Agriculture seeks six million dollar seed appropriation
Secretary of Agriculture David F. Houston asked Congress for a 6 million dollar appropriation to buy, store, and sell seed to farmers at a reasonable cash price, with a revolving fund until emergencies end. The measure targets drought areas in Texas, Oklahoma, the northwest, and other states needing viable seed for next season.
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New York
Two WAAF typists fined for overstaying leave in London
Aldershot reports that four women typists from the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps returned from leave in London. Two women were handed to police for neglect of public duty and jailed for two nights before each paid a fine of one guinea.
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Aldershot
England
Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps
London
Civil Police
Fires death toll in Norfolk rises to three
Norfolk reports a third death from Tuesday's blaze as Fireman W. H. Nelson dies from a crushed skull after a Lenox building wall collapse. Fireman John R. West had died earlier in the day amid the same incident. Amsterdam notes Vorwaerts cites Dr. Eduard David calling Austrian negotiators more conciliatory than Germans at Brest-Litovsk talks.
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W. H. Nelson
Lenox
John R. West
Amsterdam
Vorwaerts
Berlin
Eduard David
Reichstag
Brest-Litorsk
Fosdick Commission Worker Rates Camp Sevier Favorably
H White special representative of the War Department commission on training camp activities spent yesterday at Camp Sevier Greenville and said general conditions were very satisfactory across camps. White, formerly a New York deputy police commissioner, led the Fosdick mission headed by Raymond Fosdick.
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Jan Alexander
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New York
Notice of local improvement assessments for city streets
The city announces computed paving assessments for High Point streets including South Main, Commerce to city limits, Green Street, West Street, East Wash, Ray Street, and others. Objections must be filed by January 2, 1918 at the municipal building, with hearing set before the council. Murphy, City Manager, January 22, 1917.
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