Lakeside and Wool Blanket Sale Remnants
A mixed sale of Lakeside cotton and wool blankets with various sizes and colors priced from 1.45 to 8.95. Wholesale dress goods and fabrics including bleached muslin towels and curtain sets offered at deep discounts. Local shoppers can find bedding, sheeting, and fabric bargains across many yardages and styles.
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Lakeside
Glendal
Turndale
Melbourne
Cete
Eyseth
Stanley
Card of Thanks for Adelia Amos
The Amos family thanks friends and neighbors for kindness during illness and after death of their daughter Adelia Amos. They also thank the B A C A and neighbors for floral offerings. Edgar Amos and children, and Miss Marie Reeves visit Mt Carmel sister Mrs Louis Nopper in south Prince street.
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Adelia Amos
Marie Reeves
Mt. Carmel
City
Louis Nopper
South
Prince Street
Farmers urged to rotate crops before sowing wheat
In Gibson county farmers near two months from sowing wheat are urged to rotate crops to boost yield and soil health. The report notes government efforts to increase wheat acreage for wartime needs and cites Purdue experiments showing higher yields when wheat is rotated and fertilized, reducing disease and pest risk.
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Gibson County
U. S
Purdue
Lodge Assessed For War Fund by Princeton Elks
The Princeton lodge of Elks faces a $1 per member per capita tax as the first assessment of the grand lodge’s $1,006,000 war fund voted in Boston. Additional assessments are anticipated. A commission will disburse the fund with war department approval to set up base hospitals in France and other relief work. The local lodge’s initial installment may exceed $200.
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Grand Lodge of Elks
Princeton Lodge
Princeton Lodge of Elks
Grand Lodge
Boston
War Department
France
Peace prospects amid German political shifts and papal note
Washington and London report pressure for liberal reform in Germany as Kaiser power wanes. Wilson asks Germans to cast off autocracy. allied diplomats expect such changes could shorten the war. Officials stress the pope peace appeal warrants constructive response and caution against ignoring potential German behind the scenes.
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United Press
Washington, D. C
Germany
Wilson
Angin
Sammies Thrill French in Ready Trench Review
In heavy rain at American Field Headquarters in France, French soldiers and villagers watched General Pershing’s new army units march past Gen. Sibert under full trench equipment. Gas masks hung from belts as the American legion, soon to join the line, impressed observers despite no formal deployment date.
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France
Pershing
Democracy
Legion of Sammies
Sibert
American Legion
British Press Answers No To Pope Benedict Peace Plan
London reports that British press rejects the Pope Benedict peace appeal. Headlines say the text signals German-inspired terms, including moral force over arms, armament cuts, arbitration, and evacuation of Belgium with independence guarantees. Public opinion is described as unified in opposition.
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Washington
House of Hohenzollern
London
Benedict
Belgium
Germany
Hattiesburg Set to Clean Up Red Light District
Hattiesburg Miss August 16 by order of the city council all resorts in the city will be closed in preparation for Ohio and Kentucky national guardsmen training at Camp Shelby. The city will increase police with plain clothes women to deter women of the underworld from streets.
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Hattiesburg
Miss
Ohio
Kentucky National Guardsmen
Camp Shelby
Supplies Received for Red Cross Knit Goods Drive
Central Division calls Princeton Chapter to meet a large wartime allotment of knitted woolen articles. Major Murphy urges quick shipping of 300 sweaters, 300 mufflers, 300 wristlets, and 300 pairs socks to aid soldiers and refugees before cold weather. Committees to be announced soon.
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Central Division of
Red Cross
Alls
Princeton Chapter
R. G. Hildner
Gibson County
Central District
The
Grayson Murphy
Major Murphy
France
Switzerland
America
East St. Louis grand jury returns 105 indictments
Sixty eight indictments Against 105 persons for murder arson conspiracy rioting and assaults were returned by the grand jury probing July riots in East St. Louis The report cites deliberate plotting and condemns inactive officials and a high police official The panel also summons an attorney for an inflammatory speech amid local family notices and social visits.
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Belleville
East St. Louis
Oirike Dazed Germans After Lone-One Counterattack
German forces, caught off guard, suffered a disarrayed counterattack at Lone-One. Reports say a whole division was wiped out, shocking observers and altering the expected German pursuit. Military authorities caution details are still emerging.
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Kaiser
British and French Forces Drive Forward on Six Mile Front
British troops and French forces staged a coordinated assault along a six mile front northeast of Ypres and near Polygon Wood. The push followed intensified actions around Lens as British units exploited a prepared offensive amid fierce fighting.
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Ypres
Lens
Polygon Wood
French Break Through German Lines on Flanders Front
Paris reports French and British forces jointly assaulting German positions on the Flanders front. Entire trench systems captured on several fronts with multiple German counterattacks repelled. 130 prisoners taken. Heavy German losses, Canadian casualties light. Fourth Guards division described as practically annihilated.
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Paris
Flanders
War Office
Steensbeck
Ailees
Lens
Fourth Guards
Motor train on the streets attracts attention in Princeton
A mobile road-construction unit from S. R. Adams & Company passed through the square en route to Sullivan. The five ton truck pulled four dump cars each carrying about three yards of rock or gravel while an automatic dump car of five tons capacity rode alongside. The motor train, one of the most powerful ever seen in Princeton, was recently purchased by the Adams firm.
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Adams & Co
Sullivan
Federal
Princeton
Adams Company
Deaths Roscoe Wheeler Patoka Indiana
Roscoe Wheeler died at 2 p m Wednesday at his grandfather John R Wheeler's home near Patoka following tuberculosis. Funeral at 10 a m Thursday at the Methodist church conducted by Rev Horace Sprague. Interment in Oak Hill cemetery. Survived by a brother and many relatives. Vivian Shields of Mt Carmel visited the city Thursday.
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Patoka
Ind
Democrat
Roscoe Wheeler
John R. Wheeler
Palar
Horace Sprague
Oak Fill
Beloved Addis Honored By Sympathy Letters
The Jones family of Baldwin Heights thanks friends for kindness and respect shown after the loss of Addis. They note the outpouring of sympathy and flowers. Miss May Heller of Fivanville visited East Spruce Street sister Mrs. A P Wither for business. Aurel R Cullen of Youngstown visited his parents on North Malin Street and returned home. Mrs. Culler will stay several days.
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Addis
Jacob Jones and
Baldwin Heights
May Heller
Fivanville
City
A. P. Wither
East Spruce Street
Aurel R. Cullen
Youngstown
Ohio
Thomas Cullen
North Malin Street
Culler
Tobacco aid drive to support soldiers in France
The Democrat outlines a plan with Liggett Myers and Miller Bros to send tobacco and cigarettes to American troops in France. Contributors 25 cents or more receive a 25 cent package with 50 cents worth of tobacco, plus a card for reply. Cards available at The Democrat or Miller Bros and forwarded to Liggett Myers.
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France
United States
Chicago
Democrat
Miller Bros
Liggett & Myers Com
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Sheridan
Edgar Amos
Lodge
Edison Diamond Disc
Victor Phonographs
G. W. Guthrie
Music House
Alva Levi
Lloyd George
House of Commons
England
Carl D. Groat
Lansing
State Department
Berlin
Vienna
J. W. Pegler
ED L. Keen
Tory
Hattesburg S
Juanita
Drew
North Third Street
Ona Alvis
Evansville
Oirike
Ypres Salient
William Phillip Sims
S. R. Adams
8S. R
Vivian Shields
Shoptaugh’s
Sam
MIES
Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co., of
Louis and Miller Bros
Pany
the Democrat
West Side Square
Walsh
Wise
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