Germans Massing To Defend Laon In Desperate Push
Allied cavalry patrols approach LaFere near the Hindenburg line as French and British forces push along multiple fronts. French advances reach Niches near La Fere while capitalizing on encirclement efforts around Gouzeaucourt and Epehy Vermand. Reports note German reinforcements massing north of Craonne and large dugouts storing supplies along the Forest of St Gobain as Ludendorff shifts divisions to resist.
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War Front Reports Allied Advances Near St Quentin
The western front shows French troops seizing Hamel four miles from St Quent in the Somme region and advancing along the Vermand Hesbecourt Bochy line. French gains extend to Vaux Flugnieres Happencourty north of the Mine river, with 19000 to 20000 German prisoners captured last week.
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War Secretary Baker in France
Paris and Washington report Secretary of War Newton D. Baker arrived in Paris for a second wartime visit. He will approve plans for the large army in France, review military policy, and coordinate aircraft and embarkation to ease debarkation congestion with General Pershing and Brig. General Frank T. Hines.
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Pershing
Army
Frank T. Hines
Invention Promises Sight Restored For Blinded
In Nice France on September 3 a Polish foreign legionary named Kann reports progress on an apparatus claimed to restore sight to the blind. Allied officials closely watch trials as German reports claim new gas weapons may blind victims, making the invention timely.
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Nice
France
Lenine Reported Dead Again By Refugees
Russian refugees in Stockholm say Bolshevik Premier Lenine died of wounds after being shot by a girl. Earlier wireless reports had claimed he was recovering, but a dispatch to the Post today confirms the fresh death rumor.
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Nickolai Lenine
Russia
Btockholm
Stockholm
Lenine
Debs to Go on Trial in Federal Court
Eugene V. Debs national socialist leader and repeated presidential candidate faces trial on espionage act charges stemming from a Canton Ohio speech on June 16. Federal Judge D C Westenhaver denied a demurrer claiming the law constitutional.
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Bolsheviks Threaten Hostage Hold in Russia
Berlin dispatch cites Vossische Zeitung that the Bolshevik regime in Russia threatens to hold British diplomats as hostages unless Boris Litvinkoff, the Bolshevik envoy in London, is released and returned to Russian jurisdiction. The demand was issued by Foreign Secretary Tchitcherin and printed by a German paper.
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London
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Vossische Zeitung
Tchitcherin
German Defense Shift Signals Offensive Plans In Europe
Berlin dispatch cites Col Gaedke in Vorwaerts saying German high command will pursue a defense oriented stance amid growing American forces and abundant Allied supplies, while secretly planning an offensive campaign in the future. Amsterdam date Sept 9.
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Vorwaerts
Berlin
Sub Treasury Report New York Sept Cash Net Gain
Sub Treasury report from New York notes a cash net gain of 261000 dollars for September. Details on source or allocations are not fully legible in the fragment.
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Treasury Report
New York
Cotton Census Report Shows 1,039,620 Bales by Sept 1
Census cotton report from Washing ton dated Sept 9 lists 1,039,620 bales up to Sept 1 including 53,109 round bales. Comparisons show 614,787 for 1917 and 850,663 for 1916. Sea Island totals reach 2,838 for 1917 and 4,631 for 1916 with 201 for 1918.
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Eight Thousand Pay Honor to Former Governors
Lebanon Connecticut marked a statewide pilgrimage honoring Jonathan Trumbull and William A Buckingham, governors in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. At Barracks field, French and Lafayette observances joined the Stars and Stripes as 22 towns contributed choirs and the national anthem. Gov. Marcus Holcomb spoke alongside clergy and local officials.
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Jonathan Trumbull
William A. Buckingham
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France
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Connecticut
Marcus H. Holcomb
G. B. Cabanel
Blue Devils
Ernest E. Rogers
New London
Aubrey L. Maddock
Hartford
Henry Hovey
Sedgwick
Nomyich
Hollis A. Campbell
W. A. Keefe
Plainfield
George A. Quigley
New Britain
Charles D. Lockwood
Stamford
Helen Huntington
Sophia Colberg
Addie Hallen
Rev Dr Seymour Dies Episcopal Clergyman Widely Known
Rev Dr Storrs O Seymour dies at 82 in Litchfield after a long Episcopal career serving Pawtucket Milford Bethel Norwich Hartford and Litchfield He was Yale 1857 ordained 1862 rector emeritus at St Michael's Litchfield 80 Trinity Hartford gave him a doctor of divinity in 1897 He leaves son Edward and brother Morris Funeral from St Michael's on Wednesday.
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Storrs O. Seymour
Connecticut
Yale University
St. Michael’s Church
Trinity College
Hartford
Edward W. Seymour
Morris W. Seymour
Politician Walker Shot Dead in Bridgeport Saloon
Bridgeport on September 9 Daniel E Walker a prominent Democrat and former alderman was shot in the forehead while ejecting Frank Bonjon 66 who was beaten by a crowd and is hospitalized on murder charges Bonjon reportedly mentally weak Walker who was once a prize fighter had run for mayor in 1915 and lost
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Daniel E. Walker
Frank Bonjon
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Walker
Schumann-Heink Donates Chicago Home to Salvation Army
Madame Schumann-Heink, born in Germany and mother of four U.S. Army sons, turned over her Michigan Avenue home in Chicago to the Salvation Army for the duration of the war. The property will serve as a club house for soldiers and sailors.
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Salvation Army
Chicago
Madame Schumann-Heink
United States Army
Michigan Avenue
Revolution Threatens Bulgaria in Imminent Uprising
Geneva reports a Lausarine Gazette claim that a great revolution is imminent in Bulgaria. Sofia reportedly saw a revolutionary outbreak and palace damage, but no further details were provided. Air Mail Flight: Max Miller departed Chicago for New York with 2,970 letters on a return leg expected to take ten hours.
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Geneva
Lausarine Gazette
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Max
Miller
New York
Weather report for New Haven and region on September 9
Government weather summary for New Haven and nearby areas notes fair and cool conditions with a slight warming trend through Tuesday. Connecticut remains fair and cool with moderate north and northeast winds. Observations across U S report varied conditions from clear in Atlanta and Detroit to cloudy in Nantucket and Hartford with New Haven at 36 degrees and partly cloudy.
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