Wilson Proclaims Far Reaching War Trade Controls
President Wilson orders a comprehensive wartime regime to regulate all US trade with the enemy. A War Trade Board and Censorship Board are established with broad licensing and seizure powers over exports and imports, alien property, and communications, to curb enemy influence in law and policy.
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Wilson
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United States
War Trade Board
Secretary of State
Secretary of the Treasury
Secretary of Agriculture
Secretary of Commerce
Food Administrator
United States Shipping Board
Experts Administrative Board
Exports Administrative Board
Export Administrative Board
Secretary of War
Secretary of the Navy
Committee On Public Information
Censorship Board
Federal Trade Commission
Adminster
Woodrow Wilson
White House
German Wheat Crop Short as Harvest Falls in 1917
A reliable source reports Germany's wheat crop will be about 40 percent below normal, with rye and oats at 45 percent of normal. Harvest totals for wheat and rye reach 7.5 million tons versus 13 million the previous year, while Roumania partly offsets the shortage. Potatoes dominate next winter's outlook. cabbage and fruit crops are sizable, hog production falls, and cattle numbers rise by over a million head.
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Aus Riadivagury
Ger
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Manistee
Navy Department
Hhea
Peter Tunberg
Coast Guard
Cassopolis
Cass County
Board of Supervisors
Traverse City
Ali Baba
Kalamazoo
Hillsdale
E. H. Trumper
Negro troops called to Camp Custer in late October
Lansing’s Negro troops, about 600 strong, will join Camp Custer on October 27 for provisional duty with the 160th depot brigade under Lt Col E A Frye. Meanwhile the Thirty-third Michigan infantry is reorganized into the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Infantry at Camp MacArthur Waco Texas with new company designations and surplus officers.
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Camp MacArthur
Waco
Tex
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Thirty-third
One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Infantry
Pattle Creek
Charles D. Matthews
Ira MacLachlan
Leroy Person
Dickman
Quartermaster’s Department
Cafes in Waco Ban Enforced After Sanitary Inspections
Government medical inspectors found unsanitary conditions in about six Waco restaurants. Soldiers and officers are barred from these eateries until further notice, with strict enforcement and possible arrest for diners. Separate orders ban veal for Michigan and Wisconsin troops and emphasize food conservation during the inspections.
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Wisconsin
126Th Regiment
Michigan tax take and nine year state expenditures
Auditor General C B Fuller tallies nine year state finances with total tax take at 63 690 079 02 and prior decade plus education care and public works costs. University of Michigan received 9 281 375 in nine years while several state institutions and services incurred varied expenditures across hospitals prisons and boards. Four Allied officers honored at Michigan University convocation joined a sanitary equipment investigation for new army cantonments.
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C. B. Fuller
State Budget Commission
Michigan
University of Michigan
Michigan Soldiers’ Home
Saginaw
Jackson
Industrial Home
Adrian
Kalamazoo
Pontiac Hospital
America
Thomas H. Goodwin
John Gilmore
C. A. Dercle
Eduard Rist
Y M C A to Raise 35 Million for Soldier Work
William B. Van Akin announced a national drive starting November 11 to fund association work for soldiers. Of 35 million, 11.5 million will go to U S training camps while funds for American troops in France are planned. Russia seeks 300 American workers to train Slav troops and Italy requests aid. Pershing wired for 3 million to support French soldiers.
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Grand Rapids
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Texas
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Pershing
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Delta
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Menominee
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Board of Supervisors
Atlas Township
Oakland County
Association For the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis
Dewagiae
Kalamazoo
Muskegon
Muskegon Red
Sonity Lown
Michigan Happenings War time notes from Michigan headlines
Michigan notes report on Camp Custer enrollment timing and housing readiness, civil war comrades reuniting, naval militia support, and local shifts in education and public works. Other items include theft at dental offices, retirements, ginseng harvest, and tuberculosis prevention plans across multiple towns.
Camp Custer stockpiles gear for 36 000 men in training
Camp Custer reports ample woolen uniforms and blankets to equip 36 000 soldiers, with 18 000 comforters distributed recently. Captain M M Garrett states khaki trousers may be withheld for conservation as weather and life in camp justify it.
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Michigan
Wisconsin
Battle Creek
M. M. Garrett
Quartermaster's Department
Camp Custer Notes Urge End to Food Waste
Washington asks troops to stop wasting food as Camp Custer distributes hot midnight coffee for night guards. The Y M C A publishes Trench and Camp for soldiers, stoves are installed then removed due to steam, coal runs low. General Pershing urges expert marksmanship and strict salutes to project aggressiveness.
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Camp Custer
General Pershing
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