Packing shed and water project notes from multiple towns
Brewster Unity Orchards plans a three story packing shed and cold storage warehouse. La Crosse City may buy water system. Northport receives a carload of Gladstone ore valued at $820.05. Arlington to build a fish rack on South Fork Jim creek. Walla Walla to spend $3000 on division HQs. Irrigation district bonds $125000 to take over Attalia Land Co water rights. Shipbuilding industry urged to be kept active after war. call to amend shipping laws for U.S. parity with foreigners. Aberdeen harvests first cranberry crop soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northport
Gladstone
Arlington
Jim Creek
Walla Walla
Irrigation District
Attalia Land Co
Aberdeen
Porto Rico Helps 7000 in National Army Training Camp
San Juan Puerto Rico opens a three month officers training camp at Cayey for 200 candidates in the Porto Rico contingent of the officers reserve corps. The island brigade is expected to reach 7000 with most graduates earning first or second lieutenants. Enlistment runs five years with active service during the war. Candidates include 25 continental Americans and native Porto Ricans.
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Reserve Corps
United States
San Juan
P. R
Porto Rico
Officers’ Reserve Corps
Canal Zone
National Army
War Department
Townshend
Arthur Yager
Cayey
Henry Barracks
John A. Wilson
Mayaguez
German Submarines Capture Pig From Siraa
In the Azores region on June 29 a German submarine seized a hog from the Norwegian ship Siraa after chase around the deck. The submarine submerged to escape a pursuing destroyer, while the Siraa crew were taken aboard after their ship was destroyed.
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Atlantic
Azores
Siraa
Churchill reorganizes British munitions dept to bolster war power
London reports Colonel Winston Churchill, minister of munitions, announcing 2,000,000 workers and 13,500 headquarters staff under expenditure of 600 to 700 million pounds yearly. He says the army is the best equipped in Europe and outlines a plan to merge fifty departments into ten groups under an army council like structure.
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London
Winston Churchill
British Munitions Department
Churchill
Europe
Army Council
Burglar Spy Sat in Duma Two Years
Revelations from the inquiry into abuses of the former government reveal Roman Malinowsky a politician and Lenine ally who for two years served as a trusted duma member while also acting as a burglar police spy and informer. He began with petty crime in Moscow then joined a socialist group before aiding the okhrana secretly spying on revolutionaries and inciting crimes. He rose to prominence earning 250 a month from police and a duma salary pushing his annual income to about 5000 while his speeches were prewritten and submitted to police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malinowsky
Socialist Party
Nikolai Lenine
Okhrana
Police Security Department
Lenine
Duma
Security Department
U. S. Develops Air Motor Said to Outpace All
Army and Navy experts unveil the liberty motor praised as the most powerful aircraft engine yet. The device, lighter yet higher horsepower, reportedly drives planes faster than any prior model and is protected by tight secrecy. Parts are simple enough to standardize for mass production in automobile shops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
Navy
Alaska to Supply Platinum in War Time Push
Government experts study Alaska platinum finds reported by Dr. Herschel C. Parker of New York as part of a project to replenish the world’s platinum shortfall. Initial tests show traces in Kahiltna river gravel and in Alaska gold placer drilling with ten to twelve ounces found last year.
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Washington
Alaska
Herschel C. Parker
New York
Ural Mountain
Parker
Kahiltna
United States
Russia
43 Years In Jail Returns Home A Stranger
Joseph F. Jones, freed after 43 years in Arkansas state prison, returns to Owensboro Kentucky seeking life after murder conviction. He left as a young man after a knife duel over a farmer's daughter, served a life sentence, received a governor granted pardon, and walked from Little Rock to Owensboro to find no one remembering him.
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Owensboro
Arkansas
Little Rock
Joseph F. Jones
Jones
Naval Reserve Formed Under Admiral Cowles Plan
Rear Admiral William C. Cowles directs a navy reserve for Connecticut non draft age boys and uncalled young men. Trained instructors teach navigation piloting signaling and other sailor skills. Recruits will be drawn from every Connecticut sea port town as shipbuilding boosts demand for navy personnel. Cowles leads the Connecticut Council of Defense naval aid on Governor Holcomb’s staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cowles
Bridgeport
Conn
William C. Cowles
National Army
United States Navy
Connecticut
America
Connecticut Council of Defense and
Naval Aid
Holcomb
Hints for the Citizen Soldiers
War Department guidance urges soldiers to avoid alcohol and smoking, eat simply, drink plenty of cool water between meals, and establish regular hours. Do not snack between meals, and prepare for camp life by maintaining health, avoiding last minute excess, and aiming for fitness and discipline.
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War Department
Seattle Forest Camps Prepare Lumber For Aircraft Fleet
Seattle area camps will cut spruce lumber for a vast airplane program with three camps each producing 100000 ft of lumber daily. Seattle mills resume ten hour shifts. Auburn awarded contract to build sidewalks on Thompson and Brannon streets. Colfax plans park improvements at Schmuck Park. Aberdeen to gain a 40 ft extension to freight depot by Milwaukee and O W R N Railway. Spokane Electric Point Mine reports 60000 in July earnings. Centralia to issue 45000 in bonds for a new school. Toppenish Utah Idaho Sugar Co to erect a beet sugar factory nearby. McCleary employs fifty women and girls in sash and door factory.
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Auburn
Thompson
Brannon
Colfax
Schmuck Park
McCleary
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Dr. Daniels
DR. A. C. Daniels, Inc
Boston
Mass
Wheeler’s Drug Store
F.A. Reynolds
Pioneer
Life Insurance
Henry Weinman
8Th St
Dr. Hoxsey
City Dray Line
Auto For
L. J. Howerton
D. Swift & CO
Washington, D. C
Tin
Brewster
Unity Orchards
la Crosse—City
Porto
Rico
Porker
Shel
U. S
Naval Reserve
Mutual Merc. Co
Great Northern Lumber Co
Leavenworth, Wash
Wenatchee Milling Co
Wenatchee Best
Wenatchee, Wash
Harrington
Leavenworth Mercantile Co
Leavenworth
PLM
Seattle
Oregon
Mills
Milwaukee
O W. R
Centralia
Toppenish
Utah-Idaho Sugar Co
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