Battle in Galicia Tightens as Austro German Push Near Lemberg
Western dispatches report Galicia's front lines steadily advancing as Austro German forces close on Lemberg while Russian defense strains under heavy ammunition shortages. Copenhagen notes Kaiser has assumed supreme command with operations centered near Cilicia, amid confident German official briefings on theDniestrer region.
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London
Galicia
Lemberg
Paris
France
Marne
Russia
Copenhagen
Cilicia
Dniester
England
Grand Duke
Nicholas
Toffre
Warsaw
Joffre
John French
Ypres
Dunkirk
Calais
Plan for pacification of Mexico to be submitted this week
Washington government, likely this week, will submit a pacification plan for Mexico. Gen. Villa and Gen. Felipe Angeles, key adviser to Villa, approve the plan. Angeles has left Villa and is en route to Boston after crossing into U S territory last Friday night, according to border agents.
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Angeles
el Page
Tex
Mexico
Washington
Villa
Felipe Angeles
Francisco Villa
United ‘States
Boston
World’s Classic 300 Mile Race Entrants Chosen
Sioux City Speedway announces entries for the 300 mile World's Classic race on Saturday July 3 featuring Eddie O Donnell Maxwell Tom Alley Fenberg Eddie Rickenbacher Billy Carlson and Grover Bergdoll among others. The list promises the fastest middle west race yet with top drivers and cars from across America.
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Sioux City
Siouxity. Speedway
Edldie O'Donnell
Burg
Ilinois
Maxwell
Tom
Alley Fenberg
Eddie Rickenbacher
Sbilly, Carlson
San Diego
Grover Bergdoll
Cate
Indianapolis
Pennsylvania
Middle “West
America
World War Fronts and Casualties Report Broad Updates
Semiofficial Berlin figures cite massive Russian losses and Austro German brutalities as the war widens. Rome and Constantinople dispatches describe renewed Italian clashes near Brentonico and shelled zones, while naval actions claim British subs torpedoed Turkish transports in the Golden Horn.
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Berlin
von Hindenberg
Poland
Courland
Four killed in Niobrara flood and other early 20th century notes
Dispatch from Node Wyoming reports four persons killed and extensive livestock losses in a Niobrars valley cloudburst. The Arizona, the largest battleship, launched at New York yard, will hurl 16800 pounds from 14 inch guns to 20 miles, displacing 32000 tons. Chicago car strike ends after overnight talks led by Mayor Thompson. Thaw wins in Albany appeals court on mental condition jury. Missouri farmer incident and other scattered items include a Chicago social figure’s disappearance and a Joliet fever quarantine note. Prominent Americans in Philadelphia discuss a League of Peace or Nations.
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Arizona
New York Navy Yard
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Independence Hall
League of Peace
League of Nations
Foreign doctors and European leaders in early crisis notices
Dr Anton Meyer-Gerhard denied as German army chief Alfred Meyer after Berlin conference with Von Jagow. Grand Duke Constantin of Petrograd dies of heart disease at fifty seven. Count Zeppelin bedridden with bronchitis at Stuttgart. John Redmond suffers from proneine poisoning and misses Parliament. French torpedo boat 831 rammed by Arleya off Barfleur and sank. six sailors drowned.
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Anton Meyer-Gerhard
New York
Count von Hernstorff
Berlin
von Jagow
Meyer-Gerhard
Alfred Meyer
Constantin Constantinovitch
Imperial Academy of Sciences
Petrograd
Notable Indiana donor Dr Robert W Long dies at home
Obituary notes Indiana's Robert W Long donor of a hospital dies at Indianapolis aged seventy one. Also reports death of B H Bick former Illinois Grand Army of the Republic department commander at Davenport home of his daughter. Eugene P Williams Sterling postmaster and longtime Democratic leader dies at fifty one. Georgetown University grants honorary Doctor of Laws to William G. Gorgas for Panama Canal Zone work.
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Robert. William Long
Indiana
Indianpolis
B. H. Bick
Paat
Ilinoia Grand Army of the Republic
Davenport
Rock Island
Eugene P. Williams
Sterling
William Gg. Gorgas
United States Army
Georgetown University
Penama Canal Zone
German envoy Meyer Gerhard confirmed for Berlin mission
Washington officials announced that Dr Meyer Gerhard of the German colonial office, once with the German Red Cross in the United States, was the envoy sent to Berlin. President Wilson and Manuel Bonilla voiced cautious optimism for a peaceful Mexico settlement as Washington ordered three cruisers to the northwest Mexican coast and empowered Admiral Howard to land troops if needed. The Colorado carrier transported three campanios of the Fourth Regiment Marine Corps.
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Count von Hernstorf
Washington
Berlin
State Department
Meyer. Gerhard
German Colonial Office
Red Cross
Wilson
Manuel Bonilla
Yaqui
Sonora
Mexico
Thomas B. Howard
Fourth Regiment
Marine Corps
Iowa Exhibit Wins Grand Prize at San Francisco Fair
Iowa exhibitors at the San Francisco fair scored prizes. a display featuring corn from Willard Zeller of Cooper formed a horn of plenty, with red ears spelling Iowa. The exhibit, 54 feet wide and 380 feet high, highlighted Iowa as a billion dollar state. It showed 1914 valua tions of field crops and livestock at 1 040 766 919 dollars and used prize corn from Ames and small grains from the 1914 Iowa state fair. John Buchanan of Iowa State College led the planning while others judged the display against banker Magon City.
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Iowa
San Francisco
Willard Zeller
Cooper
Union
Ames
John
Buchanan
Iowa State College
Landmark Being Razed In Rock Rapids Oe 1872 Hotel
The old Rock Rapids House built in 1872 and long a town landmark is torn down to make room for a new garage on the same site. In Mount Pleasant two drownings are recorded as W E Faulkner and Joseph Schaffner died trying to shoot Oakland dam on Skunk River six miles south. Burt nurse M M Stahl leads fifty Chicago nurses and physicians to France to work in a French hospital.
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Rock Rapids
Skunk River
Mount Pleasant
W. E. Faulkner
Joseph Schaffner
High Schoo
Oakland Dam
Iowa Power Company
Here
France
Burt
M. M. Stahl
Chicago
Knights of Columbus Initiation in Mason City Event
More than 400 Knights of Columbus from northern Iowa attended initiation of 45 candidates in Mason City with J B Keefe of Sioux City presiding over the third degree work. In Waukon a storm killed John Lephert and Miss Lephert and caused about $10,000 in damage to Bert Gast’s farm, with a depot blown into the river and heavy crop loss.
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Knights of Columbus
Mason City
Knights ‘of Columbus
Iowa
J. B. Keefe
Sioux City
Waukon
John
Lephert
Miss Lephert
Houge
Bert Gast
Heytman
Spanish War Veterans Elect Davenport Leader
Henry Holst of Dubuque was chosen department commander of the Iowa Spanish war veterans by a vote of 28 to 22 over W B Emerson of Des Moines.
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Davenport
Henry Holst
Dubuque
Iowa
W. B. Emerson
Dew Moines
Taw and in every way with the state highs
A garbled OCR fragment mentions highs and the state in a context that is unclear. The readable portion hints at weather or score context but lacks concrete facts, dates, or names to identify a clear event or outcome. The item remains ambiguous and partial.
Prize Slogan Contest Draws Floyd Township Youth
Fifteen year old Newman Lyle of Floyd township wins the Sheldon Commercial Club slogan contest with a prize money offer. The club plans a design outline featuring a map of the Big Four counties centered on Sheldon. Counties listed include O'Brian Lyon Osceola and Sioux.
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Sheldon
Ner
Newman Lyle
Floyd Township
Uaing
Big
O'Brian, Lyon, Osceola
And
Sioux
Professor to Leave Ames for California Chair
Professor J By Davidson, founder of the first college department of agricultural engineering at Iowa State College, who has prepared to move his family to Davis California to take the chair of agricultural engineering at the University of California College of Agriculture.
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Ames
J. By Davidson
Iowa’ State College
Davis, Galif
College of Agriculture
University of California
Mason City High School Bond Vote Faces Court Challenge
Opposition in Mason City grows against the 800000 high school bond issue authorized at a recent election. A proposed 150000 structure plan is urged by some taxpayers, with potential legal action by heavy taxpayers if the bond is defeated. The vacancy left by the death of Judge Enmlin McClain at the Iowa law college deanship fuels the dispute.
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Mason City
Altho
Iowa Law College
Enmlin’ McClain
Sioux City Tornado Hits Morningside Suburb
A fierce twister struck Sioux City near Morningside causing wrecked homes uprooted trees and cut wires but no loss of life. In Iowa City a bolt of lightning killed twenty five head of cattle belonging to William Wright in a northeast field.
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Sioux City
Morningside
Iowa
William Wright
Iowa City
Elect New Officers At Waukon Farmers Institute
In Waukon at the county farmers institute a slate of officers was elected with Otto Helming as president Theo Gronna as secretary and D D Ronan as treasurer P F Meier and C P Meiling named on the committee The group also notes a new telephone exchange project by Western Electric for Estherville Batherville at an estimated 65000 with a ten month build period Sioux City ex chief of police George Pierce denied a new trial in a graft conspiracy case an appeal planned to the state supreme court Will H Lines of Rockford arrested in Charles City on an adultery charge after eloping with Mrs Alvin Reems who has been forgiven by her husband
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Waukon
Allay Makes County Farmers
Otto Helming
Theo. Gronna
P. F. Meier
C. P. Meiling
New Telephone Exchange
Estherville
Western Electric Telephone Company
Batherville
New
Sioux City
George Pierce
Anderson
Supreme Court
Magon City
Will H. Lines
Rockford
Charles “City
Alvin -Reems
Connors son sells patent gas engine for 86260 a year
Reports from here state that Connors, son of William Connors of the city, disposed of a patent gasoline engine for eighty six thousand two hundred sixty dollars annually. Also notes James Davidson, sentenced to twenty years in Fort Madison for assault on a child.
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Conners
Wm. Connors
Depot Destroyed By Fire in Albla The M and St L Depot
The Albla The M and St L depot was almost totally destroyed by fire after two earlier blazes within 24 hours. Firefighters extinguished the previous fires, and railroad men suspect arson. The loss is estimated at 394,000 dollars.
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Albla
Centerville Paving Project Promises Fifteen Miles
Centerville plans to complete about 15 miles of paving by summer after a contract for 40 blocks of road work is awarded. The project, expected to improve local transportation, aims to expand paved streets in Centerville.
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Centerville
David
Court debate on publishing Iowa laws faces funding hurdle
Officials discuss deadlines for printing proposed state laws and the need for executive council consent. If printers balk, the court may use state historical funds for advances. State board plans county guidance on inmate care and institution vacations amid differing views.
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Vatterheys
Supreme Court
Executive Council
Diastorical
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