Maximilian 15 Tewt Premier Not a Radical
Amsterdam reports German leaders plan a Reichstag plenary to hear the government policy. Prince Maximilian of Baden named German imperial chancellor, welcomed by Emperor William and Hindenburg at a Berlin palace meeting. Former officials in attendance. Fehrenbach and von Payer reportedly refused the post. Washington notes surprise at the selection, but sees Maximilian as a stabilizing choice with influence across kingdoms.
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Amsterdam
Maximilian
Baden
Zeitung Am Mittag
Berlin
William
von Hindenburg
von Hert«ling
von Payer
Grand Duchy of
Hsi
Michaelis
Bie William
Altho
Basel
Konstantin Fehren—bach
Reichstag
Washington, D. C
Germany
Kaiser
Hindenburg
Iowa Women Given Full Credit for Liberty Loan
The Iowa women’s liberty loan committee under Mrs. W. W. Marsh and director C. H. McNider coordinated actions across the state. Iowa is praised as the first state in the union for this cooperative effort. The statewide network includes representative women in every county and follows the director’s plan.
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Iowa
H. McNider
Liberty Loan
Seventh
Federal Reserve District
W. W. Marsh
Women's
Liberty Loan Committee
C. WH. Mc Nider
Marsh
Employment Bureau Moves to New Location Monday
E Barnes of the state federal employment bureau announced the offices will be moved from the Fowler building at Fifth and Lafayette to ground floor space. The bureau will open for business at the new location Monday morning, replacing months of service on the courthouse second floor. The new quarters are larger and more accessible.
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E. Barnes
State-Federal Employment Bureau
Bureau
Fowler
Fifth
Lafayette
Ln State Federal Free Employment Service
WIFE DESERTER RELEASED IN LA PORTE CITY
GM Hunter of La Porte City was released after a municipal court hearing on a charge of wife desertion. The couple cited ongoing troubles from arguments over their seven children and stated plans to work toward home support.
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GM. Hunter
la Porte City
Birdsall
Hunter
French advance slows Germans rearward push north
War office reports heavy fighting across northern France and Belgium. French forces advance near Reims and Chalerrnge while Gouraud seizes the Chal lerange rail junction. British Haig notes Germans retreat along a 20 mile front from Lens to Armentieres. Belgians improve positions near Menin and Armentieres as German counter thrusts at St Quentin are repulsed.
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Paris
Reims
Loivre
Gays
War Office
Challerange
Champagne
Gouraud
Orfeuil Uut
Champagnes
London
St. Quentin
L Haig
Iuens
Armentieres
Cite St. Auguste
Douvrin
la Bassee
Aubers
Berlin
Chemin-des-Dames
United Presbyterian Synod Favors Seminary Merger
The Iowa Synod at Waterloo favors merging the Pittsburgh Pa and Neola Ia seminaries, potentially moving the joint institution to Pittsburgh. Illinois and Indiana Ohio synods will debate the plan, aimed at economic efficiency. Tonight Rev J B Wilson and Rev Leslie Mountford speak on culture and church life, with attendance noted by Rev J M Hamilton. A note on explosives licensing and metal additives follows.
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Synod of
Iowa
Unitea! Presbyterian Church
Waterloo
Pittsburgh
Nenia
Jowans
Fawe
Ilinois
Indiana
Ohio
Wilson
Indianola
Leslie Mountford
J.B. Work
R. W. Thompson
Des Moines
J. M. Hamilton
D. D
Synan
Hamilton
Amity Church
Tama County
Mills Z. Taylor
Philadelphia
United Presbyterian Church
George E. Raitt
Taylor
Raitt
United Presbyterian Curch
Alten
Winter War to be Active Despite Weather
With American troops in France on Sept 12, Marshal Foch urges continued pressure on Germany as winter approaches. Allied troops, boosted by American reinforcements, show renewed confidence and aggressiveness. German resilience remains, but allied leaders sense German doubts about prolonged resistance.
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France
Marshal Foch
Ian
Foch
America
Germany
HMS
City in Brief: Wartime and Local Notes
A mixed city brief notes servicemen abroad and locally. Corporal D M Gilley of Camp Pike Arkansas is on leave. G E Howard and W Peavey transact business in Riceville. Sam Baum’s son Roger is serving overseas. Mrs J T Sullivan and daughter Mildred plan California winter. Mildred Rector improving from influenza. Hattie Nixon visiting in Waterloo. Nurses from Presbyterian hospital to usher at Pat O Brien’s benefit lecture Friday at the Waterloo. Philip Lucas’s parents report overseas news of their son. another boy, Lloyd, arrived in England last year. Mrs S P Miner and Miss Kathryn Miner return to Chicago after visiting Mrs W H Harned. Deputy Sheriff Ernest Baldwin escorted Tony Geier to Fort Madison penitentiary. Geler begins life term for criminal assault on a Water-Ice girl. Lieut Worth Hilliman has spent days with his mother in Excelsior Springs. Charles McGraw arrested on abusive conduct. couple to appear before Judge Birdsall. Mrs Eleanor McDonald, Hill Crest, assigned to Iowa Dairy Separator as electrical worker, first woman in the role locally. The King’s Daughters and Sons plan their state convention in Fort Madison October 15 to 18 with four circles in Waterloo. Mrs Ida Mansfeld to preside. Potatoes for sale in earload lots. write Chris Gartner, Stacyville, Ia.
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Pat O'Brien
Waterloo
S. P. Miner
Kathryn Miner
Chicago
W. H. Harned
Ernest Baldwin
Tony Geier
Fort Madison
Geler
King’s Daughters and Sons
Ida Mansfeld
Burlington
Chris. Gartner
Stacyyle
Public Places in Philadelphia Closed by Grip
Philadelphia's health board closed schools churches theatres and all public assemblages indefinitely amid alarming influenza spread. City health authorities appealed for more physicians and nurses as hospitals fill. estimated 20,000 cases and eight percent of workers off duty. Ship production at Hog Island curtailed. rivers daily record fell. New York reports 999 new cases and 98 deaths as Spanish influenza maintains grip with 126 pneumonia cases and deaths.
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Philadelphia
Board of Health
Hog Island
War Zone Paper Rates Men Like Battleships In War
A French Doom's weekly cites United States Army strength and munitions output, rating forces by weight of metal. It notes 2,000,000 soldiers in Europe, 54,211 rifles delivered weekly, 2,540 machine guns built in the U S, and 6,681 weekly machine gun production. It claims U S artillery output will exceed what is currently in Europe, and quotes bold lines on America’s “punch” and “world” enlistment. It also recounts anecdotes of Americans and Australians in trenches and posters, reflecting wartime morale and exchange.
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New York
The
Doom’s
France
United States Tesarye Base Hospital No. 2
Europe
United States
Germany
Thei Doom
Trotzky orders Kazan women handed to red guards
War Minister Trotzky reportedly ordered all Kazan women turned over to red guards. The claim, cited by Narodne Diem, ties to the Kazan junction city’s recent history with Czecho Slovak forces and upheaval along the Volga.
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Trotzky
Associated Press
Stockholm
Narodne Diem
Petrograd
Kazan
Red Guards
Volga
Trotky
Belgian Anthem Routs Die Wacht in School Song Books
CHICAGO The Belgian national air Brabanconne will be printed in 100000 public school song books to replace Die Wacht and other German songs. The Italian War Hymn of Garibaldi will also be added. Superintendent Mortenson says no new books will be printed now, so the plan eliminates objectionable songs without mutilating volumes while introducing allied national hymns to children.
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Chicago
Air
Mortenson
American Yanks Hold Line in Desperate St. Quentin Fight
In the St. Quentin sector, American regiments repelled fierce German machine gun nests with bayonets and rifle fire. Brooklyn troops, a sergeant and eight men, and Private John Rawlinson of Kingsville, Texas, feature among the cited acts of bravery amid brutal trench assaults and hand to hand combat along the Hindenburg line.
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Associated Press
St. Quentin
Hindenburg
Brooklyn
Gompers Sees Fronts During World War I Visit
Samuel Gompers, AFL president, visited American and Belgian fronts yesterday and met King Albert and then Taft regarding Italy. In Spain, King Alfonso remains ill with influenza. royal family members depart San Sebastian for Madrid, while the king stays a few more days.
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Gompers
Associated Press
Flavre
Qet
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
King Albert
Taft
Italy
Fas
Madrid
Alfonso
San Sebastian
Allies Capture Tens of Thousands in Allied Offensive
Paris reports from Sept 10 to 30 show Allies in France and Belgium capturing 2,844 officers and 120,182 men along with 1,690 cannons and over 6,000 machine guns. From July 15 to Sept 30 total captures reach 5,418 officers and 248,494 men with 3,889 rifles and over 23,007 machine guns. London notes two thousand prisoners taken by French in two days between the Vesle and Aisne as Anglo Belgian forces face counterattacks on the Belgian front amid bad weather.
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iBy
Associated Press
Paris
France
Belgium
London
Vesle
Aisne
The Cabin On Wilder's Ledge Leads To Happiness
In a cold New Hampshire farmhouse Dr. Frost diagnoses a patient as emotionally stressed. Carroll Larue imagines a life with Jim Langley building a cabin on Wilder's ledge while Jim pursues a city career turning his patent dreams into a deal. The couple reunites as timber cutting shifts to their future cables.
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McClure
Old Wilder
Jim
Carroll
Jim Langley
Claremont County
Jin
The
Electric Company
Wilder
New York
Carrol
Langley
Thompson
Drea
Shay
Dsar Banisd
Westinghouse
March of Prohibition Review of Reviews
The piece analyzes the nation’s path to ratification of the prohibition amendment across 48 states. It notes 27 bone dry states with six already ratifying, predicts others will follow as legislatures convene in 1919, and projects enough ratifications to secure passage. It lists twelve states having ratified, including seven before final action.
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Union
Drr
Missizi
Virglnia
South Catona
Arizona
North Dakota
Montana
South Dakota
Kentucky
Maryland
Texas
Delaware
Massachusetts
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Anee Renee
Unichcwal
United Presbyterians of Jews
Fred
Pettit
Black Hawk County
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Buchanan
D. M. Gilley
Camp Pike
Ark
G. E. Howard
W. &. Peavey
Riceville
W. H. Lucas
Philip
Lloyd
England
Excelsior Springs
Lieut
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A. T Hiliman
Charles McGraw
McSweener
Eleanor McDonald
Hill Crest
Iowa Dairy Separator Company
Prilagelphi
New New York
Health Department
Wacht
John
Wiarip
ArGe
Joseph Grovani
Harry Close
Princeton University
de Pianchet
Giovani
Close
John Rawlinson
Kingsvile
Tex
Rawlinson
Wekk
Newton Lawrence
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