Allies Drive German Forces From Soissons Front
Allied French and American troops press north of Fere-en-Tardenois and Soissons, capturing Soissons and areas including Camille Cramoiselle and Saponny. German retreat described as precipitate as enemy lines collapse between Aisne and Marne with 88,400 prisoners taken since July.
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Aisne-Marne Tront
Fere-en-Tardenois
Camille and
Cramoiselle
Saponny
Nesles
Saponay
Paris
Soissons
Crown Prince
Aisne
Lato Sriday
Oureq
Ville-en-Tardenoig
Reims
War Office
France
Marne
Crise
Coeuvres
Maerne
von Einck
Ourcq River
Reims-Dormans
Vesle
Braisne
Fere-en-Tardenots
Vidleen-Tardenots
Seringes
Fere-en- Tardenois
Sergy
Mides
Fere-en Tardenois
Chamery
Clerges
Cou- Yonges
Meuinere Wood
Goussancourt
Kemmel Heights
Manders
Meuntere Wood
Aisne-Marne
Cramoisella
Cramille
Salient
Clergen
Mounlere Wood
Romigny
Dormansielma Road
Railway Wage Increase Urges Worker Resolve
Washington announces wage hikes for over 400000 shopmen with McAdoo urging renewed energy and no strikes. He cites public duty and war goals, saying gains must be earned through faithful service and improvements in conditions. The nation expects full effort and restraint from labor to support the war effort.
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Washington
McAdoo
German World War I Note Cites Ludendorff Plan
Washington dispatch reports General Pershing quoted a German headquarters message from June 1 1918 urging severe strikes against American troops in France to hinder forming an American army and using them as a nucleus for new formations signed Ludendorff.
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Washington
Pershing
First Army
France
Ludendorff
Government takes charge of recruiting unskilled labor for war needs
Washington reports a federal employment service takeover to recruit unskilled workers for war industries, aiming to reduce labor movement and stabilize wages. State boards will oversee through community boards, with private agencies barred. Government also controls telephone and telegraph services. Burleson directs current staff to remain.
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Washington
Department of Labor
Federal Employment Service
Employment Service
John B. Densmore
Wilson
Burleson
James Lord
American Federation of Labor
U.S. War Costs Run 60 Percent Higher Than Britain
Washington reports show America's wartime expenses about 60 percent higher than Britain's when compared across treasury data and a British financial statement. Despite higher costs, the U.S. owes nearly 12.5 billion dollars, about one third of Britain's 86.98 billion, with individual taxation about half as heavy. The United States is spending roughly 50 million dollars daily, over 2 million dollars per hour.
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Washington
America
Great Britain
Treasury
United States
England
Tobacco tax doubled in proposed $8 billion bill
Washington August 2 Doubling of existing special taxes on tobacco products and on theaters and amusements was agreed by the house ways and means committee. The plan also increases taxes on brokers and the capitalization of corporations as part of the $8 billion revenue measure.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Ambassador Pranos En Route To Murmansk With Diplomatic Team
Washington reports a second message from Ambassador Pranos dated July 31 stating arrival in Murmansk with the Italian ambassador the British representative and the French chargé d affaires. Other heads of the diplomatic corps await instructions at Katucalaska.
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Washington
Pranos
Murmansk
Katucalaska
Call for 5308 selective men and 600 carpenters strike
Washington reports Provost Marshal General Crowder issued a call for 5308 white and 278 colored selective service men to entrain August 15 for two months of schooling at technical schools before joining the National army. Volunteers due by August 6. Great Lakes Naval Training Station notes 500 carpenters in three cantonments went on strike to demand carfare about 11 dollars monthly after Paschen Brothers offered 2 1 2 percent raise to 82 1 2 cents per hour. strike halted camp capacity.
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Washington
Crowder
Aed
National Army
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Chicago
Paschen Brotherg
Carpantera
Francis off for Murmansk with allied diplomats
Washington reports Ambassador Francis and top British French and Italian diplomatic heads who reached Kandalaska in Lapland have departed for Murmansk on the Arctic coast. The state department received the cablegram confirming the July 30 departure.
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Washington
Francis
Nntsalong
Kandalaska
Russina Lapland
Vologda
Murmansk
Arctic Ocean
State Department
National German American Alliance Charter Revoked
Washington reports President Wilson signed a congressional resolution to revoke the charter of the National German American Alliance amid senate committee hearings accusing it of pro German activities.
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Hun Alliance
Washington
Wilson
National
General March to Command United States Army
The War Department will drop insignia and regalia that distinguish regulars National Army and National Guard units. Forces will be designated as numerical units of the army of the United States. General March will command the army with expeditionary forces in France and elsewhere. General Pershing remains commander of forces in France under current ranks.
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Washington
War Department
Army of the
United States
Baker
General Staff
France
Italy
Far East
General March
Secretary of War
United States Army
Navy
Draft Agreement In Effect in Washington July 31
The British Canadian United States draft agreement has become effective. The State Department announced that ratifications exchanged between Ambassador Page and Britain's Foreign Office in London made the treaty operative. It provides for calling each nation’s nationals into the other’s territory.
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Washington
State Department
Ambassador Page
British Foreign Office
London
German War Losses Reported at 4,760,000 Men
Paris reports German losses since the war began total 4,760,000, with 6,430,000 soldiers remaining. L Homme Libre published by Premier Cleenceau’s newspaper claims 4,000,000 are on the western front and since March losses reached about 1,500,000, roughly a million of whom are permanently out of action.
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Paris
L'Homme Libre
Cleenceau
West Front
U. S. Buys 510 Locomotives for Military Railroads
Washington reports the war department ordered 610 Baldwin locomotives for military railroads in France at a total of about 25 million dollars. About 10,000 freight cars costing roughly 18 million dollars will be ordered within a few days.
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Washington
War Department
France
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Vienna confesses disaster in Albania generals dismissed
The Austrian government has dismissed the generals responsible for the disaster in Albania and appointed General Weiss Baltin to command the forces opposing the advancing Franco Italian troops, according to a cablegram received by the Italian embassy in Rome.
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Washington
Albania
Weiss Baltin
Rome
Losses In Battle Not Held Back By War Department
Washington reports that casualties from the current offensive will be large as troops are widely scattered and wounded sent to French, British and American bases. Secretary Baker says Pershing is gathering complete casualty data for prompt transmission to families, with daily tolls not yet fully reflected in past lists.
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Waahington
Angle
Pershing
Baker
Post Office Department
Committee On Public Information
War Department
Collectig
Sis
Cas- Wat
Seertary Baker
Reganta
March
Baler
German Train Crash Kills Thirty in Denmark Dispatch
An Ex change Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen reports a collision of two German trains causing a gas explosion and the death of thirty people. The accident occurred between Scheldemuss and Landsberg, near Copenhagen.
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London
Copenhagen
Scheldemuss
Landsberg
Five Die in Powder Blast at Wisconsin Plant
Five men were killed and one probably fatally injured when a steel tank burst at the powder plant in Barkdale Big Field county Wisconsin. The injured were employees of the plant. May Exchange Prisoners Amsterdam Aug 1 The German government has replied favorably to the American invitation for a conference on civil and military prisoner exchange.
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Barksdale
Bayfield County
Wisconsin
Ruperter
Wis
Barksidale
Big Fietd County
Amsterdam
Berlin
Husband Saves Wife Promotes Lydia E Pinkham Remedy
A Pittsburgh woman credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing a prolonged weakness causing backache and headaches. Her husband purchased three bottles after a friend alerted them to the newspaper ad. She urges other women to try the product and notes the company offers advice by mail from Lynn Massachusetts.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Pittsburgh
Lydia
Pinkham
Lydia EL Pinkham
Jas
Rohrberg
Knapp St
Patents and advice mingle in odd courtly chatter
Irregular OCR text reveals a humorous anecdote about a boy named Robert and his stepmother. Neighbors warn him of stepparent dangers and he replies with cheerfully misdirected affection. Father observes kindly while rumors swirl around patent references and advice.
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Robert
Onu Smilly Atict
Paing
Constant Expense Loga Business Footnote
The Louisville Courier Journal prints a tersely comic note about courting a four-eyed girl and the expense tied to eyeglasses. The joke hinges on breaking glasses when attempting a kiss, satirizing costly romantic gambits.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Mayme’s mind fed beyond serials, says she
Mayme asserts she prefers feeding her mind with reading over bingeing on serials. The remark contrasts social habits and hints at a value placed on literary intake over popular entertainment.
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Mayme
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