French push gains at Longpont and surrounding forts
Paris reports French forces advance on a five mile front between the Aisne and the Marne capturing Longpont village and nearby strongholds. Raids in Champagne and north of Montdidier yield prisoners. German artillery active on Verdun front and along the Meuse left bank.
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Paris
Aisne
Marne
Longpont
War Office
Verdun
Champagne
Montdidier
Chavigny
Facerolles
Meuse
Guysville to Unveil Service Flag Sunday
Guysville Ohio will unveil its service flag Sunday afternoon at 2 30 with athletic exercises. The flag lists forty names with stars for Guysville and Rome township. Attendees will hear speakers Worstell and Foster of Athens along with songs in an open air center of the village.
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Guysville
Rome Township
Worstell and
Foster
Athens
German leaders ready for sincere peace proposals
London dispatches report Chancellor Von Hertling announcing willingness to consider sincere peace proposals before the Reichstag committee. A new crisis is feared as German officials including Von Hintze are cited as likely to influence foreign policy and possible open diplomacy.
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Nited Press
London
Germany
Posals
von Herclared
Committee of the
Reichstag
Admiral von Hintze
Foreig
T Cellor von Hertling
von Hintze
Repo von Payer
Von
French advances push gains between Aisne and Marne
French operations between the Aisne and the Marne grow in importance with reports of capturing Corcy village and castle, and Chavigny Farm. Longpont sits on the eastern fringe of Villers-Cotterets Forest near Soissons, Buassares, Corey, and Faverolles in the zone of American positions.
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Aisne
Marne
Corcy
Chavigny Farm
Longpont
Villers-Cotterets Forest
Soissons
Buassares
Corey
Faverolless
Italians Sweep Through Albania Into Berat in Fast Advance
Rome reports a major Italian surge in Albania with 20 to 25 mile gains and the fall of key positions. Italian forces envelop Berat and capture an air field as Austrian resistance collapses on the right wing. British monitors and air crews aided the push, with several Semeni river bridges destroyed by bombs.
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Rome
Austria
Albania
Piave
Battle Front
Semeni River
Valona
Berat
Fieri
Germans Repulsed After Raid on Marne Front
By Frd S Ferguson With the Americans on the Marne July 11 a large German patrol trying to raid American lines near Chateau Thiery was repulsed with casualties. The dead identified new artillery units in the sector. Harassing artillery fire occurred elsewhere but no infantry action was reported as weather hampered serial activity.
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Frd
S. Ferguson
Marne
Chateau-Thiery
British Wade In on Flanders Front Raids
Haig reports over 120 prisoners and ten machine guns captured in a minor operation southwest of Merrig on the Flanders front. Successful raids also conducted elsewhere in Flanders and Picardy.
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Wade
London
Merrig
Flanders
Haig
Picardy
Washington Draft Postponement Request Processed
In July, the Provost Marshal General’s department issued a response to a request for delaying the draft of wheat production workers. The department indicated no postponement to the monthly draft and referenced agricultural needs in the military program.
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Washington
Sd Toxr
Brewing industry shut down nationwide to save coal
Washington July 12 Absolute order by the Fuel Administration halts manufacture of beer and all beer substitutes to conserve coal. The move affects the entire brewing industry in the United States and is described as a pure conservation measure by Dr. Garfield designed to save coal.
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Washington
United States
The
Fuel Administration
Garfield
Roosevelt’s Son Claims First Aerial Victory Over Germans
Washington reports confirm Lieut. Quentin Roosevelt, youngest son of Theodore Roosevelt, scored the first air victory north of Chateau-Thierry on July 10. Flying with three companions at 5,000 yards altitude, he engaged three enemy planes after misidentifying them, shot one down in a dive, then escaped uninjured as the others attacked.
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Washington
Quentin Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Chateau- Thierry
Roosevelt
Toda in the Great War Highlights and Dates
Entries recount Russian capture of Kalusz in Southern Galicia and British India secretary J A Chamberlain resigning over Mesopotamian mismanagement. Reports note fierce fighting along the Stokhod, a 1915 German west front offensive near Souchez, and British position improvements in 1916.
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Kalusz
Galicia
J. Austin Chamberlain
India
Stokhod Riv
Gas attack report reaches family from Rainbow Division
Mrs. W. E. Moler received a letter from her brother Charlies C. Goodrich of Company L 166th Infantry Rainbow Division in France. He says he was gassed around June 1 and confined in a base hospital but recovering well and hopes to return to the trenches soon. He notes hospital care near perfection and mentions his brother Lawrence since their last sighting.
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W. E. Moler
Charlies C. Goodrich
166Th Infantry
Rainbow Division
France
Young Goodrich
Lawrence
Sugar Chiefs for County Now at Work
The Athens county food board appoints committee men to manage canning sugar orders. The list includes A C Law Chauncey Frank Tidd Coolville W D Phillips Trimble C W Caldwell Jacksonville C E Saunders Millfield E G Gibson Mineral James Wilson New England Charles Day Lottridge Charles Caldwell Red Town Pearl Metcalf Poston Charles Daugherty Beaumont Frank Gibson Amesville Murray Hatch Frost Ralston Wells Lathrop A K Newman Jerseyville Arthur Finsterwald Beebe Mrs Pearl D Segwick Utley D B Lowry West Carbondale Porter Elliott Pleasanton James Pickering Stewart Frank Bolton Albany Virgil Yaw Glouster Safe Hawk New Marshfield C E Kinkead Guysville Charles Davis Big Run Edward Dutton Hockingport A C Watson Torch Hill C E Fitch Latrobe Charles M Campbell Peter Erb Hocking Frank Bardin Roy Bardin Sharpsburg H C Shirley Canaonville Chas L Orr Pratts Fork H B Garnett Broadwell Carl P Jones Federal J D Smith East Carbondale Robert Leopold Athens
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Athens County Food Board
A. C. Law
Chauncey
Frank Tidd
Coolville
W. D. Phillips
Trimble
C. W. Caldwell
Jacksonville
C.E. Saunders
Millfield
E. G. Gibson
Mineral
James Wilson
New England
Charles Day
Lottridge
Charles Caldwell
Red Town
Pearl Metcalf
Poston
Charles Daugherty
Beaumont
Frank Gibson
Amesville
Murray Hatch
Frost
Ralson Wells
Lathrop
A. K. Newman
Jerseyville
Arthur Finsterwald
Beebe
Pearl D. Segwick
Utley
D. B. Lowry
West Carbondale
Porter Elliott
Pleasanton
James Pickering
Stewart
Frank Bolton
Albany
Virgil Yaw
Glouster
Safe Hawk
New Marshfield
C. E. Kinkead
Guysville
Charles Davis
Big Run
Yankees Meet Disaster in Air Raid
Berlin reports five American warplanes from a six ship squadron aiming at Coblenz were captured with crews taken prisoner. Coblenz sits on the Rhine 60 miles southeast of Cologne and has about 50 000 residents.
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United Press
Berlin
London
Coblenz
German War Office
Rome
Cologne
German planes shot down. British losses rise
London reports on July 12 that thirteen German aircraft were shot down by British airmen on July 10 while four British planes were lost. The air ministry also announced over ten tons of bombs fell on enemy targets.
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London
Air Board
British air raid on Constantinople announced
London reports another British air raid on Constantinople announced by the air board today.
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London
Constantinople
The
Air Board Today
Death of Archibald Howe at Athene State Hospital
Archibald Howe, 73, died last evening at about 6 from paralysis after eleven days at Athene State hospital. Undertaker Baughman received the body. A son-in-law, Charles Holmes of Trimble, accompanied the body to Jacksonville for burial arrangements.
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Archibald Howe
Athens State Hospital
Antaker Baughman
Charles Holmes
Trimble
Jacksonville
Profiteers and Pleasure Car Owners Face New War Taxes
Washington reports the House Ways and Means Committee drafts a war tax bill to raise 8 billion dollars with heavy taxes on profiteers and luxury items. A ten cent gas tax may target pleasure car users while commercial users may escape. Public protests focus on clothing levies.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Treasury Department
House Committee
Congress
Cholera Ravages Petrograd Amid Food Shortage
A wireless dispatch from Petrograd reports hundreds of persons dying daily from cholera as the epidemic spreads, blamed on severe food shortages. Rationing runs at less than a quarter of a pound per person daily.
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United -Rena
London
Petrograd
Wilson pledges no censorship under wire control
President Wilson will forbid censorship of news dispatches under government control of wires and assure Congress that press associations and bureaus will not be disturbed. He asked that the Senate be informed to calm fears that Postmaster General Burleson would impose a censor if given control.
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United Press
Washington
Wilson
Senate
Burleson
Tragic Montreal Woman Kills Self and Four Children
In Montreal on July 12 Mrs. Philliam Dupont aged 38 attempted to go to heaven for herself and her four children by igniting a gas range and pouring coal dust around a room Then she set her own hair alight and lay beside the children on a bed They all died A letter explains her motive and that she told her husband of the plan
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Montreal
Quebec
Philliam Dupont
Athens county selectee Cherrington named candidate at Camp Sherman
Homer VY Cherrington a recent Athens county selectee who went to Camp Sherman has been chosen as a candidate for the officers training school. Cherrington formerly taught and when drafted was a member of the Ohio University faculty.
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Homer VY. Cherrington
Athens County
Camp Sherman
Officers Training School
Cherrington
Ohio University
Local resident kills six foot blue racer in garden
Charley Brown of Charley and Belle fatally shoots a blue racer measuring six feet three inches in the garden of the Brown home on Mound street. The snake was seen attempting to seize a bird among honeysuckle vines on the front porch before being chased and killed in the nearby yard.
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Charley Brown
Charley
Ohi Coal Head Quits Plage at State House
Charles F. Mayer, executive secretary of the Ohio Fuel Department since last fall, announced his resignation effective next week. James G. Young, traffic manager of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce and Franklin County fuel head, will succeed Mayer.
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OHI
State House
United Press
Columbus
Charles F. Mayer
Ohio Fuel Department
James G. Young
Columbus Chamber of Commerce
Franklin County Fuel Head
Mayer
War on Turks 10 Come Soon Is Believed
Washington July 12 Turkish regulars were responsible for the outrages against American property at Tabriz according to information furnished the State Department by the Spanish government. This tends to escalate a situation between the United States and Turkey and if proven by the response expected from the latter nation it probably will prove a casus belli.
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United Press
Washington
Tabriz
State Department
Unites States
Turkey
Exile or vacation? Kuehlmann plans Switzerland trip
Amsterdam reports former German minister Dr. Kuehlmann will travel to Switzerland for a long vacation, signaling a likely period away from Berlin and German politics. The announcement notes no immediate return date.
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Amsterdam
Kuehlmann
Switzerland
Berlin
Government to review naturalization and aliens laws
London July 12 report stating the government has adopted committee recommendations to review naturalization of suspect persons investigate aliens and tighten the law including changes of persons names as noted by the Northcliffe papers.
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Onrres Vesa
London
Gem Commons
Northcliffe
Far Office
Distribution impact from luggage car reductions
Washington July 12 reports that smaller baggage cars used on trains have forced industries board to urge wholesalers and rail salesmen to cut the number of trunks carried. The move aims to reduce sample goods and encourage photographic catalogs and pamphlets as alternatives.
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Washington
Thedustries Board
Rate and Hung Both Washington July 12
A nationwide effort targets rats and other pests across the country with emphasis on barns corn bins water fronts and related areas. The campaign notes annual losses of about 200 million dollars in foodstuffs and property plus labor from waste.
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Washington
Washington telegram lists Pershing casualty figures
General Pershing reported total casualties: killed in action nine, died of disease seven, died in airplane accident two, died of accident four, wounded severely fifteen, wounded slightly one, wounded undetermined two, missing in action five. T Grimes of Springfield Ohio is missing in action.
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United Press
Washington
Pershing
T. Grimes
Springfield
Ohio
New Gas to Neutralize Poison Gas at Atlantic Port
American soldiers arriving aboard a French steamer report a new gas that can neutralize poison gas. They say shells containing the gas purify the air in bombardment sectors and make gas masks unnecessary.
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Atlantic Port
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