Oregon News Notes of General Interest
Oregon notes report a river salmon run strong at the Columbia and rising traffic with roads open for travel. Oregon faces shortages for boxes, a growing automobile fleet, and a big summer at Monmouth Normal. The death of pioneer Mary Elizabeth Bryant is noted, with various farm labor, timber, and dairy efforts shaping state industry and public works.
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Prompeeta
Columbia
Kilmath City
Columbus
Team Hood Hiver
Cascade Locke
Marion and
Yolk
Toter County
Willamette Tier
Malin
Oregon
The
Oregon Normal
Monmouth
Yrar
State Supreme Court
Mary Elizabeth Bryant
Plains
Portland
Northwest
D. McKennon
Grande City
Redmond
Yaquino Bay
State Fair and Game Commission
Oregon State Elka’ Association
Ralph V. Poindexter
Owl Pharmacy
Bond
Vernon A. Forbes
Crescent Lake
Forbes
W. C. McNaught
Oregon State Board of Pilot
George T. Dalton
Federal Trade Commission
Fred J. Holmes
Klamath Reservation
Indiana
Klamath
Linn County
Oregon Pecan Shipment Sends Foxglove to Army Lab
Dean Adolph Zietle of the Oregon Agricultural College pharmacy school ships a large foxglove cargo to the Federal Laboratory at the University of Minnesota. The tincture of digitalis will be produced for the army.
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Oregon
United States
Adolph Zietle
Oregon Agricultural Collage School of Pharmacy
Federal Laboratory
University of Minnesota
U S Japan to Enter Liberia Joint Intervention Plan
London reports the Japanese diplomatic council approved the American proposal for a joint U S Japan intervention to Liberia. A proclamation will assure Russia the entente has no aggressive aims. Relief commissions may accompany the expedition. A Pekin dispatch notes satisfaction over an Allied section at Vladivostok aiding Czecho-Belovaks against Bolshevik forces.
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London
Japan
United States
Iberia
Age & Dispatch
Tokio
Russia
Blberia
Ion
Ifta
the Times
Vladivostok
Tte
Pekin
GLASS A-1 MEN ARE URGED TO BE READY
Washington Provost Marshal General Crowder appeals to all men of Class 1 to begin preparation now as soldiers not wait until called. He urges them to regard themselves as a selected fraternity of active patriots, to support the weak inspire the indifferent and root out disloyalty. He warns the enemy aims at home as well as Europe and says it will take time to train good soldiers the sooner they start the sooner they arrive.
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Washington
Crowder
Clase 1
Aave Getwal Crowder
Europe
Allied Counteroffensive Halts German Drive East of Rheims
In a major switch, French and American forces halted the German 65 mile front assault from Chateau Thierry to eastern Champagne. A bold Franco American counterattack over a 30 mile front surprised German lines, advancing up to 10 miles and seizing supply roads from Soissons to Chateau Thierry. Large numbers of prisoners, guns, and material fell into Allied hands as French troops recaptured Chateau Thierry and cleared the south bank of the Marne. British and Italian units harassed retreating forces to the southwest of Rheims.
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Rheims
Chateau-Thierry
Champagne
Alene Marie Rheims Salient
Fontenoy
Aisne
Soissons
Chateau Thierry
Akon Ts
Helms
Prac
Marne
Paris
Rhelme
San Diego Missing Reduced to Six in Navy Report
All 49 men reported missing after the sinking of the armored cruiser San Diego off Fire Island New York have now been accounted for. The Navy Department announced the sinking likely occurred due to a mine. An Irish Port The liner Justicia was torpedoed and sunk with no passengers aboard and 10 crew members dead.
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San Diego
Washington
Fire Island
New York
Navy Department
Justicia
US and French Drive In Franche War Front Summary
American forces pushed forward along the Allied front between the Aisne and Marne, with about 270000 troops in six divisions advancing and capturing 6000 German troops. More than 6600 prisoners and various equipment were reported as Pershing noted strong American momentum. The French opened a new attack northwest of Montdidier near Soissons, in the Aisne Marne region where Allied gains have been significant.
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Waanington
Te Cald
Cork
Washington
Sunnessea
Alene
de Marne
Pershing
War Department
Alene- Marne
Montdidier
London
Soissons
Markets Report as Czechs Attack Vladivostok
Market figures show feeds and farm goods with prices per ton and pound. A news dispatch from Vladivostok notes 12,000 of 14,000 Czechs in active operations at Khabarovsk and 40,000 Czecho-Slovaks on the Trans-Siberian, aiming to seize Khabarovsk and link with Irkutsk forces while maintaining a neutral stance toward the Siberian government and warning against any advance on Vladivostok.
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Khabarovek
Vladivostok
Viadivostok
Khabarovsk
Samara
Irkutek
Khabarovak
Amur
Irkutsk
Market Report on Poultry Prices in Seattle Exex-land
In Seattle the poultry market shows hens heavy and dressed at 360, light and sc broilers at 40c, roosters at 26c, ducks live 800 and dressed 34, geese live 2c and dressed 350. Prices indicate current wholesale levels for various states of processing.
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Seattle
U S to Take Over Telegraph July 31
Washington announces federal control of all telephone and telegraph lines effective midnight July 31 under Wilson. Burleson to lead, aided by Koons Lewis Lamar in administration, operation, and finance. Army contracts show profiteering per army intelligence and DOJ inquiry.
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Washington
Congress
Wilson
Burleson
John L. Koons
Army
Department of Justice
Former Russian czar shot by Ural council dispatch
A Russian wireless dispatch received here reports the former czar of Russia was shot on July 1. The note says the Ural region council in control paused sentence on the czar and carried out the act on the stated date.
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London
Russia
Ural
Troops From Camp Lewis Arrive in France Report
Cable messages from Portland indicate the entire 91st Division, which left Camp Lewis in June for overseas service, has arrived safely in France. Franco Italian troops renew offensive in Albania as Rome reports advances in the Balkan theater.
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Camp Lewis
France
Portland
Ore
91St
Plague Attacks Moscow, London and Roosevelt Wounded
Cholera breaks out in Moscow per a Russian wire service report. Major Theodore Roosevelt Jr is slightly wounded and hospitalized in Paris, per a cable to his father Colonel Theodore Roosevelt.
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Moscow
London
Jos
Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Paris
Theodore Roosevelt
German airmen bury Roosevelt near Chambray with honors
Berlin dispatch confirms Quentin Roosevelt, Amstergam tor geatn Or quentin Roosevelt is confirmed by a Wolff Buy reau message. The remains of the brave young aviator were buried with military honors by German airmen near Chambray at the spot where he fell.
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Amstergam
Tor Geatn
Quentin Roosevelt
Wolff Buyreau
Berlin
Young Airtain
Chambray
Apot
French Occupy Chateau Thierry in World War I Advance
French Army drives German forces from Chateau Thierry marking a significant advance on the Aisne Marne front. Allied pressure from Premch, Americans and British mounts a northward retreat by German units as they recede along the Soissonne Chateau Thierry corridor. The line shifts north of the Ourcq with Germans pushed back after recrossing the Marne.
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France
Chateau Thierry
Premch
Britlab
Chetosa Thierry
Maran
Mametums
Aisne
Marne
Soissone-Chateau -Thierry
Oureq
Acros
Allies in Control of Supply Lines Near Chateau-Thierry
Allied forces maintain control of the railway and main highway from Chateau-Thierry to Soissons and from Soissons to Chateau Thierry. French cavalry operate northeast of Chateau-Thierry as American field guns shell Soissons. The Marne district south of the river remains cleared of Germans while two regiments were cut up south of the Marne during the German retreat. Indian scouts with Peru shing in Mexico aided river-region reconnaissance.
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France
Soistons
Chateau-Thierry
Oukbyne-Chateau
C Bismes
Marne
Soissons
Chateau- Thierry
Allies Drive Germans From Soissons Rheims Salient
Allied columns of French American Italian and British troops punch forward in the Soissons to Rheims area. German counterattacks fail as forces shift to reinforce the Rheims front. Bavarian crown prince sends divisions from Picardy. British units moved southwest of Rheims. Cholera deaths mounting among troops and civilians.
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Paris
Gaton
Soissons-Rheims Salient
War Office
Durey
Marne
Fossoy
Charteres
Beau St. Germain
Mont St. Pete
Oureq
le Croix
Griselles
Mont St. Peter
Picardy Front
Rheims
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War Industries Board
Pendleton Water Commission
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Oregon Coast
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Food Administration
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University
Commisson
Louis Gjortaen
Olney
Lester Vaughn
Springfield
Mathiaen
Charles Eckert
Atore
Geo. C. Taylor
Henly
American Railway Express Company
Richard F. Cleveland
Richard Folsom Cleveland
President Cleveland
Marine Corps
U.S
Liberia
Glass A
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U. S
Telegraph
Albania
Rome
Rheima Salient
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