Three Cases of Paralysis Reported in Bismarck
Bismarck August 23 three infantile paralysis cases have surfaced in the last three weeks and are under quarantine. The children named are Vivian Baer aged three of 214 Tenth street Edwin tibesar four of 511 Tenth street and Grace McClure of Tenth street aged seven. The first two cases were mild and nearly recovered while Mina McClure contracted a severe attack with almost complete paralysis.
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Bismarck
Vivian Baer
Tenth Street
Edwin Tibesar
Grace McClure
Mina McClure
Plowing Fire Breaks Should Be General
Farmers urged to plow extensive fire breaks to protect fields stacks and buildings from possible fires. Two reports of separators destroyed by fire highlight extreme dryness. Officials warn a started blaze could spread rapidly, making wide breaks essential to save property and reduce damage.
Fix Price of Things Farmer Buys Is Right Way to Do
A. C. Townley, president of the Nonpartisan league, argues that low wheat prices favor big interests and war profiteers. He warns $1.65 per bushel harms farmers, causing mortgage foreclosures in North Dakota and risky spring planting in 1918. He advocates lowering steel, coal, machinery, fertilizer, and tax on wheat as fairer, urging price fixing across farming inputs.
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St. Paul
Minn
Aug. i
A C. Townley
Nonpartisan League
Steel Trust
Coal Trust
United States
North Dakota
Northwest
Food and War Shortage Presses U S Farm Machinery Aid
A public statement by the National Implement and Vehicle Association warns of raw material and labor shortages threatening U S farm machinery and food production. It calls for immediate government action to give equal priority to farming materials, labor, and finished goods with war munitions to prevent famine and sustain allies.
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Farmers of America
United States
National Implement and Vehicle Association
Farina
Kansas
Niles
Valley City Boy Sent to France in World War II era
Abs. Wye Nielson reports her nephew James Harold Vidal has been ordered to depart for France after excelling at Urbana aviation school and passing the examination with high honors. Born in Valley City, Vidal later lived in Fargo, graduated from Minnesota U, and held a top job at Crowell Publishing Co in Chicago before joining military service. His expected furloughs were canceled by rapid orders.
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Abs. Wye Nielson
James Harold Vidal
Urbana, I
France
Vidal
J. W. Vidal
Fargo
Valley City
Minnesota “U
Crowell Publishing Co
Chicago
Opening of the Model School Opens September 4
The State Normal Model school will open September 4 with classes from kindergarten through ninth grade. Late entrants admitted. each grade split into small classes. The Junior high combines seventh to ninth grades, with free tuition and continuation into high school for many eighth graders. Staffing changes include Miss Fisher on leave and new appointees in first through sixth grades. New equipment. janitor ready.
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State Normal Model School
Suwins
Lyford
Rock
Mary Gardner
Miss. Fisher
Sarah B. Ellis
Lincoln School
Margaret C. Burns
New York City
Susan B. Norton
Ethel L. Love
Sycamore, Ill
Tlinois State Normal School
DeKalb
Eredes Inlinois
California
Jennie Sehnebley
Crite
Made
Bayreuth
Merced
Jimigar High School
Jteachine
Normal School
North Dakota National Guard May Go South
Washington reports the Forty-first national guard division will train at Camp Greensboro Charlotte after moving from Palo Alto California. North Dakota regiments attached to the division may be sent to Charlotte or Deming New Mexico depending on orders with hospital units already deployed.
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Washington
Forty-First National Guard
Oregon
Montana
Idaho
Wyoming
Camp Greene
Charlotte
Camp Fremont
Palo Alto
Cal
California
War Department
Baker
Fort Fremont
Camp Green
N. C
France
Far West
New England
North Dakota
Deming
N. M
South Dakota
Minnesota
Nebraska
Northwestern States
Ethfe
Italian Drive Gathers Force on Isonzo Line
Italian forces push along the Isonzo front with numerous gains as Austrian counterattacks fail to dislodge them. Russian and German operations shift on Riga front, with Russians retreating east of Riga and Rumanians pressing offensives. In Finland, Kerensky faces cabinet instability while Petrograd papers warn of political conflict. At the local Normal School, Ralph Hogan is named superintendent of schools, with Edna Mackett as assistant. The institution plans expanded library, gym, and domestic science, opening the Model School September 4.
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Isonzo
Cadorna
Gardwally
Riga
Vardun
France
Prince
Lens
Belgium
Ypres
Fieht
Hale
Italis
Cardona
Vienna
Raggedzem
Gulf of Riga
Tukum
Kammern
Lake Babit
Volhynia
Russia
Petrograd
Moscow
Finland
Landstag
Kerensky
Ralph M. Hogan
Gray Summit
Hogan
Kirksville, Mo
Department of Education
University of Chicago
Hegas
Edna Mackett
New York
Lumber Mills and Camps Close Until the First of Year
Seattle reports an organized, near unanimous shutdown of Pacific Northwest lumber mills and logging camps for at least four months, until after 1917. The move aims to ease a market slump, not a strike, and shingle mills will stay open. Judge Covington, Wilson investigator, is in state and may meet operators. Seattle Central Labor Council votes to label eight hour day violators unfair from September 1.
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Seattle
Pacific Northwest
J. Harry Covington
District of Columbus
Wilson
Lister
Seattle Central Labor Council
To Burn Straw This Year Would Be Outrageous
S J Randahl chairman of its save board of railroad commissioners spoke in the city Wednesday urging papers to publish that no straw should be burned or wasted this year. The railroad commission aims to arrange reduced shipping rates for straw leased to drought struck sections to aid fodder shortages. Farmers in parnes county could donate straw piles with little loss, and baling and shipping could aid starving farmers in the drouth areas.
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S.J. Randahl
Save Board of Railroad Commissioners
Times-Record
Parnes County
Randahl
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Harry Hooper
Mankato
North Dakota National Guard
Nels Norman
Sweden
Hawley
Rachael
Woodbine Cemetery
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