New York Barge Canal Opened As World’s Greatest Engineering Feat
Albany May 8 The New York state barge canal nearly finished will link Buffalo and Albany, stretching 530 miles with 57 locks and 30 dams. It surpasses the Panama Canal in size and complexity, and aims to ease transport from the Midwest to the Atlantic at a cost of 150 million dollars.
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Yale Dry Reunion Drive Led by Taft Committee
Taft appeals to 21 500 Yale graduates urging a ban or minimization of liquor at June class reunions to support wartime prohibition. Yale seniors oppose using funds for drinks. notable alumni including Camp Vincent Stimson Fisher and others serve on the Committee of 71 to spread the movement nationally.
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Robert W DeForest
John V. Fanwell
Walter Camp
George E. Vincent
Irving Fisher
Henry J. Stimson
Vance C. McCormick
William Sloane
Anson P. Stokes
James C. Greenway
General Thomas F. Davis Reaches Retirement Age
Brig Gen Thomas F. Davis, commander of the Sixth Brigade on the Mexican border, reaches statutory retirement after forty years of service. He is a New York native and may yet be retained in active duty per War Department policy.
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When Johnny Comes Marching Home at Amsterdam Theatre
Gotham theater notes report an elaborate revival of the patriotic civil war opera When Johnny Comes Marching Home at the Amsterdam Theatre led by F C Whitney with Stanislaus Stange as book writer and Julian Edwards as composer. The season at Hippodrome ends tonight after 425 performances and about two million viewers.
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Plan Drive for Prohibition in Washington Meeting
A powerful movement to ban manufacture and sale of intoxicants during the war is to be launched at a major meeting in Washington. The Federal Council of Churches opens the event, representing 30 denominations and 18 million members, plus other religious and temperance groups in attendance.
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Fights Tonight Feature Billy Miske Battling Levinsky
Boxing card set for New York with Billy Miske facing Battling Levinsky in a ten round bout. Albany hosts Johnny Howard against Silent Martin in a ten round contest. Hartford hosts Johnny Drummie versus Pete Hartley in twelve rounds. Boston stages Freddie Yelle against Young Blades in twelve rounds.
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Hartford
Freddie Yelle
Young Blades
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Illinois Dentists Open Fifty Third Annual Meeting
Leading Illinois dental professionals gathered in the city for the fifty third annual state association meeting. The convention opens today and will continue in session until Friday with prominent figures expected to address the gathering.
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Wainey
Major League Standings Shifts Through April End
New York Nationals rise from last to first while several eastern clubs gain in the 1917 drive. In the American League three eastern teams improve on 1916, Chicago remains the sole western club with better early-season results. The sixteen-club standings for 1916 and 1917 follow.
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National Hygiene and Public Baths Convention Opens
The National Association for the Promotion of Hygiene and Public Baths begins its annual convention in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania with a large representative attendance. Sessions over two days will tackle baths for industrial workers sick-room helpers municipal bathing houses and related municipal progress issues.
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Oxford Honors Van Dyke
Dr Henry Van Dyke, recently retired as United States minister to The Hague, received an honorary Doctor of Civil Law from Oxford University. The conferment occurred before a distinguished gathering that warmly welcomed the American scholar and diplomat.
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Texas Medics in Session in Dallas Meeting
The Texas State Medical Association opens its annual Dallas meeting with sessions lasting several days. Prominent physicians from across the state are expected to participate as they discuss medical aid to the nation during the current war.
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