Americanization Day Inspires Children to Proudly Claim American Identity
In Washington a movement toward Americanization grows with foreign-born children declaring themselves American. A kindergarten incident shows a child insisting his parents are Americans, while a reporter finds multilingual children spoke only English at home as families strive to be true Americans.
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United Staten
Washington
Wacher
Bom
Umber of
Annie
Aperk
Butter Weight Fraud Spurs Federal Action and Education
United States authorities target short-weighted butter and other staples costing consumers millions annually. The Bureau of Standards pushes better weights and measures laws and issues a household measurement bulletin to educate housekeepers and aid enforcement nationwide.
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Bureau of Standards
Training Army Cooks in Scientific Food Preparation
A historical summary describes the U S Army’s shift to scientifically trained cooks. Six training schools, including in San Francisco Fort Riley San Antonio the Philippines Hawaii and Washington, prepare soldiers in baking meat and food chemistry. Trainees study nutrition testing and bread baking. graduates serve across posts with on site field kitchens and open air facilities.
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United States Army
San Francisco
Fort Riley
Sam Autonio
Philippine Islands
Hawaii
Washington
Washington Barracks
Experiments at Government Chicken Farm Draw Attention
The article discusses a government poultry station near Washington where experts examine feeding housing and breeding practices. It notes the farm aims to attract chicken fanciers and breeders to study improved egg production and efficiency, highlighting feeding and housing as key issues for ordinary farms.
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Tbere's
Washington
Uncle Sam
Bureau of Animal Industry
Progent
Mystery in Murder Stirs Gary Pro German Motives
Investigators in Gary Indiana assess two theories in the murder of Pastor Trev. Edmund A. Kuyser of Toltesten Indiana. Police consider pro German rhetoric and Allied zeal as a motive, while a factional church dispute and threats also surface as possible causes. Kuyser had appealed for police protection after threats amid wartime tensions.
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Gary
Ind
Trev
Edmund A. MM. Kuyner
Toltesten
Kyser
Kayser
Eastland disaster figure indicted for manslaughter
Walter K. Greenebaum general manager of the Indiana Transportation Company was indicted for manslaughter in connection with the Eastland sinking. A July grand jury returned the true bill as six steamboat inspection officials escaped indictment due to jurisdiction limits. The named inspectors included Robert Reid C D Bek iif 8 Mannfield William Nich olay H G Oatley and Lb A Lobdell.
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Chicago
Walter K. Greenebaum
Eastland
Greenebaum
General Manger
Indiana Transportation Company
Steamboat Inspection Service
Robert Reid
C. D. Bekiif
Tra
Mannfield
William Nicholay
Checkere H
G. Oatley
Lb. A. Lobdell
Wood Scored for Speech Censorship at Plattsburg Camp
Secretary Garrison telegraphed Maj Gen Leonard Wood expressing deprecation that Theodore Roosevelt's sensational speech at the citizen soldiery camp at Plattsburg should not be repeated at other camps. He cited Roosevelt's remarks on military unpreparedness and the administration's attitude as the reason.
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Washington
Garrison
Leonard Wood
Citizen Soldiery
Plattsburg
Theodore Roosevelt
Corona Roosevelt
Baltic Sets Sail for Liverpool From New York
Baltic arrives at Liverpool after leaving New York on August 18 carrying a 16 000 ton cargo including war munitions and automobile trucks.
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Baltic
New York
Liverpool
Indiana Wet Victory Narrowly Approved In Local Election
The township voted wet by a slim 1 percent margin in the Friday election. The wet side carried Walker ton and Lincoln township, while the dry polled 232 votes in the precincts.
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Indiana
Booth Band
Outlaws invade Texas near Progreso amid cross border fight
Twenty armed Mexicans crossed into Texas near Progreso and were pursued by U S troops as Mexican bandits clashed with American peace officers on a public road into Falfurrias Brooks county. One Mexican was fatally wounded and two U S cavalry horses were hit. Americans fired back with no injuries reported among them. Washington reports the Pan American conference plans to reconvene to advance peace proposals to factions across Mexico with Carranza’s acceptance still unclear.
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Brownsville
Tex
Texas
Mexico
Washington
Republic
Villa
Zapata
Carranza
Bishop Heffron Shot at St Marys College Chapel
Rt Rev Patrick R Heffron bishop of the Winona diocese was shot in the private chapel at St Marys College while celebrating mass. The assailant Rev L M Leschas a demented priest seeking an appointment had been denied by the bishop. The bishop walked to his residence with help after the shooting and the bishop's masestant was arrested.
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Winona
Minn
Patrick R. Heffron
Winona Diocess
St. Mary's College
L. M. Leschas
St Mary's College
Heffron
Masestant
Kodak firm is a trust in Sherman antitrust ruling
Buffalo Aug 26 Eastman Kodak Company of Rochester is declared a trust restraining trade in violation of the Sherman antitrust law by Judge John R Hazel. The decision grants Kodak a chance to prevent a plan for abrogation of the illegal monopoly at the start of the November term.
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Buffalo, N
Eastman Kodak Company
Rochester
John R. Hazel
United States District Court
Green Barbed Wire for War Aids Pittsburgh Firms
Pittsburgh reports production of barbed wire destined for European armies. The green wire, painted to blend with foliage, is manufactured locally but distant tests show difficulty in sighting or acquiring it. In another item from Aug 28, the raidstag party supports a Socialist resolution for a government bureau to oversee the food problem with power to seize products.
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Pittsburgh
Europe
Food For People
Berta
Raidstag
German Acceptance of US Mediation in Sea Rights Crisis
Washington reports Germany agrees to US mediation between Berlin and London on free seas. Germany vows to disavow the Arabic sinking and pay reparations, conditioning on the US pursuing talks to avert a broader crisis with Britain and end the Atlantic standoff.
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Britain
Germany
Nationa
Washington
Aue
United States
Great Britain
Count Vou Bernstorff
Lansing
Wll
Joseph L. Brugiero
Edmund T. Weeda
Lupitania
World and War News From Far and Near
Port au Prince Haiti reports the US seeks prompt acceptance of a ten year convention for Haitian control of customs and finances under American supervision. New York notes Irish actor James Connor Roche dies at 72. London reports the cargo ship Arable Car bought for war supplies sunk by unknown cause. Berlin announces Brest-Litovsk fortress seized by Austro-German forces ending a brief siege and marking a major Russian retreat in World War I.
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Port du Prince
Haiti
Counitry
Revolver General
New York
James Connor Roche
Wat
Londen
Aus
White Star Line
Berlin
Aeg
Rrast-Litovsk
Reasias
Waraw
French Flyers Raid Paris Area Amid War News
The French war office reports a major air raid on Dilingen and surrounding Ruhr targets by 42 French planes, dropping about 150 bombs and causing extensive blast damage to factories and terrain. A German statement claims four Allied aircraft were shot down in the Saar valley during the raid.
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Paris
Aus
War Office
Dilingen
Rhenish Prugala
Germany
Berlin
Saar Valley
Saar Lanis
Tragedy Strikes Pershing Family at Presidio San Francisco
News arrives that Frances Warren Pershing wife of Brig. Gen. John J Pershing and three of her four children died from suffocation in their San Francisco Presidio quarters. Warren Pershing and two other children survived as did servants. Gen Pershing, distraught, prepares to travel to San Francisco.
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San Francisco
Frances Warren Pershing
John F. Pershing
A. S. Ay
Presidio of
Sanfrantise
Walter O. Bunwell
Warren Pershing
Helen
Anne
Margaret
Mrs. Pershing
Seuator Warren
Wyoming
U. S. Infantry
el Paso
Tex
Aus
Pershing
Russian fortress evacuations and Niemen front shifts
Petrograd reports Grodno evacuated with only enough troops to delay Germans. Olita, guarding the Niemen between Kovno and Dradny, fallen to Germany, enabling a push toward Vilna and Grodno. Berlin reports deny Russian claims of a battle cruiser Moltka destruction and suggest possible misinterpretation of ships sunk to block a passage.
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Petrograd
Grodno
Olita
Niemen River
Kovno
Dradny
Germany
Berlin
Niemen
Vilna
German Arrested as Spy in Washington
Gustav Kapsch a 27 year old German reservist was arrested in Washington by the secret service on espionage charges. He allegedly possessed photographs and films of Fortress Monfes fortifications and Cape Henry defenses at Hampton Roads and Chesapeake Bay, with conduct in late July and early August. He faces a $1000 fine a year in prison or both and is jailed on $6000 bond.
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Washington
Secret Service
Department of Justices
Gustav Kapsch
Fortress Monfes
Cape Henry
Hampton Roads
Chesapeake Bay
Kopsch
United States
Two Die As Shell Explodes At Bethlehem Plant
In Altentown Pennsylvania two men die and several injured when a shell believed to hold powder and nitroglycerin exploded while bound for Bethlehem Steel plant proving grounds. R Paul Stout 46 from Bethlehem assistant engineer of ordnance led the test.
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Altentown
Bethlehem Steel
Indian Head
Redington
R. Paul Stout
Bethlehem
Ordnance
Stout
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Kaiber
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Prussia
London
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Perata
M. O Schimemann
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Tabriz
Mines Bureau
Wilson
van B. Manning Ot Misglestopl
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Interior Department
Joseph 8. Holmes
Pershng
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Mexican Border
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Fortress
Miselle
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Walter Runciman
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