Local News and War Day notices across communities
Clarence Werner returns from Lafayette and many residents visit relatives in Indiana Wisconsin and Iowa. The Bossus meet Friday with Elmer Reish as Ada Overman travels Williamsport and Irene Stine returns to town to work for a telephone company. The week includes visitors to Manon Winamac and Goodland, plus a Fourth of May style flag program note from the Bureau of Education and Four Minute Men. Community updates include car service, banking, schooling, and local club programs with hospital and operation notes.
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Frank Rees
Lafayette
Grace From
Fowler
Ind
John Garrieuer
Monticello
Bosus
Mere Elmer Reish
Ada Overman
Williamsport
Flag Day Observance Proposed for Schools and Industry
June 14 designated as Flag Day with a flag raising ceremony urged across schools and industrial plants. Commissioner P. P. Claxton directs letters and programs to educators, with the public information committee supplying speakers through local chairmen.
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America
Commissioner of Education
P. P. Claxton
Committee On Public Information
Registrants Called to Valparaiso From Several States
The Pro vost Marshal General announced quotas for 931 white and 252 negro registrants of grammar school education across Alabama Minnesota Texas and the District of Columbia. Minnesota’s 550 white registrants will go to Valparaiso University Indiana. Porch swings advertised by Spitler and Surber with Florence Oil Stoves ad offering wickless heat.
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Alabama
Minnesota
Texas
District of Columbus
Valparaiso University
Indiana
Spitler & Surber
Florence
Indiana Wheat Outlook Encouraging Farmers Face Labor Strain
The government crop report upbeat for wheat points to a 931 million bushel harvest with Indiana leading states in yield. Purdue reports mock damage may trim Indiana wheat by about 8 million bushels. Miss Julia Hubbard travels to Chicago for a brief visit with relatives.
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Indiana
Missouri
Cates
Kansas
Uinois
Purdue University
France
Julia Hubbard
Chicago
U S Casualties Over Seas To Date Reported
The War Department released the first weekly casualty update from General Pershing. Total American expeditionary forces casualties stand at 7 315 with 2 927 killed in action or died of wounds 4 046 wounded 34 missing or prisoners. The list shows 33 killed in action 9 died of wounds 11 died of disease 1 from airplane accident 4 wounded severely 46 wounded degree undetermined 74 missing in action 20.
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Americ
Pershing
War Department
Publi
Germany
Army
Nst
Hold on to Your Lib erty Bonds for Profit After War
Four Liberty bonds are outstanding including the first and second issues and the converted bonds. Two new issues will appear as 4 percent bonds via conversion of earlier bonds. They may trade below par now but likely rise in value after the war. the gains favor those who hold until victory.
Kokomo Man Arrested After Fast Car Escapade
Horace Edwards of Kokomo drove a Wescott car at high speed around the county for about a day and a half, showing friends a good time. Police from Kokomo seized him in Monticello at 4 am and returned him home on auto theft charges. He stayed at the Donnelly house while in town, burning twenty-five gallons of gasoline in 24 hours. White County Democrat story.
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Horace Edwards
Kokomo
Wescott
Monticello
Schemes on Goshen Streets Target Magazine Subscriptions
Two solicitors for a farmer’s maga laine used a deceptive sales tactic in Goshen. They offered cheap maps of the seat of war and Indiana wrapped with a rubber band and a $1 receipt promising a farmer’s magazine, pressuring victims to speak well of the maps. The scheme appears deceptive as no solicitation is made until the maps are delivered. The article notes Mary Babbard visiting relatives in Chicago.
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Goshen
Seat of War
State of Indiana
Vieting
Apeak
Baker seeks 16 million for coast air and balloon stations
Secretary of War Baker asks the fortifications committee for 16 million dollars to establish 16 aerial and balloon stations on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to deter serial and submarine attacks. Thirteen Atlantic and three Pacific sites chosen. Equipment ready. stations could be up in six weeks as part of a seven billion fortifications bill to be sent to the House next week.
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Atlantic
Pacific
Fortifications Committee
Sec. of War Baker
House
Soldier and Sailor Insurance Expansion Impresses Nation
The government reports over 2,000,000 insured military members totaling about 16.66 billion dollars in force. Up to May 13 2029 the Bureau of War Risk Insurance received 886 applications daily about 11,000 new requests each day. Most new enlistees are urged to insure within 120 days of joining service.
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United States
Americas
National Div
Bureau of War Risk Insurance
Draft Board Revisions Aim for Uniformity and Equity
Crowder orders nationwide draft revision to correct class disparities. Local boards act as weekly courts to hear cases, notify registrants, and forward records to district boards for approval. Uncertainty over classifications harms jobs and industry. Madden proposes moving noncombatant clerical workers into active service where fit.
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Crowder
War Department
General Crowder
Exploiters Must Go and Immigrant Social Conditions Debate
An editorial argues against blaming immigrants for New York’s social and economic ills while praising organized labor for improving tenements and ending sweat shops. It defends native and foreign born workers, supports the war against Germany, and notes Ray Engle’s weekend visit home from Fort Benjamin Harrison.
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Rose Pastor Stokes
New York
New York City
Germany
Look Out For Impersonators As War Income Tax Agents
Complaints reach the Bureau about impostors selling a farmer's account book under the guise of war income tax agents. Taxpayers are urged to verify authorization of income tax staff and report impersonators to officials. Penalties include up to $1,000 fine or three years imprisonment, or both. arrests will be vigorously prosecuted.
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Treasury Department
Peter J. Kruger
Thrift Stamps urged as wartime effort and soil aid
A wartime call urges citizens to buy thrift stamps and farm for food security. The piece exhorts digging soil, turning dirt into food, and supporting the war by turning tables on the Hun while appealing to business leaders to invest in garden tools.
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Europe
Preventing Fires Bulletin for Farm Property Readers
A short fire safety bulletin from Indiana state fire marshal HH Pheney urges farm occupants to curb fire hazards. It lists guidance on smoking, gasoline storage, away from barns, metal lockers, spark arresters, lightning rods, proper hay handling, and stoves with metal protection. It notes 23 lives lost in 1917 from fire causes.
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Hi Pheney
Indiana
Army objectors at Fort Leavenworth to receive private pay
Drafted men claiming conscientious objection to military service will be segregated at Fort Leavenworth Kansas. A special board will determine sincerity and may furlough them to work on farms at a private’s pay with funds above pay going to the Red Cross.
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U. S. Army
Wilson
Fort Leavenworth
Kans
Baker
Mack
Chicago
Dean Stone
Columbia Law School
Maj. Stoddard
Advocate General’s Office
Board of Inquiry
Tnder
Friends’ Reconstruction Unit
France
Red Cross
Prohibition of Inequality in Draft Exemptions Ordered
Washington notes the provost general instructed local boards in several states to re examine all questionnaires in class one. The move follows congressional opposition to a bill that would base the quota on class one strength. The report mentions high percentages of deferments and aims to end exemptions unevenness.
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Washington
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Salemi, Wisconsin
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Virginia
Manon
Irene Stine
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Harry J. Myer
Marilyn
Joby Clark
Winairac
Harry Dowvie
Tatsette
Stephen Eldridge
al Geer
Squire Spence
GALR
Lozinsport
Ernest Nelson
Iowa
WB. Leeson
Harvey Puckets
O'Mara
Chalmers
Wro
Mes Diehn Coes
Mer
Jodie Cheffman
Goodland
Claude Wheeter
Will Huthard
Arn
Milwaukee
Richmond
Clifford Payne
Resse
Jaer
Clifford
Bionces
Keith Clark
Little Naoma Lurber
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Education
Four Minute Men
Charles Kroger
Lewis Miller
Kopka
Morth. Hadeen
Tiotie Hospital
Fayette
John Saltwell
Vedlow
Jud Osburne
Bill Hart
Totion Picture
Len
McConnell
Continental Farm Department
Francis Sevatt
Rochester
Minn
Paul Bouldware
Detroit
M. Pull
Bouldware
Dodge Brothers
Public Library
Woodrow Wilson
Kruger
Winston Churchill
Judy
Richardson
Billy
Whitaker
U.S
Renae Ee Andt Man
Big Sum
Soldier and Sailor Insurance
Navy
Representative Madden
Illinois
Secretaries of War and Navy
John Deere
Deering
Spitler & Lurber
Ray Engle
Fort Benjiman Harrison
FT. Leavenworth
Maiden’s
Hullinger
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