Lodge calls for dictated peace to crush Germany
Senator Lodge warns against German peace propaganda and urges a peace dictated to Germany. He outlines terms including restoration of Belgium, Alsace Lorraine to France, Italian irredenta to Italy, independence for Poland and the Slav peoples, and freedom for Russia, with Constantinople a free port and Palestine not under Turkish rule.
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Washington, D. C
Germany
Senate
Senator Lodge
Massachusetts
Foreign Relations Committee
Belgium
Alsace-Lorraine
France
Italia
Italy
Greece
Serbia
Romania
Poland
Russia
Brest- Litovsk
Lodge
Constantinople
Palestine
England
United States
Hohenzollerns
Germans on Rhine in fear of invasion
A Dutch woman of German descent briefed Amsterdam reporters that Germans along the Rhine expect an Allied invasion, citing despair over air raids and a shift from inviolable soil to preparing for relocation to central Germany as streets suffer heavy devastation.
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Rhine
London
Amsterdam
Bonn
Daily Express
Germany
West
Iowans See Little Rock Amid Camp Pike Leave
At Camp Pike Arkansas on August 27 a majority of about 12 600 Iowa selectives on leave visited Little Rock. After quarantine and shots for smallpox typhoid and measles the khaki crowds filled riverfront boat house YMCA clubs and city parks.
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Camp Pike
Ark
Little Rock
Missouri Proud of New State House
Jefferson City Missouri plans a early October dedication for the new state house with national leaders invited to attend. The building cost 3.5 million with most materials produced in Missouri, featuring Phoenix marble, two museums, grand stair, 18 foot bronze door, and a dome likened to St Peter's.
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Jefferson City
Missouri State House
Missouri
Capitol
Missouri River
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
States of the Union
New York
Historical Museum
The
Resources Museum
House
Senate
Washington
United States
House and Senate
St. Peter's
Rome
Europe
Missouri Capitol
Father of many sons in khaki from Goldsboro
John Ward, a 62 year old colored veteran from Goldsboro North Carolina, has fathered 35 children with 25 living. He is the father of quadruplets twice and has experienced twins and triplets, with 12 of his 635 kids in the army. He tends corn and tobacco by day and watches his service flag by night.
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John Ward
Goldsboro
N. C
John
Federal approval required for road work during war effort
The United States Highways Council announced regulations effective September 10 requiring federal approval for nearly all highway construction. Priorities list military value, national economic importance, then unfinished contracts and locally critical projects. A 1919 program is planned with state departments to estimate needed work, financing, and materials. Logan Waller Page chairs the council.
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Washington, D. C
United States Highways Council
State Highway Department
Bureau of Public Roads
United States Department of Agriculture
State Highway Departments
United States
Department of Agriculture
The
War Department
Railroad Administration
War Industries Board
Fuel Administration
Logan Waller Page
Shell Shock Cure Now Discovered At Chateau Hospital
A French chateau converted into Base Hospital No. 117 near Lorraine hosts Americans for shell shock treatment. Col Clarence R Bell commands the unit which has treated 6 of 18 officers and 43 of 240 privates since June 16, with neurologists from Harvard Johns Hopkins and other institutions guiding care.
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Lorraine
Allentown
France
Clarence R. Bell
Sidney T. Schwab
St. Louis
United States
Harvard
Johns Hopkins
New York Neurological Institute
Bellevue
Washington University
Adele Postum
Bloomingdale
Health department stamps out social diseases in Waterloo
Nearly 100 women employed in restaurants hotels candy kitchens and candy factories swarmed the health department office to be examined under a food handling rule. Those clear of disease receive health certificates while a few waitresses were sent to detention hospital for treatment.
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Waterloo
Health Department
Electrical worker burns from 2800 volt short circuit in Iowa City
M J Torrance of Torrance Reid Rock Island suffered severe burns to hands face and arms when 2800 volts passed through his hands while repairing at the Iowa City Light and Power company switchboard. He was held by the current until coworkers freed him. Doctors say injuries are serious but not fatal.
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Iowa City
M. J. Torrance
Torrance & Reid
Rock Island
Iowa City Light and Power Company
Government plans energy use before new plants built
A government warning urges energy distribution and utilization be managed under competent charge to avoid hindering military forces, as the country moves to prevent delays in expanding or constructing new plants.
Iowa Labor Committee Heads to Washington on Crafting Aid
Iowa's state-wide labor conference formed a special committee led by Governor Harding to travel to Washington for a solution to the labor crisis. The panel includes E. J. Wallen, Dean D. F. Curtis, A. Canfield, Joe R. Lane, and J. C. Lewis, aiming to secure more war contracts and equitable distribution of work from the federal draft calls. Over 400 attendees pressed for action to prevent manpower shortages that could halt industry and threaten food production.
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Des Moines
Washington
Iowa
W. L. Harding
E. J. Wallen
Sioux City
Dean D. F. Curtis
Ames
A. Canfield
Cedar Rapids
Joe R. Lane
Davenport
J. C. Lewis
Lowa
Baseball scores from a rainy schedule night
National League results show New York 2 Philadelphia 4. St Louis 6 1. Boston Cincinnati and Philadelphia Pittsburgh rained out. American League final readings list Philadelphia 6 0 over Cleveland 2 4. Boston 3 over Detroit 6. New York 6 over St Louis 2. Washington 12 over Chicago with incomplete line due to report cut.
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Peret
Chicaro Wee
al EN New Te Vk
Cincinnati
Ali Brooklyn
Philatelphia
Asa Toston Ae
Nagaes Irs Axe BO
Boston
Cleveland
Washington
New York
Chicago
St. Lois
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Pittsburgh
Detroit
Roosevelt announces charity donations of Nobel prize proceeds
Theodore Roosevelt lists wartime charity gifts totaling the Nobel Peace Prize funds. Among recipients are the American Red Cross six thousand dollars and Y M C A and Knights of Columbus groups, plus smaller grants to Italian Red Cross work and Czech Slovak relief efforts.
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Oyster Bay
N. Y
Theodore Roosevelt
Portsmouth
Oiginally
Congress
American Red Cross
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
France
Emily Tyler Carow
Porto Manurize
Italy
Red Cross
Langdon Warner
Harbin
Vlndivostok
Cubs Win on Toss of Coin Before World Series
Cincinnati August Herrmann of the national baseball commission stated that a coin toss decided which league would host the first game and that an agreement was reached to have the first three games in the winning league city and the remaining four in the other league city, if needed. Read the advertisements.
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Cincinnati
August Herrmann
National Baseball Commission
Frazee
Boston Americans
Herrmann
Vrazee
Mayr's Wonderful Remedy Ad Claims Cure
A testimonial ad asserts Mayr's Wonderful Remedy cured a husband from stomach and sliver trouble, claiming it removes mucus and inflammation of the stomach liver and intestines and prevents appendicitis. It promises a money back guarantee and notes Lemmon's Pharmacy carries the product.
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Cleveland
Mayr
Lemmon's
Advt
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National Commission
Sir Robert Fox Symons
Robert Fox Symons
British Red Cross Society
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Admiral von Ceppette
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