Fire Wipes Out Cedar Falls City
A fire near Cedar Falls destroyed the post office hotel and Nye Bros store and nine of twenty dwellings. One hundred sixty acres of timber burned with flames heading toward Cedar Falls camp No 2. Seattle power plant protected. railroad station roof burned and substation saved with effort. Sparks from an engine thought to start the blaze.
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Cedar River Falls
Seattle
J. P. Jordan
Nye Bros
Little Settlement
Cedar Falls Camp No. 2
Cedar River
J. D. Ross
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Pacific States Logging Co
Cedar Falls
Draft classification details widen exemptions under Crowder ruling
The war draft announces no changes to basic Class 1 rules but expands exemptions. Bankers and others in essential employment may seek deferral, along with Red Cross workers and public health staff. The guidance aims to avoid narrow industry definitions and clarifies who may be deferred.
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Crowder
March
Gen. Crowther
Wilson
Council of Patriotic Service
Norman M. Wardall
Washington
Red Cross
Germans Evacuate London Outskirts As Gas Fills Lens
London dispatch says Lens area gas fills hinder entry as Germans withdraw from the city.
May Postpone Tax Measure in Election Year Shuffle
Washington reports political maneuvering may delay final enactment of the $40 billion revenue bill. Majority Leader Kitchin and aides intend to push the bill through the House by Friday with Senate hearings to follow. House leaders plan a post-passage vacation as the Senate weighs a joint recess and conference.
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Washington
Case
Kitchin
House
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
City and Traction Company Face Suit
M. O. Carton filed a suit against the city and the traction company on Wednesday. He seeks $2,100 in rent and a court order to repossess land used as an approach to the Stoneway bridge. He notes the city had agreed to pay $150 monthly, but the site became valueless after the old Stoneway bridge was removed.
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M. O. Carton
Traction Company
Carton
Stoneway Bridge
Engle Wounded in Action at Paria Hospital
Richard Engle son of Mr and Mrs R K Engle Company II 26th infantry is wounded and in a Paria hospital with details indicating a military injury during service.
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Richard Engle
R. K. Engle
Paria
World Series Game Postponed by Rain
A persistent drizzle caused the postponement of the first World Series game between the Cubs and the Red Sox. The schedule shifted back one day and the series will open tomorrow in Chicago with subsequent games Friday and Saturday before the clubs move to Boston. National league players will donate 10 percent of their share to war activities per the national commission recommendation, with American league players expected to follow.
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Cubs
Red Sox
Boston
National Commission
Just Say Main 600 Wants Ad Reach Northwest Audience
Classified inquiry announces want ads offered with exposure to a large Northwest audience. Rates listed at 11/2c per line. Message emphasizes ability to charge for wants and reach potential buyers.
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Northwest
Only Natives to Stay in Moscow
Dispatches from Moscow report Nikolai Lenine in critical condition after being shot by a girl. The bullet lodged in his upper lung has been removed and a crisis is expected in three days. All non natives to Moscow or Petrograd are ordered to depart the cities.
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Amsterdam
Nikolai Lenine
Moscow
Lenine
Petrograd
Seattle Home Building Drive Urges 5000 Homes by Christmas
Seattle warns that failure to construct 5000 homes by Christmas could trigger loss of war industrial responsibilities and harm the city’s war effort. Canvassing committees seek pledges to build, promising limited profits of 10 percent to deter profiteering and hasten victory while easing housing for thousands arriving to work.
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Seattle
Seattle Homes Pledge Drive Aids War Labor Needs
Two days of pledge canvassing by 20 teams raised commitments for over 300 of 4000 homes Seattle aims to secure for war labor. The housing effort targets 5000 dwellings before Christmas to support ongoing contracts, with nine thousand prospective builders on record. Seattle leads in federal housing and transport inquiries as war departments review city facilities.
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Bureau
Seattle
Homes Bureau
More Homes
Ukraine Peasants Renew Uprising
Stockholm reports a renewed peasant uprising in Ukraine against Germany. The Cracow Journal cites a Kieff dispatch noting daily increases in violence and rapid spread across districts including Telinzerkoff Taranchatacha Caneff and Berditcheff. The Ukraine railroad strike remains unsettled.
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Stockholm
Ukraine
Germany
Cracow Journal
Telinzerkoff
Taranchatacha
Caneff
Berditcheff
The Confessions of a War Bride
The Star presents an ongoing human interest series titled The Confessions of a War Bride. A newly widowed woman shares personal experiences from wartime marriage, offering intimate reflections on love, loss, and resilience for readers.
Baseball Aviator Dies of Injuries
Fort Worth Texas September 4 Cadet M G Milliken former pitcher for the Pittsburg Nationals died at the post hospital from injuries received in an airplane crash yesterday in which Lieut Greene was killed The portrait in the new Frederick & Nelson store by Jr Tamada is of Gen Diaz hero of the Italian army and not Gen Foch as erroneously stated in Tuesday s Star
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Fort Worth
Tex
M. G. Milliken
Pittsburg Nationals
Lieut. Greene
Post Hospital
Frederick & Nelson
Jr. Tamada
Diaz
Foch
Flanders Front Shifts as Germans Fall Back Near Wytschaete
Dispatches from the Lowell Mellett wire report that German forces withdraw from Wytschaete and Messines ridges as British pressure mounts along the front. The German high command sacrifices manpower to reach the Hindenburg line while Britain presses toward Cambrai and gains prisoners. Mangin’s troops push toward Chemin des Dames, and aerial operations east of the Jordan continue with raids in the Towelra-Aburna area.
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Hindenburg
Paris
Mangin
Vauxaillon Table Land
Chemin Des Dames
Journal
Vauxaillon
Soissons
Vesle
Chemin Des Dambes
London
Jordan River
Palestine and Arabia
War Office
Towelra-Aburna-Am
Seattle Subscriptions Lag as War Savings Drive Falters
Judge Frederick V. Brown says Seattle is the only Pacific coast city not meeting its war savings quota. Tacoma official L. H. Burnett proposes visiting Seattle to push the effort, while drive leaders attribute Seattle’s shortfall to men able to subscribe reaching the $1,000 limit. A list of $1,000 pledges will be published, with Portland recording 1,005.
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Cific
Frederick V. Brown
Seattle
L. H. Burnett
War Savings Committee of
Tacoma
Portland
Crown Prince Voices War of Defense in Interview
Amsterdam dispatch reports the German crown prince saying the war is a war of annihilation by the enemy and that Germany will hold its own. He warns against misreading withdrawals and emphasizes defense in both military and political terms.
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Amsterdam
Berlin
Allied advance new peril to Foel fronts Cambrai region gains noted
British forces push toward Cambrai with major gains at Permes Demicourt and Indiyan Artois as Haig reports lines near the Canal du Nord. French troops reach the Vesle outskirts near Coucy Le Chateau while German retreat continues in Flanders with Nieppe near Armentieres.
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Cambrai
Permies
London
Demicourt
Wis
Indiyan-Artois
Kcourt-St. Quentin
Romancourt
Canal du Nord
Haut-Allaines
Peronne
Haig
Aisne
Chemen Des Dames
Vesle
Flanders
Nieppe
Armentieres
Germans Dam Scarpe River Floods Large Area
A British front dispatch to the Daily Mail says German forces dammed the Scarpe river and flooded a large stretch of country to cover their retreat before the British.
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London
Scarpe River
British Front
The
Daily Mail
Graves lands with 1,000 U.S. men in Siberia
General Graves arrives with 43 officers and 1,088 men in Siberia on September 2 as American units in the Far East total nearly 4,000. March names the 30th and 32nd divisions for actions in Flanders and near Soissons, while Canadian forces near Cambrai and British efforts push the Flanders salient. Troop embarkation for all fronts exceeds 1,600,000 as of August 31.
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Washington
Wm. Graves
Siberia
Flanders
Soissons
Graves
March
Drocourt-Queant
Cambrai
Flanders Salient
French Cavalry Forcing German Withdrawal on Aisne Front
French cavalry press the retreat of German forces from the right bank of the North canal near Guiscard and Jumecourt as Mangin advances toward Ainsey Le Chatel and along the Ailette. British units cross Canal du Nord at Haut Allaines and occupy Romancourt Gust while reporting German strength of 97 divisions since Aug 8.
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Paris
Guiscard
Noyon
North Canal
Jumecourt
Soissons
Chauny-Laon
Ainsey-Le-Chateau
Ailette
Mangin
Paris-Hirsen
Soissons-Guignicourt
Vesle
Aisne
Chemin Des Dames
London
Canal du Nord
Haut-Allaines
Peronne
Romancourt
Rcourt-St. Quentin
Cambrai
Haig Keeps Teutons in Hot Fight
Battle analysis by J W T Mason reports British forces under Haig pressing toward Cambrai and Douai. Von Hindenburg shuffles reserves to bar a rout and prevent Cambrai’s entrapment while the British threaten Douai to widen the front and complicate German defenses around Lille.
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Haig
Teutons
British drive nears Cambrai and Douai as lines collapse
Dispatches say Canadian English and Scottish troops are within nine miles of Cambrai and Douai while the Drocourt Queant switch line and Hindenburg line have been smashed. Lens is pinched by British Fifth Army as Haig’s forces press along the Scarpe in a major western front advance.
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Cambrai
Douai
Hindenburg
Aiz
Cambra
Paris
Drocourt- Queant
Haig
von Below
Lens
Gen. Horne
Scarpe
Von Hutier to Stand on Oise
The Oise runs east and west crossing the Hindenburg line at La and then turns north behind that line. The description notes Von Hutier preparing positions on the river as forces maneuver in WWI circumstances.
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von Hutier
Oise
Amsterdam
Hertling
Hindenburg
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the Star
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Wytschaete
Messines
Ypres
Cacabrai
Canal
Tiyng
Manancourt
Coast City
Dispatch
Carl D. Great
Spa
Belgium
Verviers
Liege
John de Gandt
J. W. T. Mason
New York
von Hindenburg
Cambrai-Douai
Lille
William Philip Simms
Ludendorff
Byng
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