Senate Passes Dry Bill Amid War Prohibition Push
The Senate approved a $12,000,000 emergency agricultural bill with a dry rider delaying prohibition to July 1 and then increased wartime controls. A bid to postpone the effective date to December 30, 1915, failed. The measure moves to the House for conference likely adoption of the rider. Leaders expect House approval despite amendments. Names and dates reflect Wilson administration actions and war economy aims.
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Washington
Sept
United States
Food Administration
Wilson
Fuel, Food and Railroad Administrations
War Inustries Board
Senate
Ameriga
House
Brandegee
Connecticut
Gerry
Rhode Island
Phelan
Califorrnia
Pomerene
Ohio
Premier Lenine's Condition Worsens After Attempt
A Moscow dispatched wireless report says Nikolai Lenine lies weaker after a failed assassination attempt. The Kuomist party member Dora Kaphin remains in critical condition in Moscow hospital following the mob attack that followed the plot.
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London
Nikalus Lenine
Lolslevile
Agaist
Tussin
Moscow
Dora Kaphin
Ro- Ant Revolutionary Party
Nikolai Lente
Speed Up Draft Efforts for 19 to 45 Registrants
Washington Gen Enoch Crowder, provost marshal general, urged speeding up service machinery to move men from the 19 to 45 registration to army cantonments by October. Questionnaires will go out before the drawing is resolved to set order of call, and local boards will begin classification immediately.
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Washington
Enoch Crowner
Crowder
Mount Vernon Transport Reaches French Port After Torpedo Attack
U S transport Mount Vernon, homeward bound, was torpedoed about 200 miles off the English coast by an enemy submarine but turned back and arrived safely at a French port. The ship carried only a ranger number of casualties among crew with no military unit aboard.
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Washington
Sept. T
Navy Department
Mount Vernon
Preach
North
Geronimo
Viner Krow
Cecelie
Cubs Win Second Game at Comiskey Park
Cubs defeat Red Sox 6 to 1 at Comiskey Park to even the World Series. Lefty Tyler matched Joe Bush in strong pitching, with Boston's only solid hit coming late as Chicago built four safeties and a walk into three runs in the second inning.
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Comiskey Park
Chicago
Cubs
Red Sox
White Sox
Vaughn
Ruth
Revenue Bill In House Proposes War Tax Reforms
Washington reports the new war revenue bill favorably passed to the house. It estimates taxes will fund about 8.01 billion of the 24 billion war expenditures, with roughly 16 billion to be raised by bond sales. The act raises existing taxes, adds luxuries and war profits, and targets income and corporate taxes.
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Washington
House
Sila
Wilson
U-Boat Sinks US Steamer Lake Owens
The Navy Department reports the American cargo carrier Lake Owens, 2308 tons, was sunk by a submarine in foreign waters on September 1. All civilian crew were saved. one man, Chief Boatswain’s Mate H. W. Lincoln, is slightly injured.
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Washington
Navy Department
Lake Owens
Baatschin
H.W. Lincoln
Sugar Ration Remains At Two Pounds In Current System
Washington officials announced the retention of the present two-pound sugar limit after two days of conferences with state administrators led by the Food Administrator. The notices came at the close of the meetings, confirming no change to the food ration.
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Hoover
Washington
Germans Retreat From Vesle Pushed By Yanks In Major Allied Push
Allied forces press from the Vesle toward the Aisne as British French and American units claim major gains. Fismette Ham and Ciauny fall to American and French troops while British advance along the Canal du Nord reach beyond St Quentin area. thousands of prisoners reported, towns captured as German resistance wanes.
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Batoches
Canal du Nord
Paris
Aisne
Villers en-Prayeres
Tevillon
Ham
Ciauny
Paria
Aiste Vive
Channy
Sale
St. Quently
London
Peronne
Hite
Buss
Nurlay
Trent
Muulenburg
Soissons
Vesle
Viglent
Ie Ino
Buzoches
Bni Fond
Gernans
Gerass
Frante
Atverbein
Wilson fixes 1919 wheat price at 2.20 a bushel
President Wilson issues a proclamation setting 2.20 dollars as the guaranteed minimum price for the 1919 wheat crop. A disinterested commission will review labor and supply costs next spring to assess any necessary adjustments. The proclamation lists regional price levels for No. 1 northern spring wheat across major markets.
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Washington
Wilson
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Newport News
Duluth
Minneapolis
Chicago
St. Louis
Kansas City
Omaha
New Orleans
Galveston
Tacoma
Senallle
Portland
Astoria
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Salt Lake City
Great Walls
Pocatello
Spokane
Allied advance along the Canal du Nord drives German retreat
British and American forces push along a broad front from Ypres to Soissons, crossing the Canal du Nord north of Marquison and advancing to the east bank south of MarQuison. About 85 villages have been retaken as German retreat continues despite localized destruction. Closer pursuit by French, British and American units follows, with towns such as Muanicourt Etricourt and Davelicourt wood reached.
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Allette
Marie New Galvna
Trondon
Seve
Hava
Pe Ponte
Wield Marveh
Tuig
Canal du Nord
Marquison
Fow
Usu
Tandenburg
Paris
Ypres
Noyon
Soissons
Rebs
Dhis
London
Pieid Marshal Tate
Minda
Muanicourt
Etricourt
Toynleomt
Cavel
Davelicourt Wood
No More Recruiting in U S Army Ends Volunteer Enlistments
Washington September 1 government orders from General March close all recruiting stations in the United States the volunteer enlistment system ends and only men over forty to fifty six may enlist in certain corps the rest to be parents and guardians under wartime terms.
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Washington
March
United States
Maveh Saie
Transpacific freight totals reach August shipments
A London based agency announced that about 260000 were transported, with nearly a third sent to American slips. The report highlights major August movement and notes substantial cross Atlantic trade, underscoring strong logistics activity across the lanes.
War era notes and political chatter spill from a chaotic brief
A disjointed wartime brief lists diverse items from a military attache’s report to court sentences and a royal air force inspector’s death. It cites General A b uweh, Rey Ldempsey, Jeargoe, and Lieut G J Youchard, plus a senator’s son. The piece mentions gold regulation, a German product boycott, and August shipping and coal figures.
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Breky
Ronge
von Tied Wis
Generah Abuweh
Cef
Shill
Rey Ldempsey
Rockford
Allen Wiser
Walt
Leven Svardh
Bai Coart-Nigtat
Crant
Chey
Anttari
Livot
Jeargoe
Holla
Any Kyhition
Balf-Breed
G. J. Youchard
Royal Air Fore
Nmes
W. Gerard
Germany
Tha Tuncheon
Chicago
Admiratty
London
The
Fuel Administration
Atmerlonn
Cigilial
Rinssin
Vinland
Haynes
Telslugfors
Major General Graves Arrives in Russia With U.S. Forces
Maj. Gen. William S. Graves lands at Vindivostok with 4% officers and 1,088 men as Gen. March announces his appointment to command American forces there. The U.S. forces total about 8,500. State Department reports from Petrograd Archangel and Iztek via Peking send hopeful messages about the Russian front despite Bolshevik setbacks described as a rout on August 18 by Czecho Slovaks east of Lake Baikal.
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Washington
Vinddivostok
William S. Graves
Peyton C. March
Graved
Russia
State Department
Petrograd
Archangel
Izh@tek
Peking
Enech
Lake Baikal
Fire destroys Roundout milling complex and assets
A large blaze at Roundout Illinois consumed six concrete containers and 200 carloads of grain in a property owned by the Ar endy Milling colony. Armour & Co executive Arthi Meeker, on site as general manager, reported the loss and assisted at the scene.
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Troundout
Arendy Milling Colony
Arthi Meeker
Armour & Co
Meeker
Markets Show Mixed Prices Across Grains Poultry and Livestock
The markets section lists varied figures for corn flour white rye and spring wheat with prices from 1.00 to 11.05 per unit. Livestock includes cattle with prices ranging from about 9.00 to 18.50 and hogs with values near 19. to 19.9, plus sheep and lamb figures.
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Obe Mimokly
Cluvar
Fls
Ube
rMaln
Gleers
Holmes
Xtovckera
Tueders
Ono
Hotoxroy UK
Isin Deave Welel
Bomb Kills Four in Chicago Federal Building
A Wednesday bomb attack at the entrance of Chicago’s federal building and post office killed four people and injured about thirty, with many victims nearby. Investigators blame the I W W for vengeance for recent convictions, and hundreds of federal agents and deputies rounded up suspects.
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Chicago
Federal Builddog
Philip Wh Barry
Department of Justice
Chinge
Ametican Protective League
FL W.W
Haywood
Gullt
J Wiliam
Baywood
T. W. We
Puiler
Bard
Cern
Myo
Halen Michie
Jackie
Joseph Ladd
Sultan
Kan
Information Bureau of
United States
J. R. Kolkow
Willi I. Wheeler
Chuy Wilson
Shorty” Wilson
Bart
Stite
Maelay Hoyne
Wayne
Rail workers awarded massive wage increases
Washington reports nearly 1,000,000 railroad workers across the United States receive new wage boosts approved by Director General McAdoo. Track laborers, watchmen, clerks, station agents and other low paid employees gain 10 to 30 percent raises, while general road pay increases are forbidden and nonpayment of dues could lead to dismissal.
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Washington
Dnl
Mil Tr
United States
Sir Adoo
McAdoo Ana Tha
Army Has Enough Planes to Fight War Says General
Washington September reports quote General Perstines and General Murch in confirming the American army now says it is supplied with airpower to protect Itsani in daytle. Five ships were sent to members of tense committees at a tele weekly war department meeting.
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Frank D. Webster
West Point
le Alwo
Infantry
Cnvyulry
Army War College
General Webster
Missouri
Washington
Perstines
Fraice
Itsani
Daytle
Murch
War Department
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