Wilson Nominates McCain Adjutant General
President Wilson names Colonel Henry P. McCain as adju tant general with brigadier general rank. He also backs a plan to buy ships to ferry American foodstuffs abroad and supports a 3 cent a mile interstate railroad fare in Arkansas Missouri and Oklahoma. Congress passes emergency shipping and war risk insurance bills.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Europe
Plague Case in New Orleans Moves Headlines
Domestic reports note the twentieth bubonic plague case in New Orleans with Louise Welsh, a 24 year old Black woman. Other items include Hamburg American line seeking buyers for steamships valued at 20 million dollars, and notes on sugar prices and the Rome papal succession inquiry.
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Hamburg-American Line
Shopkeepers Clerks Drill for War in London Streets
London shopkeepers organize their clerks into volunteer fighting units as Britain braces for war. Workers drill each evening, many regiments formed in large stores, and even small shops assemble groups. The movement is government supervised as Britain readies for conflict.
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Brussels War Tax and Global War Announcements
A 40 million dollar war tax is levied on Brussels by a German general. Austria calls able bodied men 20 to 42 for arms as nations mobilize. British and American workers die in the Celba Honduras customs house collapse. Japan demands China’s fleet withdrawal by August 25. King George urges troops to duty. A British force lands in France and Belgium. Rotterdam to bake bread with wheat meal and potato meal. French garrison surrounds Tangier legations. Crassard ferries staff to neutral ports. Cardinals consider urging truce amid papal election.
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War Scenes From Austria Letter From Chicago Girl
A fragmentary dated letter describes vivid war scenes in Austria during a chaotic retreat. Miss Lillian Franke, traveling with Miss Fann Mayer, writes of a train held by soldiers and Americans fleeing Carlsbad as they hurry to reach Germany and then return to the United States amid worsening conditions.
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Carnage Scene Near Dutch Frontier Village Report
A correspondent from Wise and Liege describes a desecrated German camp near Mesch, with dead soldiers civilians horses wagons and bicycles scattered. Germans and Belgians lie side by side proving fierce hand to hand fighting and civilians attacked after shelling from windows.
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Liege
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Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Endorsed By Mother
A Mississippi mother recounts her daughter’s recovery from weakness through Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound after consulting three doctors without relief. The letter promotes the remedy as a trusted women’s product and invites others to write for personal advice.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia E Pinkham
Left Out Honest Agriculturist Slights Women Voice
A dialogue scene features a man declaring men run things and women unneeded while his wife counters by saying she is both. The exchange highlights gender role tensions in a domestic setting.
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