687000 Men in First Draft Call War Department Orders
War Department announces quotas by state for a 687000 man draft under the selective service act. Governors will apportion to local boards, with a lottery to determine order of registration. The total combines regular army, National Guard, and the new national army, with further calls anticipated.
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Washington
War Department
United States
Regular Army
National Guard
National Army
Maintiin
Baker
Fm Aim
Congress
District of Columbia
Act of Congress
Nations Guard
Allotment of men by state for national army draft
War department announces state quotas for a selective draft based on proportional population from the latest census. Each state's allotment includes its navalgas strength and enlistments in the regular army between April and June 1917, with cross quotas and national guard credits detailed in the table.
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Tiet Sam
War Department
Burewa
Army
United States
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansan A
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
District of Columbia
Florida
Fae
Georgia
Idaho
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Virginia Aed
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyomin
Teebe
Eereee
Pere Rice
Fragmented World Snippets From Era News
Condensed items report that American missionaries outnumber businessmen, Spain hosts 27 440 polls of read while 4 000 miles of transit are under way, an English inventor markets a rubber flesh brush with a vacuum cup base. Waste wood will feed Southern pulp factories. Since WWI war, South African mines yield gold valued at 100 009 0OM. Notes on birds compare song sparrow to English sparrow with longer tail, streaks, and larger breast spot. chipping sparrow lacks breast spot, head is clean, and fetasarn ru- fous with singing noted.
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Cina
Read
Spain
England
Boy Scouts Aid Liberty Loan Campaign Across America
The Boy Scouts of America aided the Liberty loan drive by coordinating with the Treasury and Government Printing Office to distribute 10 million circulars and reach 70 million homes. President Wilson urged Scouts to save a soldier, and 290,000 Scouts joined, with 500,000 circulars printed on day one and 300,000 volunteers handling distribution nationwide.
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Treasury Department
Government Printing Office
America
Wilson
Boy Scouts of America
Boy Scouts
United States
Secretary of the Treasury
Colin H. Livingstone
National Council, Boy Scouts of America
New York
Hoy Scouts of America
R. W. Woolley
Liberty Loan
National Council of the Boy Scouts of
Anrica
Soumat
Mrchimex
West
Washington
Revere
Liberty Fiehds von
Orgatcurion
There's No Fun Like Work In Farm Camp Team Spirit
A psychologist notes boys weed gardens endure heat prostration early but perform tasks like fielding, batting, rowing, and fishing with vigor. The beat of bugle reveille and organized farm camp competition push teamwork. Even isolated home gardens can unite under a system to build teamwork through activity and discipline.
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Revellie
Milwaukee Scouts Promote Fresh Air Campaign
The Milwaukee Boy Scouts completed an active campaign to promote fresh air. They distributed pamphlets carried signs spoke to residents and pledged to encourage everyone at home to use more fresh air. Fathers were urged to walk to work and mothers to open more windows.
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Milwaukee
Hollweg Quits as Chancellor and Equal Suffrage Promised
A Berlin dispatch reports rumors of the German government resigning with Chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg. The emperor’s manifesto inserts the word equal into the franchise, granting suffrage in principle while limiting practical changes to the Junker Prussian-dominated Diet.
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Amsterdam
Holland
von Bethmann-Hollweg
Copenhagen Politiken
Berlin
Herr von Payer
Gustav Stresemann
Mathias Eroberger
Eduard David
Junkers
International Sunday School Lesson on Hezekiah and Sennacherib
The July 22 lesson centers on Hezekiah’s prayer and Judah’s deliverance from Sennacherib in 701 BC. It highlights prayer’s power, divine deliverance, and God’s sovereignty, noting Isaiah’s role, the rhetorical questions of idolatry, and the dramatic defeat of the Assyrian army as a lesson for faith and trust in God.
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KE. O. Sellers
Moody Bible Institute of Chicago
Father
Hezekiah
Assyria
Judea
Sennacherib
Nine
Egypt
James
House of God
Taniah
T Chron
Isaiah
Jehovah
Jerusalem
David
War Munitions Plant Secret Plan Pitsburg Seeks 1000 Men
Westinghouse interests in Pittson seeking 1000 men to sign agreement to work at a new plant for munitions in a sealed role. They would be imprisoned ten months with no outside contact. Pay doubled with bonuses for high production and isolated recreation. Officials refused to comment. An artisan says it may be a late Edison intervention.
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Pitsburg
Weetinghouse
Argu
Thomas A. Edison
Cuba Votes Big War Credit Bill for 30 Million Bonds
Cuba passed a treasury bond bill of 30 million dollars to fund its part in the European war. The measure, urged by President Monocal, cleared both chambers unanimously and bonds will be sold in Havana and New York as Congress adjourns. England’s crops report below normal with wheat 94 percent, barley 98, oats 83, potatoes 108. A separate Noblesville item notes a mysterious attack on 23 year old Mrs. Litsle Sho wart and a claimed act by her husband Russell Shugart.
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Treasury
Cuba
Monocal
Senate
House
Havana
New York
Congress
England
London
Wits
Noblesville
Ind
Litsle Showart
Russell Shugart
Byenrald
Cuidethie
Lemon Lotion Recipe Promises Skin Beautifier
An advertisement explains making a cheap lemon lotion by mixing two lemon juices with three ounces of orchard white to yield a quarter pint. The solution is strained to remove pulp, kept for months, and touted to whiten and soften skin, reduce freckles, sallowness and tan, used daily on face neck arms and hands.
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Heres
Strange Indian Names Surface in Standing Rock Land Sale
A list from the Standing Rock reservation sale in North and South Dakota shows Indian names such as Kate Good Crow and Mary Yellow Fat along with many descriptive monikers, reflecting cultural naming strength. The piece intertwines a joke about hunger and a rural anecdote, ending with a short dialogue about breakfast.
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Standing Hook
North
South Dakota
Kate Good Crow
Barney Two Bears
Mary Yellow Fat
Melda Crow
Ghost
Elie
Mary Lean Dog
Agatha Big Shield
Jennie Dog Man
Mary Shive Head
Morris ‘Thundershield
Frosted Red Fish
Helen Mitcult
Francis
Joseph
Stanton Grindstone
Santee
Tiberius
Fragmentary remark on local sports and attire
Vague OCR fragment references a neighborhood game and an umpire, with scattered dialog about a boy, home, army, and hair. The text is incomplete and contains garbled phrases, offering little clear facts or names to anchor a proper news item.
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BDOYS
Hollweg
Reichstag
Judah
Edison
BIG War Credit
Ian
Anysman
Glocersev
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