Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-29
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A winter or starvation IS preoicreo in Russia.
 Movement of grain during the week was heavy.
 Argentina's wheat acreage was re- duced 900 900 acres this year.
 For army use in Oct. Nov. 239,796 barrels of flour were purchased.
 Buffalo street car strike is at an end. Operations of the cars will begin immediately.
 New express rate increases averae- ing 10 per cent. were approved by Director General McAdoo.
 The War Industries Board has placed a ban on the use of felt in the manufacture of pianos
 Extension of the Skip stop" sys- tenn to all lines of the Brooklyn Rapid Trancit Go. was announced.
 Federal Food Board announced that all reports circulated in New York about sugar cards are false.
 Production of linters from Aug. 1 to Sept. 30 was placed at 95,725 500- pound bales by the Census Bureau.
 Total earning assets of the Phila delphia Reserve Bank for the week ending Oct. 25 was $145, ,790,413.
 Admiral Dot" famous midget of the Barnum- Bailey circus, is dead at White Plains, N. Y, from pneumonia. Reorganization of the American Red Cross in France from two div isions to nine was announced com | pleted
 War Department reports five deaths in aviation training in the United States for the week ended l Oct. 19.
 Congress yesterday completed the $6,345, 900 war deficiency bill and sent it to the president.
 Eighteen new ships, of $500 total deadweight tons, were added to the American fleet during the week end l ing Oct. 25.
 Campaign expense accounts filed with the house included that of the democratic national committee, show ing receipts of SAP, 13S and disburse- ments of s395,459.
 Rev. pr. William p. Ladd was in. augurated as dean of Berkeley Divin- ity school at AIiddietown
 A total of 5y386 new cases of inau enza were reported from B of the 6 counties in Pennsylvania yesterday.
 The funeral of former Senator Flu gene Hale, who died at Washington Sunday night, will be held at his hom at Ellsworth, Me, tomorrow
 A shipment of 1,152,o0o pounds c tobacco was made to France by tn Knights of Columbus for the soldiers
 Chicago packers and representa- tives of hog raisers accepted the pric of hogs fixed by the Food Admins , tration.
 The New York County Chapter e the Red Cross announced a class fo ; the training of nurses aides for serv
 ice in France.
 Spread of the influenza epidemi in Mexico has been rapid. Only , few states on the Pacific coast an
 the south are not affected. $ Victoria Machinery Depot, of Vic ! toria, B. C., was awarded contract
 to build two 8100-ton ships by tn
 Canadian Minister of Marine. y Passengers arriving from EngIan
 said that national restaurants opene F in England by the government {
 supply meals at moderate prices wer
 successful.
 Four hundred and fifty-four Ioe; / draft boards throughout the countr have completed the physical exam t nation of go per cent. of the men be = tween 19 and 46. g Passengers arriving at an Atlant J port from Europe on two fast Britis d steamers report the sinking of a Ger g man submarine by an American tol a pedo boat destroyer.
 
 = Charles E. Hughes who arrived n New York from Washington said y had completed his investigation of U n aircraft production. hI While Secretary Baker was ii
 specting an American training can
 in England he carried a soldier
 pack, weighing TO pounds, and sa s 'it was heavy all right r. Members of the army motor tran l. port corps will wear a purple h l., cod and insignia consisting of IS bronze motor car wheel upon whiC e he is a super-imposed winged hat. IS Major General William c. Gorea D former surgeon general of the arm J. has just returned from Fance. I E will prepare report to be made pu S. lie on the health of soldiers there. Ir Bishop White, vice president of | t. American Chain Company, Bridg l. port and treasurer of the Pratt
 Cady Company in this city. died
 his home in Hartford of pneumont
 Dr. Erastus E. Case, for A years F practicing physician in Hartford, di
 at his home there of influenza al le pneumonia.