Seattle Sends First 93 Men To Select Service
Seattle bids farewell to 93 conscripts marching to the American Lake cantonment in a 100-car cavalcade. The event marks the city and King County meeting its first select service quota under provisions arranged with Provost Marshal General officials.
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Select Service National Army
American Lake
Select Service
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Mobilienne
Washington
King County
Smoke and war talk fill city pages as troops depart
Americans head to France as more soldiers join the new selective service. A motor cavalcade with a firemen band escorts troops to Camp Lewis after waving crowds in Seattle and Tacoma. Federal agents raid IWW offices nationwide, seizing papers and equipment amid claims of German influence.
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Select Service Army
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Dixile
Tacoma
Camp Lewis
Seattle
Soldier and barmaid exchange witty wartime banter
An American soldier and a London bar maid exchange lines in a light wartime moment. The bar maid quips that the drink has waited three years for him, while the soldier remarks the beverage cheers a dull room.
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London
Mall
Parade and farewell to soldiers on Tuesday night
A report previews Tuesday night’s grand parade and farewell ceremonies honoring soldiers, with details expected on page seven. The community gathers to honor service members and mark the transition with ceremonial events.
Oregon Boy First in at Camp Lewis
Arthur W. Goff of Hoff Oregon became the first draftee to register at Camp Lewis Tacoma as the facility readies to become the nation’s largest training cantonment. He arrived from Jefferson County Oregon and is among the first to enroll in the wartime draft program.
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America
Hoff
Jefferson County
Annigues
Serracks
Echo Zahl at Good Bye Dance in Uniform
A wartime dance at the Hippodrome blends civilians and service members as 300 couples waltz to "For Me and My Gal" under dim lights. The author recalls the night before American Lake mobilizations, noting the mix of Red Cross and relief corps ladies and the arrival of honor men leaving soon.
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Relief Corps
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Roosevelt calls for war profits tax as heavy as Britain
Col. Roosevelt urged conscription of war profits at the Columbia county fair in Chatham New York. He proposed a very heavily graduated tax equal to or greater than Britain’s 80 percent on excess profits and urged inheritance and income taxes modeled on English and German systems. He warned against taxes that curb production and attacked war profiteers pro Germans pacifists and L W W figures as traitors.
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Chatham
N. Y
Col
Roosevelt
Columbia County Fair
Great Britain
United States
L W. W
Socialist Party
America
Germany
France
Belgium
Rumania
Congress
England
Submarine Bombards Scarborough in Night Attack
German submarine shelled Scarborough last night. Three people killed and five injured as 30 rounds were fired, half landing on land. damage to the town was described as slight. The report comes from Lord French.
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United Press
London
Scarborough
Lord French
German Caught in Raided I W W Hall
United States marshal Montag and deputies raided an I W W hall in Portland at noon today seizing a large batch of letters and attire. One hundred men were closely examined and Carl der Ome, a German native, arrested after failing to account for himself.
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U. S
W. W
Second Ave. S
Oe I. W
Cherry St
Trial Workers of
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Verona
Everett
Ed Williams
E. R. Tobey
Charles Dolphin
United Press
Portland
Heers
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United
Government raided offices of I W Win in Minneapolis
Separate offices and the headquarters of the I W Win organization in Minneapolis were raided by government officers shortly after 2 p m. The raid confiscated I W W literature and membership books. Agents remained in the offices.
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Minneapolis
Sept
I. W. Win
Gov
W. W
Chicago raid targets I W W strongholds and offices
Go operatives raid Chicago targets I W W strongholds in literature and records. National and state socialist party leaders and I W W headquarters were included. Adolph Germer and William Haywood were present but not detained.
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Chicago
Socialist Party
Adolph Germer
Wm. Haywood
Local hero tale stirs debate over who saved Mina Shore
In Elliott Bay near Alki Point Mina Shore nearly drowned after a steamer wake. Patrolman Brady tried to help but failed. The Star reporter Matt O’Conner claims heroism though accounts point to William Elmer Jones of the Post-Intelligencer as the rescuer.
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O'Conner
Alki Point
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