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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1915
Page
1
NCREE reports on a plan to save Mexico and notes ratification at a reD ICAN conference. The item mentions MED TOMORROW and highlights the action as part of ongoing diplomatic or strategic discussions.
Secretary Lansing says he is encouraged by Pan American conference progress in shaping a course to restore constitutional government in Mexico. Officials expect mutual respect for all sides, while debates over provisional government and arms embargoes continue amid regional tensions and recent diplomatic moves. Stanbury Wright, 115, dies in Sioux City after illness during a cross country trip.
Journal entries summarize global conflict updates and domestic items including peace plans, troop movements, border security, labor events, crime and court actions, Red Cross appeals, and unemployment or payout notes. The page blends war days commentary with ads, horoscopes, and financial notes.
Washington Aug. 9 The United States will continue to act alone in representations to England over neutral trade. Swedish efforts to secure neutral concerted action against British Orders in Council have failed. The U.S. state department has not agreed to a joint note and negotiations continue without common ground.
Kalispel August 9 All of the 90 tracts in the villa sites bordering Flathead Lake have been disposed of in a sale under the supervision of Judge Job McPhaul assistant United States land commissioner. Lands are on the Flathead Indian reservation. Proceeds totaled 130000 dollars, about 25000 above estimate. Nearly every state represented among buyers.
General Goethals designates November 1 as the resignation date for governor of the Panama Canal Zone in a formal letter to Washington upon arrival from Cristobal. He says he resigns because his Panama work is completed and the canal operates satisfactorily after seven years. He will no longer be connected with the canal zone's affairs as governor if his resignation is accepted.
PIE IN POCATE Pocatello Idaho Aug 9 Fire raged at 1030 pm in the Trapp and Pierce grocery destroying a block in eastern Pocatello with losses estimated between 50000 and 60000 dollars. Insurance status unknown. Reports from Cordova Alaska indicate the Copper River Northwestern Railway washout near 10 miles has been repaired enough to resume traffic next Friday.
Petrograd reports a German fleet of nine battleships and 12 cruisers and torpedo boat destroyers attacked the Gulf of Riga entrance. A cruiser and two torpedo boat destroyers were damaged. Refugees flood Riga outskirts as cattle and horses are rescued, with many sleeping in woods and bread in short supply due to mill machinery removal.
President Wilson aiding three automobilists after their car overturned on a Vermont road between Windsor and Ascutneyville. Mrs. Sayre and Dr. Grayson assisted. Miss F E Swasey Mrs Emma Hathaway and C Judd of Norwich Vermont were rescued and found not seriously injured after examination.
Secretary McAdoo spent the day in the treasury and financial district in New York denying reports he came to discuss financing a new Mexican government. He noted meetings with Robert Lansing and South American envoys would resume Wednesday and said his visit was department business, not financing Mexico.
Amsterdam reports in the Handelsblad that Baron D An Grian Werberg, former Austro Hungarian consul general at Warsaw, plans to return soon to Warsaw with Austrian nobles of Polish descent to settle there. The Austrian press is united in asserting Russia will not regain Poland.
Ottawa announces the militia department ends the veto by wives and mothers over service. Enlisted men may no longer buy discharges by paying 13 dollars, as the $13 exemption practice is discontinued. Canadians are reminded they must fulfill military service obligations.
London dispatch reports a signed protocol between Turkey and Bulgaria over the Dedenghatch railway leaving Bulgaria unpledged in the European war. It claims Bulgaria would receive Turkish territory west of the Maritza river to ease ties, but details face obstacles and negotiations stall amid Russia's reverses.
Governor Lister granted an unconditional pardon to Harry E B Carr of Leavenworth Washington who was convicted nearly two years ago of second degree murder for the killing of two men in a Cashmere courtroom during an assault trial against Carr's daughter.
Rear Admiral Caperton reports progress as American bluejackets and marines control key towns and facilities in Haiti. Port au Prince's northern rebel leader renounces power, orders disarmament, promises cooperation to restore order. Presidential hopefuls Robe Iv and Hourand accept Congress choice. election timing to be set. U S will demand full tranquility before any steps. Customs houses now supervised by American authorities to prevent looting and preserve revenues.
George Fitch author died in a Berkeley sanitarium after an operation performed yesterday. He was born June 5, 1877 in Galva Illinois and lived in Peoria with his widow Clara Gattrell Fitch. He served in the Illinois house of representatives from 1905 to 1911 and wrote for magazines and newspapers. Funeral services are planned in Berkeley and burial will be in Peoria.
Federal troops move through Poland near Warsaw, clearing guard ranches and removing Russian presence. Reports describe lines of forces and aid supplies converging around key transit points as operations intensify.
Aug 9 reports describe a fierce clash near Norias ranch Brownsville area where five Mexican bandits and a Mexican woman were killed and five Americans wounded as U S infantry and Rangers fought to repel attackers. Soldiers and civilians pursued bandits while two American aviators were injured in a crash near Nogales.
The Swedish steamer Mai was sunk by a German submarine. Seven men and a woman were landed here. another boat with nine men is missing. The report notes heavy Allied and German actions across Northwest Russia and Poland, with battles near Warsaw and Galicia, and troops pressing along the Vistula and Bug rivers as Russians retreat in places. The article mentions Allied air raids, French bombardments on Saarbrucken, and growing German-Austrian advances in Poland and Russia, along with a harvest gained by German forces from disobeyed Russian farmers.
London August eight forty five p.m. British forces report a renewed push on the western front with improved momentum. Sir John French, commander in chief, notes heavy artillery actions and trench work along a 1200 yard front near Prague, signaling a climactic moment in the first phase of the campaign.
A Holland based article from The Courant cites anonymous diplomatic sources urging immediate peace talks among belligerents. It notes neutral powers mediating to remove errors and suggests the Hague meeting may press for a conference to end the war. British easing toward reason and reduced international hatred are mentioned amid calls for timely settlement. Also reported is a Castle Rock Idaho crash that killed Idaho wool grower’s wife, injuring her husband and son.
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