Food Control Bill Passed by Senate
The Senate passed the food control bill establishing a board of food commissioners and minimum wheat price. prohibition of distilled beverages remained unchanged. President Wilson urged eliminating the joint committee on war expenditures, warning it could harass war managers. Congressional plans for war revenue funding, including $6 billion in new measures, were set aside amid moves to mobilize a second army of 600,000 via the draft.
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Washington
Administration Food Control
Wilson
Congress
Senate
Lever
House Agriculture Committee
Frank Terme
Draft Ahead as Millions Face Military Service
Washington predicts thousands of men will be drafted before September 1 to form khaki divisions. About 1,374,000 men are to be examined in ten weeks, with two registrants called per accepted recruit. Crowder orders posting of notice at board headquarters to inform registrants of their inked numbers. Thorne will notify by mail. appearance period starts from posting.
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Washington
Regular Army
National Guard
National Army
Crowder
Te Board
Thorne
Wilson restructures Shipping Board appoints Hurley Colby Capps
President Wilson dismissed Major General Goethals John B White and William Denman from the Shipping Board and the Emergency Fleet Corporation. He named Howard N Hurley Bainbridge Colby and Washington L Capps to fill the posts and announced a full reorganization to speed merchant fleet construction.
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Washington
Wilson
Shipping Board
Goe
Willian Denman
John B. White
Emergency Feet Corporation
Goethals
White
Mr. Denman
Howard N. Hurley
Chicago
Federal Trade Commission
Bainbridge
Austro German Advance Continues in Galicia
Berlin reports the eastern Galicia offensive advancing without interruption. Tarnopol has fallen and German troops push toward Bussacs as Austrian forces move in tandem via London dispatches.
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Avatre
Berlin
London
Galicia
War Office
Tarnopol
Bussacs
European War News Reports Frontline Raids and Shifting Fronts
Reading the text recalls intense western front raids by British and German forces. German attacks push toward Verdun and allied positions face heavy shelling while French defense claims repelling German efforts. In Eastern theaters Russian Galicia retreats widen across the frontier as Petrograd signals military shakeups and resolve.
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Conlinien
Hritins
Kastens Galleta
Crogound
Zlochot Tarnepol
Gereman
Svors Haw
Alesander V. Kerensky
Wih
Marine
Witen
Prench
Helle Des Dames
French War Office
Wade Fhe Anmuire
Verdun
Galicia
Bender
Carpathian
Petrograd
Russia Warned by New Premier Kerensky
Petrograd reports Premier Kerensky warning that a blood and iron policy may be used to save Russia if needed. He vows to rely on the army and party confidence and says heroic measures are required as the front line demands decisive action. The Soviet delegates granted the government unlimited power under a national safety banner.
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Council of
All
Russia
Kerensky
Government of National Safety
Allies Abandon Control Over Greece Internal Situation
Washington dispatch reports allied control of Greece internal affairs has been formally abandoned according to an Athens cable to the Greek legation.
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Greece
Washington
Greve
Athens
Markets Report and Instant Independence Talks
Portland markets list grains and prices including wheat blue stem and feed, hay, and eggs with farm names. Separate items note Finland's move toward independence, Sweden seizing crops, and U S war department motorcycle contracts as threshing begins around Pilot Rock with light barley yields.
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Pilot Rock
Minimum Wheat Price at Primaries in Northwest Markets
Senate amended food bill sets a minimum wheat price of $2 a bushel, applied to Portland and Seattle as primary markets for the Northwest. Inland Empire growers secured no guaranteed price, only the freight rate from production to Portland or Seattle.
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Washington
Senate
Portland
Seattle
Northwest
Inland Empire
Beattie
It Depends on the Dep Two Broadway Wishes Men Met Before a Bar
A clipped New York Telegraph excerpt recounts two men meeting near a bar and exchanging casual dialogue about dogs and costs, revealing urban slang and social mannerisms. The fragment suggests casual street conversation with humorous mishearings and a brief exchange over a chanteur and a tas.
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New York ‘Telegraph
Rack rent definitions and social quips from old notices
The piece cites a Birmingham Age Herald quote about amusement and travel boredom then defines rack rents. It explains rack rent as two thirds of the full annual value of the land producing it, per statute in England today. The text blends playful dialogue and legal clarification on property charges.
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England
Mystery Collar Name Hint in Collie Exchange
A letter suggests the collie’s name is unclear while noting a white neck band common to most collies. The writer theorizes the name may derive from either collar or coll, pointing to the dog’s distinctive neck markings as a clue.
Ancient Candies and Improvised Sweets Through History
The Romans used candies made from string coated with wax or pitch while English poorer classes around 1800 improvised sweets using waxed wood splinters covered in fat.
May lower flour prices and German attack at Champagne
The article reports on a senate food control bill fixing a two dollar limit on top flour grade prices and notes stock market moves in wheat. It also covers a major French counterattack near Verdun with German forces failing to seize the Champagne road, facing heavy French artillery and fortified defense.
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Champagne
Chicago
Senate
J. P. Griffin
Chics
Board of Trade
Northern
Iewo
House
France
Verdun
Chemin Des Dames
Germany
Jaompe
Wand
Army Division to Organize Units of 16 000 Men
Secretary Baker announces that following conferences with General Jouury a tactical unit of the national army will be formed on a basis of about 16 000 men per unit to face 24 000.
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Washington
Baker
Jouiry
National Army
Seattle Grips in Industrial War and Transit Strike
Seattle faces a historic labor upheaval as 1600 carmen strike halt all streetcars and trains. Police chiefs discharge officers refusing guard duties amid nonunion control. Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power offers no reply to arbitration demand while unions seek reinstatement for dismissed workers.
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Seattle
Wash
Seattle Fe
Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power Company
Storm Center
Gill
Alton W. Leonard
Streetcar Men's Union
Tacoma
Siam declares state of war with Germany and Austria
Siam declares war on Germany and Austria and reports seizure of nine steamers totaling 19 000 tons as per a Reuters dispatch from Bangkok.
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Siamondon
Siam
Germany
Austria
Bangkok
Canadian Commons Votes for Draft Ottawa
The conscription bill passed the house of commons by a majority of 64. Bangkok Siam has emerged all the Austro German ships in her harbors.
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Canadian Commons
Ottawa
House of Commons
Bangkok
Siam
Lloyd George denounces Michaelis speech as sham
London reports Prime Minister David Lloyd George at a patriotic gathering criticizing Dr Georg Michaelis for a sham Belgian independence and a sham democracy in Germany. He notes Britain’s food supply for 1917-18 is secure, production rising, and U boats losses falling while Europe sacrifices millions for liberty.
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London
David Lloyd George
Georg Michaelis
Great Britain
Lloyd George
Belgium
Germany
Europe
Teutons Turn Southward In War Push
Austro-German forces shift south in Galicia to strike behind Russian lines between Braczany and the Dniester. Reports claim Koseva station near Bree ny reached and the Koseva Tarnopol railroad crossed. Berlin says Emperor William heads to the front and Georg Michaelis outlines peace aims and submarine campaign. H W Collins of Pendleton buys the first wheat at 500 bushels Turkey Red.
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Copenhagen
Galicia
Braczany
Dniester
Teutonic
Koseva Station
Breeny
Koseva
Tarnopol
Sereth
Parnopol
Berlin
William
Germany
Georg Michaelis
Reichstag
Michaelis
United States
H. W. Collins
Pendleton Lees
Glor
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Alexander Kerensky
Texas
California
J. Waller-—Creamery
Egga—Ranch
Oregon
Helsingfors
Finland
Het
Sweden
Leta
The
War Department
Army
Hirmingham Age Herald
North Beach
North Pacific Coast
Union Pacific Syster
A Nanan To
Wm. McMurray
Agi
von Bethmann-Hollweg
German Empire
Teutons
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