Maine Carries Republicans to Major State Victory
Republicans swept Maine's state elections defeating Democrats across governor and U.S. Senate races. Carl Milliken led the ticket, Frederick Hale and Bert Fernald won Senate seats, and Congressmen Peters, Hersey, Goodall, and White Jr. claimed victories while McGillicuddy fell in the 2nd District. The GOP captured a large share of Progressive voters and projected strong legislative control.
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Portland
Maine
United States
House of Representatives
Carl E. Milliken
Oakley C. Curtis
Gray
Frederick Hale
Charles F. Johnson
Bert M. Fernald
Kenneth ~. M. Sills
Bowdoin College
L. B. Goodall
L. A. Stevens
John A. Peters
John EB. Bunker
Ira G. Hersey
Leonard A. Pierce
Daniel J. McGillicuddy
Wallace H. White, Jr
New England
Discharges Among National Guard Reach 15000
Washington reports nearly 15,000 National Guardsmen discharged from the War Department as state troops entered Federal service. By August 31, 9,446 were discharged for physical disability, 4,919 for dependent family status, 146 to return to government civil positions, and others for various reasons.
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Washington
Dorsey for Governor Leads Georgia Primary
Hugh M. Dorsey, former Solicitor General of the Atlanta Criminal Court who prosecuted Jee M. Frank for murder, won an overwhelming vote in the state wide primary. The brief notice also reports arrest in Ronwood Michigan of Arthur Waltonen alias John Lind for the murder of Mrs. Elizabeth Nichols of New York, who confessed to the crime. A German submarine captured the Dutch steamer Zeelandie in the North Sea. Senator Simmons expects railroad legislation supplementing the eight hour law to pass in the December session. In Memphis bread prices may rise with five cent loaves replaced by seven or ten cent breads or both, per Samuel F McDonald president of the Association of Master Bakers.
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Atlanta
Hugh M. Dorsey
Atlanta Criminal Court
Jee M. Frank
Georgia
Ronwood
Mich
Arthur Waltonen
John Lind
Elizabeth Nichols
New York
London
North Sea
Washington
Simmons
Finance Committee
Congress
Memphis
Samuel F. McDonald
Association of Master Bakers
Chicago
Conspiracy Afoot Over Bakers Price Pact
Federal probes in Washington and Chicago focus on a bakers price increase plan deemed conspiratorial under anti trust law. Investigators seek no economic justification for higher bread costs as Hurrys FTC unit and Justice Department examine an association among bakers.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
Edward N. Hurry
Chicago
Commission
Department of Justice
Mexican Envoys Open Parley in New London Conference
Dr. Luis Cabrera opened the joint Mexican conference in New London Connecticut with reform and constitution as the theme. After credentials were exchanged Carranza authorized his delegates to discuss all matters from the American commissioners, with decisions subject to his approval.
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Carranza
New London
Conn
Luis Cabrera
American Commission
Ers
France Announces Unlimited Subscription New 6 Percent Loan
Paris reports Finance Minister Ribot unveiled a new French loan at 6 percent, matching the prior issue. Subscriptions will be unlimited, and holders of national defense bonds may exchange for the new issue. The rate is expected to be fixed early in October.
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Ribot
Paris
M. Ribot
National Defense
Fire Sweeps Nantasket Destroys Paragon Park
A Nantasket Beach blaze engulfed Paragon Park causing losses near 100000 plus damage to surrounding dwellings and attractions outside the park. Firefighters kept flames from reaching Richard's Hotel and the Palm Garden as cottagers removed belongings from the beach.
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Boston
Hull
Mass
Paragon Park
Nantasket Beach
Richard’s Hotel
Palm Garden
French Smash Line On Somme Front In Vigorous Advance
London reports a French assault on the Somme reaching the Bapaume road and menacing Peronne from the north. British and French forces push along the Struma and near the Vardar with gains reported. Athens faces a cabinet crisis amid potential Allied coordination with Greece.
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London
Somme
Bapaume
Peronine
Struma
Vardar
Athens
Germans Capture Silistria Fort in Dobrudja Campaign
German and Bulgarian forces seize the fortress of Silistria in western Dobrudja as Romanian and Russian forces suffer losses. Romanian advances against Austrian positions near Banat continue, while Russians press in the Carpathians and Balkans. The Somme front sees continued bombardments and repulsed German counter-attacks north of Ginchy and south of Derny-en-Santerre.
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Kaiser
Albrecht
Wurtemberg
Rupprecht
Bavaria
Somme
Verdun
Silistria
London
Dobrudja
Turtukai
Bucharest
Romania
Constanta- Bucharest
Berlin War Office
Ginchy
Derny-en-Santerre
Transylvania
Vienna
Csik
Dobric
Bazardjik
Baltik
Kavarna
Kali Akra
British advance in Macedonia push Bulgarians from four villages
War Office reports British forces drive Bulgarians from four villages near Lake Tahinos as they advance in Macedonia. Austrian retreat continues in northern Transylvania where Romanians crossed the Maros and Toplitsa rivers. German-Bulgarian forces reconquer more Romanian territory. French win at Verdun with 100 prisoners and repulse a German attack near Fort Vaux. Berlin hails capture of Turtukai, seen as key to Bucharest drive. Romanian losses estimate at 80,000. German seaplanes again strike Romanian Black Sea coast.
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Struma
Lake Tahinos
War Office
Macedonia
Transylvania
Maros
Toplitsa
Bulgaria
Verdun
Fleury
Meuse
Fort Vaux
Berlin
Turtukai
Bucharest
Moraht
Rumanian
Black Sea
Bridge Span Collapses Over St Lawrence River
Massive 640 foot cantilever bridge span fails during erection near Quebec City. Ninety workers were on site. 25 men die and many injured as 5 000 tons of steel plunge 200 feet into the river. Dominion government investigates blame as material loss tops $600,000. The structure would connect the city to the opposite river bank and serve eight railways.
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Quebec
St Lawrence
Plains of Abraham
Dominion
St. Lawrence
Clubs Rally to Bacon for U S Senate Nomination
In New York the United Republican club of Kings County reports Bacon support across twenty counties. About 5,000 enrolled Republicans in Kings sixth fifth and twenty first districts have received letters urging vote for Robert Bacon as the U S senator nominee. Also noted are pledges from many statewide clubs and the Robert Bacon Senatorial League citing his statesmanlike qualifications.
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New York
Robert M. Calder
United Republican Club
Bacon
Kings
Robert Bacon
Ban on meat in Russia imposes four meatless days
Berlin reports outlines from the Overseas News Agency state Russia bans meat four days weekly from Tuesday to Friday. A Budapest despatch notes the decree for Petrograd meatless days raises prices of other foods, notably vegetables and fruit, by as much as 100 percent.
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Berlin
Russia
Budapest
Petrograd
Many Starving in Arabia Report Exposes Grim Conditions
A mission report from northern Arabia cites extreme famine with thousands digging their own graves and awaiting death. Locust plagues have devastated crops while refugees survive by eating locusts as relief efforts consider aid.
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New York
Arabia
Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions
Jersey Items Highlight Local Politics and Incidents
A West Collingswood Taxpayers League meeting endorsed Charles L. Guss and William C. Haines for council, pledging active campaigning. The report notes school enrollments, factory relocations, a purse snatching in Vineland, a Lorillard fire loss over 50000, a Burlington woman’s death from infection, electrocution on a Trenton pole, mill settlements in Paterson, oyster price shifts, Cooper River spillway plans revised, a Montclair hotelier’s sudden death, and Jersey news on legal cases, public notices, and local events.
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Taxpayers’ League
West Collingswood
Charles L. Guss
William C. Haines
Gloucester Public
American Doll Works, Incorporated
Trenton
Providential Tile Works
Emma Mortimer
Henry Tumey
Landis Avenue
Vineland
Edward Wetstein
Yardley
Public Service Electric Company
Wetstein
Third Street
Paterson Mills
Bivalve
Maurice River
Harry S. Scovel
Haddonfield
Cooper River
Evans Pond
Theodore J. Rose
Montclair
Bloomfield Avenue
Jersey City
National Storage Company
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
Johnson Lighterage Tossing Company
Black Tom
James Doherty
Fenton Beach
Delaware River
Pennsville
Diamasso Raefelle
Princeton
Samuel Schiavone
Raefelle
New Jersey
Soldiers’ Relief League
Douglas, Ariz
International Nickel Company
Bayonne
Margaret M
Jessie M. Patterson
Manhattan
Standard Oil Company
Joseph P. Cornell
Ye Olde Inne
Pennington
Calvin N. Kendall
Gloucester County
David Mackulvy
Medford
Morton
Raymond Phillips
South Jersey Sees Booming Labor Market and Growth
Trenton reports September ushers in a promising industrial era in South Jersey with high demand for workers across mills factories munition plants and transportation lines. Farmers profits rise as prices and wages surge while rural banks record record deposits and glass industry rebounds with big orders and new plants planned at Glassboro and Newfield.
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Trenton
South Jersey
Avery
Toll
Glassboro
Newfield
County official settles audit dispute with Burlington County
County Collector Pine delivered a $268.25 check to County Solicitor Davis asserting no debt to Burlington County. He will release the funds and have his own examiner review the accounts before the case is closed. A bridge worker, George Kelly, 83, died after being crushed when a canal bridge closed on him during operation. In Jameshire State Home for Boys, friction grows as Captain Carey is dismissed and superintendent Grever faces potential action amid claims of mistreatment and temper issues.
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Burlington County
Pine
Davis
Freeholders
George Kelly
Ender
Southard Street
Delaware and Raritan Canal
Kelly
Canal Company
Jameshire
Peter T. Carey
Richard J. Grever
Carey
Grever
Women Paid Five Dollars a Day in Canneries
Greenwich Township Board of Health bans all children from the township without health certificates impacting a large canning plant that relied on foreign families for cheap labor. State inspectors link typhoid to a Dairy near Jacksonville. dairy closed after investigation. Residents in Mount Holly Riverton and nearby towns seek resort visits affected as typhoid carrier suspected to have spread.
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Greenwich Township Board of Health
Burlington County
State Board of Health
Jacksonville
Mount Holly
Riverton
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World’s News
Bakers
National Association of Master Bakers
Charles F. Clyne
Bakers’ Association
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France
Nantasket
Field Marshal
von Mackensen
Galicia
Stokhod River
Carpathians
Zable
Shypot
Baltic
Lemberg
Halicz
Jersey
Farmera
Bridge
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