Foreign warship fires three shots at M and M steamer
Newport News August 14 Captain Hatch of the Merchants and Miners steamer Dorchester reports that an unidentified warship, likely a British cruiser, fired three shots at his vessel yesterday. The ship showed an ensign in response and the cruiser departed. Hatch recalls the ship may have been the Sutoli and says shots were not near enough to harm anyone.
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Britons Assume Risks on Shipment of Grain
Portland, August 14. Grain exporters report that British buyers will assume all war risks on grain shipped from Portland to Great Britain via the Pacific. Preparations were made to send cargoes as the British vessel Wernlay to begin loading grain late today. The British steamer River Forth cleared the Columbia River bar at dawn bound for Bellingham to load lumber for Sydney.
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War Bulletin from Tirlemont and Namur Fronts
August 14 dispatches describe a more pronounced German advance from St Trond to Hasselt with infantry and cavalry movements toward Diest and Aerschot. Belgian defenses at Namur tighten as Namur residents are disarmed. French and British forces reinforce Belgium with troops moving Charleroi to Gembloux. Reports note Belgian prisoner captures, Belgian requests for interment sites, and aviator actions with casualties on both sides.
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Goeben and Breslau Crisis Draw Allies Demand
London reports Britain France and Russia press Turkey to repatriate German cruiser crews and disarm the Goeben and Breslau. Dispatches claim Turkey paid about 20 million dollars. Rome and Athens note regional anxiety over Turkish neutrality and potential Balkan impact.
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Devastation in Liege Described by Refugee
A Brussels diary recounts Liege's siege with thirty thousand fleeing residents, shells destroying bridges and roofs, graves appearing in streets, and German troops patrolling as bakers are forced to turn over bread. The city is described as a graveyard by night with constant shellfire and occupation.
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Weather Prophecy Local Thundershowers In North Region
Weather prophecy notes local thundershowers likely Saturday and possibly Sunday. Reports from stations show a low around 66, high near 76, mean near 76 with a rainfall 0.44 inches in the past 24 hours and 0.65 inches since month start. Temperature trends and city forecasts list varied conditions across multiple locales with many towns reporting cloudy or clear skies and light showers. HERRMANN, section director.
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Bicyclists Route Force of German Cavalry Near Namur
In a Namur sortie yesterday two hundred Belgian cyclists and cavalry routed a German force, surrounding about two hundred Germans, killing many, capturing fifty, and forcing retreat. The Belgians deprived the Germans of a field gun and several machine guns, as Belgian cavalry pressed the action with artillery and machine guns.
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Mrs Lowry Porter Safe at Interlaken
Washington reports Mrs Lowry Porter is cared for at Hotel Victoria in Interlaken Switzerland amid war relief efforts. State department seeks Martha Berry and locates Isaac Jusebman in Atlanta, while other aid cases unfold as war news and odd dispatches circulate.
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What Men Live By cited by Harvard University doctor
Dr Richard C Car hot discusses What Men Live By in his book from Houghton Mifflin. He argues essential human values remain work play love and worship despite modern Broadway glitter and shifting culture.
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Company to Protest Censorship of Cables
New York August 14 The Commercial Cable Company announced it would contest an form of unreasonable search the placement of censors in its office by the government The vice president George Clapperton argued submarine cables differ from wireless telegraphy and that cablegrams are akin to letters and not to warfare The matter mirrors war censorship and potential neutrality concerns Washington noted the final decision on extending censorship to cables has been deferred with hearings expected Monday by counsel for commercial firms and Attorney General McReynolds
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Russian consul forced to salute Germania in Frankfurt
Paris August 14 further exodus of Americans reported today as two French Line steamers departed Havre for New York. A Zurich dispatch said the Russian consul at Frankfurt Nix De Damier was seized from his home and marched to a statue of Germania where he was forced to remove his hat and bow before the statue then kicked and cuffed.
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Russia promises to protect Poles in Russia
St. Petersburg report states Grand Duke Nicholas ordered that Poles loyal to the Slav cause will be protected by the Russian army and government. Any interference with their arsonal and material rights by Poles not hostile to Russia will be met with martial law penalties.
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Austria- Hungary
Nicholas Nicholaiviteb
Dolly Varden Flour Ad Promises Perfect Satisfaction
A bakery flour advertisement urges readers to choose Dolly Varden Flour for reliable baking results with white, "driven snow" quality. It directs shoppers to ask their grocer for the product.
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