World War Strain Drives Global Mobilization 4 Million Men At War
General Robertson cites 4 000 000 men under arms, 200 000 tons of ammunition moved from Britain to France, and widespread war mobilization across nations. He notes the war as a total mobilization of economies, transport, and labor, with Japan’s potential help discussed and the Trans Siberian route as a possible supply line.
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London
William Robertson
Aiadowe
Reberbaan
Mall
Abe Jone
France
Carlos Ie
England
Robertson
Peanee
Senate
Germany
Fries
Trebertaen
Gravelotte
Tertil Cnauatties
Lens
Mindi Givat
Stam
Berlin
Vienna
Brest
Russia
Jack Binns to Fly in British Recruiting Drive
Wireless hero Jack Binns of the steamer Republic may join a new British recruiting effort in New York under Brig. Gen. George W. A. White. Binns, famed for his post during the Republic disaster January 24, 1901, kept sending SOS signals as the ship sank and helped save all 800 aboard.
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Jack Binns
Republic
Inurela
New York
Geo. W. A. White
Binns
Iet
Brioos
Florida
Nantucket
America
Boy’s Pencil Bomb Explodes. Hand Lost in Lorain
A fourteen-year-old boy in Lorain Ohio attempted to make a real planition worker style device using a pencil, powder, and a dynamite cap. The blast injured his right hand when wires crossed, and the device exploded.
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Lorain
Planition
John Katonsk
Johnny
Wall Street Bishop Quits In Open Air Cathedral
The bishop of Wall Street, Dr Winn Wilkinson, holds his last service at Broad and Wall streets in an open air cathedral. He has presided for years over noonhour services for financiers and office workers, as crowds gather in the canyon of Wall Street, with many in need.
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Bhewr
Tie
Trinity
Hoe
J. Mercont Morgan
New York
Wall Street
Las
Broad
Wall Streets
Trev
Winn Wilkinson
Financial Distret
Prinity Corporation
wWhiuse Missioner
Canyon of Wall
Smoke more and eat less in food shortage era
London urges Britain to smoke more and eat less to cope with food shortages. Sir John Kees argues reduced tobacco duty could help. he notes non-smokers eat less while smokers may eat more. The piece also claims women now smoke publicly in streets and factories and faces penalties for smoking in munition plants. Weather is lightly noted as a shared concern of married couples.
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London
John Kees
Pay Increases For Army Navy On Foreign Service
Military pay raises are outlined for foreign service personnel across army and navy ranks. The schedule includes a $10 advance for nurses and a $90 monthly hike for shipboard personnel, with doctors and officers receiving pay adjustments matching their rank, and general increases for infantry artillery and other corps under the new plan.
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ARMY
Marine Corps
Ington
Ling
Tdoutenant
Menorl
Wone4rul Orarere
Genertl
Gabonel
Rebjot
Firat
Noora
Nance
Signal Corps
Hosn
Diversified farming boosts soil, profits, and community appeal
The article argues for diversified farming with cattle hogs and poultry, corn alfalfa and legumes. It emphasizes building soil fertility through livestock and mixed farming, reducing fertilizer reliance, and the value of living on and improving the farm with homes, schools, and roads.
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Corn Belt
Oregon News In Brief Highlights Local Disasters And Projects
A logging camp worker died after a snag fell in London near Cottage Grove. Oregon Caves drew over 40 visitors this month as the season opens late. The Jensen shingle mill at Wheeler burned, $10,000 loss, adjacent mill saved. Paroled prisoners earned $165,102.24 since July 1916, $14,879.50 in May, 216 parolees reported, average $52.08 monthly. Mrs. Gregry’s Dallas store burned, $10,000 stock lost. Attorneys Brown and Sargent praised the Payette Oregon slope irrigation project after inspection. Wood prices rise in Salem portending a famine in Portland. Douglas County roadwork to begin under bonding act. Port bids for Toledo and Newport deferred. Public Service hearings set for rate cases starting July 9. Great Southern railway rate dispute filed with PSC. Jason Moore lease questions revisit State Land Board. W. D. Clark named railroad engineer. Federal Lumber Trade Commission visits Bend plants. Rabies concern prompts Pasteur treatment for a Wagonfire resident. Shipbuilders Kruse Banks announce six vessels for the government.
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Keller
Withycombe
Charles Gregry
Women’s Furnishings
Dallas
Payette-Oregon
Snake River
Brown
Banks Sargent
Salem
Portland
Killimaque Lake
Oregon
Rock Creek
Elkhorn Mountains
Sulphur Use Measured For Potato Scab Control
Investigation of sulphur as a scab control on potatoes shows spring applications outperform fall. Benefits peak on fallow land, and combining soil sulphur with seed-tuber formaldehyde improves results. Broadcast sulphur after planting works best, with ammonium sulphate, acid phosphate, and muriate of potash enhancing efficiency over other forms.
Testing Dairy Herds for Tuberculosis
A cow may suffer from tuberculosis yet show no signs to the owner. For children helping the mill, two qualified veterinarians should inspect and test each cow annually.
Protein in feeds for hens and crops and eggs
The article explains protein's role in chicken bones muscles and eggs noting wheat and clover contain protein among other elements. It contrasts corn as low protein and meal suggests plant sources supplying the essential nutrient for poultry.
Chicago Wheat Fit Is Ordered Closed
President Griffin of the Chicago Board of Trade announces a federally controlled wheat plan to ban future delivery trading in wheat while allowing unrestricted buying and selling of other grains. The food administration will oversee wheat distribution for domestic, export, allies, and neutrals, with millers under government purchase and flour distribution.
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Chicago
Griffin
Board of Trade
Washington
Herbert C. Hoover
United States
Food Administration
Coal Prices Slashed East of Mississippi by Government Pact
Washington officials and mine operators reached a July agreement to reduce bituminous coal prices east of the Mississippi by 1 to 5 dollars per ton with a further 50 cent cut for government use. About 400 operators pledged to supply at a reasonable price and shift price setting to the government via the Defense Council production committee. Government and consumer gains were expected to exceed operator losses, with caps on broker commissions and a plan to take coal at mine price plus transport and 25 cent per ton commission.
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Washington, D. C
Mississippi River
Lane
Defense Council
Fort
Federal Trade Commission
Smith
Geological Survey
American Aviator James Hall of Lafayette Escadrille Dead
Corporal James Hall of Colfax Indiana a member of the Lafayette Escadrille is reported killed after an encounter with seven German planes. He was shot through the lung and his machine fell inside French lines. Hall authored Kitchener's Mob and joined the American squadron after British service. He had just downed a German aircraft four days earlier.
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Paris
James Hall
Colfax
Lafayette Escadrille
Hall
Labor Discredits Session At Stockholm Conference
The American Federation of Labor declines to participate in the international trades unions conference called by the Stockholm meeting set for September 17 in Switzerland. President Gompers telegraphed President Lindquist that the AFL regards all such conferences as inappropriate.
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Washington, D. C
American Federation of Labor
International Conference of Trades Unions
Stockholm
Switzerland
Gompers
Lindquist
American Federation
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Aoude
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Snag
Oregon Caves
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Jensen
Wheeler
R. W. Warsters
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Newport
Public Service Commission
Great Southern Railway
Japron Moore
Albert Lakes
State Land Board
Olcott
City Softer Deposit Company
Omaha
Jason Moore
W. D. Clark
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BE. W. Moreland
Federal Lumber Trade Commission
John R. Walker
Nelson C. Brown
A. A. Oxholm
R. E. Simmons
George M. Cornwall
A. W. Cooper
Western Pine Manufacturers Association
Spokane
Bend
A. T. Donovan
Wagonfire
Pasteur
Robert Banks
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Chicago Board of Trade
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