Dairy Cattle Congress Attendance and Final Show Highlights
Attendance figures show 50,300 visitors across the Dairy Cattle Congress. Final program tomorrow features parade of prize winning cattle, new horse show classes, allied war exhibits, and a community sing led by Lieut. Pat O’Brien, with 150 Red Cross performers and readings. Henry Riesenberg discusses German methods and American resolve, amid favorable weather and ongoing exhibitions.
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Dairy Cattle Congress
Pat O'Brien
Royal Flying Corps
Red Cross
Congress
Riesenberg
Germany
Columbus, CO
Guernsey
H. H. Kildee
Ames
W. W. Marsh
Waterloo
Marsh
Ladysmith
PD. D. Tenney
Crystal Bay
Minn
Island Farms
Floodwood
Allied Troops Push German Lines East of Argonne
War dispatches report Illinois Wisconsin and western Pennsylvania units storming German lines east of the Argonne forest. Paris and Allied forces advance toward Charleroi and St Quentin while fires behind German lines suggest retreat toward the Kruemhild line. British and American actions continue along the front with heavy fighting near Lille and Le Catelet as France moves north from Reims. Hungary moves toward peace talks with Austria, and Turkey is noted to potentially withdraw from the war.
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Ilinois
Wisconsin
Pennsylvania
Virginia
West Virginia
Argonne Forest
Seville
Kriemhild
Meuse
Argonne
Charleronge
von Aiers
Waig
Hindenburg
St. Quentin
Field Marshal
Haig
le Catelet
Prence
Reims
Aisne
Lae
Champagne
Albania
Semini
Italy
Austria
Holland
London
Hungary
Vienna
Turkey
RENCH
HUNS
Paris
Monts
War Office
Suipps
Moronvilliers
Blanc Mont
Arnes
Aisne Canal
British court fines speed violators in London district
Three men pleaded guilty to speeding in a British municipal court in All London on Oct 5. One man had a fine remitted after it was shown he was being summoned. A lone man faced drunkenness charges. Several prisoners were reportedly captured in late war developments.
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London
Heaurevoir
Ledoctor
Catelet
Marshal Haig
le Catelet
Ywriday
Local Families Hear Overseas Service News From War Front
Osage residents learn sons John A. Dunham and Harry B. Shaffmer serve in Europe with Co B 133rd Infantry and 5th Trench Motor Division. Orwin M. Stubbs arrives overseas from Camp Cody, while Dr. Charles J. O Keefe of Marble Rock earns a patent lieutenant medical corps commission and heads to Fort Oglethorpe.
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H. A. Dunham
Osage
John A. Dunham
Co. B
133Rd
U. S. Infantry
Waterloo
Harry B. Shaffmer
5Th Trench Motor Division
Europe
J. L. Shaffmer
France
J. H. Stubbs
Corp
Orwin M. Stubbs
Camp Cody
Camp Dodge
Charles J. O'Keefe
Marble Rock
Fort Oglethorpe
O'Keefe
M. J. O'Keefe
U S PARMS CALL FOR GERMAN PRISONERS
Representative Young of North Dakota proposes using German prisoners of war on farms at one dollar daily for the prisoners and 23 18 cents for government expenses. He notes farm labor in his state costs seven dollars a day and many horses lack drivers due to absence of workers.
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Washington, D. C
Young
North Dakota
Hoover
Sugar Rations Tighten As Two Pounds Per Person Rule Enforced
W F Parrott county food administrator received October sugar regulations from the sugar division. They mandate strict adherence to a two pounds per month per person limit with weekly grocer reports listing purchaser names dates family sizes and quantities. Excess sales risk cutoffs and grocers must use extreme caution in all sugar sales including canning. In Iowa the monthly allowance is stated as two pounds per person every 30 days. Each consumer must not receive more than the specified allotment.
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W. F. Parrott
Iowa
W. T. McElroy
Gompers Seeks U S Affection for Labor Policy in France
Samuel Gompers, head of the American Federation of Labor, spoke to a Paris Socialist deputies group, outlining American workers positions on war related issues and expressing solidarity with nations striving to extend justice and liberty worldwide. Temperature listings and odd travel figures appear as unrelated fragments in the source.
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Gompers
U.S
France
Associated Press
Paris
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Chamber of Deputies
City Churches Rally Program for Sunday Schools
Nally day observed in Sunday schools of focal Protestant churches will tomorrow usher in Go to Church Month adopted by the Ministerial Association for October. The observance will include a time 9 a.m. assembly of Sunday school classes and their merger with the morning preaching service with all classes staying for the church assembly. A publicity campaign has been run with newspaper ads window cards and door knob hangers. The slogan is United We Stand Divided We Fall. The second Sunday is Patriot Day with Win the War. Waterloo Day is the third. Home Day is the fourth.
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Ministerial Association
Montana Woman Has Good Poultry Profit
Valley View Ranch at White Sulphur Springs Mont reports Mrs Carl IL Hirleman keeping 26 hens. From Jan 1 to Sept 30 nine months they laid 3001 eggs, selling for 112.54, averaging 4.32 per hen. Feed cost 8.25. notes open winter requires little feed. She expects yearly profit above 5.6 per hen and offers winter layer tips.
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Valley View Ranch
White Sulphur Springs
Mont
Maine
Iquiry
Carl IL. Hirleman
Third Kidnapped Girl Believed By Police To Know Captor
Sioux City Iowa October 5 Helen Risener six years old was abducted from her Leeds home at 2 am by a man who forced her into a car and fled. She later returned after being driven near her home while giving a reforming account of confinement in a haystack near Sergeant Bluff. Police seek a former admirer of the girl's mother as the likely kidnapper.
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Sioux City
Helen Risener
Leeds
Sergeant Bluff
Shoe Trade Sees Benefit in New Price Standards
Retail shoe merchants anticipate minimal impact from the War Industries Board price controls. An agreement establishes standardized prices from 3 to 12 dollars across three classes with youths and children priced accordingly. Quality standards are enforced by class stamps. retailers must display pledges or risk loss of supplies. Manufacturers expect changes starting mid October and shelves within 30 to 60 days. Height limits for shoetops and other fashion constraints are also noted.
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National War Industries Board
Clauss
War Industries Board
Waterloo
Government Says Limit to Eight Inches Stated
The government declares a firm limit of eight inches, asserting “thus far and no further.” The description notes changes in color and appearance as lighter shades yield to plain black, tan, or white in the final design.
Austrian Flier Threat Prompts French Retaliation Promise
Paris reports Austria threatens to execute allied aviators who drop proclamations or surrender. France replies it will retaliate against Austrian officers missing prisoners in double measure, escalating tensions between Paris and Vienna.
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Paris
Austria
Woman's wish for old fashioned coffin carried to grave
Miss Jane Thompson, 78, of near Medora Indiana died recently and had long opposed modern funerals. Her plan was a diamond shaped coffin buried at a farm cemetery, carried by a wagon. Workers built the coffin from lumber she had stored, and a carpenter followed her request using a farm wagon instead of a hearse.
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Seymour
Ind
Jane ‘Thomp
Medora
Here
Payne Whitney joins army as private at age forty two
New York October 5 Payne Whitney lawyer son of the late William Whitney former secretary of the navy has joined the army as a private He waives exemption claims He is wealthy and socially prominent His wife was Helen Hay daughter of John Hay secretary of state under Roosevelt
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New York
Paynne Whitney
William ©. Whitney
Navy
Cleveland
Army
Whitney
Helen Hay
John Hay
Roosevelt
Ban on automobiles extended for two Sundays
Washington officials refused to lift the ban on automobiles for the next two Sundays to combat influenza. Acting Surgeon General Richards advised the action. In Knoxville, W. J. Oliver, a millionaire, and 10 others were arrested on conspiracy fraud and sabotage charges in defective shell manufacture. In Petersburg, Camp Lee soldiers were called to quell trouble between Black workers and foreign employees at the Du Pont munitions plant.
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Washington, D.C
Kuel
Garfield
Massachusetts
Richards
Knoxville
Tenn
W. J. Oliver
Petersburg
Camp Lee
du Pont
Methodists Plan Imperial Campaign in Canton
Canton La Oct 5 Today’s program of App John M B K conference is the biggest of the week The day focuses on a greater ten tenary campaign aiming to enlist 20000 tithers and raise 1000000 for Methodist benevolence Special speakers urge enthusiasm The conference discusses The Ideal Pastor’s Wife A Day’s Experience in the Parsonage and Putting First Things First Several clergy and lay members attend A valuable offering supports a stricken widow The conference adjourns with plans to meet next year. A bridge fire scare on Mullan Avenue reveals only wind-ignited debris The bridge remains undamaged A wagon load of wine sold for 2500 to King George V for the Red Cross auction.
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Canton
App Jown M. BK
Lanymen
Addr
Deburne
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