All Slackers to Be Arrested in Nationwide Moon
Washington reports that the leniency period for men 21 to 81 who failed to register for the war army has ended. Provost Marshal General Crowder urged governors to enforce the penal clause of the selective service law, arrest non registrants, and refer them to justice authorities.
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Washington
General Crowder
Department of Justice Today
United States
Baker
Real
Wilson
Crowder
Bureau of the Census
Department of Justice
A Burden on the Press and Conscription Debate
The piece laments wartime press burdens as the nation nears conscription for the first time since the Civil War. It cites Copperhead rhetoric, urges justice actions against anarchists, and argues that press taxes would cripple publications and erode public policy and war financing.
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United States
Copperhead
New York Herald
New York
Department of Justice
House of Representatives
New York Financial Chronicle
Washington
Uncle Joe Rinstidt Turns Defamers Away in Napoleon
In Napoleon Indiana seventy year old Uncle Juve Rinstidt says he is not too old to fight. He reportedly knocked out a man who cursed and abused the United States with a left uppercut, and vows to handle all other defamers of the government the same way.
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Napoleon, Ind
Juve Rinstidt
United States
Joe
Baltimore's 110-year-old Mrs. Ann Ponder linked to Lafayette visit
Mrs. Ann Ponder of Baltimore is described as perhaps the oldest person in the United States at 110. She is believed to be the only person alive who witnessed General Lafayette's reception in Baltimore in 1823.
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Ann Ponder
Baltimore
United States
That
General Lafayette
Livestock Running at Large Prohibited in Cities
Montana's Fifteenth Legislative Assembly enacts a bill to ban horses cattle mules goats and swine from running at large in any incorporated city or town. Owners or keepers who unlawfully permit trespass face misdemeanor penalties. other conflicting acts are repealed. The act takes effect upon passage and approval, approved February 20, 1917.
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Fifteenth Legislative Assembly
Legislative Assembly
State of
Montana
Montana recruits 400 for war in 11 days report
Helena June 15 reports to Adjutant General Greenangabow that Montana has recruited 400 men for war in the last eleven days.
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Helena
Greenangabow
Montana
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