Wilson May Help End Big Strike
Washington reports President Wilson may join federal efforts to settle Pacific coast shipyard labor disputes. Hurley heads to San Francisco to present federal arguments to labor and capital, backed by the president’s authority, as talks with Gompers and Secretary Wilson aim for a settlement.
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San Francisco
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Mare Island Navy Yard
James L. Ackerson
United States Shipping Board
Conservation skirt hits Washington fashion scene
Washington reports the new conservation skirt, a Parisian inspired gown designed to conserve wool. Tailor made, it skips fluffs and ruffies and resembles an old time slit skirt in silhouette.
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Washington
Baseball Results Across Leagues
National League standings show Cincinnati Philadelphia Chicago New York and others with records and percentages. American League results list Philadelphia Chicago New York Cleveland Washington St Louis with scores and rainouts. Western and American Association games report Joplin Hutchinson St Paul Columbus Toledo Minneapolis Indianapolis Milwaukee Louisville Kansas City and related scores.
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Crowder Urges Governors to Close Saloons Before Mobilization
Provost Marshal General Crowder appeals to state governors to close saloons during entrainment periods as about 274 800 men depart for war nationwide. He warns elections of drunkenness could mar solemn mobilization days and outlines rulings on exemption appeals and governor review.
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War Tax Bill Delayed By Senate House Conferees
Senate conferees led by Simmons forecast further delays as final action on the war tax bill is pushed toward next week. They say progress occurred on key disputes and expect decisive voting soon after resolving zone rates for second class mail and wind down on war profits and income taxes.
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Suffrage Act Held Invalid in Indiana Case
Judge James Rochford of Marion Superior Court ruled the limited woman suffrage law unconstitutional. The decision cites a constitutional provision restricting suffrage to males and limits voting to offices not created by the constitution. William W Knight, a lumberman, brought the suit as a test case in the wake of other reform-era statutes.
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Indianapolis
James Rochford
Marion
William W Knight
Stockholm socialist conference calls for unity with Russian democracy
The Stockholm organizing committee reports the conference is not abandoned and a date will be set once passport issues are resolved. It urges Russian comrades to close ranks and rely on Russian democracy to solve the crisis, while praising the Russian people's reaction to the emperor's fall.
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Socialist Conference
Russia
French Policy Declares War Aims and Legal Rigor
In Paris the ministerial declaration read by Premier Painleve reaffirms France will pursue the war until Alsace Lorraine is disannexed and Germany pays reparations. It vows impartial justice against collaborators and underscores a vigorous republican and social policy despite the absence of a socialist minister in the cabinet.
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Probe Into Missing Ships Stirs London Lloyds Inquiry
The Daily Mail reports Lloyds preparing a full inquiry into vessels listed as missing but absent from the weekly admiralty roll. The paper notes daily postings of several missing ships. It cites German cipher influence and says many steamers marked missing this year are valued at over £250,000 each.
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Kaiser Boosters on Job
U S officials rejected reports of a separate peace between Russia and Germany as false. Petrograd’s situation grows more reassuring as Kerensky strengthens the cabinet, signaling renewed determination to fight the war to a finish.
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Washington
Russia
Germany
State Department
Petrograd
Kerensky
Germans Suffer Massive Casualties in Raid Bombing
The courier reports in Maastricht that during a recent Entente air raid on Roulers Belgium a bomb struck a building near the market killing or wounding about 900 Germans.
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de la Meuse
Maastricht
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War Deficiency Bill Clears House with Vast Army Navy Cash
Washington reports a unanimous House vote approving a war deficiency bill carrying 8.7 billion dollars for army fortifications and shipping boards. It directly appropriates 4.85 billion with 2.314 billion in additional contracts, funds for the Shipping Board and naval and army needs, and anticipates Senate action and possible amendments.
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Senate Republicans
War Is Bringing A New Day For United States
Atlantic City September reports Secretary Baker and Secretary Lane urging a shift from duty to opportunity in wartime as business leaders pledge support. They outline America's mass mobilization, new industries, and legal measures to back the war effort, stressing democracy and global leadership.
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N. J
Baker
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Europe
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Lane
Chamber of Commerce of the United States
Berlin Denies Peace Talk Stories in Foreign Papers
The German foreign office says reports in Danish and other newspapers that Germany has shared peace terms with Washington or sent trial balloons to gauge U.S. sentiment are false. The denial was issued to the press in Berlin on September 19.
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Berlin
Wilhelmstrasse
United States
Alien Enemy Ends Life in Baltimore Jail
Gotthola Prusse aged forty one, held since August 20 as an alien enemy who left a restricted zone without permission, died by his own hand in the Baltimore city jail. Prusse helped design the German submarine Deutschland and arrived in the city on its first voyage.
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Lynching of Rufus Mons erief near White Hall
A thirty year old African American man, Rufus Mons erief, was lynched near White Hall Athens Georgia. The body was found hanging beside the road after authorities charged him with a supposed crime described as the usual.
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