Germans Press Siege as Belgian Forts Hold
Reports from London and Brussels say German forces push siege on Liege forts while Belgian defenders repulse attacks. French troops advance into Belgium as Russian frontier forces grow, with speculation over Italy and Japan aligning with the Entente.
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Japan
Italy
Associated Press
Brussels
London
Liege
Exchange Telegraph Company
Reuter
Lorraine
Unification of French and Belgian Forces Reported
Paris announces establishment of unification between French and Belgian forces via officer exchanges. Rome reports Russia mobilizing two million on German and Austrian fronts and three million in reserve, with half a million on Turkish and Roumanian borders.
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Russia
London
Central News
Rome
St. Petersburg
Bandits Kill Paymaster and Company Officials in West Virginia
Bandits fatally shoot the Glen Alum Coal and Coke Company paymaster, the company physician, and the company electrician in Williamson West Virginia after taking a payroll of fifteen thousand dollars. The trio was ambushed as they left Glen Alum for the mines.
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Associated Press
Williamson
W. Va
Glen Alum Coal and Coke Company
Glen Alum
Dr Hardman to address Athens voters next Monday
Dr Hardman will speak to a large Athens audience next Monday evening drawing hundreds from Athens and Clarke county towns. The rally includes motor caravans from nearby counties with music and invitations to ladies. organizers promise a landmark political gathering.
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Hardman
Athens
Clarke County
So. Ga
Hardman Club
South Georgia
Cordele
Crisp
Dooley
Wilcox
Worth
Turner
Sumpter
Irwin
Harris
Randolph Anderson
Crisp CO
Son of Athens Citizen Dies in U S Army Service
Benjamin F. Jackson, son of Mr. B. F. H. Jackson of Meigs Street Athens, died while in U S Army service. He served several years and was noted for his Philippines duty. He recently was in Washington, D C, and in a government hospital before death. His burial followed in Gillsville beside his mother’s grave.
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Gillsville
Benjamin F. Jackson
B. F. H. Jackson
Meigs Street
Classic Theater Today Plays Three Noted Stars
Our program shows In The Sultan's Garden with Mary Pickford and King Baggott then Value Received a Western drama led by J Warren Kerrigan. It is rare to see three such artists in one day with Pickford Baggott and Kerrigan in one bill. Prices are 5 and 10 cents.
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Sultan’s Garden
Mary Pickford
King Baggott
J. Warren Kerrigan
Watermelons 10c to 25c at Arnold and Abney
Fine lot of fresh home raised watermelons available with every fruit guaranteed ripe. Arnold and Abney advertise the sale offering priced melons from 10 to 25 cents per pound.
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Arnold & Abney
Government insurance urged to curb war risk shipping halt
Washington on August 14 a conference of sixty two leading businessmen urged government insurance against war risks for American registered ships and cargoes to resume overseas trade hindered by European war. Secretary McAdoo presided as committee led by Seth Low began drafting the measure to aid relief efforts for current conditions.
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Associated Press
Washington
McAdoo
United States
Seth Low
Congress
Probing Food Prices Tied to European War
Investigations by state and federal forces began nationwide to determine if food prices rose under pretext of the European war. Grand jury actions started in Washington with subpoenas to merchants and wholesalers while citizens may testify. Similar inquiries planned in New York Chicago St Louis and other cities.
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Washington
National
Commission
New York
Chicago
St. Louis
Opposition to emergency shipping bill provision voiced in Senate
Washington August 14 Senate members from both parties voiced serious objections to the conference report on the emergency shipping bill. The provision would let foreign built ships admitted to the American register engage in coastwise trade. A vote was set for Monday afternoon and administration leaders planned to confer with the president beforehand. Clarke County Bank accommodates small borrowers.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate
Athens to Put Southern Bell Wires Underground
The Athens city council unanimously approved moving Southern Bell Telephone lines underground in business districts. The plan replaces overhead poles with conduits under streets, with a city contract to protect paving and street work and city engineer oversight during modernization to the 1914 pattern.
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Southern Bell
Southern Bell Telephone
Athens
Austrian Steamer Baron Gauth Blown Up by Mine
About 150 passengers and crew were killed or drowned when the Austrian Lloyd steamer Baron Gauth struck a mine off the Dalmatian coast near Lussia Island. The ship carried roughly 300 people.
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London
Lloyd
Baron Gauth
Lussia
Dalmatian
Reuter
Triesta
North and South America Divorced by Opened Ocean Canal
Panama Aug. 14 The canal opens tomorrow with the steamship Ancon ready to carry a full cargo. Flags of all nations will mark the event as the Ancon leaves Christobal at 7 in the morning for the locks, aiming for eleven hours passage. Governor Goethals, President Porras and other officials sail aboard.
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North
South America
Associated Press
Panama
Ancon
Annex
Christobel
Goethals
Porras
Capital of Mexico in Watchful Waiting State
Mexico City August 14 The capital awaited the incoming constitutionalists. A plan for dissolving the Federal army calls for surrender of arms to the constitutionalists. The army will be posted along the railway from the capital to Puebla with officers appointed to receive battalion surrenders.
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Mexico
Mexico City
Puebla
Suit to Recover 57600 in Postage on Franked Booklets
Postmaster General Burleson filed suit to recover fifty seven thousand six hundred dollars from the United States Beet Sugar Industry. The amount covers postage on a pamphlet circulated under Senator Lodge’s frank during the Underwood tariff debate. The pamphlet’s authorship was disclosed in the Senate lobby investigation and was written by Truman H Palmer, secretary of the United States Beet Sugar Industry.
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Associated Press
Washington
Burleson
United States
Senator Lodge
Frank
Congress
Senate
Truman H. Palmer
United States Beet Sugar Industry
From Rods of the Railroad Car to Public Highway
Will Jones, a colored man, swapped roles from a freight train brakeman on the S A L Railway to a county road working gang in under ten hours. He was arrested by Watchman Shoemake, jailed, tried by Judge West, and sentenced to six months’ labor for the county in lieu of a fine he could not pay.
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Will Jones
Shoemake
West
Marines Landed in Nicaragua By U S Forces
Washington Aug 14 United States marines were landed at Bluefields Nicaragua at the request of the American consulate amid threatened political disturbances. The operation involved fifty seven officers and enlisted men and followed warnings of unrest in the port city.
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Washington
Bluefields
Nicaragua
United States
Australians win doubles in Davis Cup. lead two matches to one
At Forest Hills on August 14 Brooks and Wilding of Australia defeated McLoughlin and Bundy of the United States in straight sets 6 3, 8 6, 9 7. The Australians lead two matches to one and the Americans must win both tomorrow to retain the cup.
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Associated Press
Forest Hills
Long Island
Brooks
Wilding
Australia
McLoughlin
Bundy
United States
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