Destruction of German Battle Cruiser Moltke Reported
Petrograd dispatch notes German fleet left Riga bay after a Riga battle in which Moltke and seven torpedo boats were sunk. The Duma president confirms Moltke lost along with three cruisers and seven torpedo boats. Germans attempted a descent near Pernov but Russians repulsed them. Moltke, 23,000 tons, 690 feet, carried 1,107 men, armed with ten 11 inch guns and twelve 6 inch guns and four 20 inch torpedo tubes.
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Union News Saryles
Petrograd—aAn
Riga
London
Petrograd
Duma
Moltke
Pernovin
Pernigel
Gulf of Riga
Bhe
Graben
Sultan Selim
Flood Devastates River Resorts Along Meramec Near St. Louis
The Meramec River flood swept away clubhouses cottages and summer homes from Valley Park to Meramec Highlands after a 40 hour rain event. The rising waters trapped hundreds in trees and buildings as boats struggled to reach victims. Dozens are feared drowned with many missing in St. Louis County.
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St. Louis
St. Louis County
Biforta
Valley Park
Meramec Highlands
Washington Deliberates On White Star Liner Sinking
Washington weighs a cautious move to fix responsibility for the loss of American lives aboard the White Star liner Arashi. Germany will be given a chance to explain the tragedy and whether the submarine commander acted with disregard for U S protests against destroying merchant vessels with American passengers without warning or opportunity for succor.
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Washington
White Star
Germany
United States
Toll of hurricane ravages southwest Texas coast
The storm left 256 known dead along the Galveston region with crews of wrecked vessels among the casualties. Property damage reached $60,000,000 as the hurricane swept the coast on Monday and Tuesday of last week.
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Galveston
Texas
Golf develops rapidly in the United States
New York reports rapid growth of golf in the United States with projections that the nation will become the world leader within ten years and a possibility of a new American scoring system.
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New York
United States
Albanian Destitution Report Reaches Italy
Reports from Rome describe severe hardship in Albania with widespread destitution and lack of sanitary supplies reaching Italy. The situation is presented as dire for the Albanian people, highlighting urgent humanitarian concerns.
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Rome
Albania
Italy
World News Roundup: Floods and War News Across Nations
A global digest notes Wood River levee failure flooding Mast Alto n, Minn. Northfield tragedy from lion attack. Alfred Webbley confesses to murder of his father in Wausau Wis. Reports on Lapland sinking confusion with New York City, E13 loss off Danish coast, Eld loss, Novogeorglevak fall, Vistula Narew junction capture, Russian generals' capture, and Baltic conflict. Severe Mississippi valley flood rivals tropical cyclones, with heavy St. Louis rainfall. ten dead, 5,000 displaced. Leo Frank corpse moved to Cypress Hills. Petrograd dispatch claims German fleet in Gulf of Riga. Arabic torpedoed near Fastnet, 423 aboard, 32 missing. Norristown accident kills four. Adler breaks jail in Waukesha. McDonald deported to Regina. German torpedo boats sink British cruiser and destroyer off Jutland.
Washington Reacts To Arabic Sinking And War News
President Wilson pauses judgment on the Arabic torpedoing as official details arrive. Other items note ICC rate increases on iron and steel, censorship orders for Sayville wireless messages, Austrian attack on Felagoga repulsed, Dutch firing on a German Zeppelin, and an arbitration proposal over the Frye sinking.
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Wilson
Washington
Zurich Geneva express collides with local train near Dietikon
A collision between the Zurich Geneva express and a local passenger train near Dietikon Switzerland left four dead and 48 injured. Rescue efforts focused on stabilizing the injured as investigators began examining the crash scene for causes and contributing factors.
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Zurich
Dietikon
Switzerland
Tragic Arabic Sea Loss and Noted Obituaries Reach Far
Reports confirm Mrs Josephine Bruguiere did not survive the Arabic disaster after twenty minutes in the water. Her son Lewis Bruguiere, a Harvard graduate, was rescued at Queenstown. Dr Edmund I Woods of Janesville, long a leading Wisconsin surgeon, is listed among missing. Crop damage follows a sweeping 24 hour rain. Cooper of California wins the Elgin 805 mile race at 4 01 32, setting 74.979 mph. Nancy Hawke, world trotter and Maud S. rival, dies at Madden's Hamburg farm near Lexington aged twenty nine.
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Harvard
Queenstown
Josephine Bruguieré
New York
Newport
San Francisco
Edmund I. Woods
Janesville
Wis
Wisconsin
Europe
Cooper
California
Chicago Automobile Club
Elgin
Gil Anderson
Oldfeld
Nancy Hawke
Maud S
John He, Madden
Hamburg
Lexington
Nancy
Pawtucket machinists strike for higher pay at Fotter Johnston
Eight to nine hundred workers at Fotter Johnston of Pawtucket R I walked out seeking higher wages. The plant produces machinery for making guns to aid Allied forces. Also notes include a San Francisco NAACP-like resignation, a balloon accident in Iowa, Cardinal Vannutelli death in Rome, and other brief items.
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Fotter & Johnston
Pawtucket
R. 1
Drainage project to reclaim Skunk River lands in Iowa
Polk Story and Jasper counties prepare a drainage district plan costing about 400 000 dollars to reclaim 25 000 acres along the Skunk river. Engineers will study straightening or widening the channel and an enlarged flow, with land values rising from less than 1 dollar to potentially 200 dollars per acre once flood protection is in place.
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Des Moines
Middle West
Iowa
Polk Story
Jasper
Polk County Board of Supervisors
Poll County
Story
Boy Scouts In Church Tactics Proposed in Des Moines
Rev A H Leamer pastor of St John Lutheran church plans to organize a Boy Scout troop and personally drill the boys, advocating military tactics as the gospel of militarism to train Iowa’s future greats for patriotism and preparedness.
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Des Moines
A. H. Leamer
Third
Iowa Infantry
Iowa
Leamer
St. John Lutheran
Two Men Die In Tragic Malvern Train Incident
Two unidentified young men were killed when a Wabash freight train struck them one mile east of Malvern. They apparently slept on the track and were unseen by the engineers. The taller man was about 30, six feet tall. the other around 20 and five foot six. Both dressed in plain clothes, clean shaven, and neat in appearance.
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Malvern
Stolen Team Traced To Pittsburgh Buyers
West Liberty coal dealer J D Potter received word from Sheriff E J Grimes that evidence shows the team of horses stolen from the Potter barn more than two years ago had been sold to Pittsburgh parties. Potter, believing the evidence, will not attempt to recover the team.
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West Liberty
J. D. Potter
E. J. Grimes
Keokuk County
Hog Cholera Outbreak at Boone Farm Threatens Herd
Hog cholera breaks out in Hans Noth’s herd at Boone. A veterinarian examined the pigs and found cholera evidence. He vaccinated 26 of 35 pigs, and officials believe most can be saved due to prompt action.
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Boone
Hans Noth
First bootlegging conviction sends Iowa man to penitentiary
Sioux City reports a landmark case as Mike Flanagan is sentenced to one year in the penitentiary under Iowa’s new liquor law for bootlegging, marking a historic outcome in the state.
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Sioux City
Iowa
Mike Flanagan
Falla To His Death at Pilgrim Hotel in Marshalltown
Jesse K. French a 43 year old traveling man from St. Louis died instantly after falling from or jumping from a fourth story window of the Pilgrim hotel in Marshalltown His home is listed as Kirkwood Missouri.
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Falla
Marshalltown
Pilgrim Hotel
Jesse K. French
St. Louis
Kirkwood
Well known Fontanelle editor buried
Fontanelle editor and public figure W. H. McClure, 66, longtime Fontanelle Observer chief, postmaster, and Audubon Republican former editor, is buried at Fontanelle. He lived for twenty years in Audubon and was known statewide as Mac. He leaves a widow, four children, a brother E B McClure, and sons F H McClure and D D McClure.
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Fontanelle
W. H. McClure
Pomeroy Herald
D. D. McClure
POSTMASTER 8 ARRESTED IN IOWA THEFT CHARGE
Cedar Rapids postmaster Ken Wood Park, Jacob A. Oxley, was jailed on charges of failing to deposit money order funds. Oxley, held to the grand jury in $1500 bond, faced questions on short funds and a claimed burglary report. He claimed the safe was blown with no damage.
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Cedar Rapids
Ken Wood Park
United States
Healy
Oxley
Post Office
Griffith
United State
Harwood Land
Three Dover Farmers Plead Guilty in Beer Barrel Theft
Judge W J Springer held a special term to hear guilty pleas from three Dover township youths accused of taking a neighbor's bottle beer barrel valued at 12 dollars. Each was fined two dollars and costs, two paid 500 and coats, and the case closed within five days after the act.
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West Union
W. J. Springer
New Hampton
Dover Township
Knoxville Man Missing Traces Searched at Tracey Bridge
Knoxville residents led by I E Dawson Clyde Dawson and Al Brobst hunted Tracey area for clues about Clarence Dawson after his suitcase and coat were found on the Des Moines river bridge. They claim evidence supports he died by self harm or was thrown into the river amid a struggle.
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Knoxville
Dawson
Clyde Dawson
al Brobst
Tracey
Clarence Dawson
Des Moines
Tra'cay
Reunion of Famous Eighth Town Cavalry at State Fair
Des Moines reports that August 31 visitors at the fair can witness a reunion in Soldiers’ Hill assembly tent as remnants of the Eighth Town cavalry gather. W. W. Wilcox, former Company H bugler and current regimental colonel, arranged the event. Civil War veterans will receive free admission to the fair this year.
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Des Moines
Old
Eighth Town Cavalry
W. W. Wilcox
Returns From War Notes From Dr Guild Home
Des Moines reports Dr. Guild, recently with French hospitals for months, has returned home. He notes the French reaction to war as serious when needed but quickly turning light as prospective officers pass medical exams and join service. The cool summer record in Iowa shows May to Aug average temperature deficit of 8.9 degrees, with heavy rainfall not persistent and June rainfall well below average.
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Des Moines
Guild
France
Iowa Weather Service
Belle Plaine Man Arrested for Eloping with 14-Year-Old
Leon Spooner of Belle Plaine was arrested in Towa City and taken to Belle Plaine jail on accusations of eloping with and enticing away 14 year old Bernice Dumbauld of Tama. The pair were found by Chief of Police Miller in separate rooms of a rooming house.
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Towa City
Leon Spooner
Belle Plaine
Bernice Dumbauld
Tama
Miller
Train Derails Near Harlan Injures Porter in Miracle Escape
An eastbound Chicago Great Western passenger train no. 14 derailed about three miles north of Harlan yesterday. Every car left the track and though all passengers were shaken, only one porter suffered a broken leg. The incident was described as a miraculous escape.
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Harlan
Chicago Great Western
Here
Pioneer Preston Smithers 92 and Wallace era schoolmate tale
Waa Schoolmate of Wallace Washington Preston Smithers, a Washington pioneer, is described as the youngest old man at 92 in Iowa. He recalls schooldays with Lew Wallace later famous for Ben Hur, sharing a log cabin school in Indianapolis in 1834. He wed Mary Davis in Indianapolis in 1847. they celebrated 60 years of marriage.
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Wallace
Washington
Preston Smithers
Iowa
Lew Wallace
Ben Hur
Indianapolis
Mary Darvis
Iowa Cattle Shipments Rise Amid Disease Runoff
Iowa reports show 1 762 head of cattle shipped into the state by 41 shippers since August, mainly from Omaha and Nebraska City, with July imports totaling 4 755 from Nebraska and 2 800 from Missouri. Disease risk appears low as hog cholera and foot and mouth disease are stamped out. swine and fewer sheep and horses also noted. The piece covers road funding plans, state land transfers for capitol extension, and a Remley portrait gift, plus foot and mouth disease quarantine relief and nature study at the state fairgrounds.
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Dex
Omaha
Nebraska City
Nebraska
Missouri
Iowa Farmera
Iowa best agricultural college praised by visitors
Joseph Wall of the county department notes Iowa’s strong agricultural college at Ames after returning from a five week Pacific coast trip. Des Moines observers agree Iowa has the nation’s top agricultural college and a Catalan contact claims a state college graduate holds higher standing than other diplomas.
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State Farm School
West
Iowa
Joseph
Wall
Towa
State College
Arida
Wea
Ames
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