Texas youths track Hung at Wild Go AGT
A Paris dispatch credits American youths from Texas with a daring assault during the taking of Terry-Sorhy. They swept nests of machine gunners and charged 105mm batteries, killing gunners and capturing guns. French officers twice had to curb their ardor. The Zouaves were astonished by the Americans’ boldness.
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Associated Press
Paris
la Liberte
Mer
Terry-Sorny
Imperial Guards
Texas
War, lynching and wartime measures surface in brief
Washington reports a committee will study stabilizing cotton prices. Macon Georgia notes a Black man, John Gilham, lynched after being accused of attacking two white women. New York mentions nurses for a 5 million army next year and stopping French restoration fund collections. APT custody takes over American Trans Atlantic. Garvin claims Wagner deceived govt. platinum jewelry melt pot planned. Automobile riding suspended saving gasoline.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
The
War Industries Board
Macon
John Gilham
New York
Adelaide Nutting
Committee of National Defense
French Restoration Fund
Swann
American Trans- Atlantic Company
Palmer
Francis 0. Garvin
Richard Wagner
A. C. Bedford
National Petroleum War Service Commission
India's 26 Million Child Widows Raise Urgent Reform Calls
The Saturday Evening Post notes India has about 26 million widows many under 16 and married before age ten. Infant mortality and early marriages leave countless young widows bound by long standing local law. The piece reflects on British efforts like abolishing suttee and thuggee and cites Mark Twain’s commentary.
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India
Mark Twain
Gee
Unorganized Railway Workers Got Wage Schedule Increase
The director general W G McAdoo announced a wage increase effective August 1 for Waterloo unorganized railway employees including clerks station agents track laborers watchmen and other maintenance workers. The scale raised hourly and monthly rates across assistant yardmasters yardmasters dispatchers trainmasters traveling engineers and roadmasters with specified percentage increases and maximums.
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Waterloo
W. G. Mc'Adoo
Williams
Hlinois Central Western
Chicago Nationals and Gostotr Americans Brace for World Series Start
Chicago September news notes the Nationals and Americans planning a belated start at 2:30 pm with games in Chicago and Boston. Weather risks affect attendance though advance ticket sales remain solid. Possible lineup shifts include Dave Shean possibly replaced by Jack Coffey if finger injury worsens.
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Chicago
Chicago Nationals
Gostotr Americans
Boston
Tewer
Yanngers
Laat
Dave Shean
Red Sox
Jack Coffey
Paroled Juveniles Sentenced to Industrial School
Co. B. Clark and E. G. Sorenson of 400 Commercial street were paroled after a hearing before Judge W N Birdsall on charges of force Information by Walter French assistant county attorney charged Clark with stealing a jam overcoat and Sorenson with stealing an electric iron Both pleaded guilty and were committed to the Eldora Industrial School for Boys but were paroled since they were only 16 and 17 respectively under parole custody during good behavior
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B. Clark
E. G. Sorenson
Commercial Street
W. N. Birdsall
Walter French
Clark
Sorenson
Industrial School For
Eldora
Nation's War Needs Nut Shells To Save Soldiers
Washington Sept 1 The War Industries Board joins a nationwide campaign to collect nut shells and fruit pits to manufacture gas mask carbon for U S troops in France. Cocoanut shells are preferred but scarce, with 600000 pounds daily needed for plants at Astoria and San Francisco. substitutes include walnuts hickory butternuts and pits from peaches plums apricots prunes dates olives and cherries.
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Washington, D. C
War Industries Board
France
Uncle Sam
Astoria
L, Ll
San Francisco
Birth certificates filled for several families yesterday
Birth certificates filed yesterday afternoon list entries for Mr and Mrs Jess W Jackson a daughter to Mr and Mrs Guy Melton 339 Saxon Aug 27 a daughter to Mr and Mrs Conger Aug Sion Lucks Jacob A Geiger a daughter Mar
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Jess W. Jackson
Guy Melton
Saxon
Harriet
French Girls to Learn Business Training in Springfield
Sixty-five French girls ages eighteen to nineteen, daughters of French officers killed or wounded, will arrive in Springfield in September to study commercial education. The two-year program, funded by Springfield citizens, covers most costs aside from transportation provided by the French government. The initiative, led by the Chamber of Commerce, follows a plan inspired by Capt. Edmond Paix and aims to teach American office methods to prepare graduates to teach those methods back home.
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Springfield
Mass
France
Chamber of Commerce
Edmond Paix
United States
Capt. Paix
High School of Commerce
Samuel Bowles
Frank H. Wesson
A. A. Packard
Stebbins
W. S. Robinson
Frank Worthy
Alfred Leeds
Henry J. Beebe
Mario S. Dodge
Elsa Bowen
Philip Kilroy
Farmers Roused to Aid Victory in War Effort
New York reports farmers increasing land under cultivation by 50 to 60 percent in Monroe Onondaga and Cortland counties. Wheat oats and tomatoes large. housewives urged to can tomatoes. Apple and berry crops excellent though potatoes and peaches lag. Next month a sheep raising campaign to begin. Also notes on potato candy and 165 million tungsten filament lamps sold in 1917.
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New York
John Mitchell
Federal Food Board
Monroe
Onondaga
Cortland
Mitchell
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Scane’s
Acu
Scane’s Clothes Shop
East Fourth ST
Society Brand
U. S. Food Board
Dallas
Tex
Peden
Pyus Davis “Dry Goods Co
Wall Street
New Fail
Just
Courier
B. V. D. Company
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