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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1917
Page
2
Washington reports twenty American harvest workers will cross into Canada to help save Canada's grain crop while Canadians will dig potatoes in Maine. Immigration rules will be suspended by both nations to permit the cross border labor. The plan follows Maine potato harvest needs and New England labor shortages.
Paris reports the Army and Navy Y M C A will accompany five trained secretaries with each brigade of about 5,000 into training camps and to the front. The Paris branch has opened a large clubhouse behind the lines and will operate reading rooms, game rooms, showers and recreation huts at bases, ports, and camps.
A growing number of officers and men have enrolled and a baseball league formed among ambulance and aviation units. Tennis courts are available to service members, sleeping quarters for 30 men are arranged, and a canteen at Paris HQ will supply Sammies with candies and tobacco. Vincent Astor and wife bought a major restaurant at a French seaport and entrusted Y M C A management to feed American soldiers and sailors at reasonable prices.
Associated Press reports British forces attacked German positions along a Bel gian front section and forced posts back east of the Steenebeke river near Ypres Thourout railway, reestablishing their line on the river’s eastern side. Additional raids and French reconnaissance yielded limited gains on other fronts.
Mrs. Frank O. Lowden presented a flag to Menard county in Petersburg for having the largest Red Cross membership percentage. Gov Lowden urged greater wartime effort amid coal disputes as 5,000 attend the ceremony closing the county’s Red Cross drive Aug 5. W D Thurber of the Illinois Red Cross praised the county chapter.
The log of Douglas M. Harris, wireless operator of the British trawler Floandi sunk in the Adriatic during Austrian cruiser attack, is exhibited at the National War Museum. Harris continued sending and receiving messages as the ship was shelled and he was killed by a shrapnel bullet.
Six sons were killed and 150 injured when a passenger train collided with a freight train between Petrograd and Moscow. Four cars were demolished as coaches were crushed to pieces in the August 15 wreck near Petrograd.
Washington Aug 15 Commissions awarded to students at the engineer training camp at Fort Leavenworth Kan announced Tuesday include second lieutenant engineers Officers Reserve Corps M E Pumphrey Bloomington IL F C Stilson Galesburg IL Samuel H Hoffman Storm Lake Iowa Edward G Killey Geneva IL Edward P Walsh Davenport Iowa grant A Bickelhaupt Des Moines John MacVicar Jr Des Moines Edward W Bullard Mechanicsburg IL Lionel D Smiley Woodstock IL Max H Nippl Fort Dodge IL John B Durham Rock Island Howard D Myers Lockport IL Edward B Stephenson Sparta Ill William H Romine Iowa City Iowa Vincent J Flanagan Springfield IL Jackson W Bowdish Marion Ia Conrad W Kling Sioux City Ia R E Rutherford Mount Vernon NL Leon W Weiss Cicero IA Lawyers Bear Burden in War London Aug 15 The legal profession has contributed 2850 solicitors and 1370 articled clerks to serve with the colors Thus far 581 have figured in the casualty lists while 217 have been decorated for distinguished service.
Mexico City reports the import duty on all cotton goods is removed from August 1 to December 31, 1917. The piece concludes with a reflective line about fortune arriving too late to help a man.
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