Daniels Honors Douglas At Illinois Statue Unveiling
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels paid tribute to Stephen A. Douglas at the statue unveiling on the Illinois state capitol grounds marking the centennial of the first governor’s inauguration. He recalled Douglas’s rise from modest means to national leadership and urged unity and patriotic resolve during wartime.
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Stephen A. Douglas
State Capitol
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General Assembly
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Illinois
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Supreme Court
National House of Representatives
Congress
Abraham Lincoln
Senate
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America
Lincoln
Gettysburg
Allied War Cabinet Crafts Centralized Resource Plan
Washington reports that President Wilson and allied premiers have approved a plan to unify control of raw materials, manufactured goods, shipping, finance, food, and trade. Five interallied councils will coordinate war effort, with commodity committees and ministerial councils feeding a shared economic program. Readiness to cut red tape and weld Allied resources into a single pool aims to streamline wartime supply chains.
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Liandan
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Engel
France
Italy
Munitions Council
Meris
Atis
H.R. Stettinius
Cretary
Gold Stars in Waterloo Service Flag Honor Martyrs
Waterloo mourns Privates Lionel Heinz and Charles J. Smith as the latest names added to the service flag gold star roll. Heinz died of pneumonia at the Philadelphia marine base hospital after training. Smith perished in France from scarlet fever. Heinz’s burial will be at Walnut Street Baptist church with sealed casket dictated by government. Smith, born in 1891, left a large Waterloo family and was a quartermaster corps bookkeeper in France. Additional notice honors Private Frank Nemmers of Bancroft, who died of pneumonia at Camp Gordon, as the first Bancroft boy to lose his life in service.
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Waterloo
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Charles J. Smith
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Philadelphia
U. S. Marine Corps
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Walnut Street Baptist Church
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J. R. Macartney
Fairview
France
Barclay Township
Black Hawk County
Business College
Iowa Dairy
Scane
Quartermaster Corps
August Smith
H. D. Melius
Paris Front Advances Tighten German Holdbacks
Paris and western front updates report Gouraud’s French and American forces pinching a German pocket east of Reims while Liège railway lines face pressure. Lille is within four miles as northern ships evacuate coast. Rawlinson and Debeney drive toward decisive threats. Embarkations rise despite influenza, with 250,000 troops sent monthly and 1.85 million embarked to date.
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Gouraud
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Reims
Luden-sdorff
Lille
Bagdad
Ostend
Zeebruggee
Germany
Associated Press
Washington, D. C
March
War Department
Mustering Officer to Inspect New National Guard Unit
Airhind reports the new national guard unit in the city is ready for muster. Ninety-seven chambers admitted and 15 cadets awaiting medical exams. A mustering officer is expected next week. Company H Fourth Infantry was mustered in at Charles with J L Shrader as captain and Benton Farham and Guy Chalmmer as lieutenants. Thermometer reached 84 degrees by 2 pm, the highest in weeks, with indications of a possible rise.
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Lasure
Fourth Infantry
J. G
Charles
J. L. Shrader
Benton Farham
Guy Chalmmer
Peace negotiations and Austrian politics reported
Swiss and German papers say Austria-Hungary faces a political shakeup with Bar on von Hussarek possibly replaced by Heinrich Lammasch a noted peace advocate. Holland denies inviting belligerents to peace talks and US officials doubt a new Austrian peace proposal through Holland. Basel reports Reichstag peace resolution to be reaffirmed by Prince Maximilian on a brief session for a speedy peace.
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Austria-Hungary
Baron von Hussarek
Heinrich Lammasch
Austria
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Basel
Switzerland
Maximilian
Baden
Advocates Prison Labor as Factor in Winning War
Pittsburgh reports Warden John Francies urges prisoners be allowed to work in war production. He cites data claiming five percent prison labor could produce 4,000,000 dozen socks annually, calling for wartime suspension of peace laws to utilize inmate labor and prevent idleness and moral decline.
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Smiling Pat O'Brien Tells Wonderful Tale
Pat O'Brien, war ace and escape survivor, spoke at Waterloo theatre under Presbyterian hospital auxiliary sponsorship. Nurses in uniform ushered guests. He recounted land and air battles, injuries, capture, 71 days as a fugitive in Germany, escape to Holland, and return to his unit. He is billed to appear again tonight at the Cattle Congress auditorium.
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Ferdinand Said To Have Given Boris Kingship
Copenhagen reports an official Sofia dispatch dated Friday stating King Ferdinand of Bulgaria abdicated on Thursday in favor of Crown Prince Boris who has already assumed the reins. Sofia advices note political turmoil before armistice and Bulgaria’s pivot toward peacetime under the entente.
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Jecoff
Sole Foreign Secretary Now In Fatherland
Copenhagen reports that Dr. W S Solf has been appointed German foreign secretary, with Mathias Erzberger named secretary of state without portfolio and Herr Bauer named secretary of state for the imperial labor office. Dr Solf will also continue as colonial secretary during the war, with Dr Gieim as under secretary.
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Copenhagen
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Berlin
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Herr Bauer
Reichstag
Imperial Labor Office
Solf
Gieim
No Cincinnati Gathers Ag Grip Invades
A sweeping order shuts all schools, moving picture theatres, theatres, Sunday schools, the University of Cincinnati, churches, and public gathering places in Cincinnati. About 4,000 influenza cases reported locally with related pneumonia deaths and statewide spread noted in Illinois and Kansas City. University of Iowa enforces strict quarantine to halt spread among student army training corps. Worcester workers at Looms loom works earn 11 to 15 dollars weekly for eight hours daily five and a half days.
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Board For Health
Kansas’ City
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
Student Army Training Corps
Stompton && Knowles
Worcester
Bmlaus
Fight U S Fliers Battle 25 Germans Near Verdun
American pursuit planes, supporting a balloon mission, clashed with 28 plus German aircraft northwest of Verdun on Friday October 4. The engagement lasted over 15 minutes, eight American planes encountered the large German squadron, five enemy planes were shot down, and all but one American plane returned home.
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U.S
Associated Press
Verdun
Ameri
Cans
Hungary Peace Leaders Welcome Tisza Apponyi and Andrassy
Paris reports Austrian newspapers say Count Tisza, Apponyi, and Andrassy arrived in Vienna as Hungarian peace advocates in response to telegrams from Emperor Charles They warn the Bulgarian armistice raises crisis in Austria Hungary and promise swift military steps with Germany The note is delivered amid parliamentary interruptions by Czech deputies Irvin L Nemmers of Des Moines enters Des Moines College as a member of the student army reserve corps
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Austria-Hungary
Germany
Baron von Hussarek
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H. E. Nemmers
Mulberry Street
Des Moines
Student Army Reserve Corps
Yew Colored Regiment Forming at Camp Zachary Taylor
Orders arrived to organize the 64th pioneer colored infantry at Camp Zachary Taylor Louisville. This will be the third fighting negro regiment raised there, following the 814th now known as the Black Devils. Additional note mentions lungs containing 176.000.0009 cells and a vast surface area.
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Louisville
64Th Pioneer Colored Infantry
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Zachary Taylor
814Th
Black Devils
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