Synopsis of Instructions Relative to Conscription
A historical notice outlines seven day deadlines for filing exemption or discharge claims with local boards. It lists grounds for exemption including official roles, religious ministers, students, certain aliens, and wartime service. It details procedures, required forms, affidavits, proof timing, and board decisions within three days, plus notes on certificates, recall, appeals, and press/public notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
District of Columbia
Germany
Indiana Storm Loss Heavy and Fatal Lightning Kills
New reports tally storm damage across central and southern Indiana and eastern Illinois reaching hundreds of thousands in losses. Three deaths in Indiana are linked to lightning along with two deaths from a small tornado in Brown County. Victims include Richard Ryland, Thomas Grady, Milford Nealis, James Henderson, and Mrs. Iefiie Henderson.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Illinois
Brown County
Richard Ryland
Dana
Ind
Thomas Grady
Crownpoint
Milford Nealis
Jennings County
James Henderson
Iefiie Henderson
Studebaker Estate Inheritance Tax Set at 98186
The J. M. Studebaker estate in South Bend Indiana faces an inheritance tax bill of 98186. Tax inspector Al Bert E Humke fixed the amount.
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Studebaker
South Bend
Ind
J. M. Studebaker
al Bert E. Humke
Stockholders Ordered to Pay Full Value to Lorimer Bank Receiver
Chicago July 14 stockholders of Former Senator William Lorimer s LaSalle Street Trust and Savings Bank 213 in number were directed to pay the full face value of their shares to receiver William C Niblack about 1 000 000 in total. Court order followed arguments from stockholders counsel. Two closing matters regard Central Trust Company of Illinois liability and stockholder liability for sales before failure.
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Chicago
William Lorimer
LaSalle Street Trust and Savings Bank
William C. Niblack
Lorimer Bank
Central Trust Company of Illinois
The Town Slouch: Riffing on Honest Trade and War Times
A mosaic of quips and cartoons mocks commerce honesty and wartime aims. References to Cy Dawkins, office politics, and public opinion appear alongside jabs at the Kaiser and Boston bakers. The piece mixes satire, headlines, and playful verse with dated war imagery for a newspaper feel.
For Sale Classified Notices From Burpees Sweet Peas to Ford
Multiple small ads list items for sale including Burpees Sweet Peas at 806 South 7th Street with phone number 2295, a 12x14 tent, a second hand Ford from Hannat Clinkinbeard Auto Co, seven 100m modern houses on South Second Street with September 1st possession, seven recom houses with utilities paid, and office supply ads for Remington typewriters from American Writing Machine Co with catalogue request.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spencer Sweet Peas
South 7Th Street
Ford
Hannat-Clinkinbeard Auto Co
South Second Street
Wilson’s
South Side Square
Espionage plot unmasked implicating Kaufman aide in Indiana steel plant blueprints
Hammond Indiana July 4 Following the arrival of Hinton G. Clabaugh from the Chicago department of justice to handle spy arrests at East Chicago Herman Barecka aged twenty eight an alien German employed at the Standard Forgings plant was taken into custody. Translations of correspondence found in Karl Kaufman s effects indicate Barecka s complicity with Kaufman s machinations. A roll of blueprints for the giant Indiana Steel plant at Gary and other munition plants were found hidden between basement wall partitions.
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Hammond
Ind
Hinton G. Clabaugh
Chicago Department of Justice
East Chicago
Herman Barecka
Karl Kaufman
Barecka
Kaufman
Kaukman
Indiana Steel
Gary
United States
Former Publisher A. J. Moynihan Dies in California
Fort Wayne July 14 Word was received of the death of A J Moynihan former owner and publisher of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette who died in Long Beach California where he had gone for health reasons about a year earlier He had retired from the newspaper business at that time selling the Journal Gazette to L G Ellinham former secretary of state and E G Hoffman a leading Fort Wayne attorney
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Fort Wayne
Ind
A. J. Moynihan
Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette
Long Beach
Cal
Journal Gazette
L. G. Ellinham
E. G. Hoffman
Riot Quieted After Foreigners Driven Out
Flat River Missouri July 16 The situation after two days of rioting has led to a request for more troops. Battery A and Troop B from St Louis arrived here armed with ball cartridges and under orders to shoot to kill.
Uruguay Hails U.S. Fleet Escort into Montevideo Harbor
The American squadron arrived at 4 PM Wednesday and was escorted by Uruguayan warships into Montevideo. The president of the foreign affairs committee greeted the officers and invited them ashore. In Globe Arizona, E C Bright head of the local IUMS workers union faces rioting charges with 25 other strikers jailed.
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Montevideo
Uruguay
Committee of Foreign Affairs of the
Chamber of Deputies
Globe
Ariz
E. C. Bright
International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers
For Rent Notices in Local Advertisements
Three rental notices and a shop rental headline. A modern eight room furnished house preferred occupants: man and wife or lady with grown children at 05 South Main Street. A small house in good repair at 609 West Van Buren Street. The Vernon blacksmith shop south of the library offered by W J Gilbert as a good opening for the right man.
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South Main Street
van Buren Street
W. J. Gilbert
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Daily Journal
Lerk
Navy Yard
Lorimer
Fairfield Steam Laundry
Fairfield
LaVera Manufacturing Company
Clark Street
Holt
Iowa
Ellis M. Clarke
Cy Dawkins
London
Paris
Berlin
Maud
Boston
Kaiser
People's
Carl Kaufman
Horace Hamilton
Wiet South Street
Andrew
Alexander Keebler
Hamilton
Andrew Keebler
New York Central Railroad
Keebler
South Street
American Film Company
Gail Kane
Jesses Lasky
Vivian Martin and
Jack Pickford
Metro Picture Service
Lionel Barrymore
William Fox
Virginia Pearson
Artcraft Pictures Corp
Mary Pickford
The
Oliver Morosco Photoplay Co
Kathryn Williams
House Peters
Missouri
Paul Painleve
U.S
Painleve
American Press Association
Fai
Williams Mfg CO
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