Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-09

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 A call for 5000 nurses before June vas made by the U. s. A. Syracuse University's hospital unit 1as landed safely at a French port.
 Recruiting in the Canadian and British armies has taken a big jump in the last few weeks.
 General Pershing's message to the people of the United States says Ger must be beaten
 The sphere of influence in Russia extends in straight line from Narya on Finnish Gulf to Odessa
 The annual meeting of the United Society of Christian Endeavor will be held in Boston July 30 to Aug. 1. 
 Prices of all materials entering into the manufacture of steel are to be fixed by the War Industries Board.
 Fire destroyed the main building of the Huntley Manufacturing plant at Tilonsburg, Ont, tools and machin- cry.
 The estate of the late Sidney Wins low, inventor, totals $5 764 ,4O6, of which $5,650 406 is personal and s114.000 real estate.
 Russia, feeling herself prey of her neighbours lust of conquest, begins to look toward America as sole real friend.
 Haekensack, N. J., has passed a law prohibiting girls under IS to be on the streets after S:15 at night unless with guardians.
 The Liverpool Cotton Association announced that no allotment will be made for this month of freight space for cotton.
 Word was received in New York that William Peirce, head of the Peirce Steamship Line, has died at his home l
 Veterans at the Confederate Home at Baltimore asked to have the Stars and Stripes fly from the home in- stead of the Stars and Bars. Purchase of 65,592 acres of land in the White Mountains and southern Appalachians for inclusion in the east ern national forests was authorized. Martial law in the Federal district and several states of Brazil has beer extended by a presidential decree un- til May 6, when Congress conyenes. Nearly 327,ooo school children in New England, over 26 per cent. of the tota population, are now enrolled in junio auxiliaries of the American Red Cross A raid on the quarters of the Inter national Bible Students Association in Binghamton netted pamphlets ant other literature of a reasonable nat
 ure.
 Nineteen more Syracuse saloons wi
 close on today, and thirty other must abolish side rooms it was an nouilced by the Syracuse Brewer! |t ASSoclduon.
 4 The Department of the Interior an neunced the formation of a Unite
 States Garden Army of 5000 900 boy
 and girls to supply vegetables, sma
 fruit and eggs.
 How to move 25,ooo,ooo bushels C potatoes. now in the hands of Wis
 consin and Michigan growers, will b taken up at conference in Chicag
 of government officials Under date of Vologda, March
 Ambassador Francis reports he is oo | cupying quarters furnished by th
 mayor of the city with the Britis
 and Siamese embassies. i FIorein Maeksey was forced to kis every star and stripe in the America i flag before leaving the Union Count
 N. J., detectives office. He promise to register for the draft. Exports from the port of Londc I 1 to the United States during Janual i, amounted to $5,S69 PTS, as compare
 with 16,911, ,008 in the same month
 1917. and s16 .455,o70 in 1916. "We have acquired a direct fir, route via Russia to Persia and Afghan I istan,' says a despatch from u Wolff bureau. the German semi ofici agency, received at The Hague. Replying to question in the Hou 3 of Commons, Sir Gilbert Parker. r, ,. presenting the food ministry, declare Q that until further orders no fires grain may be used for brewing :. There Were 27e,o0o 900 bushels wheat on farms an din second hant in the United States on March l. Col sumption for the eight months was : the basis of 3.S bushels per capita Arrangements made by the War a,
 Navy Departments and the Depar :. ment of Labor provide for the joi ' use by the three departments of u : immigration station at Ellis Island. Major Milton Board, in charge : the ward for treatment of mental al U nervous diseases at the base hospit ], at Camp Taylor Ky, was placed Il trial for the death of Private Murra
 In December, January and Februa
 one New York ice manufacturer say !, 9 864 pounds of ammonia This N the first definite report of savings tn
 has been reported by the Food A '- ministration.
 The Westover school in Middiehu,