New Devices Cut Toll of U Boats In War at Sea
Navy reports praise Edison and smoke screen tech as key in defending ships from submarines. Benson notes convoys reduced losses, while camouflage, depth charges, balloons, and detectors improve offensive and defensive measures against U boats. Also reports on lumber firms, and Washington food plan urging wheatless Wednesdays and more meat and wheat saving.
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Washington
Admiral Benson
Thomas A. Edison
Benson
United States
Food bids show large supplies for Texas soldiers at Fort Sam Houston
Fort Sam Houston and border posts will receive 4,395,000 pounds of potatoes and 549,500 pounds of onions in September and October. Distribution lists include Fort Sam Houston, Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Del Rio, Eagle Pass, McAllen, Mercedes, Sam Fordyce, and San Benito with precise tonnage allocated.
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Fort Sam Houston
Tex
Texas
Chief Quartermaster’s
National Guard
Brownsville
Corpus Christi
del Rio
Eagle Pass
McAllen
Mercedes
Sam Fordyce
San Benito
End of War Seen Within a Year by British Officers
A British liner arriving in New York carried Sir Stephenson Kent and six officers who predict the war may end within a year if winter fails to stop it. They cite German hunger and renewed blows as catalysts and say American export embargoes are a powerful weapon. They urge rapid pilot training for aerial support and note Lt Ernest Hargett and Lt S LaM Metcalfe among the passengers, with Metcalfe’s Boer War medal and another for capturing a German machine gun crew.
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Navy Department
Atlantic
Germany
New York
England
Stephenson Kent
Lord Northcliffe
France
Ernest Hargett
Washington
S. Lam. Metcalfe
Hundred Candles on Cake As Wauseon Man Turns 100
Lucius Palmer Taylor of Pike township near Wauseon Fulton county Ohio celebrated his hundredth birthday at home. The event featured a Taylor family dinner and a cake with 100 candles. Born August 18 1817 in Buckland Massachusetts he moved to Fulton county seventy four years ago and helped found the Fulton county fair while sending two sons to the Civil War.
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Wauseon
Lucius Palmer Taylor
Fulton County
Pike Township
Winameg
Taylor
Buckland Township
Franklin County
Mass
Shooting range atop hotel in New York planned
The roof of a well known New York hotel will be converted into a shooting range next winter. A club for men women boys and girls will be formed to shoot. Miss Martha Maynard will lead the organization and Miss June Haughton will supervise firing. An architect will convert the roof into an English shooting ground with safety measures against stray shots.
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New York
America
Martha Maynard
June Haughton
Fox Dog Returns to Owner in Michigan
Oscada resident Bill Diggerstaff reports his pet fox dog has returned after weeks away. The dog disappeared last December and was found starving in a baggage car crate near Grand Marais, 250 miles away, by a finder who left a note. Bill plans to send the fox out again this winter after the same animal.
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Oscada
Mich
Bill Diggerstaff
Grand Marais
Bill
Local Classifieds and Notices From Leavenworth Page
Lost terrier with collar and Yale dog tag 1916. reward $10. Five acre tracts for sale in Leavenworth First Addition with long terms. contact F A Reynolds. Logging contracts available by Great Northern Lumber Company Leavenworth. Eggs under 9 cents per dozen at 32 Eggs sale. offer from Purity Products Seattle. Wanted turkeys geese and ducks for Boulevard Cafe. Rent three room house see J E Shubert. Tow bobs, 34 with brake, phone H A Anderson Eagle Creek or box 192.
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Great Northern Lumber Company
Leavenworth, Wash
Leavenworth Land Company
Leavenworth
F. A. Reynolds
H. A. Anderson
Eagle Creek
Mrs Purroy Mitchell Joins Red Cross Parade Action
Mrs John Purroy Mitchell wife of the New York mayor participates in Red Cross work and is pictured in the recent city parade showing her active involvement.
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John Purroy Mitchell
New York
Red Cross
Poison Gas Not Chlorine on European Fronts
William D. Marshall told the American Electrochemical Society that chlorine could not be the poison gas used in European battlefronts. He cited lack of permanent injuries from chlorine in his experience and noted chlorine’s use in sanitation and wound sterilization. The Baldwin Locomotive Works produced 100 locomotives last week, its largest output to date, about two per hour and roughly $4 million in value.
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Pittsburgh
American Electrochemical Society
William D. Marshall
Marshall
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Baldwin
Clare Doty Joins Torpedo Boat Destroyer Crew in Philadelphia
Clare Doty enlisted in April and serves aboard a torpedo boat destroyer stationed in Philadelphia. Rutherford's announces the Crystal White Soap sale now ongoing with low prices inviting customers to stock up and save money.
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Clare Doty
Philadelphia
Rutherford’s
O Connor pleads guilty in Wenatchee to obscene mail matter
Frank W. O Connor pleads guilty before U S Commissioner Luddington in Wenatchee for sending obscene matter through the mails. He is sent to Spokane. The charge stems from a letter to a Coeur d Alene Idaho girl who turned it over to authorities. O Connor was employed by Great Northern Lumber Co in Wenatchee at arrest time.
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Frank W. O’connor
Wenatchee
U. S
Luddington
Spokane
Coeur d’ Alene
Idaho
Connor
Great Northern Lumber Co
Massive Cascade Snow Drifts Reported by Passengers
Passengers describe heavy snowfall over the Cascade mountains with unusually large flakes. One man recalls snowflakes as large as a man's hand and piling up like straw behind a threshing machine.
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Cascade Mountains
Cascades
City Officials Brace for Water System Winter
City officials anticipate no serious trouble with the water system this winter after a new intake costing about $10,000 was completed last summer before snowfall.
Baseball League Offers To Raise War Fund
A Chicago dispatch reports a movement to use league baseball to raise war funds. President Ban B Johnson proposes government control of American League clubs next season with 4 percent profits to owners, arguing owners would lend their plants for government needs.
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Chicago
United States
Ban B. Johnson
Johnson
Chehalis Milk Co Pays 3.00 for Hundred Pounds
The Chehalis Carnation Milk Co pays three dollars per hundred pounds for milk. The Tacoma Milwaukee railroad plans to build four oil tanks sheds and unloading lines to handle large quantities of Philippine vegetable oil at a cost eighty thousand dollars.
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Chehalis Carnation Milk Co
Tacoma
Milwaukee Railroad
Regional Growth Projects and Industry Highlights
Multiple towns report major development plans and outputs including a 250000 sugar beet factory start in Toppenish and a 500000 state administration building in Olympia. Pacific Light & Power Co. sales exceed 400000 to customers on a monthly plan. Aberdeen ships timbers daily. Grays Harbor salmon pack nears 30000 cases. Okanogan fruitgrowers receive 15000 dollars.
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Pacific Light & Power Co
Renton
C. M
St. P. Ry
Sprague
Aberdeen
Western Mill Co
Okanogan
County Council of Agriculture
Grays Harbor
Toppenish
Ellenson
White River Lumber Company
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Port Angeles
State of
Chas. Hebberd
Mr. Hebberd
Uncle Sam
Dealere
Purity Products Company
Seattle
Everett
Boulevard Cafe
J. E. Shubert
Boudoir
Holly
City News
Albert Coleman
Blewett
The
Aviation Corp
Jos. Coleman
Little Son
Floyd Williams
Great Northern
Jack Cullen
Geo. Blacksedge
G. N. Depot
State Industrial News
Olympic Peninsula
Olympia
King County
Patterson McDonald Shipbuilding Plant
Pacific Oil Mills Co. Prosser
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