French Attack Captures Lassigny and District Front
Allied forces report major gains in Picardy as Lassigny massif falls under French control with the Diverte valley and northern district secured. British troops tally 400 of the 650 captured guns amid ongoing efforts to push German defenses toward Roye and Noyon.
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London
Lassigny
Picardy Battlefront
Diverte
Paris
Picardy
Chanines
Noyon
Ham
Pal Battalion of 5000 Women Forming for AEF Service
London reports recruiting for a "pal" battalion of the women's auxiliary army corps to serve with the American expeditionary forces. Five thousand women are needed and friends are invited to enlist together, forming a linked unit in the war effort.
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London
Woman’s Auxiliary Army Corps
Paton Pushes Revenue Bill For War Tax Proposals
The House Ways and Means Committee advanced an $8 billion war revenue bill adding special taxes of $10 yearly on occupations and firms earning $2,000 yearly, with a $25 annual levy on wholesale houses earning $200,000 plus. Exemptions include newspapers and certain professions. Secretary McAdoo to discuss an excess profits tax and a war profits option. Jewelry wholesale duty remains at 10 percent, with retail 10 percent on platinum jewelry to curb wartime use.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
House
Ways and Means’ Committee
McAdoo
Treasury
Rainey
Illinois
Longworth
Ohio
Stock Brokers’ Line
Norse ship sunk by U boat near San Diego
An August report from Atlantic ports describes a British armed merchantman claiming to have sunk a German submarine after a battle off the North Atlantic. Other notes tell of a Brazilian freighter ashore on the New England coast and American shipping losses near Fire Island and Georges Bank with several vessels sunk or damaged by submarines.
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San Diego
Atlantic
North Atlantic
New- York
Psubmeribes
Sommerstad
Fire Island
United States Shipping Board
Bergen
Norway
New York
Kaltnet
Germans Drunk on aokt. Lena May Survivors Report
Nantucket Mass August 14 Survivors of the Lena May a little schooner sunk by a German submarine off the New England coast say a German officer wore the flag torn from Lena May’s mast as a neck scarf and the crew cheered while Germans photographed and jeered the fishermen pressed aboard the U boat ten men lined up for a conning tower photo and the mate said the Germans were drunk
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Nantucket
Mass
Earl
Nettie
Georges Bank
Lena May
Hart
Penistone
Sydland
New England
Sonic London
Mediterranean
Associated Press
Admiralty
France
U. 5
Washington, D. C
Osmissioner
Hugh M. Smith
Bureau of Age,fisheries
Bal Dence
United States Fisheries Service
Smith
Gloucester
Fisheries Service
Sweden
Katie Palmer
New Bedford
Navy Department
Lena
Jed
War Board Halts Yarn Output Under New Notice
War Industries Board orders halt to woolen and worsted hand knitting yarns until further notice. The military needs are cited to justify stopping production and may force women to abandon knitting for soldiers. The directive was issued yesterday to spinners of hand knitting yarns.
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War Board
Washington, D. C
War Industries
Munich Post Admits U Boat Failure in Keeping U S Out
London August 13 Germanys unrestricted U boat warfare could not keep the United States from joining battles on the French front nor break allied will to continue the war. The Munich Post, in a review marking year five, states eighteen months of submarine warfare failed to deter America or end the western struggle. It condemns hopes for a peace in the east and notes the eastern peace is a disappointment politically.
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London
Germany
United States
France
Munich Post
Post
America
East
Negro Father of 35 in War, He Tells on Stand
Goldsboro North Carolina August 12 Joan Ward a Negro witness in a trial says he is the father of 35 children and that 13 sons are in military service. Ward 62 says with three marriages he has 25 living children. He notes first wife bore 15 children in six years including quadruplets twice two sets of triplets and one child single. Second wife born 22 children with twins twice. Third wife eight children. Five sons are in France and eight in U S training camps.
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Goldsboro
N. C
Joan Ward
Ward
France
Counter Actions Continue As Vesle Front Holds
Heavy fighting reported at Fismette on the Vesle as Franco American forces repel German counter actions along the north bank. Allies regain positions on the Vesle while Germans attempt a broader push between Soissons and Reims but show no intent to retake lost territory north of the Marne. Observers note German time to retreat and continued French American pressure along the river line.
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Associated Press
London
Fismecdtte
Vesle
Aes
Soissons
Reims
Marne
Fismette
Wismes
Aisne
Auto Plants Pleads on War Work Fridays Hearing Set
Washington Aug 13 the War Industries Board fixed Friday Aug 15 for a hearing on pleas by auto dealers to modify the board s suggestion that they convert plants to 100 percent war work by Jan 1 next. The appeals follow telegrams from renters of the national Auto Mobile Dealers association requesting relief.
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Washington, D. C
Automobile Dealers’ Association
War Industries Board
Infantile Paralysis Relapse Strikes Hedley Hall Boy
Hedley Hall, son of Mr and Mrs George Hall of Ainsborough avenue, suffered a relapse after being stricken with infantile paralysis last week. He received a serum treatment this morning and will have another tomorrow. The family thanks friends for their sympathy as the illness continues to be a concern.
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Hedley Hall
George Hall
Ainsborough Avenue
Germans advance toward Petrograd in new push
London dispatch reports German forces are moving toward Petrograd with intent to occupy the city. The claim cites Helsingfors sources via Politiken and Exchange Telegraph.
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London
Petrograd
Copenhagen Politiken
Helsingfors
Exchange
BLAVS
Assockstad
Germany
Hiwest
The
Daily Telegraph
Russia
Tram strike paralyses Montevideo commerce and clashes rise
Montevideo Uruguay Monday Aug 12 commerce and industry are paralyzed by a tramway strike. workers clash with soldiers and police as most businesses close and newspapers halt. a death is reported with mounted police charging mobs. temperatures for Aug 13 listed. a Lenine manifesto calls for ruthless action against counter revolutionaries and traders who hoard grain face revolutionary courts and capital punishment.
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Associated Press
Montevideo
Uruguay
Amsterdam
Lenine
Rhenische Westfalische Zeitung
Essen
i \ViciL
Martial Adventures of Henry and Me war story by two editors
A wartime travel narrative from Kansas editors William Allen White and Henry J. Allen. The book chronicles their journey through England France and Italy with rail and auto trips to the front under fire, hospital visits, and frontline experiences seen through a newspaperman’s eyes. Described by the New York Evening Post as one of the best to come from war.
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Kansas
England
France
Italy
William Allen White
Emporia Gazette
Henry J. Allen
Wichita Beacon
War
New York Evening Post
First installment to run Saturday August 24th
Waterloo newspaper notes that the first installment will appear on Saturday, August 24th, with continued publication in the Waterloo Evening Courier and Daily Reporter.
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Waterloo
Abor Situation in Dubuque to Grow Turbulent
Dubuque IA Aug 13 Workers at Morrison Brothers and Dubuque Boiler works threaten a strike over hours notice to employers. A labor agitator urged higher wages and better conditions. US Marshal Moore warned against striking, while business leaders and union reps plan a conference on the car strike.
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Associated Press
Dubuque, Ja
Du‘buque
Morrison Brothers
Dulbuque Boar & Boiler Works
Smith
United States
Moore
Jea
Man Faces District Court After Knife Attack Waiver
Gregoris Franstes, a Mexican man, attacked his wife with a knife Saturday evening and today waived preliminary hearing in municipal court. He will be taken before Judge H. B. Boies of the district court at 10:30 a m tomorrow for further proceedings.
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Menican
Gregoris Franstes
H. B.boies
Ames
Draft bill favored by committee expands ages to 45
Senate military committee reported the administration draft bill favorably, extending the draft to ages 18 to 45 with amendments. Reed proposes two years free education at government expense for youths under 21 after discharge, plus eligibility for officers’ schools and commissions for sailors and soldiers. Married women to hold government jobs not barred by marriage. Passage expected.
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Washington, D. C
Senate Military Committee
Reed
Missouri
Chamberlain
Senate
Army
Navy
Chamberlai
United States
Paper delivery notice by 4 o clock
The notice asks the recipient to call 3380 to arrange a copy of the paper due to an error by the carrier or other cause. Phone calls should reach the office before 6 30 p.m. to ensure delivery and a replacement copy.
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Hansen
AOKT
Raider
U. 8
U.S
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Filmette
Martin la Venga
Havana
Daily News
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Germiny
Tlenine
Buchanan Opt. Co
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el Verso
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