Holden Named Regional Director for Oregon Short Line
The Oregon Short Line will move under a new regional director, Hale Holden, with Chicago headquarters. Holden will oversee the Central Western territory, while Ro H H. Aishton shifts to the Northwestern region. multiple other rail lines share the regional director's scope. The notice highlights patriotic responses from railroad employees and urges investment in war savings stamps to support the war effort.
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Oregon
Yellowstone bound trains run this summer from Pocatello
Park hotels are closed this season and no hotel route tickets will be sold. Train No 45 departs Pocatello at 1 20 a m Monday for Yellowstone arriving 1 05 a m and leaving fifteen minutes later. Return on Tuesday June 25 via No 46 arriving 1 40 a m and leaving for Salt Lake at 1 55. Government aims to keep rail lines free for troops and freight.
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Yellowstone Park
Pocatello
Salt Lake
Yellowstone
Park
Governmet
Draft measure may include older men
Washington June 21 officials say withdrawal of Secretary Baker’s opposition renewed momentum in Congress to extend draft age limits. The aim is to ensure the War Department can provide ample manpower to support President Wilson’s program of a large army for the war on Germany.
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Washington
Baker
Congress
War Department
Wilson
Germany
Crowder Seeks Draft Expansion Data for 18 to 45
General Crowder prepares statistics on extending draft ages to 18 through 45 as France’s bill debate continues. Early reclassification reports add roughly 250 000 to Class 1, with operations expected to increase the first class total. Washington, June 21. A ruling on useful and nonuseful employment under Crowder’s work or fight order may come soon after coordination with the labor department.
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General Crowder
France
Maryland
Republican
Senate Military Committee
Washington
Crowder
Army
Department of Labor
Germans Repulsed in Belloy Montdidier Raids
Paris reports German raiding attempts near Belloy southwest of Montdidier were repulsed. Similar operations in upper Alsace failed as well.
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Paris
Belloy
Montdidier
Upper
Alsace
Bannock County Democratic Committee List
A Bannock County Democratic delegates list shows names from Bannock County including Jesse Richards and W. P. Havener among others attending the state platform convening in Bulge Monday. It lists county central committee members for Pocatello and nearby districts with several names such as B A Cummings and J C McNichols.
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Democratic Committee
Bannock County
Bulge
Jesse Richards
Downey
W. P. Havener
R. W W. Tsolmdy
Ja Mt Knowles
P. C. O'Malley
B. A Cummings
Pocatelo
Clark
Trav
Henry
H. W. Tenderson
Nobin
Democratic County Central Committee
Pecatella
Thos. Gilmore
Pogentela
W. Rothas
Pocatello
B. A. Cummings
Knowles Poertello
Cef Davis
Poertello
C. McNichols
J . Ji. W. Henderson
War Savings drive to mobilize Bannock county volunteers
War Savings week in Bannock county ramps up with house to house canvassing and district signups for War Savings day on the 2sth. Defense Council speakers plan meetings in schools and districts, urging every citizen to pledge max investments and treat War Savings stamps as a government bond to finance the war effort.
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War Savings
War Savings Societies
Bannock
Defense Council
War Savings Committees
Er. C. Stratford
Bureau
The
County Defense Council
Bancroft
Lund
Kelley
Ivins
Hatch
Central
Chesterfield
Meadowville
E. A. Krussman
W. P. Havener
A. Y. Satterfield
F. W. Dickerson
N. E. Shorten
LeRoy Harrison
B. A. Cummings
John Hood
Bannock Engineering Company
W. F. Kasiska
Estella Fargo
A. C. Hinckley
Stockgrowers Bank & Trust Co
Limit Club
Limit Club Committee
Bannock County
No Limit Club
George
War Savings Committee
Gassing the Prairie Dogs in New Mexico Fields
In Santa Fe on June 22, authorities report prairie dogs are being gassed with heavier than air gas after poison grain fails. Oats laced with poison attract the animals, killing up to 98 percent unless rains wash the grain away. Gas is used to fill burrows under direction of the United States Biological Survey.
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Santa Fe
N. M
United States Biological Survey
Dr Dickinson leaves for Y M C A camp to train as army chaplain
Rev J H Dickinson rector of the Episcopal church in Pocatello departs for a three month Y M C A training camp in Geneva Lake Wisconsin to prepare for service overseas. He will take a physical in Omaha under Major Poole then report to Chicago war commission before joining the camp.
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J. H. Dickinson
Episcopal Church of
Pocatello
Idaho
the Knights of Pythias
Pocatello Lodge
Withal
Carey Grayson
Dickinson
Corinne
Poestelle
War Atlas Free Offer From The Tribune
The Tribune offers a limited number of the American War Atlas published by Geo F Cram Co at Chicago free to each subscriber paying 3.00 in advance. The atlas includes maps of United States army camps submarine war zones Western Europe Italy Busarra Germany Russia Romania Serbia Turkey and world submarine cables with sailing distances.
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the Tribune
Geo. F. Cram & Co
Chicazo
Western
Europe
Italy
Bussara
Germany
Russia
Roumania
Serbia
Turkey
Pioneer Idaho Lawyer Sam Winters Dies After Weeklong Illness
Samuel C. Winters, a noted and versatile Idaho lawyer and former district attorney, died Friday afternoon at a hospital in American Falls after a week of illness from pneumonia. Survived by wife Bertha M. Winters and daughter Mrs. J. M. Johnson, his funeral will be Sunday at 5 PM at the Congregational church with Bar association and Woodmen of the World in attendance.
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Samuel C. Winters
American Falls
Idaho
Illinois
Bertha M. Church
Brownville
Nebraska
Eagle Rock
Idaho Falls
Blackfoot
Pocatello
Bannock
Bannock County
J. J. Guheen
Thomas F. Terrell
Winters
Fifth Judicial District
R. W. Jones
T. D. Jones
Sam Winters
Utah
Montana
Woodmen
Bar Association
J. M. Johnson
South Grant, Pocatello
Congregational Church
Woodmen of the World
Schumacher & Hall
Moving supplies offered by F W Yerry
An advertisement urges readers not to worry about moving and to let F W Yerry handle packing. The notice includes a phone contact and a low price line.
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F. W. Yerry
Phome
Circus Train Crash Kills and Injures Many in Indiana
Chicago dispatch reports a rear end collision near Ivanhoe Indiana between Havgenback Wallace show trains. The crash ignited fires injuring 73 and likely claiming many lives with 59 dead and 115 injured by 2 PM per Michigan Central counts. Families of performers such as Rooney Bever Cotterill and others are listed among missing. The wreck occurred after a hot box forced a stop and a following empty train rammed into the rear section.
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Chicago
Ivanhoe
Cary
Ind
Michigan Central
Michigan City
Hammond
East Ivanhoe
L. W. Landman
Rooney
Bever
Cotterill
Equestriennes
Larry la Pearl
Mark Adams
Joe Coyle
Gary
George Brown
Denver
Mercy Hospital
William F. Curtis
Curtis
Landman
Interstate Commerce Commission approves 10 percent express rates
Washington report says the Interstate Commerce Commission approved a ten percent express rate increase while denying a proposed fifteen percent rise. The higher tariffs will take effect once new tariffs are filed, likely in about two weeks.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
New rifle range opens at Camp Lewis for live battle drills
Camp Lewis Tacoma Washington June 22 an enemy fire observed by an American patrol prompts use of a newly opened B range for intensive training The two mile long facility lets soldiers simulate battlefronts with concealed targets and real time range computation overseen by field telephones and a high tower observer The range will close access to nearby area to ensure safety.
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Camp Lewis
Tacoma
Wash
Associated Press
France
Trick of Fate on Bond Issue in London Cemetery
During a war loan drive in a London suburb an airplane dropped 3000 leaflets urging subscriptions. Most fell into a village cemetery covering graves and shrubs like snow. Visitors gathering sheets found the message urging people to wake up and buy war bonds.
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London
Corn and Oats Prices in Chicago
Chicago June 22 reports corn at 1.44 per bushel and oats at 72 1/2 cents.
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Chicago
General Guillaumat Named to Defend Paris
General Marie Louis Guillaumat, veteran of the Balkan theater and French army commander, is appointed to defend Paris as military governor. He takes command amid ongoing concerns for the capital's safety.
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Guillaumat
Paris
Marie Louie Aucolph Guillaumat
Ake
Paria
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