World War News Global Sinking and Front Shifts
News from the war fronts reports Italian, Japanese, and British ships sunk as U-boats resume commerce warfare. German air raids hit London and Harwich while Verdun sees French gains. Italy ends a commercial treaty with Germany. U.S. debates woman suffrage. domestic storms and strikes affect transportation and prices.
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Amsterdam Handelsblad
Berlin
Italy
Germany
Sporting Singles Claims Fastest Michigan Pace Record
Sporting Singles won the free-for-all pace at Kalamazoo Michigan, clocking the fastest mile ever seen in a Michigan race. The three-heat average was 2.002-3, marking the quickest three-heat pace on a Michigan mile track.
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Kalamazoo
Mich
Michigan
Mexican commissioners named for U S border talks
General Carranza proposes a broader scope for the joint commission to adjust border differences. Eliseo Arredondo delivers the note to Washington. Three Mexican commissioners Luis Cabrera Ygnacio Bonillas and Alberto Pani named to negotiate with U S counterparts. A dynamite blast at Empalme near Guaymas kills 60 and wounds 40 Carranzista soldiers, reports from Nogales.
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State Department
Washington
Eliseo Arredondo
Empalme
Guaymas
Sonora
Nogales
Ariz. S
Mexico City
Mexican Foreign Office
Luis Cabrera
Ygnacio Bonillas
Alberto Pani
United States
Mexico
Treaty signs sale of Danish West Indies for 25 million
Secretary Lansing and Denmark’s Minister Brun in New York announce a treaty where the United States buys the Danish West Indies for 25 million dollars. The Business Men's League of St. Louis wins a big transit rate decision, while Wilson sends Irish prisoner clemency hopes to Britain. Captain Blue resigns as head of navigation and is reassigned to command the battleship Texas. Britain foresees possible trade reprisals and adopts a new policy to be fostered by the Howe government.
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Lansing
Brun
Denmark
New York
United States
Danish West Indies
Great Britain
Howe
Flood Threatens to Wet Cavalry Camp at Brownsville
Rio Grande's 12 foot rise endangers Troop A of the First Illinois Cavalry camp near Brownsville Texas. Capt Joseph W Mattes orders extra shovels as flood risks pressure encampment while officers weigh family dislocation and wage disputes among married men facing possible discharge or return home.
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Tex
Rio Grande
First Illinois Cavalry
Joseph W. Mattes
Congress
James E. Parker
Illinois
Mexico
First
Illinois Cavalry
Field Artillery Hikes at Camp Wilson Tex
Field artillery units plan overnight hikes and expeditionary movements from Camp Wilson Texas with Battery C first to test field conditions. Batteries D and C follow daily, while water supply issues at Leon Springs provoke brief alarm before pumps restore potable water.
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Camp Wilson
Tex
Tunneis Field Artillery
Ilinois
CAR STRIKE ENDED MOB CHARGED BY POLICE
New York officials announced settlement of a street car strike that halted surface traffic citywide except Brooklyn for two days. Interborough workers will gain $1 daily extra pay, while police cleared 2000 strikers bombarding cars and roofs with missiles. Elevated and subway traffic rose as a result.
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Greater
Brooklyn
J. P. Mitchel
Mitchel
Oscar 8. Straus
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Interborough
Seven Drownings Reported Across Rivers in Three States
Cedar Rapids Iowa Aug 8 two girl butchers caused tragedy as Ralph Olney 22 and Bea trice and Edna Whitney 17 and 13 perished when their camping party’s boat capsized in the Cedar River. In Lafayette Indiana Aug 8 cousins Mary and Elizabeth Schroeder 16 drowned in the Wabash River. Milwaukee Wisconsin Aug 8 Alfred Adler 26 drowned in Tishigan Lake and Harold Case perished in the Wolf River while swimming.
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Ralph Olney
Beatrice
Edna Whitney
Cedar River
Olney
Frank Sullivan
Lafayette, Inc
Mary
Elizabeth Schroeder
Wabash
James
Joseph Schroeder
Milwaukee
Wis
Alfred Adler
Tishigan Lake
Waterford
Racine County
Harold Case
Wolf River
Russians Take Six Towns in Galicia Front
Russian forces broke Teutonic resistance along the Sereth and Graberka rivers south of Brody in northern Galicia and captured six villages with the ridge they occupy. Over 8,000 prisoners were taken, per a war office report. Berlin said Russians were forced from positions near Tarecze on the Stokhod. German troops in the Carpathians continued successful operations.
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London
Sereth
Graberka
Brody
Galicia
War Office
Berlin
Tarecze
Stokhod
Volhynia
Wimborne Reappointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Lord Wimborne is chosen again as lord lieutenant of Ireland after having resigned in May amid a royal commission probe into the Irish revolution. The official notice confirms the reappointment and ties it to ongoing inquiries from April.
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Ireland
London
Lord Wimborne
Central News
Lord Leutenant
Belgian Refugees Reach New York on Noordam
A party of 50 Belgians, mostly women and children, arrived in New York aboard the Holland America Line Noordam from Rotterdam. They travel to join relatives in the United States.
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U. 8
New York
Noordam
Rotterdam
United States
Trap Champion Kills Self in Delaware Accident
Alden B. Richardson, son of former Senator Harry A. Richardson and Delaware trap shooting champion, died in a Wilmington hospital from a wound received in an accident.
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Wilmington
Del
Alden B. Richardson
United States
Harry A. Richardson
Delaware
Representative Kettner Snaps Up Mexican Carriages
Representative William Kettner of California toured Mexico and found cab hire remarkably cheap at 20 cents for an hour. He hired all the carriages in front of his hotel to enjoy the bargain, leading a procession with seven carriages, the front one carrying him as his friends watched.
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William Kettner
California
Mexico
Kettner
Mexico City
Sunday Magazine
No-scratch relief with Cuticura soap and ointment
Red rough irritated hands find soothing relief with Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment. Soak hands in hot Cuticura soaksuds, dry, then apply Ointment for a one night treatment. Free sample by mail with Book. Address postcard to Cuticura Dept L Boston Bold everywhere.
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Boston
All-Seeing Eye patent copy machine by Brooklyn engineer
A Brooklyn electrical engineer develops a self operating eye that attaches to a typewriter to copy printed matter. The device uses a large sphere with four lenses and a retina-like selenium cell array fed by current, mounted on the carriage to reflect one letter at a time, as described by Popular Mechanics Magazine.
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Brooklyn
Popular Mechanics
England Uses Repulped Paper During Shortage
The London Globe notes a remarkable era as paper shortages force repulping of used sheets. Imprints survive oddly like an “o” here and an “h” there, revealing letters with no relation to the blank sheet.
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England
London
Globe
Prescription for Poverty and The Gamut of Europe
An excerpt contrasts claims about social insurance with the need for steady work and thrift. It notes sayings about forty centuries and a guide at the pyramids, then cites lines about boys becoming men and a critique of European head waiters as mild in comparison.
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Po Wombat
Europe
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