Maryland soldiers on border face uncertain demobilization
Reports from Eagle Pass and Washington say National Guard units on the Texas border may be demobilized, but details are unclear. Messages prompted anxiety as camps awaited orders while the First and Fifth Maryland Regiments faced inspection and possible early departure, with officials noncommittal on election-day voting for returning troops.
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Eagle Pass
Texas
Washington
National Guard
San Antonio
Camp
Ord
Sibley
Gaither
Maryland
War Department
Fourth Inland Infantry
Senator Weeks
Massachusetts
Massachusetts National Guard
Baker
McCall
Bay State
Weeks
Army releases about fifteen thousand guardsmen from duty
Aristide Briand’s camp at Eagle Pass notes 15 000 National Guard troops from Maryland and several states to be released. The Fourth Maryland arrives Laurel with all in good health then will be relieved from U S duty and return to National Guard pay scales. Major Hill heads to Texas to join Southern Department as judge advocate.
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Eagle Pass
Maryland
New York
New Jersey
Ilinois
Missouri
California
Louisiana
Oregon
Washington
Major Hill
Texas
John Philip Hill
National Guard of
Silver Spring
Laredo
Southern Department
Fifteenth Division
National Guard of the
United States
Laurel
Colonel Jones
Eagle Passa
Cumberland
Rockwell
Hancock
Potomac River
Rockville
National Guard
War Department
National Guard of the United Staes
Rio Grande
Curry Man on Sunday Mule Used to Prove Right of Sabbath Day Share
A Davenport barber charged with Sunday shop opening faces the state high court brief arguing labor sharing is necessary and that denying Sunday privileges to a man is akin to denying his mule’s rights. The brief quips a man may hold a title on Sunday and thus deserve his head carried in a figurative sense.
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Des Meiners
State Supreme Court
Davenport
Farmers’ Union
Homes of Union Miners Dynamited in Pa
In Wilkes Barre county two union miners had homes dynamited and partially destroyed. One home was in Kingston and the other in Yatesville three miles away. The act followed LWV activity and state price suspects. John J Christley, a Morrisburg postal clerk, was held for court on murder charges after shooting his wife on July 11. He was unable to be heard due to his poor condition and later recovered.
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Wilkes-Teatre
Ttston
Yatesville
LW W
Piice
Morrisbars
John
Christley
Co A Boys Hold to Idea End of Month Will See Them on Way Home
Fronca Staff Corresponds at Camp Ord Eagle Pass Texas September 3 reports officers and men speculate the Maryland Brigade will break camp late September. One battalion departs for outpost duty as others patrol and prepare for possible recall while rumors of discharge delays and reduced gear persist. The unit praises local support and notes a plan to ship Texas burros home for children.
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Fronca
Ord
Eagle Pass
Texas
Mulic
Eagle Page
Maryland
Willard Osborne
Frederick
Osburne
Eagle Masa
Campany A
Markey
Sam
Braddock
Capain Munshower
Carrisa Springs Road
Rumanian Evacuation and Prisoner Haul Near Danube
Russian and German reports confirm Tutukal fortress evacuation by Romania under pressure from German and Bulgarian forces. Rumanian troops claim gains at Gyergye-Diro-Orsova pass on Iumania frontier. Berlin notes over 20 000 Rumanians captured and more than 100 guns seized as Bulgarian and German forces advance.
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Petrograd
Turtukal
Danube
Bucharest
Gyergye-Diro-Orsova
Iumania
Rumanian War Department
Berlin
Tutukal
Miners to Act on Strike Mass Meeting in Tamaqua
Tamaqua Pa Sept 8 The Amber dispute at Lehigh Coal Navigation No 10 colliery has left 800 idle for nearly two weeks A mass meeting of mine workers from Panther Creek valley collieries will decide if workers return under old conditions or launch a general strike affecting about 9000 employees and halting the valley.
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Tamaqua
Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company
No. 10
Panther Creek Valley
Albania New War Theatre Emerges as Balkan Front
London dispatch reports Italian and Austrian officials signaling a new battle line in Albania. The region, long a site of sporadic fighting, has become a trench-deadlocked sector as nations assess the war’s expanding theater.
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Albnia
London
Albania
Ford Sues Chicago Tribune for Libel
Henry Ford sues the Chicago Tribune for 1 000 000 dollars in a malice lawsuit filed in federal court by Alfred Lucking of Detroit, marking a high profile defamation action by the Detroit manufacturer and peace advocate. Cruiser Boston to be Sold for Junk. Portland report notes the sale of a vessel from Portland to Puget Sound yard for junk amid wartime reserve moves.
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Ford
Chicago Tribune
Chicago
Henry Ford
Detroit
Alfred Lucking
Boston
Portland
Ore
United States
Manila Bay
Puget Sound Wave Yard
Beaton
Oregon Naval Militia
Subway Strike Leaves New York Lines Largely Running
A subway and elevated workers strike affected the Interborough Rapid Transit lines with 9000 out, yet officials report 2000 quit and new workers kept schedules. The Green Car system saw major impact, with under a third of surface cars operating. Manhattan and the Bronx saw few effects. An arm chair that converts to a baby crib was patented in Baltimore.
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N. Y
New York
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Traction
Subway
New York Railways Company
Manhattan
Bronx
Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Letters Promote Cure
Letters from women in Marinette Detroit and Bellevue claim relief from female troubles without surgery. They attribute improvements to Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and accompanying wash, noting regained health, weight gain, and renewed ability to work. Customer testimonials advocate reading these letters and trusting the remedy.
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Pinkhamaboratory
Lynn
Mass
Lydia E. Pinkham
Marinette
Wis
Stogk
Lydia K. Pinkham
Lydia BE. Pinkham
Insna
Freetown
Manhattan St
North Side
Bellevue
Nici
Anand
Plague Continues In Philadelphia And Regions
Philadelphia reports four deaths from infantile paralysis and seven other cases, with two child victims just reported. Norristown adds three more cases. New York sees a slight rise with sixty-one cases and twenty-eight deaths. Trenton records forty-eight new cases, reaching 2993 in New Jersey. Paris forecasts war end by March according to British writer J G Welle.
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Philadelphia
Bureau of Health
Norristown
Boards of Health
Dixon
N. Y
New York
New Jersey
Trenton
N. J
State Department of Health
Paris
J. G. Welle
Nallay
Roofing Materials Price List Entry
Flooring and roofing supplies offered include 2 ply tarred roofing paper at 108 square feet per reel for 55 cents per roll and best grade rubber roofing also at 108 square feet per roll priced at 60 cents per roll. Red roof paint is listed without a price.
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