Casualties Reported Today By Region And Names
October 16 report lists Killed in Action and Wounded Severely across New England and other states with many names. Sections detail casualties by status, plus a note that American Expeditionary Force members are prisoners of war at Rastatt. Names include Klopotowitz Pawtucket R I and Albert Greaves Somerville Mass among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Klopotowitz
New We
Roy C. Payne
Pawtucket
R. IL
John Neil
Cambridge
Ul Radcliffe W. Bristol
Mort Joe Ogonovsky
Roxbury
Mass
Philip P. Hemptick
Antone Medaroes
New Bedford
Harold C. Morrison
Newton
N. H
William J. Reardon
Medford
Samuel D. Sherman
New Haven
Ones Elder
Waterbury
Conn
Rosario le Blue
Lowell
Carmine Meringolo
Worcester
Philip Richards
Fitchburg
Albert Greaves
Somerville
Raymond W. Lee
Riley
Burlington
Kelley
Sanford
Noel
Marc Aurele
Keneth H. Lanouette
Ralph Edward Manning
Hudson
Frank William Jacobs
Torrington
Robert R. Dorithy
Everett
Arthurs. Hammond
Rockland
Ambroseoh. Hare
Leominster
Joseph Mandoso
Providence
R. J
Otto K. Schuze
Great Barrington
William Shea
Bridgeport
Washington
Rastatt
de Douglas Robbins
Bristol
T. Hall
J. Earls
Hartford
G. Fogarty
EB. Argraves
Fort Fairfield
Edward.Gurney
Illinois Farmers Threaten Strike Over High Cropland Rent
About seventy Grundy County farmers threaten a crop strike demanding rent relief from English landowner William Scully's estate. They refuse $10 per acre, insist on staying on and farming the land, and seek action from the U S Food Administration and Illinois legislature. The dispute centers on a 30 year occupancy and rising rents for land leased under improvements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morris
Grundy
United States Food Administration
Illinois
William Scully
United States
Inllinois
Grundy County
Scully
Angelina Scully
London
England
Frank Hayes
Hayes
Food Administration
Pershing Thanks Eddystone Workers for War Effort
General Pershing sent a cable from Washington on October 16 thanking the 14,000 workers at the Midvale Steel and Ordnance Co rifle plant in Eddystone Pennsylvania. He praised their past and present efforts and looked ahead to continued work in the coming months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Pershing
Eddystone
Midvale Steel & Ordnance Co
J. MT
Independent Order of Odd Fellows elect officers in Bridgeport
Grand encampment session of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows met in Bridgeport with Grand Patriarch Frederick M. Card presiding. Elections named Michael Larson as Grand Patriarch Oscar L. Burdick as grand high priest and several other officers including A H Lubenow William S Hutchinson William J Berges William H Lowe and representatives Fred M Card and Frank M Canfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
Bridgeport
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Frederick M. Card
Michael Larson
Hartford
Oscar L. Burdick
Stamford
A. H. Lubenow
New Haven
William S. Hutchinson
William J. Berges
Army ordnance chief changed as McRoberts retires
Washington reports Brigadier General Samuel McRoberts relieved from duty as chief of the procurement division of the army ordnance department. Lieutenant Colonel Robert P. Lamont succeeds him and joins the staff of the chief ordnance officer with the American Expeditionary Forces in France. Lamont, in civilian life, led the American Steel Foundries Co. of Chicago and was commissioned February 4, 1918.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
C. C. Williams
Ordnance
Samuel McRoberts
Army Ordnance Department
Robert P. Lamont
McRoberts
France
Lamont
American Steel Foundries Co
Chicago
Influenza Study Explores Massachusetts Methods
Dr. Hammond Bunderson of Chicago health department visits Boston on Oct 16 to study Massachusetts strategies against the Spanish influenza. He reports the disease advancing in Chicago and reviews the state laboratory’s production of a new serum by Dr. Timothy Leary of Tufts College for free statewide distribution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Hammond Bunderson
Chicago City
Department of Health
Massachusetts
Chicago
Bunderson
State Laboratory
Timothy Leary
Tufts College
Police Drag Net Over Greater New York
Police widen drag net in New York seeking two men wanted for the murder of James Kennedy who was shot as he tried to stop a taxicab on Second Avenue. The taxi sped away with the chauffeur forced by a weapon to drive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Newark
James Kennedy
Second Avenue
Andy
French Liberty Loan Poster in Paris Poster Text
Fragmentary item from a Paris date marked October 16 shows a World War I Liberty Loan poster phrased in urgent terms. The readable portion references enemies and criminal acts, conveying wartime mobilization messaging. The exact phrasing is incomplete but indicates a propagandistic appeal to the public for funding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Local notes include re election and new appointments
The board of selectmen re elected Robert Hayes and J M Hall was named first vice president of the N Y N H R E. Augur issued an advisory on drinking showing a 50 percent rise with carefully compiled figures. Bert Flansburg enrolled in Boston school of oratory. Colegrove's woods near West Long Hill burned, nearly reaching Rand powder store. Higganum sho opened after two week scarlet fever shutdown. Cromwell brick firm Strickland Edwards won a 90 000 brick order from Waterbury. New York boats missed Saturday trips due to rough weather and several boats were reported lost. Reverend W W Van Deusen preached at Holy Trinity and Prof Binney preached there Sunday. Jerome C Smith returned from a New Jersey vacation. Old Mattabe sett hand fire engine to be kept as a relic. Sunday marked the 10th anniversary of Pastor L P Ahlquist at the Swedish Lutheran church in Portland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. M. Hall
Superior Court
N. Y
N. H
H.R
Strickland & Edwards Brick Co
Cromwell
Waterbury
New York
W. W. van Deusen
Spokane Falls
Wash
Wesleyan
Holy Trinity
David J. Neale
High
Church Streets
Prof. Binney
Jerome C. Smith
Middlesex County National Bank
New Jersey
Mattabessett
L. P. Ahlquist
Swedish Lutheran Church
Portland
Ready for New Draft Selections Progress Report
Washington Oct 16 local boards report completion of 90 percent of physical examinations for selective service men aged 19 to 20 and 32 to 86. Four thousand three hundred forty nine boards in the country show 94 boards reached this point with 187 at 69 percent and 322 at 30 percent. Classification shows 1893 boards at 90 percent, 1887 at 60 percent, and 2458 at 30 percent completion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Idaho
Iowa
Louisiana
New Jersey
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Maine
Minnesota
Ohio
Sub treasury gains from banks record Tuesday
New York on October 16 reports the sub treasury gained 127000 dollars from banks on Tuesday, contributing to a cash increase of 216000 dollars since Friday. The figures reflect daily movements in Federal cash balances and banking system liquidity during the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Sub-Treasury
Sweet Nut Margarine Promises Butter Substitute
An old idea of there being nothing better than real butter gives way to progress. Science, not taste, now supports margarine as a dining table luxury on par with dairy butter. Benefit Brand teas coffees and grocery specials shown at Direct Sm arting Co. 70 Washington St Middletown sells Sweet Nut margarine for about half the butter price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dewey
Manila
Direct Smarting Co
Washageton St
Middletown
Benefit
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Huntington
Roland G. Alling
Winsted
Eddystone, Pa
Ordnance Department
WGN
Board of Selectmen
Robert
Treasury Report
America
UNITED BHIAT @ COLLAR CO
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Government of
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President Wilson
General Pershing
Brewer Co
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Uncle Sam
Sterling
R. J. Atwell
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