National Army to Move Into Cantonment Camps
Washington Aug. 14 The national army will be moved into cantonment camps beginning Sept 5 with increments 30 per cent Sept 5 30 per cent Sept 15 3? per cent Sept 30 and 10 per cent later. Mobilization aims for first 500000 men in camp by early October. Entrainment will occur within 24 hours of reporting with civilian dress and minimal baggage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Crowder
War Department
Chicago
Major Chiperfield
Chiperfield
E. L. Irons
J Harry Covington Probes I W W Situation for President
J Harry Covington launches an inquiry into the I W W matter as part of his campaign or public service posture. The focus centers on national security and political tensions during the era. Covington positions himself to address labor unrest and wartime policy debates.
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American Press Association
Covington
Supreme Court of
District of Columbia
West
I. W W
Wilson
Department of Justice
Justice Covington
Chicago and Kansas City Live Stock and Grain Markets
Market reports show hog receipts and price ranges across Chicago, Kansas City and East Buffalo with gains noted. Cattle and sheep values, grain quotes for wheat corn and oats, and produce prices appear alongside regional dealer figures and delivery notes.
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Kansas City
Ada Patchers
East Buffalo
Dunning and Stevens
Livestock Commission
N. Y
Chicago
Philadelphia and Washington baseball r e table snippets
Readable fragments show team pairings and score lines for games at Philadelphia and Washington. Names include Orton Covelskie Spencer and Fisher Nanamaker with Harper Henry, with partial inning tallies and final totals implied but unclear.
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Martin
Severeid
Covelskie
Spencer
Philadelphia
R. H. E. Orton
Leonard and
Thomas
Myers
Schang
Washington
New York
Fisher
Nanamaker
Harper and
Henry
Missionary Ship Sunk Near Cape Town Cost 19 Lives
A U S steamer City of Athens struck a mine off Cape Town on Aug 10. Five Americans perished, ten passengers and four crew lost, including four missionaries named Naggard Robinson and Caroline Thompson. Nineteen missionaries saved, with U S officials expressing grave concern over Campana gunner captures and Belgian Prince brutality reports.
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Washington
City of Athens
Cape Town
South Africa
State Department
Naggard
Robinson
Caroline Thompson
Methodist Mission Board
Pointer
Bridge Street
Brooklyn
Sumner
Duckworth
Denver
American Inland Mission Party
Arthur X. Davis
Moods Bible Institute
Chicago
William J Gee
Bennett
Neb
Amelia Buchanan
Kewanee
Ill
Hulda EK. Danielson
Moody Bible Institute
Myrtle B. Wilson
Camden
N. J
H. E. Bowe
Candy
Minn
Earl I. Camp
Tolmes
N. Y
Raymon L. Davis
Charleston
New York
Ireland
U. S
Campana
Navy Department
WIFE ENDS LIFE AT WABASH
Mrs Chi Waggoner wife of the Princeton school head dies by poison at her mother’s La Fontaine home. Domestic trouble blamed. sister witnessed her collapse after taking the drug.
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Wabash
Ind
Chi Waggoner
Princeton
Nother
Indiola Scott la Fontaine
U S Move Toward Grain Control Board
Washington plans creation of a grain control board within the food administration to supervise wheat and flour distribution and the manufacture and sale of flour. President Wilson will issue executive orders to enforce new regulations starting September 1, with licenses prepared for grain elevators and flour mills.
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Washington
Grain Control Board
Food Administration
Wilson
British Air Forces Destroy Two German Raiders Over Coast
London reports two German machines raiding the English southeast coast were destroyed by British naval aircraft. One was a Gotha bomber and the other a sea plane. The Sunday raid killed twenty three people including nine women and six children and wounded fifty, but defense preparations limited losses.
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London
Gotha
Sinister hands in coal strike raise concerns across states
Illinois officials report 32 of 40 Springfield district mines shut amid miner strikes and alleged agitator influence. Justice Carter calls hearings to determine production costs and fair mine-mouth prices. Farrington misses conference, cites exemption board duties. Additional reports cite 3000 Clinton field miners returning to work and federal efforts to end strikes in Illinois Kentucky and beyond.
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Springfield
Lil
W. W
Illinois
Orrin N. Carter
Lowden
Frank Farrington
Illinois Miners’ Union
Justice Carter
Fishwick
Farrington
State Council of Defense
Terre Haute
Ind
Clinton Field
Con Niew Oo
U. S
Washington
Peabody
Coal Production Committee
National Defense Council
United Mine Workers
Kentucky
Lexington
United Mine Workers of America
United States
Lumber Orders Placed for Ships by Emergency Street Corp
Washington August 14 orders for lumber to build more ships have been issued by the emergency street corporation in cooperation with the Southern Pine emergency bureau.
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Washington
Emergency Street Corporation
Southern Pine Emergency Bureau
Pastor Perkins Named Warden Of Iowa Penitentiary
Rev. J. R. Perkins of the First Christian church in Sioux City was appointed warden of the Iowa penitentiary at Fort Madison. The appointment takes effect September 1.
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Mace
Sioux City
J. R. Perkins
First Christian Church of
Iowa
Fort Madison
German forces seize vast WWI era arms haul
Berlin reports via Taegliche Rundschau that by July 26 German forces had captured 12,156 cannons, 1,655,000 rifles, 8,352 machine guns, 2,298 airplanes, 86 balloons and three airships, in a major wartime booty tally reported from Amsterdam.
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Amsterdam
Taegliche Rundschau
Berlin
Deport 1. W. W. Man. Reno Nevada Aug 14
Fifty armed Lovelock business men seized C. W. XecKinnon brother in law of W. D. Hinywood and an L W. W. organizer at Rochester Mining camp at midnight and shipped him to Orden Lovejoy port. Navy revokes closing of Boston port between midnight and sunrise announced by port official.
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W. W. Man
Reno
Nev
Lovelock
Rochester
C. W. XecKinnon
W. D. Hinywood
L W. W
Lovejoy 1
Orden
German Socialists May Balk From Stockholm Conference
Semiofficial report in the Frankfurter Zeitung says German Socialists may refuse to attend the Stockholm conference if Entente socialists demand that the program include discussion on responsibility for the war.
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Amsterdam
Frankfurter Zeitung
Stockholm
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Ilah Me. Cullough
Henry Baker
War
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Brussels
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