Wilson Outlines Draft Exemption Rules and Impartial Boards
President Wilson issues regulations guiding the next step in selecting the national army from the 1917 registered men. Local and district exemption boards will decide cases on their merits, with no class exemptions, while appeals go to district boards. The plan calls for uniforms, fearlessness, and impartiality in determinations affecting dependents, occupations, and fitness.
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Washington, D. C
Wilson
Crowder
United States
Regular Army
National Guard
Navy
Exemption Categories Listed For Draft During War
A historic wartime roster outlines groups exempt from military conscription including officers ministers students and dependents. It also covers aliens without first papers, county and municipal officers, certain workers in arsenals, pilots and merchant sailors. Additional exemptions apply to married men with dependents and orphans’ relatives and those morally deficient or belonging to pre 1917 religious sects opposing war.
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United States
States
Territories
District of Columbia
Germany
Purdue Advises Indiana Feeders on Palatable Forage and Pasture Care
Purdue University extension warns Indiana farmers that forage palatability drives livestock gains. As clover and alfalfa age they become woody and less palatable, risking slower weight gain. Clipped regrowth freshens palatability. avoid overgrazing. if June to August fail, sow six to eight pounds of rape per acre to sustain gains for hogs or sheep.
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Lafayette
Department of Agricultural Extension
Purdue University
Indiana
Evansville Faces Higher Coal Prices Under New Rules
Evansville coal buyers likely will pay 4.70 to 5.00 per ton after July 1 under a government agreement, according to L. G. Julian of a local coal firm. He notes current delivered price is 3.75 per ton, with mine price 2.75 and added costs for freight, jobber profit, retailer, and handling.
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Evansville
L. G. Julian
Muncie Heads Delegation for Army Cook Instructors School
Muncie M. D. Kelly head of the Muncie Normal Training Institute will lead a delegation to Washington this week to press for selecting Muncie as the site for a 1 200 cook instructors training place provided in the army deficiency bill. The city is said to have a good chance to land the school.
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Muncie
M. D. Kelly
Two Wealthy Men Sentenced in Blind Tiger Case
Muncie residents Charles Benadum and Luther Flatter, both wealthy and influential, found guilty of operating a blind tiger. They are sentenced to four months in the county jail and fined $300 each. The circuit court has about 100 more cases to be tried.
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Muncie
Charles Benadum
Luther Flatter
Poisoned milk kills man and injures others
Bert Gregg, a farmer six miles east of Frankfort, dies after his milk and butter are poisoned by cattle fed on deadly nightshade. His wife and a hired man are in critical condition. Four charged with robbery, Indianapolis detectives announce linked to numerous thefts from commission houses, flour mills, and freight cars. Marion: Garry D. Custer, son of Nettie B. Custer, to graduate from the United States Naval Academy with ensign rank.
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Frankfort
Bert Gregg
Here
Gregg
Indianapolis
John Bigelow
Naval Academy
Marion
Garry D. Custer
Nettie B. Custer
United States Navel Academy
Custer
Arimondi
Indiana Officials Rally For War Council Defense Drive
Indiana school officials join Horace A. Ellis in supporting the state defense drive and the war department. Dr George R Grose of DePauw pledges thirty days of state wide lectures in the spirit of 76. Notables from Notre Dame Indiana University Franklin Hanover Purdue and other colleges were named for Fourth of July events.
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Indianapolis
Horace Ellis
Indiana
State Council of Defense
War Department
George R. Grose
DePauw University
Ellis
Elis
Father Cavanaugh
Notre Dame
William Lowe Bryan
Indiana University
Belknott
Franklin College
Millis
Hanover
Stanley Coulter
Stone
Purdue University
Mediation likely settles Monon railroad labor trouble
HOOSIER NOTES Lafayette Federal mediators have stepped in at the Monon railroad shops and government agents are expected to settle the labor dispute. Widespread notices of local changes include Lyons wiring the city and lighting installations taking effect this week. John T. Loyd of Second National Bank launches a pig club in Vincennes to reward rural youth. Five La Porte guard members discharge to train as officers at Fort Harrison. One Lafayette fatality and the destruction of Tippecanoe county’s largest barn follow a severe lightning storm. Republican chairmanship changes occur in Alexandria. Hammond sees arrest in a Kaiser image on a watch fob case. South Bend moves docks to eastern time at midnight June 30. Shelburn mine reopens to vein No. 7 with Thomas Johnson.
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Lafayette
Monon
Lyons
Indiana Power and Water Company
Vincennes
John T. Loyd
Second National Bank
Laporte
Laporte Guard Company
Fort Harrison
Tippecanoe County
Alexandria
Tot
Sullivan
Thomas Johnson
Shelburn
Rioting in East St. Louis. martial law declared
White mobs attacked Black residents in East St. Louis on July 3 injuring and killing several. Martial law ordered, 300 white men arrested as 12 National Guard units deployed. violence spread across the city with cars dragged and Black people pulled from streetcars.
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East St. Louis
Ill
Springfield
Adjt
Frank A. Dickson
Olney
Casey
Sullivan
Pontiac
Kankakee
National Guardsmen
Edwardsville
Belleville
Flore
National
St. Louis
Samuel Coppedge
Drive Germans From Posts On Aisne Front
Paris reports a French counter-attack drove Germans from trenches seized Sunday night along the Aisne front. Canadian Headquarters says the Lens area drive west and south continues with vigor, as troops push about 700 yards beyond Thursday’s line amid heavy bombardment and ruined buildings.
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Paris
Aisne
War Office
France
Lens
Reservoir Hills
Lydia Pinkham Remedy Promoted in Personal Testimony Letter
A wartime style testimonial extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for severe cramps. The letter from Mrs. George R. Traylor of Luzerne, Pa. praises relief after years of suffering and endorses the product to friends. Also included are a dairy district farm ad and a magazine question about preferred reading material.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
George R. Traylor
Marysville
Dandruff Cure Ad Promotes Cuticura Ointment
An old advertisement urges removing dandruff and itching with Cuticura Ointment. The plan recommends rubbing the ointment on the scalp, then shampooing with Cuticura Soap and hot water each morning to prevent skin and scalp troubles. Free samples offered by mail from Cuticura Dept L Boston.
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Dept. L
Boston
Disraeli’s Suez Purchase Dawns in British Legacy
The piece argues Disraeli’s acquisition of a large Suez Canal stake shifted imperial balance, likening it to Jefferson’s Louisiana purchase. It notes 176,600 shares bought at par $100, now valued highly with an 18 percent dividend, once over 30 percent prewar. It contrasts Gladstone’s lesser impact and predicts a future Panama canal role for the US.
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Disraeli
Gladstone
Ladstone
Suez Canal
Egypt
Girard
Philadelphia Ledger
Jefferson
Louisiana
Rothschild
England
Panama Canal
Uncle Sam
What He Was Doing
A motorist confronts a bizarre scene as a cheerful onlooker asks about an accident. The driver, teeth clamped on the spare wheel, mutters disbelief while the bystander jokes about teaching an Egyptian haddock to sew buttons on policemen’s socks.
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London
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