Indiana Coal Shortage Warns of War Time Rationing
In Indiana the fourth vein coal, highest grade, will be restricted to war essential plants that cannot use other grades. R L Flood of the quartermaster's department says many plants now using this coal may lose deliveries, pending federal approval. Other Indiana notes cover pensions, wheat and tomato crops, and county war efforts.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
R. L. Flood
Quartermaster’s Department
United States Army
State Fuel Administration
Fuel Administration
Federal Fuel Administration
Washington, D. C
Flood
Thomas
C. Yocum
Eliza A. Tucker
Shideler
Elnora Tillson
Winchester
Margaret
James
Monticello
Luciana J. Davis
Colfax
Eliza E. Aldredge
Mount Vernon
Anna L. Tranbarger
Cromwell
Adaline Sutton
Lafayette
Sarah E. Plummer
Carwood
Emma F. Fulwider
Letts
Nancy A. Dinsmore
Lebanon
Letitia V. DePauw
New Albany
Mary E. Bowman
Bloomington
Peru
Wabash
Repubican
Wabash County
Huntington
Huntington County Council
Purdue University Experiment Station
A. T. Wisancko
Petersburg
Filmore Sumner
White River
Evansville
W. H. Dyer Packing Company
Spence
Ferry
Rushville
George Whissing
Walker Township
Rush County
Marion Detrick
United States Food Administration
Harry E. Barnard
Newcastle
George Harter
William G. Veach
Oxford
Beason
Henry Ehrmann
Franklin County
Washington
Germans Flee Reims Soissons Front in Panic
Paris reports July battles as Bavarian crown prince redirects divisions to aid in Marne sector southwest of Reims. French American forces repeatedly break German resistance, recapture villages along the Marne, and push toward Chateau Thierry and Soissons with significant prisoner and gun captures.
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Reims Soissons
Vesle
Marne
Chateau Thierry
Paris
Picardy
Reims
Champagne
la Liberte
de Mitry
de Goutte
Chatelet Wood
London
Soissons
Salient
Chateau “Thierry
War Office
Brales
Brasses
Ourcq
Aisne
Ludendorff
Meteren
Prunay
Chouy
Neuilly-St. Front
Belleau Wood
France
Boissons
Belleau
Torey
Givray
Port Rico Bride Survives Ten Hours on Fiancé’s Body
Miss Edith Donato Virola an eighteen year old Puerto Rican woman traveling to marry in America recounts ten hours afloat on the body of her drowned fiancé after a passenger ship sunk off the Atlantic by a German submarine. She was rescued when other vessels appeared and took survivors aboard.
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New York
Atlantic
Edith Donato Virola
United States
Miss Virola
New York City
Porto Rico
America
Record bacon and meat order for U S Army sets world peak
Chicago July 28 The quartermaster department places the largest single order in history for bacon and canned meat for the American army overseas. The order covers 99 560 000 pounds of bacon and 134 000 000 pounds of canned meat. Delivery will take six months, with prices based on last week’s purchase. The action would buy live stock from about 1 900 000 hogs and translate to roughly 80 million dollars to producers under current prices.
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Petersburg
Pike County
Indianapolis
Ruth
Marion County
Seymour
Jackson County
A. D. Cobb
Muncie
Kappa Alpha Phi
Thomas Smith
Alexandria
One Hundred and Fiftieth Field Artillery
Indiana
Federal Reserve System
P. H. Wolford
Secretary of State
Reserve System
Cambridge City
Wayne County
Sullivan
G. W. Gambill
Sullivan County Council of Defense
Tinplate Company
Delaware County
God Save the Fatherland
Kaiser
Rev
H. Zumbingst
White Creek Lutheran Church
Horace H. Herr
State Fuel Administration
Brazil
John W. Webster
Frankling
Harry “ “George
Wheat King
Johnson County
George
London
Soissons
Vierzy
Ourcq
France
Chicago
Quartermaster’s Department
Be Ans
Louis
Swift
Ycommerting
Baby Drops From Window in Pittsburgh
Gordon Bab inger six months old fell from a third story window onto a concrete sidewalk. The child sustained only minor bruises and escaped unharmed aside from the injuries. The incident occurred as the mother and father played near the open window and the father accidentally dropped the baby.
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Pittsburgh
Gordon Babinger
Ghost is Only Fugitive Shamokin Tale
After a crash catapulted him through a windshield Edgar Stokes fled the hospital with a sheet wrapped around him. He wandered along the Pennsylvania railroad and frightened night workers before reaching his home two miles away. He returned to work the next morning despite bruises.
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Shamokin
Pat
State Hospital
Edgar Stokes
Stokes
Pennsylvania Railroad
A horse causes street scene as crowd debates Sam and coffee
In Washington a horse-drawn wagon runs loose. Bystanders calm the animal, while two women argue over Sam the worker’s lunch. One woman defends hot coffee and thermos care for Sam, the other dismisses pity and focuses on meals and wages.
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Washington
Sam
Jinnie Blank
Ben
The Broomstick Witch and the Jumping Cow
A playful monologue compares an early aviator to a broomstick witch who envies the cow that jumped over the moon. Citizens discuss broom prices and longevity, with anecdotes about buying brooms, soaking to toughen straw, and the demand forecast as inflation rises.
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Old Man Science
Chile
Redlee
Battalion of Death Flees Washington Heat
A summer vacation ends the female Sammies summer drill at the Ellipse as heat and sun drive the Washington battalion of Red Cross volunteers to adjourn until fall. They had impressed during the parade with drill sergeants from the War Department and Marine Corps. The sun and freckles end their season on the Ellipse.
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Yashington
Red Cross
Army
Marine
War Department
Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington
Pleasures of Postal Clerks Stamps at Local Drug Store
A dapper man visits a corner drug store postal window and questions stamps called stomps. The young clerk explains stamps are small paper pictures with mucilage on the back, while the man notes the fashionable attire and cane.
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Ndiana
State News
Bailleul
U. S. Army
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