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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1916
Page
1
The report describes a major assignment placed before the commission, with oversight and coordination involving states and Mexico. Officials emphasize partnership, logistics, and potential impacts on policy and regional interests.
A note to Eliseo Arredondo reports Washington ready to submit border issues to a joint international commission. The proposal includes enlarging powers for broader talks, including possible additional matters to improve US Mexican relations, with American members named and an early assembly in the United States.
The Standard reports Captain Wolvin is back from a distant sea mission. Meanwhile convicts in the penitentiary face a case involving a man and a disputed custody matter. Local notices include church announcements and a sermon at the gospel tent.
London July 28 British War Secretary David Lloyd George defended the Irish home rule talks. He said nationalists and Ulster unionists at least shook hands and that a broad offer was made by all British parties. He noted a proposed amendment to exclude Ulster when the Irish settlement is under review.
A scorching wave over the Middle West pushes north with 102 degree readings in Marquette and Green Bay. Chicago hits 97 as forecasters predict relief may come from the Canadian Northwest, with cooler air arriving in the Dakotas and Minnesota by Sunday and Missouri Illinois and Kansas by Monday. The heat blamed for 56 deaths in Chicago in the last 24 hours, with many more prostrations statewide.
Petrograd reports Brody, a key rail junction northeast of Lemberg, fallen to Russian forces after breaking the Austro German line west of Lutsk. Heavy casualties, over 9,000 prisoners, and many guns captured. London dispatches confirm British advances at Longueval and Delville Wood as Somme battles continue.
German airships raided the east coast of England early this morning. An official statement said the number of raiders is not yet established and reports from Yorkshire and Lincolnshire described bombs dropped with few details available.
Baltimore July 28 An extra crew boarded the tug Thomas Timmins to tow the submarine Deutschland to the capes A conference followed aboard the ship with Capt Paul Koenig commander Capt Frederick Hinsch of the North German Lloyd steamer Neckar and Capt Zach Cullison of the tugboat
Two men are killed during a Sunol Nebraska bank robbery as robbers take 1200 dollars, lock cashier W. Smith in the vault, and escape. A posse led by Sheriff McDaniels captured the suspects J. W. Cornell and R. d. Lukens about two miles from Sunol. about 1800 dollars recovered.
Chicago July 28 Judge K M Landis of the U S district court declared Margaret Ryan a Canadian working girl the mother of a year old child claimed also by Mrs Anna Dollie Ledgerwood and awarded custody. The ruling follows earlier dismissals in state courts over spurious heir claims and perjury. Landis said in maternity cases the real mother is decisive. He censured Misericordia hospital Ottawa Ontario and its staff after initial support for Mrs Matters claim eroded. Mrs Matters widow of a banker presented the child as a posthumous heir to her husband s estate later acquitted of conspiracy. The court transfer to Ryan ends the habeas corpus action. it does not alter the probate estate ruling that Irene was not Matters child. The estate valued about 200000 with 26 heirs remaining. The judge voiced uncertainty over the motive behind the act but concluded Ryan is the mother.
Berlin reports Capt. Charles Pryatt of the Great Eastern railway steamer was shot after trial for attempting to ram a German submarine near the Maas lightship. The official account says Pryatt accelerated toward the submarine and tried to ram it before the vessel escaped below the surface.
London reports strong British anger at the execution of Captain Fryatt of the Brussels steamship. The foreign office released correspondence with American ambassador Walter Page and notes inquiries into Fryatt’s trial. Officials defend the act as a lawful wartime response and urge prompt repatriation of five stewardesses detained in Germany.
The Sunday Standard previews a wartime issue with sections on the war’s progress, dispatches from the front and rear, and sensational features. It touts imprints by Reese Birsky and Zapp, a spy confession tale, aircraft attacks, and vivid accounts alongside sports, autos, fashion, theater listings, and society notes.
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