Indiana News Roundup Highlights War Era Actions and Crop Yields
Indiana reports show Miss Flora Anderson returns to IU Bloomington to resume her doctorate after farming a family eight acre plot yielding 15 tons of tomatoes at $15 a ton. Draft boards receive instructions on classifications, while governors, beekeepers, beekeeping groups, apple and tobacco crops, and coal mining transport issues fill state notes.
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Crawfordsville
Flora Anderson
Indiana University
Bloomington
Miss Anderson
I. A
Wellesley College
Jacob
Webster
France
Shelbyville
William J. Friedley
Will H. Briggs
Muncie
Charles M. Martz
Quartermaster’s Department
Indiana
Petersburg
William H. Howe
Lydia Ingle
Howe
C. N. McClery
Pike County Coal Company
Ingle
Indianapolis
Robert C. Baltzell
Owen Township
Greenfield
M. S. Cromer
A. H. Rottman
O. E. McConnell
Hancock County Beekeepers’ Association
Aurora
Gary
United States
Salon
Belgians and Allies Break Through in Flanders Front
Allied and American forces press across the Belgian front as Belgians, British, French and Americans push back German lines from St. Quentin to Cambrai. Heavy hand to hand fighting, capture of Dixmude, and advances along 20 mile battle line mark a widening victory arc.
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Flanders
St. Quentin
Hindenburg
London
Chemin Des Dames
St. Quentin-Cambrai
Haig
Thorigny
le Tronquoy
Gonnelieu
Paris
Gouraud
Suippe
Aire
Challerange
Montbays
Charlerange
Marne
Champagne
Argonne
Meuse
Berlin War Office
Cambrai
Craonne
Laon
Dixmude
Foch
D Xmude
Scarpe
Sailly
Ailette
Chemin Des Dames Ridge
Bellevue
Gratevile
Clergy
Romagne
Arteine Forest
le Catelet
Verdun
Suippe River
Grecourt
Cuisy
Montfaucon
Cheppy
Buarennes
Wilson insists on league of nations for lasting peace
President Wilson declares no compromise with Germany and calls for impartial justice for all nations. He argues peace requires a league of nations formed at the peace conference and vows Germany must redeem its character by postwar actions, not promises alone.
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New York
League of Nations
Germany
Wilson
Fourth Liberty Ionan
Brest-Litovsk
Bucharest
League
Fpifth
President Opens Draft Drawing With Blindfolded Ceremony
President Wilson opened the draft drawing for 13,000,000 registrants in Independence Hall. He drew capsule 322 as Vice President Marshall and other officials led subsequent numbers through a relay of tellers and clerks. The master list will be sent to district boards and published nationwide.
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Washington
Wilson
Marshall
Saulsbury
Senate
Clark
Daniels
Crowell
War Department
Senator Chamberlain
Oregon
Representative Dent
Alabama
House
Representative Kahn
California
General March
Cief
Army
Benson
Navy
Young
Crowder
Warren
Wigmore
Keefer
Independence Hall
Philadelphia
Government Printing Office
General Crowder
United States
Napoleon points the way in war torn French village
In a shell scarred French village a lone tower remains standing. A Shattoean figure sits atop the tower as a miniature Napoleon points forward guiding American troops in the war’s rubble.
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France
Napoleon
Tower statue of Napoleon Endures Bombardment
The tower bearing a miniature Napoleon withstood heavy bombardment as shells whizzed around it. Ammunition exploded nearby while the statue remained unscathed, with observers noting its fitting pose toward the enemy lines and the direction it points northward.
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Napoleon
Destroying Hun Airplanes
Maj. W. A. Bishop of the British air service explains that official credit is given only for a machine driven down unless a crash is witnessed. He notes the Royal Flying Corps accepts daily losses as the price of always being on the offensive, even in large melees.
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W. A. Bishop
British Air Service
Royal Flying Corps
His Excuse at the Dressmaker's Meets a Clash
A fragment reveals a humorous scene where one party invites John to meet at a dressmaker's, only for John to refuse claiming a meetless day, suggesting a personal schedule conflict and light social tension.
Huns Limit Use of Tanks Reported in Reichstag
German war department representatives told the Reichstag main committee that tanks will be produced on a limited scale and no reason exists to change that decision. The report, cited by Vorwaerts, notes no occasion to revisit the policy.
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Amsterdam
German War Department
Reichstag
Vorwaerts
Berlin
Americans and Japanese seize Bilgrovestchensk in Amur capital
Viladivostol October 2 American troops cooperated with Japanese forces to occupy Bilgrovestchensk the capital of the Amur province entering the city after Bolshevik forces.
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Viladivostol
Bilgrovest
Chensk
Amur Province
Kei Hara Named Premier and Justice Minister of Japan
Kei Hara, a leader of the Seiya Kai party, is appointed premier of the new Japanese cabinet and will also serve as minister of justice, succeeding the Terauchi administration.
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Kei Hara
Japan
Washington
Seiya Kai Party
Terauchi
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Ndiana
Indianapoliis
Bureau of Animal Industry
United States Department of Agriculture
J. E. Gibson
United War Work
Thomas E. Davidson
Greensburg
Marion
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National Military Homes
Indisinapolis
Harry E. Barnard
United States Food Administration
Barnard
Federal Food Administration
Vincennes
John W. McCardle
Indiana Public Service Commission
Knox County Council of Defense
Bicknell
Knox County
Indiana State Council of Defense
Arthur W. Brady
Oxford
College Student Army Training Corps
Ohio
West Virginia
Michigan
Wisconsin
Terre Haute
W. J. Freeman
Fetersburg
Pike County
Horace Ellis
R. S. Thornton
Manitoba
Can
Ellis
Hindenburg Line
Parris
Reims
War Office
Field Marshal Haig
Sauchy
Pershing
Pennsylvania
Kansas
Missouri
Liggett
Varennes
Montblainville
Vauquois
Forges Brook
Bois Des Forges
Malancourt
Bethincourt
Nantillois
Septzarges
Septsarges
Dannevoux
Gercourt-et- Drillancourt
Marshal Foch
St. Mihiel
Russia
Roumania
Giebeses
Cece
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Cena
Nweet Eee Eneene
Seers Eeennane
T5rino
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