Adams County Liberty Loan Surpasses $1.6 Million
Adams county and Quincy residents poured money into the second liberty loan, totaling about $1,492,850 by Saturday night with forecasts signaling a final $1.6 million. General Chairman W Emery Lancaster led a whirlwind drive aided by banks, women’s committees, and school children, turning subscriptions into a public display of patriotism.
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Mercantile Trust Company
Sunday Whig
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Second Liberty Loan Surpasses Five Billion Mark
Secretary McAdoo announced the second liberty loan was greatly oversubscribed with New York leading and districts reporting immense totals. Subscriptions rivered in from Boston to San Francisco, with Chicago, Cleveland and Minneapolis highlighting late-day surges as the drive neared its maximum quotas.
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Benjamin Strong
Honors Go To Women In County Campaign Victory
Maida Lee Fosgate reported the campaign total of 400000 subscribed by women organizations and schoolchildren, with additional bank totals not yet reported. Rotary rival Harvey Riggs logged 366000 for Rotary, but Fosgate’s tally gave the women the honors. Payson women contributed 55750 and 89150 from that community, Paloma women 10900, aided by Mrs. Fosgate, Mrs. W. F. Kirtley, Miss Hilda Ku hman, and Miss Irma Bastert.
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Newcomb Hotel
Rotary Club
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Harvey
Fosgate
Payson
Paloma
Our Boys Face Bowie's Guns On The French Front
American troops edge into first line trenches in France as artillery opens fire at dawn and a French 75 shells German positions. Reaching through rain and mud, helmeted infantry march toward the front while Americans join in the artillery duel and wait to be relieved.
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Associated Press
France
Guitert
Gergan
Wilson
Germany
Ac 9
Missouri
Italy on Isonzo Front Faces Tremendous Teutonic Drive
German forces under Emperor Charles press at the Isonzo front as Berlin claims a major Italian setback. Gen Cadorna’s second army suffers a severe blow with reports of 60,000 Italian troops and 450 guns captured. Rome braces for emergency measures as Austrian and German units push toward Tolmino and Venice plains.
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Tolmino
News Startles Nation as Americans Enter Front Line Trench
On October 28 General Pershing announced that several American infantry battalions were in the front line trenches near No Man's Land, supported by U S artillery. The War Department offered restrained confirmation, framing the move as the final phase of training under fire. German shells pounded the area as American rifles and machine guns prepared to meet any assault.
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President fixes coal price at all U. S. mines
President Wilson orders a 45 cent per ton increase in bituminous coal prices at nearly all U S mines effective Monday. The wage raises from operators and miners are covered, with exceptions for existing contracts or unresolved local agreements. Illinois prices rise 45 cents per ton from prior levels. Miners expect possible delays due to pay period rules.
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Germans Set Fire to Brazilian Gunboat Eber at Bahia
Rio Janeiro reports German forces set the Brazilian gunboat Eber on fire and then sank her at Bahia harbor. The Eber carried 125 men. Brazil declared war with Germany on Friday amid rising hostilities.
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