Army Plans 3 Million Man Force With New Camps
Washington war department outlines an army expansion to 3,000,000 by next summer. Secretary Baker says 2,080,000 by Jan 1 and two more draft levies of 500,000 each in 1918. New concentration camps at Newport News and Tenafly will house 20,000 troops each and aid mobilization for Pershing's forces in France.
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Washington
War Department
Baker
United States Army
Newport News
Tenafly
N. J
Seaboard
Pershing
France
National Guard
Regular Army
National Army
End of an Armed Robber Execution in Pekin
A correspondent reports a condemned robber led to his execution in Pakow stopping at wine shops en route. The crowd sees a long military parade as the man drinks freely, then proceeds to the riverside execution ground outside the town.
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Pekin
North China Daily News
Pakow
China
Uncle Sam seeks women volunteers to track food prices
The food administrator, Herbert Hoover, asks patriotic women in towns over 3000 to help collect weekly retail prices for 30 common food items. National banks are asked to nominate responsible locals to report prices to Washington, enabling the government to monitor market conditions.
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New York
Sam
Herbert C. Hoover
Washington
Spring Rice Meets Bryan in Washington Corridor Reunion
Washington. The British ambassador Sir Cecil Spring Rice and former Secretary Bryan bumped into each other in the State Department. They embraced warmly and spoke animatedly. Bryan visited with Secretaries Lansing Baker and Daniels and later dined with Secretary Lane.
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Washington
Cecil Spring Stice
Bryan
State Department
Lansing, Baker and Daniels
Lane
German Band Plays For Draft Men Farewell
A brass band of German citizens, including four natives of Germany, performed at the farewell celebration for Faulkner county draft men as they departed for Camp Pike.
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Conway
Ark
Germany
Faulkner County
Camp Pike
Undertaker First to Ride in New Hearse
Oxford Pennsylvania reports a local undertaker T Fisher of Avondale aged about fifty was killed when a rotted telephone pole toppled by a breeze struck him as he stepped from his lawn onto a railroad crossing. He suffered a broken back and left leg and died after saying he would take the first ride in his new hearse. E E Wilson assisted, releasing Fisher from the pole. Fisher had been a candidate for burgess of Avondale.
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Oxford
Playard T. Fisher
Avondale
Newark and
Pomeroy
E. E. Wilson
Mr. Fisher
Ambulances for Russia via American Red Cross mission
The American Red Cross will send about 125 motor ambulances and automobiles to Russia to outfit one army corps with five sections. Each section includes motor ambulances dining, transport, kitchens, dressing, officers cars and support vehicles under Dr. Frank Billings heading the Red Cross commission.
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Red Cross
New York
American Red Cross
Russia
Red Cross Commission
Frank Billings
Two Meals Daily Adopted by Confederate Veterans Home
Lexington action sparks statewide sensation as the State Confederate Veterans' home in Lexington Ky switches to two meals daily due to high living costs.
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Lexington
Confederate Veterans
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