News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers
A digest-style summary reports arrests of Andrew Manner in Indiana for antiwar remarks, guard deployments to southern camps, sinking of the Campania and capture of its crew, and Fort Sheridan's first reserve officers training camp concluding with officers entering the U. S. Army. Roosevelt decries German language press, calls for suppression and unity. over 3,500 trainees commissioned. draft rules updated. several Americans lost on the Belgian Prince. coal politics in Illinois. Hopkins named assistant interior secretary. labor actions at Brooklyn Navy Yard and Mineola. crop forecasts for corn, wheat, oats, and potatoes reach record or near-record levels.
Washington War Measures Boost Gas Rationing and Finance
Washington officials push curtailment of pleasure car use to save gasoline for war. Auto engines should not run when idle. kerosene to clean cars. McAdoo seeks a new multi billion dollar bond issue after talks with House leaders. Hoover named food administrator. Legislation expands war aid, food and fuel control, and creates a labor adjustment commission for government contracts. Navajo burned at sea. crew rescued. Treasury notes oversubscribed by $61.5 million.
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United States
Interior Department
Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo
Capitol
House
Administration
Wilson
Herbert Hoover
White House
French Strike Back In Recent World War Front Advances
French troops resumed counter attacks north of St Quentin and recaptured lost ground. French aviators bombed Frankfurt. A French statement notes retaliation for Nancy raid. British and Allied forces pushed to seize forward German positions east of Inore near the Ypres-Menin road. Romanian and Russian units claimed gains in the Trotus valley with prisoners and captured machine guns.
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St. Quentin
Paris
Frankfort-on-the-Main
German Empire
Nancy
Sever
Bixsehoote
Langemarck
Tunis
Trotus
Roumanian War Office
Douglas Laig
Inore
Frezenburg
Ypres-Menin Road
Army to mobilize 500000 men for training by October
The national army will move into cantonment camps starting September 5 under Crowder. First 30 percent to camp September 3, second 30 percent September 15, third 30 percent September 30, with 10 percent later. Mobilization days begin with patriotic demonstrations as men report to local boards and travel in civilian attire with minimal baggage.
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Washington
Crowder
War Department
Ship mined and five Americans lost near Cape Town
Washington reports five American passengers perished when the British steamer City of Athens hit a mine and sank near Cape Town on August 10. Ten others and four crew members also died. Names include Mrs Naggadr, Miss Robinson, Caroline Thompson of the Methodist mission board, and Mr Sumner. Several missionaries were saved and listed with various residences across the United States.
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Washington
City of Athens
Cape Town
South Africa
State Department
Naggadr
Robinson
Caroline Thompson
Methodist Mission Board
Pointer
Denham
Twenty Die In Car Crash Near Traven Conn
Nine teen persons were killed and more than forty injured in a head on trolley car collision at North Bransford fifteen miles west of Traven. The crash occurred on a single track line between this city and New London when a car speeding for New Haven rammed into one from New Haven. One car should have waited at a switch.
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South Nd
Asex
London
Traven
Conn
North Bransford
Here
New London
New Haven
German Troops Win Roumanian Town in Moldavia
Berlin reports that German forces under Field Marshal von Mackensen captured Puntziu, a railroad junction in southern Moldavia, after a stiff defense by Russo Romanian troops. The town’s fall was officially announced by the German general staff.
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Moldavia
Berlin
von Mackensen
Puntziu
Three-year prison terms affirmed for bank officers
The appellate court at Ottawa upheld three-year sentences for John Hartenblower of Chicago and George D. Hillabrand president and cashier of the defunct Tonkca Exchange Bank which failed in 1913 with liabilities around half a million dollars.
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John Hartenblower
Chicago
George D. Hillabrand
Tonkca Exchange Bank
Ottawa
J. L. Sanders
Galena
Wheaton Tuberculosis Sanitarium
Ridgefarm
Danville
Wabash River
Silverwood
Cayuga
Ind
Springfield
Frank Righton
Stelk
Court of Domestic Relations
House of Correction
Eighth
Illnois
Germany
Croom Walker, Jr
France
Brayery
William T. Nail
Chandlerville
John Pehlman
Charles F. Besta
Nokomis
Felix Dahlman
Eugene Boydell
Pana
Lucy Jane Hunter
Rochester
Benjamin F. Snow
Edward Merrifield
Peoria
Arvid Bloomdahl
la Fox
American Manufacturing Company of
Massachusetts
East St. Louis
Tlinois
Rantoul
United States Army
Quiver Beach
Havana
Woman Credits Lydia Pinkham Remedy For Recovery
Fulton New York resident Mrs Nevil Puevis says Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured her long standing female weakness and allowed her to work again. Doctors offered surgery but the remedy proved effective and she urges other women to seek advice from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Massachusetts.
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Nevil Puevis
R. A. Rider
R.F.D. No
Fulton
N. Y
Lydia E. Pinkham
On the Casualty List from a Gallant Officer
A returning infantry officer, unharmed in battle, breaks an arm on his first night home after colliding with a porter’s barrow in a dark side street. The sling brings constant questions, until a rival taunts him about the injury’s true cause. He snaps that he can read the war news himself.
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London
Jove
Family Bluff About Dads Heads Up Messy Rivalry
A humorous back and forth about whose father is strongest. Each tale escalates a brag with nicknames and playful jabs, ending with mothers weighing in on whose head is the hardest. The playful exchange highlights stubborn pride and family sparring.
Funny Phrase on Food Sparks Wit and Nostalgia
The passage humorously notes a constant tension between shortage and longing for food. It contrasts phrases about appetite with a crusty old bachelor who, if consistent, would bake his own bread, highlighting practical thrift and old world charm.
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Teutonic War News
Andrew Manner
Muncie
National Guard
Campania
Navy Department
Fort Sheridan
Army
Hhe
United States Reserve Army
Roosevelt
New York
Fort Sheridan, IL
New American National Army
Fritz Bergmeier
St. Paul
Gorgas
William Crissy
James Shew
Detroit
Mich
Thomas Gilmore
Merrick
Mass
Ben Culn
Negro
Seattle
Walsh
Selective Service Army
Ilinois
Orrin N. Carter
State Supreme Court
Frank O. Lowden
Sheldon CG. Hopkins
Cheyenne
Wyo
Interior
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Mineola Aviation Grounds
Pearing
America
Congress
Labor Adjustment Commission
Treasury
Athens
University of Notre Dame Notre Dame
Indiana
Wrateen
D.C
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