Carpenters Threaten New York City Strike Over Government Work
In New York City leaders resume talks to avoid a strike by 2500 carpenters on army and navy cantonments near the city. Affected firms include Henry Steers Inc as talks address wages and hours for government construction work. a later report says the strike was called off with an agreement adopting union hours and wages for government projects.
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New York
War
Navy Departments
Army
New York City
Henry Steers, Inc
Brotherhood of Carpenters
Fim
Pelham Bay Park
Washington
Afa
State Apportionment of School Money July 1917 Total
The state superintendent reports a July apportionment of 130000 dollars for school funds, 130,825.37 to be exact, based on a census of 1485 persons and 694 teachers. This reflects a 16,461.25 increase from 1916 and is the largest July allotment since 1909, with 399 more school age children and 22 more teachers over two years. The estimated state population rises to about 108,645.
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Bray
Explosion at London chemical works kills and injures workers
An explosion and fire east of London devastates chemical works destroying buildings. Thirteen women were among the bodies recovered, with many workers injured and the total damage still being assessed.
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London
Bottled light may illuminate the White House at last
Pittsburg inventor Ethan J. Dodds says a 20 inch arc globe light named Doddlight can be spark lit from Arlington Heights wireless station and reach 2000 miles. The device reportedly gives no heat and could aid mine safety and naval signaling though staged as a gift to the nation. Dodds once worked with Westinghouse and says the principle comes from radium experiments.
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Pittsburg
White House
Washington
Ethan J. Dodds
Dodds
National Capital
Wilson
Arlington Heights
Gugliemo Harcont
Marconi
San Francisco
New York
Navy Department
George Westinghouse
Government to insure armed forces under new bill
Senator Simmons Alexander introduced a bill to set up a government written life insurance program for the armed forces. Coverage runs eight dollars a year per thousand, with policies from one to ten thousand. Soldiers would allot at least fifteen dollars monthly for dependents, while the government adds five to fifty dollars monthly to family allowances.
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Washington
Simmons
Alexander
Senate
House
Postoffice Clerk Arrested for Theft
Walter Coakley, a postoffice clerk who fled after the disappearance of ten thousand backhoes of currency from the post office, was arrested in Lebanon Indiana. A San Antonio Texas letter from Russell Dorsey reports Dorsey and Clarence Pittman could not join their aero squadron to France due to base hospital confinement. Dorsey describes leg infection from a mosquito bite and expected further confinement. Les lie Swift departed. Tunsell was delayed by illness but hopes to rejoin an air squadron and be shipped to France soon.
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Tulcon
Walter Coakley
Postoffice
Lebanon
Indiana
Russell Dorsey
San Antonio
Texas
Clarence Pittman
France
Young Dorsey
Nghoaplint
Leslie Swift
Tunsell
Americans in Red Cross Ambulance Service Injured
Price McQuillan of Overbrook Pennsylvania and Wayne Vetterlein of Philadelphia were seriously injured by a shell while loading wounded at an advanced post on the battle front.
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Paris
Price McQuillan
Overbrook
Wayne Vetterlein
Philadelphia
American Red Cross Ambulance Service
Registered men warned on penalties for draft resistance
The Provost Marshal General issued a statement clarifying that no resistance is needed to the draft. All men 21 to 30 are enrolled and a preliminary call allows claims for exemption. Those failing to appear are logged as called and may be drafted, with desertion a capital offense and deserters liable to federal force.
Double Bigamy Case Ties Two Sisters’ Marriages
In Rome Georgia a divorce suit reveals that sisters Mrs J Feema and Mrs M Teems married brothers in a 1908 double wedding. The brothers later left for Colorado, wed their sisters again, and were convicted of bigamy after divorces were sought.
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Rome
Mra. J. i Feema
Mra. M
Teems
Colorado
Morley Griswold Selected for Army Officer Reserve Corps
The community celebrates Attorney Morley Griswold as selected for an Army Officer Reserve Corps appointment. He must report to the Presidio in San Francisco on August 25. He is the only local applicant notified so far, with others scattered in Iteno Beowane and San Francisco.
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Morley Griswold
United States Army
Presidio
San Francisco
van Fleet
Iteno
Agee
Hinckley
Beowane
Grigwold
Tie
President Wilson Signs Food Bills in War Powers Move
President Wilson signed the food control and food survey bills, granting broad government oversight over foods fuels and production during the war. He appointed Herbert C Hoover as food administrator and empowered agencies to regulate markets and requisition commodities for defense.
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Washington
Wilson
Wilson Pins
Herbert C. Hoover
Gosse to be given military burial in Reno
The late Marry Gosse Jr of Reno died of spinal meningitis in an army hospital near Tonndulu and will receive full military honors next Wednesday. G I, Spanish Veterans, Reno concert band, city officials, and police will meet the body on arrival and escort to the cemetery. Gosse served in Battery C 1st Regiment and was among the first to serve since the war with Germany ended.
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Marry Gosse, Jr
Reno
Ttondulu
City Offehus
Police Department
Gosse
Cy Fbrat
Germany
Servier
Tix
Wage settlement reached between seamen and employers during war
The American seamen and employers reached a wartime wage agreement easing crew shortages for merchant ships. The article notes the settlement solves the wage dispute and mentions the Masonic Lodge offering a banquet hall to Red Cross ladies for fundraising efforts.
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Wasitington, Ave
Masonic Lodge
Ladies of the Red Cross
English and French Advance on Belgian Front
British and French forces pushed gains east and north of Ypres as Haig reported. British raiders blew German dugouts near Monchy Le Preux and Arras fronts causing heavy damage to defenses. Reports claim Westhack town and Westhawk ridge have fallen to Allied control.
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London
Belzinay
Bixsehoote
Westhack
Tattle Front
Delisium
Yrpypres
Westhawk Ridge
The Coming Ship Wreck of Nations
An editorial warns that a global war cataclysm is looming as nations pursue massive armament. Calls for preparedness echo prophetic scripture while leaders push arsenals and navies, risking an Armageddon described in Revelation.
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Puller
Winnemuces
Wen
Aris
America
Earth
Noted Botanist Collecting Plants for Hay Fever Study
A California University of California botanist arrived to collect plants and pollen for hay fever research. The work aims to identify pollen varieties triggering reactions and test inoculation methods akin to typhoid vaccines, with injections tailored to single or multiple pollen sensitivities. Dr West assists in gathering pollen-producing plants.
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I M
Botany
University of California
Selfridge
San Francisco
West
Coal Discovery Reported in Elko County Nevada
Workman, noted local miner and discoverer of the focal camp of National, reports a surface lignite coal find in northern Elko County. He shows samples, says it burns clean with little ash, and notes the field is extensive with large veins ready for development potentially yielding commercial coal. The find occurred near the Divide camp where he also owns a silver property.
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Workman
Divide
Trumboldt Star
Entente Warships Bombard Turkish Battery Coast
A Therans dispatch reports Entente warships bombarding a Turkish battery on the Asia Minor coast and silencing a nearby aerodrome. The action follows naval bombardment north of the Dardanelles amid ongoing Balkan fronts.
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London
Hobkins to Succeed Late C B Sweeney
Soeldon Mobking of Chyenne Wyoming is named assistant secretary for the army recruiting for the Office interior, succeeding the late C B Sweeney of the San Francisco district. Coast statistics show ninety stations in the district with Guezelle Nevada furnishing 210 men in July, including thirteen from Alturas station in Nevada.
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Washington
Soeldon
Chyenne
Wyoming
Reno
Offie
Officials to Attend Oregon Fuel Conference
Governor Boyle and Attorney General Thatcher left for Portland to attend a conference on fuel conditions in the west. They expect to be away about a week.
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Jovernl, Boyle
Thatcher
Portland
Ore
West
Women’s Party Banner Incident at White House Gates
Washington August 10. Members of the Women’s party displayed a banner at the White House gates directed at Wilson. The insulting banner was torn down by a jeering crowd.
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Washington
Womens’ Party
White House
Wilson
Husband Beater Allegedly Beats Wife Then Flees to California
San Francisco Examiner reports on a 14 year old elopement between Julia Talbot and William Hush ending when Hush fled to Los Angeles. Julia filing for support and maintenance, showing bruises, with attorney and district attorney involvement. Wife says she was beaten by her husband in a frenzy.
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San Francisco Examiner
Nevada
Red Cross
Julia Talbot
William HH. ‘Talbot
San Francisco
Willim Hush
Valentine Hush
Oakland
George Co Perkins
Piedmont
Hush Ke Wis
Los Angeles
L A Friedman Elected First Mayor of Lovelock
L A Friedman, a mining man and financier, won Lovelock’s mayoral race by about three to one in a 602 registered voters turnout of 405. Trustees named include A Bachrodt Northward South Ward, L Young, and W R Chadwick. Friedman received 301 votes to 104 for challenger J H L McCracken amid a low contest interest.
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L. A. Friedman
Lovelock
A. “L. Bachrodt
Overland Trail Club
South Ward
Young
W. R. Chadwick
Von Keuhlmann Assumes New Duties in Copenhagen
Foreign Minister Von Keuhlmann has taken up his post and joined Chancellor Michwells and the foreign affairs under secretary at army headquarters. Vice Chancellor Melfferteh later joined the delegation.
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Copenhagen
von Keuhlmann
Michwells
Anata
Melfferteh
Dynamited summer home of Montreal Star publisher
The summer home of Lord Athelstane in Castleville was dynamited. Athelstane, publisher of the Montreal Star, has long advocated conscription, suggesting a motive tied to his editorials.
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Montreal
Lord Athelstane
Castleville
Athelstane
Montreal Star
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Elko Mercantile DO
Reserve Corps
Westhoek
Elko County
Entente
Hobkins
C. B. Sweeney
Oregon
Vitagraph
Kitty MacKay
Women's Party
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