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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1918
Page
4
Fragmentary wartime report mentions intense combat with enemy attempts to retake ground, heavy artillery, and counterattacks by French regiments. Prisoners, machine guns, and reconnaissance activity are noted amid chaotic exchanges and shifting positions around fortified areas.
Springfield Aug 6 Col Theodore Roosevelt urged speeding the war effort and universal military training. He spoke at the Illinois Centennial Exposition before about 20 000 listeners. He called for national unity, readiness for postwar tasks, broader farm rights, and cooperative production with fair profit sharing while warning against pacifism and unpreparedness. He proposed raising draft ages and vastly expanding military capacity by spring, alongside reorganizing the agricultural department and stopping land speculation.
Michigan and South Carolina campaigns mix with Ford’s silence as voters weigh the senatorial race and party nominations. The piece notes Ford’s stance, Newberry and Blease in contention, Sleeper unopposed, and local contests in Michigan and New Jersey as campaigns close.
Norfolk Va reports indicate Rear Admiral Walter McLean will shortly be relieved as commandant of the Fifth Naval District. He will be succeeded by Rear Admiral Dewitt Coffman. McLean says he has not been informed of his next post, but naval circles suggest he may join the naval screening board in Washington.
President Wilson pressed Congress to move the start of the wartime prohibition amendment to January 1, 1920, to protect revenue and allow business time. He summoned Senator Morris Sheppard to the White House to build support, with spillover talks suggesting a July 1 1919 compromise may emerge and House backing likely.
Washington Post dispatch notes tensions over the revenue impact of prohibition and looming votes on the manpower bill. House Ways and Means backs higher beverage levies to raise over one billion dollars, aiming to offset losses if prohibition starts early. Senate action expected by week’s end. In Maryland, Marion Avery is critically stabbed amid a quarrel over war talks. Samuel Bachelberger charged. George Wellington narrowly escaped a Baltimore and Ohio wreck on Mount Savage road as a runaway train derailment impacted traffic. }
Funeral services for Mrs J A E Emmart, 39, who died in a sanitarium near Baltimore, were conducted in Beverly today. Sister Mrs George M Curtis and brother Howard Collett, both residents of Washington, attended.
This Baltimore list shows grain and live stock prices across regions Maryland Pennsylvania and Virginia including Western and Eastern Shore markets. It covers butter dairy prints eggs poultry and various corn oats barley and wheat quotes with firsts and spreads for sizes and packaging and notes on merchandised weights and delivery terms.
Live stock prices cited for August 26 show hogs and cattle listed by class. Bulls, pigs, and steers move at varying figures with veal calves and lambs showing prime to medium ranges, feeder and breeding categories noted.
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