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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1917
Page
2
A broad wartime digest from Chicago to Texas. indictments against IWW leaders in Chicago. Texas governors ousted. wage talks and a new U.S. credit to France. Bel in Belgium evacuation terms and North Sea war news. rail accidents and military movements across the South and beyond.
Five lawmakers are named by Tom Heflin for investigation over Bernstorff plot funding. Bulgaria signals readiness to quit war if its conquests stand. Germany proposes to evacuate Belgium under strict conditions as peace talks loom. Haig restarts offensive in Flanders with gains despite German counterattacks. France and Britain face air raids and steel price cuts amid war economy shifts.
The second liberty loan begins with a broad mobilization across banks newspapers commercial organizations and patriotic societies aiming to raise two billion dollars. Secretary McAdoo launches a coast to coast tour to October 26 as 26 000 banks and 12 federal reserve banks coordinate a nationwide sales effort backed by chambers of commerce unions and major media. The plan includes a specialty promotional film and extensive participation from the stage and screen to persuade subscribers.
Washington reports that Fuel Administrator Garfield issued an order limiting retail coal and coke dealers profits to a calculated margin based on 1915 costs plus a cap. Local committees will enforce sworn cost sheets to ensure prices reflect the new margins, with an aim of reducing consumer prices immediately. The 1915 normal year was set to offset postwar cost increases and align coal prices with 1915 levels.
A fragment reports London district attacked by German air force with one enemy aircraft said down. Mentions moonlight and mist and anti aircraft fire. observers state raiders moved over several quarters, with two persons in the streets noted in the chaotic scene.
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