Indiana War Time Relief and Local Grain Advances
Indianapolis reports suggest Washington authorities authorize quick reporting of car shortages to expedite rail relief for Indiana grain dealers. Franklin notes record wheat receipts and high state elevator activity, while Johnson County faces severe car shortages impacting threshing. Indiana officials pursue coal and fuel distribution tweaks and new wheat planting pushes to meet next harvest.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Washington, D. C
John McCardle
Public Service Commission
A. .J Reynolds
McCardle
Spens
Food Administration
Washington
Franklin
Johnson County
Whiteland
Greenwood
Michael B. Foley
State Council of Defense
Huntington County
Huntington County Council of Defense
County Council of Defense
United States
War Industries
Evans Woollen
H. A. Garfield
Svas
Charles ‘Ga Hall
The
Fuel Administration
Rmers
G. I Christie
Washington, D.C
Chicago
Jeffersonville
Indiana Reformatory
Monon Railroad
New Albany
Indiana State
Michigan City
Goodrich
State 2
Evansvilé
Ireland
Bang ‘Ritzert
Addie Woods
Thec
Kget
Jane Savill
J. H. Armington
Eli Stansbury
Arthur W. Brady
State Council
Purdue University
State Veterinary Department
Veterinary Department of
Purdue
Allies Drive Huns Across Vesle River Front
Allied forces push German lines back from Montdidier to Moreuil and cross the Vesle river at several points. French and American troops seize Fismes and advance toward Aisne area while German rear guards withdraw to higher ground along the Vesle and Avre fronts.
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Vesle River
London
Vesle
Fismes
Paris
Germany
Aisne-Marne
Avre
France
Bourges
Braches
Mondidier
Reims
Soissons
Aisne
Venizel
Washington
Pershing
Marne
Hismes
the Vesle
Montdidier
Moreuil
Albert
Hamel
Dernancourt
al- Hes
Chemin Des Dames Ridge
Chemin Des Dames Onte
U. S
Moréuil
Castel
Aubvillers
Muizon
Vantes
Havas
Bazoches
Jonchery
Champigny
Pacant Woods
Robecq
Ypres
Fere-en-Tardenois
Cramaille
Cramoiselle
Saponay
Nesles
Crown Prince
Oureq
Ville-en-Tardenois
War Office
Comunique
How Farm Folks Help in the War
A patriotic appeal discusses rural sacrifice and thrift, urging farmers to buy Liberty bonds and save for the fourth Liberty loan. It highlights Jamie Bliss’s wool collection, farmer families paying toward bonds, and the need to fund the war effort through thrift and national unity. It frames farming communities as key supporters in a nationwide effort to finance veterans' wages, ships, and munitions.
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Jamie Bliss
Mamma
Papa
Eau Claire
Wis
Jamie
Mamma Bliss
Sam
Boches
Belgium
Poland
Ukraine
Uncle Sam
Berlin
Middlesex
Shortage of Unskilled War-Industry Labor Reported
Washington reports a current 500000 shortfall in unskilled wartime labor across war industries with final tallies expected to reach 1,000,000. War industry defined as manufacture or erection for government use, while coal mining is wholly war work. Railroads and farms must rely on other methods to fill gaps.
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Washington
Department of” Labor
Federal Employment Service
Ee War Industry
Employment Service
Federal Service
Airship Knight Sends Love Letter to Maiden
A London suburb witnesses chivalry as a knight errant in an airship flies low over a garden and drops a white letter. The maiden runs out, retrieves the missive, and the scene ends with quiet neighborhood curtains.
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London
Errant
California boards purge German tainted school music books
In San Francisco officials say several songs in public school music books show German influence and propaganda traces. The state board of education orders discard and announces a new German taint free series for pupils.
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San Francisco
California
State Board of Education
Liberty Bond Burned in Fire Sparks Family Loss
Mrs Charles Stoeckel of Georgetown Delaware started a wood fire with old newspapers and burned a $50 Liberty bond her husband had bought for their daughter Nellie. The bond was reduced to ashes but bank officials recall the purchase and Stoeckel seeks a replacement bond.
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Charles Stoeckel
Georgetown
Del
Ship Built in Fifteen Days Tops World Record
Workman Clark and Co shipbuilders in Belfast Ireland completed an 8000 ton standard vessel in fifteen days after launch setting a new world record.
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Workman, Clark & Co
Belfast
Ireland
Gold Brick Artist Jim Jordan Dies in Baltimore
Jim Jordan, famed con artist known as the gold brick king of the old West, died at 75 in Johns Hopkins Hospital. His half century of confidence schemes began with Canada Bill, spanned three card monte and poker on trans Atlantic liners, and included numerous fatal confrontations and a near miss aboard the Titanic. He earned an estimated one million before dying broke, with a career that also touched Leadville cattle scams and a Chicago murder.
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Baltimore
Jim Jordan
Johns Hopkins Hospital
America
Jordan
Monte
Canada Bill
West
New York City
Jim
Bil’ Matthews
Chicago
California
Denver
Colo
Cliff Sparks
Marble Hall
Leadville
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Indiana News
Public Service Commission of
Vincennes
Knox County
Terre Haute
W. T. Gleason
Superior Court
Gleason
Indiana State Board of Tax Commissioners
Allen
St. Joseph
Vanderburg
Lake
Whitley
State Board
Yankees
Montdidier and
Mangin
Én Faly
Crise
Herbert Myrick
National Farm Power Group of Agricultural Papers
Potters’ Field
Nation
Maiden
Discard Hun Music Books
Liberty
Bond
Cliff
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