Wilson Rejects Pope Peace Plan in Address to the Nation
President Wilson rejects Pope Benedict XVs peace proposals arguing no settlement can be secure without the German peoples support and new proof of central powers will. He warns the plan risks a coalition against Germany and requires justice and freedom for all nations.
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Washington, D. C
Wilson
Rome
Pope Benedict
United States
Germany
Vatican
Benedictus XV
Russia
Iowa Steers Set Chicago Market Record Sale
A Des Moines telegraph reports a carload of seventeen Shorthorn steers fed by M Greenes of Cushing sold at 16 30 a hundredweight on the Chicago market. The load averaged 2815 pounds and Armour and Company bought them, marking the highest price in cattle history. Prof C F Curtiss of Ames received the telegram at the fair grounds.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Chicago
C.F. Curtiss
Ames
Fair Grounds
M. Greenes
Cushing
Armour & Company
Tennessee Man Named Dean of Iowa State College of Education
William F. Russell, professor of secondary education at George Peabody College in Nashville, Tenn, has been chosen as dean of the College of Education at the State University of Iowa. The appointment is effective at the next term’s start, succeeding President Walter A. Jessup, who moves to the university’s presidency. Russell is described as a young man with several important educational posts.
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Tennessee
Iowa
Iowa City
William F. Russell
George Peabody College For Teachers
Nashville, Tenn
College of
The
State University
Walter A. Jessup
Russell
Army recruiting expands to Iowa regiments and units
Des Moines reports the army recruiting service will recruit for Iowa regiments in addition to the regular and national forces. Offices open in Des Moines, Sioux City, Marshalltown, Mason City, Fort Dodge and Council Bluffs to recruit to full war strength before training. Enlistments are for the duration of the war, open to unmarried men 18 to 40, with national guard members eligible for officer examination. Those not yet called by local boards may enlist but not after notice to report.
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Des Moines
Army Recruiting Service
Regular
Iowa
War Department
Sioux City
Marshalltown
Mason City
Fort Dodge
Council Bluffs
National Guard
Cedar Rapids Boy Joins Royal Flying Corps
Fred Spaulding a former Cedar Falls boy has earned a place in the Royal Flying Corps of Great Britain. He has begun training and taken his first flight, per a message to his grandmother Mrs. C Sheerer. His brother Rev C A Spaulding of Pasadena has entered YMCA war work in California.
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British Flying Corps
Cedar Rapids
Fred Spaulding
Cedar Falls
Royal Flying Corps of
Great Britain
C. Sheerer
Rev. C. A. Spaulding
Pasadena
Cal
Three Governors on One Program At Medical Session
Dubuque hosts a three day meeting of Illinois Iowa and Wisconsin physicians with speeches by Governors Harding of Iowa Lowden of Illinois and Phillips of Wisconsin and renowned doctors including Charles H Mayo Rochester John P Deaver University of Pennsylvania and W A Pusey University of Illinois. The event promises to be a major gathering for medical men.
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Dubuque
Illinois
Iowa
Wisconsin
Harding
Lowden
Phillips
Charles H. Mayo
Rochester
Minn
John P. Deaver
University of Pennsylvania
W. A. Pusey
University of Illinois
Two Seriously Hurt at Colfax Auto Crash
Colfax report shows Mr and Mrs N G Van Sant of Sterling NL injured when their auto was struck at a grade crossing by an inter urban car. The woman is not recovering. Witnesses say the auto moved slowly while the interurban sped at a mile a minute.
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Colfax
N. G. van Sant
Sterling
van Sant
Minnesota
Wilson Rejects Pope Peace Proposals as German Autocracy Blows
President Wilson’s reply to Pope Benedict’s peace note is seen in Washington as decisively rejecting the pope’s terms while urging a peace founded on German democracy. Telegraphs pour in praising the stance and Russian officials call it wise aligning with democratic aims and September 1919.
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Washington
Wilson
White House
Pope Benedict
Brady
Congressional Record
United States
League of Democratic Nations
Russian forces flee on Romanian front as advance continues
Aug 31 dispatches report a Russian division abandoning Farshani on the Roumanian front and fleeing in disorder. The war office notes the enemy pressed south on the front and penetrated Varnitza at night. Moscow reports unity against a separate peace at a national conference session.
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Petrograd
Farshani
War Office
Varnitza
Moscow
National Conference
Doctor Kellman Lectures on American Ideals for Troops in France
London Aug 28 The Manchester Guardian reports the government has kept troops in France informed about the American attitude in the war. Doctor Kellman a prominent clergyman who recently visited the United States has toured the British front lecturing to troops on America's ideals aspirations and endeavors.
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London
The
Manchester Guardian
France
Doctor Kellman
United States
America
City Firm Wins 1,074,000 Gas Mask Contract
Philadelphia announces a contract for 1,074,000 gas masks to outfit the army. The deal totals 1,502,000 dollars with government furnishing the material.
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Philadelphia
Wilson to Lead Draft Army Parade in Washington
President Wilson will lead the parade of capital National Army men as they mobilize in Washington for entrainment to camp on September 5.
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Washington
Wilson
Capital National Army
Bread strikes ripple through Austria with troops deployed
A traveler from Vienna reports widespread bread strikes across Austria. In several locations troops were used to push workers back into factories, signaling a tense labor dispute reported from Zurich on August 31.
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Zurich
Austria
Vienna
Five Die in Fire at Lupe Home in Rad Axe
Andrew Lupe fruit dealer his wife and three daughters perished in a blaze that consumed their apartments above the Lupe store in Rad Axe Michigan. George Goodhall a lodger escaped by leaping 40 feet to the sidewalk.
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Rad Axe
Mich
Andrew Lupe
Lupe
George Goodhall
Two Killed in Chicago Holdup on Payroll Heist
Two men were fatally shot by payroll bandits in Chicago when they resisted as the robbers seized a satchel of company money from the Winslow Brothers' outfit. Local police launched an investigation into the W. B. payroll theft and the suspects fled the scene.
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Chicago
Winslow Brothers’ Company
China Offers 50,000 Men For European Service
Generals La Pei Ching Lung Chi-Kwang and Ku Chin-Tan command 50 000 troops from Yannan Kweichow and Kwangtung provinces and have offered their forces for service in Europe.
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China
Peking
Gens
la Pei- Ching
Lung Chi-Kwang
Ku Chin- Tan
Yannan
Kweichow
Kwangtung
Europe
Julius Barnes Heads $50 Million Wheat Corporation
Julius Barnes a miller from Duluth Minnesota serves as president of a fifty million dollar wheat corporation organized by Herbert C Hoover.
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Julius Barnes
Duluth, Minn
Herbert C. Hoover
Exports Control Proclamation Placed Under Board
President Wilson issued a proclamation placing government control over all American exports. TheExports Administration Board headed by Vance McCormick now administers licenses for shipping commodities to enemy countries and European neutrals to protect national needs.
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Washington
Wilson
United States
Vance McCormick
Japanese Troop Movement Rumors Reach Munich
Zurich reports in Neuere Nachrichten from Munich allege strong Japanese forces concentrated in Manchuria and speculate on transport to the Russian front. It notes railway improvements by Americans and Japanese could affect such a transfer, though time would be required.
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Zurich
Switzerland
Manchuria
Bavaria
Neuere Nachrichten
Munich
Italians Reach Strong Austrian Line On Bainsizza Plateau
Rome reports Italian forces press their advance on the Bainsizza plateau reaching a stout Austrian defense. Gains on heights beyond Goritz followed, with over 1,000 prisoners captured. The day saw 247 Italian aircraft in action including 40 Caproni bombers striking Austrian batteries in Panovizza wood.
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Rome
Bainsizza
War Office
Goritz
Panovizza
Ban on Peace Meetings in Minnesota Proclaimed
Governor Burnquist bans peace meetings across Minnesota citing potential bloodshed after a warning from Hennepin County Sheriff Langum. The move targets the People's Council of America amid wartime tensions and public order concerns.
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Minnesota
People’s Council of America
St. Paul
Minn
Burnquist
Langum
Hennepin County
U Boat Attack Reported on French Steamer Captured by Smoke Apparatus
Passengers on a French liner report an attack by a U boat one day from France. The vessel was saved by new smoke producing apparatus used aboard to deter the attacker.
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Hner
France
Sick Soldiers Back From France
Fourteen American soldiers of the first expeditionary force are confined in a Hoboken hospital with various diseases. None are wounded.
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France
Hoboken
N. J
5400 Harvard Men in War Catalogue Reveals Losses
Cambridge Aug 20 A Harvard Alumni Bulletin catalogue lists about 5400 graduates and undergraduates engaged in war work and shows on nearly every page an asterisk marking the fallen.
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Harvard
Cambridge
Harvard Alumni Bulletin
Roosevelt Says Internal Foe Tops All Enemies
Col Theodore Roosevelt telegrams acceptance to speak before Labor's Royal Legion in Minneapolis Minnesota August 1929 stating that the Hun within our gates is America's greatest enemy.
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America
Minneapolis
Minn
Theodore Roosevelt
Labor
Toyal Legion
Italian Troops Gain Bainstazi Plateau Victory
The Stefani News agency, citing the high command, says the entire Bainstazi plateau is in Italian hands. Trieste is being evacuated as Austrians retreat, with civilians leaving for interior Austria amid growing expectations of a decisive Italian offensive.
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Bainsizza
Emanuel
Rome
Stefani
Bainstazi
Washington
Trieste
Zurich
Corriere d'Italia
Austria
Monte Santo
Possibility of War With Austria Looms Over Aid Policy
Washington officials acknowledge a fragile state with Germany's allies, noting that U S support to Italy and others could be seen as a warlike act. No U S initiative is planned, but Austria or any ally might interpret continued aid as hostile.
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Washington
Austria
Germany
United States
Italy
Bryan Flags Unpatriotic Talk Tied to Heart Attitude
Chicago reports William Jennings Bryan says unpatriotic utterances by prominent men stem more from a wrong attitude of heart than a mind error. He stresses Americans must join the United States in this war and avoid actions that aid the enemy by sowing division.
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Chicago
William Jennings Bryan
Mr. Bryan
United States
George E. Haskell
The
Food Administration
Washington
Police raid on Hamilton Detective agency nets three arrests
U S police raided Hamilton Detective agency at Broadway 1482 and arrested W T Hamilton Capt H A Read and Joseph Raus for holding American sailors to claim $50 rewards for deserters. Two sailors freed. An informant said guards used weapons to detain sailors for ten days before surrender.
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New York
Hamilton Detective Agency
Broadway
W. T. Hamilton
Red Cross Membership Tops 3.5 Million
Washington reports the American Red Cross has reached 3.5 million members with daily increases ranging from 25 000 to 100 000 per day according to a headquarters announcement on Wednesday.
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Red Cross
Washington
American Red Crass
Two Norse Steamers Sunk Off Spanish Coast
London Aug 31 Norwegian steamer Kongsii en route from St Nazaire to the United States has been sunk off the Spanish coast according to a telegram received in Christiania from Santander.
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London
Kongsii
St. Nazaire
France
United States
Spanish
Christiania
Santander
Canal Traffic Sees Record Year in Panama Operation
Washington report shows traffic through the Panama Canal in the just closed fiscal year the largest since opening. Gov. Chester Harding relayed the figures to the secretary of war detailing unprecedented activity and tonnage.
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Washington
Panama Canal
Chester Harding
Secretary of War
Rob Grand Duke’s Museum Art Theft in Petrograd
Petrograd reports the grand historic museum of the late Grand Duke Michael Nichola vitch suffered a theft arresting art treasures and pictures valued at 5 000 000 rubles about 2 500 000 dollars.
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Petrograd
Michael Nicholavitch
U. S. To Feed Allies War Aid Warns Hoover
Hoover urges farmers to support wartime food policy. He speaks at Hotel Sherman to 126 farm journals representatives, stressing coordinated national effort and warning food shortages threaten allied victory and the western line to the Atlantic seaboard.
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Chicago
Herbert GC. Hoover
United States
Hoover
Sherman
Atlantic
Canada
England
Germany Replies to Argentina on Submarine Campaign
Germany responds to Argentina with demands connected to the submarine war. Officials say the note is satisfactory and meets Argentina's requests. It offers to modify coast blockades to permit food ships under the Argentine flag and promises indemnity for sinking the Toro.
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Buenos Aires
Germany
Argentina
Razon
Troops Quell Houston Riots Detained in New Mexico Stockade
A battalion of the Twenty fourth United States infantry arrived at Columbus New Mexico from Houston Texas under Maj H Bradford Jr of the Nineteenth infantry. They placed men implicated in the Houston riots in a stockade while others were disarmed.
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Columbus
N. M
Twenty-fourth United States Infantry
Houston
Tex
McGraw Fined $1000 by Baseball Board
John J. McGraw manager of the New York National League team was fined $1,000 by the board of directors for attacking National League President Tenor.
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John J. McGraw
New York
Board of
Tenor
National League
Japan may send army to France reports claim 2.5 million under arms
London August 31 reports again suggest Japan could deploy forces to France. Paris advises Senator Lucien Robert says Japan keeps 2,500,000 men under arms awaiting action.
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Walt
London
Japan
France
Paris
Lucien Robert
Navy seeks 350 million for destroyers in new warship drive
Secretary Daniels plans to testify before the Senate Naval Affairs Committee to request 350 million dollars for destroyer construction, in addition to the regular navy appropriation.
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Washington
Secretary of the Navy
Daniels
Senate Naval Affairs Committee
Russian General Pogosos ki Falls Heroically on Sereth Front
London reports General Pogosos ki commanding a Russian division was killed while rallying his troops on the Sereth river near Mondovla. He fell amid action and inspired his men by his example during heavy fighting.
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London
Pogososki
Sereth
Mondovla
Music dealer Vic Knowles quits Hubbard business amid German boycott
Postmaster Boeke reports a pro German boycott in Hubbard aimed at ousting loyalists. Vic Knowles and H F Boeke dissolving their music and furniture enterprises after Knowles faced customer loss and pressure from the “Kaiser Lovers” linked to the People’s Council for Democracy and Peace.
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Vic Knowles
Uncle Sam
Hubbard
Des Moines
Kaiser
F. C. Boeke
United States Secret Service
People's Council For Democracy and Peace
Boeke
Knowles
H. F. Boeke
Two Killed in Train Wreck Near Livermore Iowa
A southbound Minneapolis and St. Louis passenger train left the rails one mile north of Livermore, killing a Gilmore City woman and her baby. Sixteen others were injured or shaken, with victims from Fort Dodge Clare Perry Albert Lea Dwight Eagle Grove Minneapolis Rockwell City Dayton and other towns. The train plunged down a thirty foot embankment after the tender and five cars derailed.
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Fort Dodge
Minneapolis & St. Louis
Livermore
Eugene Cochran
Gilmore City
Charles Wenzel
Elvin Welliver
Carroll
Dave Fitzgerald
Clare
Hattie Repp
Perry
Ed Mixon
Minneapolis
E. F. Danner
Albert Lea
Minn
B. F. Danner
Herman Keeney
Laverne
A. Barnes
Austin Gibbons
Dwight
John McDonald
Eagle Grove
Irene Anderson
Dayton
BE. P. Gooden
Council Bluffs
A. J. Vanwagner
Rockwell City
Olaf Frogsland
Pat Feeney
Red Men Plan Wheatless Tuesdays and Meatless Fridays
Cedar Rapids notices Iowa Redmen pledge wheatless Tuesdays and meatless Fridays and send the voluntary program to President Wilson and Herbert Hoover for support.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Wilson
Herbert C. Hoover
Wheat Price Set At 2260 Dollars Per Bushel For 1917
President Wilson approved a wheat price of 2260 dollars per bushel for the 1917 crop following a vote by the price committee led by Dr. H A Garfield. The basis is No 1 northern spring wheat delivered at Chicago. After days of voting a compromise was reached and the decision was unanimous.
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Washington,d.c
Wilson
H. A. Garfield
Chicago
Prize Hard Luck Tale Sparks Blaze Near Kimball
A. W. Bovey of Kimball SD reports a mower fire that started from a spark on the Shay mower burning grass. The fire spread to a 100 acre wheat field and destroyed it and then set a barn ablaze as the machine operated. The frightened team fled home.
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Sioux City
A. W. Bovey
Kimball
S. D
Shay
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Eastern Front
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U. S
Rob Grand Duke's Museum
Toro
24Th U. S. Infantry
Columbus, N. M
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