Army corps areas and commanders named in war department chart
The war department details the nine army corps areas with state groupings and headquarters. First corps covers New England states with Boston HQ, while Ninth corps includes the western states with the Presidio as its base. Corps commanders are Maj. Gen. Shanks, Bullard, Cronkhite, Morrison, Read, Wood, Bundy, Dickman, and Liggett.
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Shington
War Department
Army
First Corps
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Boston
New York
New Jersey
Delaware
Governor's Island
N. Y
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Virginia
District of Columbia
Fort McHenry
Baltimore
Fourth Corps
North
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Tennessee
Mississippi
Arkansas
Louisiana
Fort McPherson
Charleston
S. C
Ohio
West Virginia
Indiana
Kentucky
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Ind
Ilinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
Fort Sheridan
Ill
Chicago
Seventh
Missouri
Kansas
Iowa
Nebraska
Minnesota
North Dakota
South Dakota
Fort Crook
Neh
Highth
Texas
Oklahoma
Colorado
New Mexico
Arizona
Fort Sam Houston
San Antonio
Tex
Ninth Corps
Washington
Oregon
Idaho
Montana
Wyoming
Utah
Nevada
California
Presidio of
San Francisco
David C. Shanks
Robert L. Bullard
Adelbert Cronkhite
Furth
John F. Morrison
George F. Read
Leonard Wood
Omar Bundy
Joseph P. Dickman
Hunter Liggett
Cities Overtake Rural Areas in First 1920 Census Look
Census officials project that 51 or 52 percent of continental U S residents will live in cities and towns, based on partial data and Dr J A Hill estimates. The shift stems from migration from rural areas, war casualties, and influenza impacts concentrated in urban centers.
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United States
Continental
J. A. Hill
Bureau
Washington
Reorganization reshapes Secret Service into nine divisions
The Secret Service will reorganize into nine divisions led by superintendents with central headquarters in major cities. Brennan heads the fifth division covering Illinois to western Michigan with Chicago as HQ, while Flynn remains head of the bureau and Baley moves to Washington as assistant director.
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Lans
Bureau of Investigation
American Secret Service
BE. Ed. Brennan
Chicago
Illinois
Wisconsin
Minnesota
North Dakota
Missouri
Michigan
William J. Flynn
Bureau
L. J. Baley
Atlanta
Washington
Deter
Congress
New England
New York
New Jersey
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Mississippi
North Carolina
Louisiana
Porto Rico
New Orleans
Ohio
Indiana
Kentucky
Tennessee
Cincinnati
Iowa
South Dakota
Nebraska
Colorado
Kansas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Kansas City
Texas
New Mexico
Arizona
San Antonio
Tex
California
Nevada
Utah
Hawaii
San Francisco
Oregon
Idaho
Montana
Alaska
Portland
Ore
Marine Corps Recruiting Surges as War Boosts Enlistments
Recruiting for the Marine Corps speeds up with enlistments doubling to about 60 percent of the authorized 27 400 strength. Officers credit new educational perks drawing many to enlist as the service approaches its cap in a few months.
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Marine Corps
Mammoth Cave National Park Bill Hears On Capitol Hill
Representative Robert Young Thomas of Kentucky filed a bill to authorize the Interior Secretary to acquire up to 32 000 acres including Mammoth Cave for a national park at a total cost not exceeding 1 000 000. The plan would add 20 000 to 30 000 acres of forest to protect the Green River navigation and scenic beauty. An air treatment idea for veterans at 54 degrees Fahrenheit is noted as a side issue.
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Mammoth Cave
Robert Young Thomas
Kentucky
Secretary of the Interior
Mammoth Cave National Park
Green River
Middle West
Get Rich Quick Is Oldest Bait in Boston Tales
A sweeping chronicle from the Boston Globe traces the enduring lure of quick fortunes from the California gold rush to staged schemes in Massachusetts. It highlights Promoters with cash soaked in romance and risk, including the Ladies' Deposit fraud, Jernegan's sea water gold scam, Kidd treasure hunts, and other schemes that prey on gullibility.
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Boston
Jason
International
James H. Powers
Boston Globe
America
Prairies
California
Massachusetts
New York
United States
Capt
Kidd
Oklahoma Territory
Pellmell
Krondike
Execution Dock
England
Gardner's Island
Ladies’ Deposit
Sarah FE. Howe
East Brookline Street
P. F. Jernegan
Jernegan
Brown Uni
Newton Theological Seminary
Heavenly Vision
P. FF
State Street
Washington Street
Marine Salts Company
Thomases
Atlantic
Pacific
Indian
Arctic
Frank W. Thompson
Newpork Bank
North Lubee
le Havre
France
Jernegnan
Louwis Sinclairy
Chicago
Lubec
Electrolytic Maurine Salts Company
Adam
Eden
Iowa News Highlights From Across Des Moines and Iowa
Reports cover a Carlisle man William Koenan killed by slate fall in a Butte mine, Waterloo cattle congress records, injuries from a car train crash, farm sales near Hubbard, a Muscatine native Arthur Jayne killed by lightning in Wyoming, a home break in near Ryan with cash stolen, and the Iowa suffrage ratification news. Also noted are harvest yields, a road information service for tourists, and local legal cases including murder indictments and trials.
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William Koenan
Carlisle
Butte
Mout
Waterloo
Alia Hageman
Gidden
August Hoelscher
Hubbard
Mr. Tleht
Winds Grove
Arthur Jayne
Muscntino
Des Moinas
Moorcroftt
Wyoming
Hghtning
John Swanson
Ryan
Manchester
Jo Small
Society of
Phonda
United States
Oskaloosa
Iowa
Colby
Washington
James Whitley
Fayette
Charter Place
P. C. Holdvogel
Rockwell City
Sims
Walter
Eric Monson
William Wallace
Wapello Fant Spring
Anamosa
James Harbour
August Sterck
George Mikesell
Treynor
Mikesell
Harbour
Delpha Harbour
Slerck
Des Moines Automobile Club
Bratis
R. N. Holsaple
P. H. McBeath
QQ. J. Brownson
Des Moines
C. N. McMillan
Sioux City
Anti-Saloon Leagues of America
Downfall of Rain Records Noted in Weather Review
The Monthly Weather Review cites a 2.5 inch rainfall in three minutes at Porto Bello Canal Zone as the record rain event, still recognized by the weather bureau. The article notes 200 US observation stations and urges public access to weather histories for crops and research. It also mentions an English spraying machine claimed to equal ten men.
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Weather Bureau
United States Department of Agriculture
The
Canal Zone
Porto Bello
United States
Bureau
Austrian Tyrol bans communal fractional currency issues
Vienna reports the Tyrol government forbids further issuance of local fractional money after notes failed to circulate and were sold to collectors for profit. Some ten and twenty dollar notes fetched 80 to 100 crowns. The money craze spread to various groups including Gottweig monastery and an Amstetten anti Semitic association. Interwoven is a Michigan eighth grade report noting a youngest girl in seventh grade passing with help from her father while her older brother placed high among Macomb county’s top students.
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Vienna
Austria
Tyrol
Monastery of
Gottweig
Amstetten
Michigan
Macomb County
Prodigy Enters High School Arminda Michigan Event
Prodigy enters high school in Arminda Mich and involves ten year old Carol M Wart daughter of Mr and Mrs W H Hart of the village. The item notes a promising youth and family background and hints at upcoming recognition or ceremony.
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Prodigy
Arminda
Mich
Carol M. Wart
W. H. Hart
Perhops
Cra Zed Red Is Shot In Chicago Riot Ends In Police Shootout
Police killed two suspects in a chaotic Chicago incident on South Halsted, one dead on scene and the other mortally wounded. A street car conductor, Charles Barrett, was killed after an argument aboard the Forty fifth and Twisted street line, with police rushing to prevent a lynching as crowds gathered.
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South Halsted Street
Promp
Chicago
West Side
Crimial
Oscar Brown
Brown
Mra. Masaloch
George Lyman
James Sullivan
Masawell Street
States
Yin
Sekbaa
Sekbaa Entered the Trnntte, and Aimed At Tyran the Detective Borgen
Alruek Deingzetka
John Shannon
Ctetage Grove Avenue
Mlapero
South State Street
Shannon
Ts Vetsons
Bean
Menegro
Forty-fifth
Charles Barrett
What Would You Do A Liberal Profit Sharing Plan
Hundreds of women enter ill paid jobs due to lack of experience or capital. The Franco American toilet requisites scheme offers a liberal profit sharing plan to sell to neighbors and friends, a practice favored by many for over thirty years.
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Alce Cosas
Our Chance to Join a Woman’s Plan for Independence
An offer invites women to write for full details on a plan promising independence. It emphasizes energetic effort and enthusiasm and claims a generously paid position where any woman may win success.
Mearsapgero Sign Over Labor Order In Talian Plants
The general confederation of labor has ordered workers to leave seized plants and resume normal work. The federation guarantees the order will be kept. Representatives of employers and workers agreed the wage increase granted to workers will be retroactive to July 16.
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Tromo
General Confederation of Labor
Shot interrupts Mexican prole tary meeting with pistol blast
A pistol fired into the air during a sharp debate at a communist meeting in Mexico City caused confusion and an immediate adjournment with no injuries reported. Separate Peoria Country Club fire destroys the clubhouse, estimated at 150000 dollars in losses.
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Mexico City
Bergdoll matriarch goes on trial for aiding evasion
Mrs Bergdoll, mother of Grover and Win Bergdoll, faces trial in Philadelphia federal court on a conspiracy charge for helping the convicted draft dodgers evade service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mra. Bergdoll
Philadelphia
Mrsmma
GC. Bergdol
Grover
Mrwin Bergdoll
Millerand Opens Candidacy for Presidency
Paris reports Premier Alexander Millerand will seek the presidency of the republic after President Deschanel resigned. An official announcement confirms Millerand's candidacy ahead of the succession.
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Millerand
Paris
Alexander Millerand
The
Republic
Deschanel
Schude Sentenced to Three Years in Port Leavenworth
Theodore Schude, who confessed to impersonating Arthur Kincaid, a U S Army lieutenant, was sentenced in Chicago to three years in the federal prison at Port Leavenworth on September 22.
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Schude
Chicago
Theodore Schude
Arthur Kincaid
Port Leavenworth
Guards Guard Rockefeller Estate After Threats
In Tarrytown New York on September 22 twelve extra armed guards patrolled roads adjoining the John D Rockefeller estate amid unconfirmed threats. The Rockefeller home offered no statement.
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John D
Tarrytown
N. Y
John T. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Sailors Accept Wage Increase Restart Work at Sault Ste Marie
Seamen vote to a ten dollar monthly raise ending a tie up in Sault Ste. Marie Ontario. Boats resume movement after the wage agreement takes effect and workers return to their posts.
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Sault Ste. Marie
Ont
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Eee
Samuel L. Rogers
Secret Service
Senate Committee On Reconstruction and Production
William N. Calder
Chicago Association of Commerce
Benjamin Rosenthal
Housing Association
Water Power Commission
Secretaries of War, Interior and Agriculture
Bill
Greencastle
Prometera
Iowa State News
Guthrie Center
Culver
Extension Department of
Ames
John Danner
Algona
John
13Th Street
Indiana Avenue
Shot
Red
Peoria Country Club
Peoria
Triner
Joseph Triner Company
Ashland Ave
Chicago, Ill
Panos
Jud Tunkins
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