Occupation tax to raise revenue and war gains update
Allies report gains in Picardy with Bray and Proyart captured as French advance threatens German lines near Roye and Lassigny. Washington hosts an $8 billion revenue bill draft proposing an $10 annual occupation tax for firms and $25 for large wholesalers, with exemptions for farmers clergy teachers and mechanics. The measure aims to fund wartime costs while delaying depletion allowances and adjusting taxes on large incomes and estates.
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Picardy
Bray
Proyart
Roye
Lassigny
Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Kitchin
Canada
Railroad mileage script plan tied to war tax policy
The plan explains mileage scripts for travel with a $2.40 war tax added when bought, or $15 with 500 coupons and $1.20 extra tax. Scripts transferable for any number of passes, and officials urge use of shortest routes to reduce charges. The aim is to remove injustices from rate systems and move toward science based rate structures while allowing protests against current railroad traffic omissions.
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Jiroad Administration
Imid
McAdoo
Railroad
Interstate Commerce Commission
Warships Seen Off the Skagerrak in Heavy Cannon Fire
A Telegraph dispatch reports heavy cannon fire lasting two hours off the Skagerrak with many warships seen in action to the south. The fight, possibly between light British forces and German aircraft, occurred near Frisian coast. A Zeppelin was shot down, according to the British admiralty.
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Copenhagen
Frisian
Admiralty
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Ice Rations Placed On Baltimore Citizens
Ice shortage during a two week heat wave leads Baltimore to rationing. Saloon and soda shop supplies cut to half. ice cream, hotels, and bars receive 75 percent. homes limited to 50 pounds per day. Measures aim to preserve the city’s ice reserves until heat ends.
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Baltimore
Wilson to Europe to discuss clearing house affairs
Aug 14 report from York notes Deputy Dameour stating President Wilson is to Europe. The article cites Sub-treasury figures with $1,011,586 in exchanges and $530,170 in balances, totaling $51,502,761.
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Wilson
Europe
Dameour
the Today
Clearing House
York
Sub-treasury
Bank Looted in Kansas by Gunmen and Train Bandits
Greeley Kansas August 14 robbers dynamited the vault of the Greeley bank and fled by automobile with stolen loot. Four Osawatomie home guardsmen were wounded. One bandit, Dale Jones believed killed, linked to a July 12 train robbery near Paola involving 12 men and the Missouri Kansas Texas express.
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Kansas
Greeley
Greeley Bank
Oswatomie
Kan
Dale Jones
Paola
101 Casualties In Army Report
Washington reports 101 American expeditionary forces casualties with 69 killed in action 21 died of wounds 10 from disease and one from accident. New England officers and privates listed plus a Marine corps casualty list noting four killed in action three severely wounded one wounded and two missing. Also King George says no time for peace and munitions output to be sped at the inter allied council in Paris led by Col Winston Churchill.
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War Department
William B. Brown
Moscow
Sidney T. Cole
Corning
N. Y
Maynard A. Wells
San Antonio
Texas
Morimer H. Jordan
Birmingham
Ala
W. Brown Baxley
New England
Marine Corps List
Marine Corps
Herbert G. Klebes
Sharon
Conn
Picardy Front
George
Nee
Paris
Heavy Pressure on U S Positions on Aisne Vesle Front
American forces face continuing heavy German artillery fire north of the Vesle river as the Prussian Guard remains on the Vesle front. Aerial observers report barbed wire entanglements and stronger defenses forming north of the Aisne. American air units photograph enemy positions while two German fighters are shot down. A Krupp howitzer captured at Tugoy on July 22 is sent to Governor McCall of Massachusetts. this gun is the largest captured piece used in the offensive.
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Aisne-Vesle
Vesle River
Vesle Front
Montdidier
Aisne River
Tugoy
Marne
Teutons
Cotton Census Report Details July 1918 Cotton Trade
Government census shows July 1918 cotton consumption at 51,792 running bales excluding linters, far below 1917. Linters consumed 106,361 bales. Cotton held in censum establishments totals 1,665,384 bales in 1918. Imports reach 24,881 equivalent 500-pound bales, and exports with linters total 218,877 running bales in 1918. Spindles active 83,674,896. linters held and stored around 374,960 bales combined.
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Washington
Linters
Battle Near Sembirsk Rages Amid Russian Front
Amsterdam reports a Bolshevik army of 150000 engages around the mid Volga near Sembirsk in a large battle. The Volga fleet, under Bolshevik control, has seized all Zech-Slav vessels, according to a Moscow dispatch.
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Russia
Amsterdam
mid-Volga
Sembirsk
Moscow
Volga
Ssoveits
Happenings in this vicinity twenty five years ago
News brief from August 14 1893 recounts a rain ruined picnic at Hall s Grove a beef fall injuring Romaine A Chapman the Cromwell Hotel liquor raid with little success union of North and South Congregational Churches and overtime claims by letter carriers since the eight hour law multiple local items include temperance talks Y M C A plans September elections quixotic cryptic death of Erastus Goff found dead in a quarry and other small notes from Hartford region communities
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Romaine A. Chapman
Cromwell Hotel
Garret
Charlies P. Clark
N. Y
N. H
Hartford R. K
Europe
North
South Congregational Churches
North Church
George A. Coles
George T. Meech
South Church
Norman Work
Hartford Y. M. C. A
Earle C. Butler
Dale C. Butler
DB. B. Smith
Norwich
Sub Treasury Report Gains From Banks in New York
New York cash position shows a $351,000 gain on Tuesday, lifting the weekly cash net gain since Friday to $4,297,000 as the Sub Treasury reports in the latest update.
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Treasury
New York
Sub-Treasury
Reliable Connecticut Clocks
Connecticut clock makers dominate regional production and supply a wide range of timepieces from simple alarm clocks to full time systems and tower clocks with unmatched quality and variety.
US stance on peace not to waver in war weariness
The statement, attributed to T. P. O'Connor, asserts that if European nations show peace weariness or seek an inconclusive peace, America will continue the war even alone. It emphasizes that the United States will not seek compromise from its people and rejects any European pull toward compromise.
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America
United States
T. P. O’connor
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