Draft Age Limits Expanded to 18 45
President Wilson signed the manpower act expanding the draft to all men aged 18 to 45 and proclaimed September 12 as registration day. About 13 million men will be subject to call with registration open 7 am to 9 pm. youths turning 18 will be in a separate group for education before entering service.
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Washington
Wilson
United States
War Department
Crowder
House
Senate
White House
Young Men Ready and Older Men Called for Nation’s War
The piece praises younger men for ready voluntary enlistments and combatant qualifications. It notes older men will answer with resolve, acknowledging responsibilities at home and the need for a complete register to enable intelligent conscription, signaling national unity and the will to win.
Tug Triton reports firing by submarine off Boone Island
The tug Triton reached port after being fired upon in fog by an enemy submarine off Boone Island. The submarine fired one shot and submerged. An American steamer appeared. both vessels took shelter as they vanished in the fog and the Triton sailed to safety.
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Atlantic
Triton
Boone Island
Lenine Shot in Moscow Gun Attack Reported
An early September bulletin from Moscow reported Premier Nikolai Lenine was shot twice by an assassin in Moscow Friday night. A London dispatch notes Lenine slept well after the wound with no inflammation, though temperature rose from pleural effusion.
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London
Moscow
Lenine
Nikolai Lenine
Petrograd
Exchange Telegraph Company
Copenhagen
Neutral ships under unrecognized safe conducts face seizure
Paris reports a decree that neutral vessels using safe conducts from an enemy country will not be recognized by the Allies. Such ships and their cargoes may be seized, and vessels placing themselves under enemy control will be captured as navigating enemy interests.
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Paris
President fixes 1919 wheat price at 2.20 per bushel
Washington reports President Wilson issued a proclamation setting minimum prices for the 1919 wheat crop. No. 1 northern spring wheat to be sold at 2.20 dollars at primary markets with regional variations listed from New York to Spokane.
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Wilson
Europe
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Newport News
Duluth
Minenapolis
Chicago
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Kansas City
Omaha
New Orleans
Galveston
Tacoma
Seattle
Portland
Astoria
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Salt Lake City
Great Falls
Pocatello
Spokane
Lanstrum Leads Rankin in Montana Senate Race
In Montana's Republican primary Dr. O M Lanstrum trails Miss Jeannette Rankin by about 2 575 votes with 14 499 to 15 924 from 1 218 precincts. Rankin's name written in for the National ticket could not be confirmed as to acceptance. Other races include judge Sydney Lanner leading for supreme court justice by 94 votes, and McCulloch, Hall, Dennis, Linderman and Riddick in various county and district contests.
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Helena
O. M. Lanstrum
Jeannette Rankin
Montana
Dr. Lanstrum
Miss Rankin
National Party
United States
Supreme Court
Sydney Lanner
John A. Matthews
R. Lee McCulloch
J. H. Hall
Lee Dennis
Thomas C. Penny
Carl W. Riddick
Frank B. Linderman
Tom Kane
John M. Evans
H. C. MacDonald
Harry Mitchell
Great Falls
Spanish Government Takes Over HM Ships
Madrid reports the Spanish government will seize all German steamships interned in Spanish ports following a note to Berlin. Foreign Minister Cato announced that the steamship Ataz Mendi, bound for Spain with coal from England, was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine.
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Madrid
Spain
Berlin
Cato
Ataz-Mendi
England
Reduction In Wine Output Forecast For 1918
San Francisco officials of the California Wine Growers' association predicted two thirds less production in the 1918 California sweet wines crop amid war time prohibition talk in Congress. Last year’s output was 14 million gallons with a probable autumn maximum of five million, despite a strong grape harvest.
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San Francisco
California
Wine Growers’ Association
Congress
Actress Anna Held leaves estate to daughter in probate filing
Anna Held who died recently bequeaths nearly her entire estate estimated at 300000 to daughter Liane Cervera with cash legacies to Paris and the United States. The will is filed in New York for probate.
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Anna Held
Liane Cervera
New York
Paris
Alexander P. Moore
Lillian Russell
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