Local brief highlights visitors and arrivals in Burlington
Burlington pages show numerous visitors arriving or staying with local families including Rev Wolf from Burlington, Misses Lake and Emry of Claredon Virginia, Mrs Otto Bussey of Danville and Mrs Belle Allen, plus J H Tomilson of Des Moines and Frank Kirkpatrick of Keota. A birth is reported at Jefferson County Hospital and a Live Stock Breeders meeting is announced. Shipbuilding officials seek workers for Norfolk yards and a British Flying Squadron member visits.
Neat Sum Realized on Tag Day by Junior Red Cross
The Junior Red Cross tag day at the high school and upper grade schools yielded a substantial total. Students organized the sale and contributed to a successful fundraiser with a final amount reported as 8687.18 in currency.
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Junior Red Cross
Red Cross
War trophies move crowd at Old Soldiers reunion
R. W. Lamson salutes Chester Campbell and Kenneth Bailey for presenting war trophies from the Allied War exposition. Bailey, descendant of Commodore Perry, explains items to 10,000 attendees, with Bailey as author of the Official Souvenir Program for the Chicago exhibit.
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R. W. Lamson
Chester I. Campbell
Kenneth Bailey
Chicago
Mr. Campbell
Ratinion
Massachusetts
Bailey
Alps
Imperial Kaiser
Kofinsch Volkzietung
Germany
Pailey
Mr. Bailey
Commodore Perry
Lake Fire
Campbell
Lansing
New Government Seated in Archangel After Allied Talks
Archangel reports that after conferences with allied diplomatic and military chiefs the Tschaikovsky provisional government, recently overthrown, is reseated and will direct northern region affairs with ally guidance.
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Archangel
European
Rusgia
Tschaikovsky
Executed by Soviet 37 Leaders Foes of Revolution Shot
London reports a list of 87 recently executed in Moscow including former cabinet ministers under Nicholas II. Names cited include Alexei Khostoff H Propopoff J G Sicheglovitoff and Al Maklakoeff with 41 Vostergoff Supreme officers and gendarmes among those shot. the dispatch notes danger of wholesale reprisals and widespread missing officers.
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London
Moscow
Nicholas
M. Tchitcherin
Alexei Khostoff
H. Propopopoff
Interior
J. G. Sicheglovitoff
Justice
al. Maklakoeff
Vostergoff
Wien
Cantral
Bolshavik
Ios
Lani
Livon Toray
Dolchevik Ree Y Ostary of War
Alexiel
Antibolshevik
Alexieff
Russia
McCormick Leads Republican Nomination For U.S. Senate
Medill McCormick appears to have won the Republican nomination for United States senator by a large margin with an indicated plurality around 50 000. Downstate votes show a landslide, while Chicago incomplete returns place Thompson ahead locally. Lewis was renominated with no meaningful opposition as turnout was light due to rain.
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Chicaea
Medill McCormick
William Hatchampson
Amecorlege
Cook County
Cairo
Zion City
Chicago
Thompson
McCormick
George Edmund Foss
James Hamilton Lewis
Germans use women pilots in France war report
Report claims German army employs women as aviators in France. A German pilot killed near Sergy on August 28 was identified as a woman by the observer buried with the pilot, according to Captain of the One Hundred Sixty seventh Infantry and Lieut. Miller Thompson of the American air force who helped bring down the plane.
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France
One Hundred and Sixty-seventh Infantry
Sergy
Miller Thompson
War relics to tour nation during Liberty loan drive
24 special trains carrying war relief exhibits will tour the United States from September 28 to October 19. They will stop briefly in small towns and spend one or two days in larger cities with American and allied soldiers presenting lectures accompanying the displays.
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Washington
Liberty Loan
Selective Service Calls 2000 Men for Limited Service
Provost Marshal General Crowder issued a call for 2000 white selective men to serve as stenographers and typists. They will be mobilized on September 25 and assigned to camps and forts across states except Arkansas.
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Crowder
Washington
Arkansas
Gasoline Deficit Report Signals Further Curtailment
Washington reports the fuel administration forwarded to the senate figures on gasoline production and use showing a large deficit. The data respond to Senator Lodge’s resolution and indicate orders for further curtailment may be expected.
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Washington
United States
The
Fuel Administration
Senate
Lodge
John Vogelsang Practical Piano Tuner
John Vogelsang offers piano tuning service with practical expertise. Contact by phone at 2412 for appointment and tuning needs.
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John Vogelsang
Reds Imprison British
London dispatch says Petrograd authorities jailed one thousand British subjects in a sweeping act. The report, carried by the Daily Express, notes the mass detention amid escalating wartime tensions.
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London
Petrograd
Daily Express
Instructors Par ker Bruce and Anthony A Sego Die in Crash
Dallas report confirms Lieut Par ker Bruce from Chicago and Lieut Anthony A Sego from Kentland Ind were instantly killed when an airplane crashed one and a half miles north of Love Field. Bruce served as an instructor and Sego was a flying cadet.
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Lieut. Bruce
Chicago
Lieut
A. A. Sego
Kentland
Ind
Dallas
Tex
Parker Bruce
Anthony A. Sego
Lovefield
Bruce
Sego
Fairfield Chaukhauqua Association Stockholders Meeting
Stockholders meet at 1 30 p m Friday October 4 1918 in the armory rooms Fairfield to elect directors and transact other proper business J A Huglin President Dean Taylor Secretary.
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Fairfield Chaukhauqua Association
Armory
Fairfield
Auction of Household Goods and Home, Coal, in Briggs Street
L P Quinn offers a Saturday sale at 2 PM of household items at 805 West Briggs Street including piano, phonograph, dining set, dresser, chairs, rugs, and more plus sale of a seven room modern house and ten tons of coal. Terms cash. right to refuse bids. Phone 1790. auctioneers T B Allender and clerk C L Brawner.
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West Briggs Street
Kingsbury
Morris
Edison Phonograph
Cole
Singer
L. P. Quinn
T. B. Allender
C. L. Brawner
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Rev. Wolf
Burlington
City
B. Ross
Florida
Misses Lake
Elizabeth Emry
Claredon, Virgina
Otto Bussey
Danville
Belle Allen
South C Street
J. H.tomilson
Des Moines
J. M. Gregg
Frank Kirkpatrick
Keota
Dr. E. G. Myrick
Rupert Yecum
Chariton
E. G. Crew
Jefferson County Hospital
O. L. Job
Knoxville
Wade Flinspach
Aviation Corp
Park Hill
Memphis, Tenn
Fred Flinspach
Ed Mullenix
San Francisco
Wm. Langner
C. C. Cornick
Mt. Pleasant
John Samuelgson
Live Stock Breeders’ Association
W. T. Newman
Stockport
Harry King
Midowee
Mrs. H. King
H. C. Benton
Uw. Garwood
Government Shipbuilding Corporation
Norfolk Navy Yards
Mr. Benton
Lincoln
Logan SS
Uncle Sam
Orenstein-Koppel
Orenstein-Arthur Koppel Company
Koppel& Pa
Alien Property Custodian
Liberty Bonds
Berlin
Alien Property
Custo
Rome
Heidi Constas
Czar
m’eonMiCk
U. S. Senator
Ilfncie
Thomipson
HUNS
Stockholders’ Meeting
J. A. Huglin
Pres
Dean Taylor
Sec
Staves Bros
F. F. Dalley Corporations, Limited
Buffalo
MN. Y
Sweet Little
Buttercup
PH Laughlin OO
y'Ra
Uittie
U. S
Formu
Brassieres
W. B
W.B
Weingarten Bros., Inc
New York
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