No Second Draft Until the Spring In Army Draft Debate
Washington officers say no second draft before spring as 687,000 men prepare for first increment. General Crowder pending report on inequities, married status, alien status, and open draft age. Mobilization plans detail meal tickets, transport, and camp intake for September 5 starting at Yaphank.
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Crowder
Washington
Congress
Wilson
Weeks
Wrst
Quartermaster General's Corps
Bibles for Our Troops Read by President Wilson Message
President Wilson urges American troops to read the Bible diligently as a source of life guidance and duty. The Scripture Gift Mission of Philadelphia will distribute Bibles with Wilson’s foreword stressing long reading, moral values, loyalty, truthfulness, and spiritual insight for soldiers and sailors. The message emphasizes avoiding selfishness and fear, and finding the Bible as a key to happiness and duty.
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Giit Mission
Philadelphia
Wilson
Christ
Woodrow Wilson
On to Potsdam Pershing's Immigrant Troops in France
Brooklyn Eagle correspondent praises Pershing's diverse immigrant soldiers who march with liberty as the Allied cause gathers momentum. The poem envisions future Potsdam action with crews from Poland Ireland Germany and Russia united under one flag as the war progresses.
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Bob Soutney
John R. Thompson
Isamburg
France
Pershing
Potsdam
J. A
Brooklyn Eagle
Will grants Evansville tramp's fortune to serving girl
Indiana supreme court upholds Marshall McMurran's 1888 will leaving 27000 dollars to Mattie Draim Hannum now Mrs. Mattie Hannum of Vincennes. The estate valued at 21000 in government bonds and 6000 cash was contested by his half siblings but awarded to the recipient after McMurran died in 1913.
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Marshall McMurran
Evansville
Ind
Mattie Hannum
Swartzel Avenue
Vincennes
Indiana Supreme Court
Arthur P. West
National Surety Company
New York City
Marshall M'Murran
Emma Grant
Cora Norton
Mattie Draim
Hannum
Harry Hannum
Red Cross Allocates 100000 for Medical Research in France
The American Red Cross war council approves a $100,000 grant for medical research in France. Major Grayson M. P. Murphy reports from Paris that American doctors and surgeons abroad could advance treatments and operations with special lab equipment buildings and animals, not readily available through standard channels due to delays.
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American
Red Cross
War Council
France
Grayson M. P. Murphy
Europe
Paris
Washington
United States
War Prisoner Exchange Mired by Port Clash
The proposed exchange of prisoners of war between Great Britain and Germany stalls over the embarkation port. Germany insists on Southwold while Britain demands Hull, with Lord Newton in the Lords suggesting the tactic preserves the illusion that Southwold is the sole route available.
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Great Britain
Germany
Southwold
Hull
Lord Newton
House of Lords
Draft Hurts Farmers At Wheat and Rye Conference
Delegates at the middle western regional wheat and rye conference report a serious labor shortage caused by the draft. They will recommend to Secretary Houston of the agriculture department that the government devise a method to draft unemployed labor for farm work.
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Houston
Department of Agriculture
Letters to Wen at Front Forge Close Family Mail Link
Article details a new system linking war and postal services so families can mail soldiers in the American Expeditionary Force. It explains addressing, domestic postage, and planned parcel mail, with lax censorship and guidance to newspapers on publishing soldier letters.
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War
Post Ofice
France
General Pershing
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
United States
Europe
Atlantic
Post Off Office Department
War Department
Cant Stop Grimes. Sixth Wound Won’t Stop His Fight
Lance Corporal Ernest Grimes, wounded for the sixth time, vows to return to service. Enlisted 1910, drafted from India, he suffered wounds at Hill 60, Somme, Moquet Farm, Les Bouefs and Messines, with recoveries each time and a determined urge to rejoin the trench war.
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Ernest Grimes
Grimes
India
Hill 60
Somme
Moquet Farm
Lesboeufs
Messines
A Soldier’s Song Of The Red Cross In Brooklyn
A war weary narrator recalls a night of illness relieved by a kind touch from the Red Cross in Brooklyn. The poem credits a patient hand of sympathy that led the speaker from darkness to memories of battle and a return to light, praising humanity.
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Red Cross of Humanity
Wilhelmine Heller
Brooklyn Standard Union
No Frills Told for Conscript Kits as Drafts Start
The Provost Marshal General limits incoming draftees to essential items for Sept. 5 entrainment. About 206100 men may bring only a toothbrush soap collapsible cup towel handkerchiefs extra shirt collar underwear socks and one small bundle. Trunks suitcases and handbags are barred and boards will inspect kits before trains depart.
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War Department
States Set Open Venison Seasons Across Nation
The Agriculture Department notes fifteen states will ban big game hunting this year while thirty three permit open seasons. Seasons vary from four days in New Jersey to two months in southern states, with starts in August in Oregon and California and spreads through September October November and December in various regions. Most states allow one or two deer per hunter annually. About 80 000 deer are legally killed each year producing around 10 million pounds of venison, with potential for much higher harvests according to the Biological Survey.
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United States Department of Agriculture
New Jersey
Massachusetts
Vermont
Oregon
California
Idaho
South Carolina
Virginia
Maine
New Hampshire
New York
Georgia
Montana
Wyoming
Washington
Nevada
Arizona
New Mexico
Michigan
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture
United States
Biological Survey
Uncle Sam's Big Force in Uniform
The article reports that 43,141 men are in active service under arms, not counting the 687,000 in the national army. About 100,000 have already been accepted, with roughly 1,200,000 offering for service since the war began, including army navy and marine corps rejections.
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National Army
United States
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
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