Colonel House to Lead War Data Drive for Peace Talks
President Wilson assigns Colonel House to assemble a corps of experts to gather extensive economic political and military information on the warring nations for use by American delegates at the postwar peace conference. Dr John J Finley will head the European data effort while House pursues neutral and allied state conditions with no immediate peace negotiation aim.
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Helms
John J. Finsley
New York State
Europe
Finley
House
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United States
Lord Northcliffe
American Bankers’ Association
Atlantic City
America
Xieh
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Penes
Pewes
State Department
Aries
Coronet House
Dion
Eatersola
Tranelit Cdults
Shire Department
France
Shite Department
Germany
Wence
Jone
Wintely
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Great Britain
Austen
Russia
Prusstay
Napoleon
Prince Talleyrand
Vienne
Talleyrand
Congress of Vienina
Italy
Austria-Hungary
Colonel House
Austria
Three Notable North American Physical Features
The surface of North America presents three great physical features the great Pacific highlands the central plains and the eastern highlands. Pacific highlands extend through the western part from arctic shores to Isthmus of Panama traversed by the Rocky mountains. The central plains descend from the Rockies and include the Missouri Mississippi and Great Lakes regions. The Atlantic highlands extend from Labrador to the Gulf of Mexico and include the Labrador high plateau and the Appalachian or Allegheny mountains with White mountains Green mountains Adirondacks Alleghenies and Black mountains.
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Great Pacific Highlands
Central Plains
Arctic
Panama
Rocky Mountains
Mississivol
Missouri
Peace proposals and demonstrations across Europe
Berlin reports a new German Austrian peace offer with no territorial aggrandizement and no demnity. A Vienna demo by the Christian Socialist party praised by Prince Alois Lichtenstein urged peace, disarmament, and arbitration. Washington rejects any offer restoring prewar status quo. Copenhagen says a Navy plot to force peace was unearthed, with conspirators arrested.
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Germany
Austria-Hungary
Deutsche Zeitung
Berlin
Belgium
Vienna
Christian Socialist Party
Alois Lichtenstein
Count Czernin
Prince Lichtenstein
Washington
United State
Copenhagen
von Capelle
Marine
Reichstag
Bumper Crop Records Exceed Last Year In Agriculture Report
Era Union News Service reports 3,210,795,000 bushels of the corn crop and a spring wheat total of 242,450,000 bushels. Despite an estimated September loss of 87,000,000, crops through Oct 1 show broader gains across oats, flax, cotton, and beets with edible and cash crops advancing or retreating per latest Department of Agriculture figures.
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Era
Union News Service
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Government to control food supply under Wilson order
Washington reports a broad food control plan to take effect November 1. The proclamation will require all involved in import, manufacture, storage and distribution of key foods to obtain licenses from the food administrator. It covers meat packers, cold storage firms, millers, canners, elevators, grain dealers, and large retailers handling over 100000 dollars yearly.
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Washington
Wilson
Haigs Men Seize Poelcapelle In Flanders Drive
British troops complete capture of Poelcapelle and advance nearly two miles northwest. Field Marshal Haig reports all objectives gained with prisoners exceeding 1,000. French forces take St Jean de Mangelare and Veldhoek as fighting continues along the west front and Aisne Champagne sectors. Greece nears readiness for large allied offensive with equipment aid from allies.
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London
Eng
Poelcapelle
Flanders
Haig
St. Jean de Mangelare
Veldhoek
Beef Exports Show Big U S Increase In August
August exports of beef rose sharply by 500 percent while wheat and corn fell, with oats doubling. Breadstuffs valued at 45 million dollars were shipped, up 10 million from a year earlier. Cotton led in value at 63 million, meats and dairy up 5 million, total exports of the listed goods 155.6 million versus 108.4 million in 1916.
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Washington
Department of Commerce
Flour Price Drop and Colorado Coal Protests
Flour prices in Minneapolis fell with fancy patents at 50 cents per barrel and first clears at 75 cents. In Washington protests against Colorado coal prices reach Fuel Administrator Garfield as Colorado residents rally against profiteering. Conciliator John McBride, appointed to resolve mining labor disputes, is killed by a runaway horse in Globe Arizona.
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Minn
Colorado
Washington
Garfield
Phoenix
Ariz
John McBride
Wilson
Globe
Congress adjourns momentous war session sine die
The extraordinary session began April 2 and adjourned at 3 p.m. et with fierce debate over LaFollette’s loyalty. President Wilson attended the capItol as Congress passed major wartime measures. The urgent deficiency bill for war aims was signed, making it the largest appropriation in U.S. history at 7.76 billion dollars. Major Generals Pershing and Bliss were promoted to full general. Strike in Argentina expands as government railroad workers join the walkout, halting all trains.
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Berlin
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Kellogg
Minnesota
Fall
New Mexico
Robinson
Arkansas
St. Paul
Bryan
Prsident
United States
Pershing
Bliss
Teuton Allies Demand Peace
Eight men were sentenced to six years in Leavenworth and fined $1,000 each for conspiring to resist the selective draft law. Suffragists arrested as Woman's Party members resume White House picketing. Alice Paul among the eleven. Rev John Reichert and Ernest Mier indicted in Cedar Rapids on treason charges.
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Ohio
Leavenworth
Washington
Siient Sentinels
Woman's Party
White House
Alice Paul
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
John Reichert
Londen
Ernest Mier
Oppose conquest plan and insist on peace terms
Berlin dispatch reports German Reichstag member George Goethein warns against war aims demanding vast indemnities. He notes allies seek peace through understanding while pan-German annexation faces resistance. He cites hunger and strikes as pressure for an early German statement, with Reichstag debate looming.
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Italy
Uruguay
United States
Flanders
Belgium
Aisne
Campagne
War Congress adjourns amid record wartime totals and reforms
Washington reports the Sixty-fifth Congress closes a record war session with more than 21 billion dollars for the first year of the war and near 19.4 billion in revenue. It passed key measures from the draft to the espionage and revenue bills while planning a five cent war bread loaf experiment in Philadelphia to conserve sugar lard and milk.
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Congress
Germany
Martin
Senate Appropriation Committee
Agerega
Philadelphia
Herbert C. Hoover
Fire destroys Arizona mill of Union Basin Mining Co
Fire of undetermined origin destroyed the Union Basin Mining Company mill at Golconia Arizona fifteen miles north of here. Loss set at 100000 dollars. Three hundred men were employed in the mine and mill. Eleven British merchant ships sunk in a week by submarines reported in London.
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Ariz
Union Basin Mining Company
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