World events brief from war notes include Buena Ventura Rave loss
Three officers and 27 crew of the American steamer Buena Ventura Rave reached Coruna Spain after torpedoing last Monday. Sixty four crew members are missing. Ten coast guard sailors died attempting to rescue the British steamer Wellington. Senator James Hamilton Lewis praised Allied unity and admiration for American war efforts on his return from France and England.
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Buena Ventura Rave
Coruna
Spain
Coast Guard
Seneca
Wellington
Navy Department
Sims
James Hamilton Lewis
Chicago
New York
France
Fnd
England
America
Hoover urges national food conservation to end waste
Washington Food Administrator Hoover appeals for a new food conservation program to save lives in 1919. He warns failure to save food costs American lives as the House passes a record 58 trillion dollar revenue bill.
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Hoover
Nazareth Captured as Allied Forces Break Turkish Lines
London war office announces Nazareth taken by General Allenby’s army. Eighteen thousand prisoners and 120 guns captured as British cavalry cut off escape to the Jordan valley. Allied review notes 185000 prisoners taken in two months, with enemy losses around 600000. Serbian push nears Uskub-Saloniki railroad. Lieutenant Boyau, a French ace with 32 victories, is reported missing. British offensive in Palestine advances 12 miles, Keran entered. 3000 prisoners taken. Doiran region drives with Greek forces yield 700 captives.
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Nazareth
London War Office
Sir Edward Allenby
Jordan Valley
Palestine
Allenby
London
Keran
French Reach Oise in Drive South of St Quentin
Paris reports the French have reached the Oise south of St Quentin and captured Vendeuil. They advance along the front with Maisons and La Fontaine zone penetrations while British, American, and French actions push German lines near Gavrelle and Epehy. Prisoners numbered in the tens of thousands amid heavy shelling and counterattacks.
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Oise
St. Quentin
War Office
Vendeuil
la Fontaine
Vesle
Vosges
Cambrai
le Tem
Aring
British
Roussoy- Bony
Sacur
Sti Quentin
Lorraine
Haumont
Thiacourt
Pont-a-Mousson
Washington
Entente
St.- Quentin
Ailette
Aisne
Hinencourt
la Fere
Allemant
Saney
Vailly
London
Field Marshal
Haig
Gavrelle
Scarpe
Epehy
Villers- Guislain
Mouevres
la Bassee
Flanders
Hindenburg Line
Gauche Wood
Gouzeaucourt
Holnon
Contescourt
Be‘nay
U.S
Metz
France
St. Mihiel
Hindenburg
Belgium
Bois -de Rappes
Mars-la-Tour
Luke
Phoenix
Ariz
Mars-l-Tour
Confiins
Poles Pledge Half Million for Fourth Liberty Loan
In Chicago on September 19, the Polish National Alliance announced a pledge to subscribe 500000 dollars to the next Liberty Loan. The decision followed a Pittsburgh convention vote and telegrams to President Wilson and Secretary McAdoo declaring full support in the fight against enemies of liberty.
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Liberty Loan
Libberty- Loan Publicity Bureau
Alliance
Fourth ‘Liberty | Loan—Organization
Chicago
F. A Piekarski
B. J. Daltkowski
Pittsburgh
McAdoo
Indiana Brevities Update From Across the State
Indiana banks urged farmers to use the United States labor reserve for farm help. Governor Goodrich, injured in a crash, returns home with a leg cast. Vincennes hosts Indiana presbytery closing session. Officials call for better freight rates to help Indiana manufacturers compete. Sorghum yields expected to ease sugar shortages nationwide. Vanderburgh county seeks a tuberculosis hospital. Newcastle offers new language courses for draft-age students. West Baden forms a Woman's Franchise League pushing federal suffrage. Indianapolis boasts top patriotic garden results and coal allotments are set statewide. Prohibition ticket lists state officers. Butter print size rules change effective 1919. Interstate Public Service company undergoes full property evaluation. Alien women require permits near war work sites. Hancock county sowing wheat above quota. War Mothers convention sends resolutions to national leaders. Civilians urged to salute the flag and anthem. State education board acts to protect Indiana textbooks contracts.
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Indiana
Otto L. Klauss
Mr. Klauss
Goodrich
St. Vincent’s Hospital
Sutherland Avenue
Monument Circle
War Camp Community Service
Vincennes
Indiana Presbytery
L. Montgomery
Evansville
Adolph Kistler
First Presbyterian Church
J. S. Hawk
Chicago
Harry E. Barnard
Boehne
Newcastle
West Baden
French Lick
United States
Harry Miesse
Patriotic Gardeners’ Association
Philadelphia
United States Fuel Administration
Fort Wayne
South Bend
Hammond
Elkhart
Lafayette
Laporte
J. Raymond Schmidt
Edward W. Clark
Indiana State Prohibition Committee
Isaac N. Grisso
Rlcharles A. DeVore
Richard D. Voorhees
Frankfort
William Loehr
Warsaw
Jesse T. Mitchell
Nappane
Elizabeth T. Stanley
Liberty
Oliver P. Shaffer
Moorland
United States Food Administration
Interstate Public Service Company
Public Service Commission
Gregory
Storen
Greenfield
Hancock
M. E Cromer
Buck Crek
Orange
Germany
Philip RB. Fleming
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Washington, D. C
Camp Shelby
Hattiesburg
Miss. Gary
Steel
State Board ‘of Education
Horace Ellis
Entente Push Splits Bulgarian Forces in Macedonia
Paris reports French Serbian British Italian and Greek armies press the Bulgars and Germans in Macedonia forcing retreat from Doiran to west of the Vardar. Serbian advances have yielded 9 000 to 10 000 prisoners and 120 guns as pursuit continues. In Palestine General Allenby traps about 40 000 Turks, with 25 000 prisoners and 260 guns counted, as two Turkish armies are largely neutralized.
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Paris
Macedonia
Doiran
Vadar
Monastir
Prilep
Secon
Rome War Office
Doirin
Vardar
Uskubs
Saloniki
London
Palestine Front
Jordan
Allenby
Palestine
War Office
The
Jisr- ed-Dameer
Prohibition Measure Advances in House and Senate
National prohibition becomes effective next July after the House approved the measure by 134 to 2 and sent it to conference. A later reversal kept the Senate provision that wine imports must cease when the act takes effect upon the president’s signature.
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Washington
House
Senate
The
4APS CAPTURE. 2,000 Austro Germans Taken by Japanese
HMS London reports Blagoviest chensk and Alexievsk, capitals of Amur province, occupied by Japanese cavalry. About 2,000 Austro Germans were captured after they laid down arms at Kokka. In Jerome City a border clash left City Marshall Crowley and US Marshal Carlson wounded and a Mexican killed in a one hour battle with five Mexicans.
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Kokka
Siberian
Amur
London
Blagoviestchensk
Alexievsk
Jerome, Avizs
Joseph Crowley
United States
Henry Carlson
Soldier Dies of Anthrax at Camp Dodge
Private George Nuzum of Pisgah Iowa died at Camp Dodge Iowa from anthrax. His squad was quarantined and measures to prevent spread were implemented.
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Camp Dodge
George. Nuzum
Pisgah
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