
Atlantic
Pacific
New England
Pacific Coast
California
Minnesota
Iowa
Mississippi
Surgeon General of the Army
Senate alters war revenue bill to tax higher incomes
Senate Finance Committee approved most House provisions for a 1.482 billion tax bill. The plan keeps a 12 percent base rate and 6 percent surcharge for the first 4,000, but resets surtax bands without reducing revenue. Key changes cover deductions and gross income rules while excluding life insurance proceeds from gross income. details on higher brackets and bonds await further action.
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Ate Finance Committee
Senate
House
Vigilantes Call Editors to Back Hard War Aims
The Vigilantes a major authors group, urges editors writers and citizens to back a statement that the U S aim is to destroy Germanys militaristic autocracy a longer harder war to ensure civilization a durable peace the group warns against signing a peace dictated by Imperial Germany and urges disruption of any such terms
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Associated Press
New York
Vigilantes
United States
Germany
Earthquake Relief Efforts Aid Avezzano Sora Children
The 1915 quake left Avezzano and Sora in ruins as the American Red Cross ships materials from the destruction to Washington and funds a day nursery. Bricks timber and metals from Sora ruins supply a facility for 400 babies while mothers tend harvests. Many residents remain destitute living amid debris.
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Pdr
Avesadno
Sora
Washington
Avezzano
Large dividends to shipbuilders for banner year
In the banner year ending June 30 1918 the American Shipbuilding Company earned 79.91 percent for stockholders with net earnings of 6626265 dollars. The year saw delivery of 43 cargo ships of 168000 gross tons and two special steamers for the U S Navy.
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Associated Press
Cleveland
American Shipbuilding Company
United States Navy
Wade
Railway Employees Protest New Order
In Washington representatives of four railway brotherhoods filed a protest with Director General McAdoo against an order prohibiting railway workers from political participation. They argue it violates employees rights and contrasts with administration leaders activities.
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McAdoo
Wood
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