Indiana War Work Drive and State Labor Measures
Indiana and Indianapolis plan a government survey to identify underused industries and boost war production. The Indiana survey, led by the Indianapolis chamber of commerce, targets all industries and aims to prevent labor loss and coordinate housing through regional planning. The piece also notes highway commission staff release pending a supreme court ruling, broader war department plans for Fort Benjamin Harrison, farm labor efforts, and various local rolls from Petersburg to Evansville showing wartime adaptation and civic actions.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce
L. A. Wright
State Highway Commission
Supreme Court
Hamilton
Highway Commission
Wright
Washington, D. C
War Department
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Signal Corps
Indiana State Militia
Statehouse
Goodrich
Sopa
Federal Reserve Banks
W. A. Heath
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Petersburg
Pike County
Bement Oil Company
James Way Farm
Wildcat
Selby
M. E. Foley
State Council of Defense
Herbert Hoover
Princeton
Gibson County
Owensville
Bloomington
H.A. Barnard
Doctor Barnard
Evansville
Ross N. Atkinson
Vanderburg County
Kramer
George 8S. Clifford
County Council of Defense
Edgar Schmitt
J. H. Lowry
City Park Board
Riverside Park
Lowry
Park Board
City Hospital
Jeffersonville
William Kranz
Silver Creek Township
Kranz
James B. Green
Indiana Retail Dry Goods Association
Congress
United States of America
Gary
Gary Commercial Club
Washington
Indiana Reformatory
Indiana State Farm
State Farm
South Bend
F. R. Carson
Connersville
Terre Haute
Ira Holland
Vic C. Palmer
Board of Accounts
Terre: Haute
South’ ‘Bend
Fort ‘Wayne
Austrians Open Drive in Italy on Wide Front
On June 18 the war front stretched across 117 miles as Austrian forces pressed along the Piave with gas and heavy bombardment. Italian and Allied troops repulsed attacks, regained positions, and captured prisoners, while Vienna claimed higher captures. Civilian evacuation continued around Compiègne as Allied lines held.
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Rome
War Office
Piave
Vienna
Italy
Capo Sile
San Dona di Piave
London
Italian War Office
Diaz
Emperor Karl
British War Office
Montebello Heights
Brenta Valley
Austrian
Sette Commune
Marne
Bois de Belleau
Chateau Thierry
Nivray
Paris
Vosges
Arras
Bouresches
Torcy
U.S
France
Belleau Wood
Montdidier- Noyon
Compeigne
Foch
M. Clemenceau
L’homme Libre
Ludendorff
Misguided Pacifist Is Freed In Chicago Trial
Louis J Livingston author of Hail the Kaiser and other anti war writings was judged misguided not traitorous by U S Commissioner Mark A Foote upon arraignment for espionage act violation and released He submitted a 20 page life history with comments on war democracy and autocracy including quotes about democracy and Wilson Police said his landlady testified he boasted of Kaiser friendship and that he would continue writing after the war
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Chicago
Louis J. Livingston
the Kaiser
United States
Mark A. Foote
Livingston
Wilson
Gald
Oe Kaiser
St. United States
Wife a Stranger to Denver Man
Denver physicians report a rare aphasia case where a 36 year old gas engine expert loses all memory except what his wife recalls. He cannot identify his wife or past fortunes, and his past ventures in Mexico and mining are unrecoverable in his mind. Doctors Grover Phillips and colleagues treat him as memory erasure prevents recognition of family and assets.
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Denver
Colo
Grover Phillips
Mexico
Parrot Chips In Final Word as Burglar Drops Loot
A Seattle thief fled Loomis home dropping valuables after a parrot squawked drop it. The ransacked scene left jewelry valued at $500 plus recovered items. one ring worth $100 kept by the thief. The parrot’s warning helped restrain the crime in progress.
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Seattle
Wash
C. E. Loomis
Wifes Loyalty Saves Man In West Virginia Case
In Charlestown West Virginia Rufus King and his wife faced burglary and larceny charges. His wife refused clemency offered by lawyers asking King to plead guilty so she could go free. Both pleaded guilty and received two year penitentiary sentences.
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Charlestown
W. Va
Rufus King
Gold Coin Cache Found in Kentucky Cellar
In Hopkinsville Kentucky a cache of gold coins totaling 3620 was found buried in loose sand on the cellar floor of the late Thomas Wood’s home. The coins, mostly $20 pieces, date from 1890 to 1908. Hidden in an old book between the leaves the total currency reached 2078 dollars. Wood and his aged father lived alone for many years. Some coins were issued over thirty years ago.
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Hopkinsville
Thomas Wood
Wood
He Was a Man in the Street Window Watch at Capitol
At the capital a gray suit man in a fine panama hat draws two loitering women into a theater window scene. They debate his life, marriage, and charity, concluding he may be more than a primrose daily act as he reaches his seat.
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Ashington
Panama
Sinyp
Washington housing prices skyrocket during wartime influx
Frank Ward O'Malley reports from Washington on how wartime arrival crowds inflates rents and property values. He notes hall bedrooms rising from ten to forty or fifty dollars, mansionized houses from ten thousand to twenty-five thousand dollars yearly, furnished rooms surging to five hundred dollars monthly, and the German embassy remaining the only vacancy.
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South Bend
Washington
National Capital
Pop
Mom
Charles Evans Hughes
California
Frank Ward O’malley
The
Century Magazine
Yellow Flag At Central High Causes Schoolwide Stir
A yellow flag appeared on Central High's mast during morning arrivals after halyards were cut. Jay Long and Carl Stein removed the banner torn into shreds while students debated blame, with Tech School rumored as a possible suspect.
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Central High School
Central High
Central
Jay Long
Carl Stein
Fifth Street
Emory Wilson
McKinley Manual Training School
Tech
Dainty Red Cross Uniform Tea House Draws Society
In Potomac Park on Wednesdays and Saturdays Mrs. Donald Washburn and Miss Carolyne Nash run a teahouse selling Red Cross service uniforms as part of a social benevolent event. Proceeds fund the Red Cross while a Marine band concert aims to draw Washington elites to the park.
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ED Cross
Potomac Park
Donald Washburn
Georgia Schofield
Carolyne Nash
Red Cross
Marine Band
Nash
Washburn
Belle Baruch
Barney” Baruch
Washingtton
Radio’ Corps
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Sette Communi
Alsace
Asolone
Monte Solarola
Parrot
Nest
Virginia
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