Illinois National Guard group appeals leaders for support in state service
City ministers heads of lodges and other groups were urged to back a new three regiment state militia to preserve order amid East St Louis unrest and Bloomington car strike. A $40 maintenance fund exists, firms offer recruiting help, and meetings with employees are planned. The letter from Acting Company Commander A E Zoller explains the plan, service terms, and non political nature while outlining drills, uniforms, and pay provisions. Three salmons of 3214 pounds 380 unds and 30 pounds were caught in Ringwood and Bisterne England.
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National Guard Company
East St. Louis
Bloomington
Illinois
National Guard
Gen. Hill
A. E. Zoller
Mattoon
Joliet Penitentiary
Home Guard
Armed guards urged for all grain elevators
Washington reports the government opened an inquiry into recent grain elevator fires suspected of German influence. Fire insurers back the probe and the board of underwriters calls for strict protections including barbed wire enclosures flood lights sworn guards as special officers under military supervision and strict entry identification to shield storage plants and food supplies.
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Washington
Middle West
National Board of the
Grain Exchange
Leibert Hoover
Board of Underwriters
Peoria Clinches the WH Trophy Pennant
Peoria IL July 7 Peoria clinches the Three Eye league pennant with a win over Bloomington securing its second straight title under Manager Bill Jackson. War conditions force suspension of next Sunday but President Tearney says the pennant will be awarded. South Bend IN July 7 South Bend negotiates Central league franchise move to Peoria. Peoria officials and Chamber of Commerce discuss possible terms and action.
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Peoria
Ill
Bloomington
Bill Jackson
A. R. Tearney
South Bend
Iina
South Bena
Marge
Ryan
Ed Smith
Chamber of Commerce
First Lady Displays Food Saving Placard at White House
Washington July 7 Mrs Woodrow Wilson has personally supervised placing a food administration membership card in a window of the dining room at the White House visible from the street. The card is the first of millions to be sent for hanging in windows nationwide. Registration of women as members of the food administration is proceeding rapidly across the country. Many states will open public schools one day in July for enrollment.
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Washington
Woodrow Wilson
Food Administration
White House
The
Herbert Kelcy Ill at Bayport Summer Home
Herbert Kelcy an actor aged 82 is reported dangerously ill at his Bayport New York summer home. The New York DS filed the report noting his age and condition.
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Herbert Kelcy
New York
Bayport
N. Y
Local Visitors Call on Camp Point Families
A long list of visits and arrivals covers Camp Point Illinois and nearby towns. Mr. and Mrs. A A Simon of Quincy spent Wednesday with the John Williams family. Several other relatives from East St. Louis Dubuque Gary and Detroit are noted visiting area homes and returning home after visits.
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Camp Point
III
A. A. Simon
Quincy
John Williams
M. C. Clark
William
East St. Louis
SV. B. Grove
Congress Park
Lydia Little
Lena Behan
Cullen Flostetter
Kenneth
Dubuque
Iowa
William Hostetter
Dufford Wall
Avon
Mary Wall
Mane Behan
Helen Seaton
Macomb Normal
George Adame
W. H. Scott
Elva Marshvell
Famernort
Woith Sraith
Martin Browning
Pauline
Detroit
Mik
Frank Referts
Richard Castle
Quincey
Fred Fivon
Clarion
Mra
George Jeache
David Grene
Chilecaize
Davyid Ailen
Roy Adama
Daugster Frangem
Augusetn
Gunners Cheer as U-Boat Is Fended Off at Sea
In a Paris shipboard tale by Heywood Brown, passengers aboard the Espagne react with cheers when a gun aboard the after deck fires at a submerged U-boat during a perilous Atlantic crossing from New York to Bordeaux. The narrative blends peril, humor, and wartime morale amid submarine alerts, with passengers including ambulance drivers, Red Cross nurses, and notable figures observing the drama.
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Heywood Brown
Post-Dispatch
Paris
Yale
Harvard Eleven
Red Cross
Dwesmethyl
Clayton Hamilton
Hamlet
Espagne
W. K. Vanderbilt
Bordeaux
Whder
Hartley Manners
Gironde
New York
Saul
Amherst
Leland Stanford
Marne
Eitel Friederich
Lutheran Churches Move Toward United America Plan
The general council committee on constitutional revision recommends uniting the three Lutheran branches into the United Lutheran Church of America. The plan aims to merge the General Council with the General Synod and United Synod of the South during next October’s Philadelphia quadricentennial reformation events.
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Atlantic City
N. J
United Lutheran Church of America
General Council
Lutheran Church In
General Synod
Council
United Synod of the
South
Woman in Congress Probes Working Hours for Women
Miss Jeanette Rankin plans a House speech urging a congressional investigation into working conditions at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and a separate inquiry into hours for women in the Federal Money and Stamp Printing Bureau. She exposed long shifts after a three hour bureau tour with Jack Connolly of Boston.
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Washington
Jeanette Rankin
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
House
Federal Money and Stamp Printing Bureau
Miss Rankin
J. Rankin
Jack Connolly
Boston
Carter
Massachusetts
Belgian War Mission Visits Butte Copper Mine
The Belgian war mission donned overalls and descended into a major copper mine near Butte Montana. They arrived after a two day ride through the grain fields of the northwest to observe mines that will aid in relieving the distressed country and helping end the war.
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Butte
Mont
Watermelons on ice and social notes in Quincy
Brief items from Quincy cover personal news and local happenings. Mrs C P Salyer improves after surgery at St Marys hospital. Mrs Fred Widmaier and daughter head to Kansas City with brother Merle Widmaier. Mrs John Pankoke Edna visit Keokuk. Local ads list Saturday toilet goods specials.
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C. P. Salyer
St. Mary’s Hospital
Hampshire Street
Starmus
Fred Widmaier
Kansas City
Merle Widmaier
John Pankoke
Edna
Keokuk
Malambri
C. E. Delaplain
D. T. Haner
Akron
Ohio
Quincy
A. H. Haner
Joe Harvey
Clarence Walker
Chicago
J. C. Walker
North Eighth Street
F. B. Jones
Fred Higgins
Lima
Burlington
Higher prices for men’s wearing apparel in 1918
Chicago July 7 Men’s wearing apparel will cost more in 1918, say members of the National Association of Clothing Designers gathered here. They attribute the expected rise to wartime conditions, with scarcer materials and higher prices, labor troubles, reduced enlistments, and over 20 percent rise in overhead costs over the past year.
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Chicago
National Association of Clothing Designers
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