Progress of War Fronts and Allied Advances Worldwide
Western Union reports mixed World War I news with Belgian cavalry capturing a German submarine and American troops arriving in Europe. Germans use liquid fire in trench captures. Kutty fallen in the Carpathians. Russians retreat from Tarnopol. Romanians advance in Suchitza valley while Austro German and Russian actions shift across Galicia and Moldova.
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Tarnopol
Europe
Kutty
Carpathians
Teutons
France
Romania
Putna
Berlin
Galicia
Global wartime brief reports and incidents
News digest covers strikes in Rio and Buenos Aires tremor warnings in Poiland, Russian arrest targets, Lenine pursuit, Australian envoy proposal, papal war plea, political reshuffles, conscription debate, mine disaster in Canada, naval actions, and battlefield dispatches from Europe to Poltava with casualty notes and evacuations.
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Bakers
Rio Janeiro
Buenos Aires
Poiland
Cheng-Tu
China
Nickolai Lenine
Potato Production May Miss Estimated Figure
Potato output may fall short of the forecast as Lou D. Sweet notes. The story also recounts wheat price controls, guard patrols in Youngstown to curb race rioting, and a murder linked to a Cahokia Creek discovery near Edwardsville with Mrs. Ida Snow and her daughter Hester in custody.
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Lou D. Sweet
National Guardsmen
Youngstown
Ohio
K. R. Voris
Manhattan
Kan
Linda Vista
Cal
Chicago
United States
Ida Snow
Hester Snow
Edwardsville
Ill
Food-control bill stalls as conference committee fails
Government withholds comment on dispatch announcing another contingent of American troops in Europe. Bronze service exemption button distribution to local boards begins with each rejected man receiving one. Red Cross council allocates 300000 dollars for American and Syrian relief. Panama canal ship usage shows a sharp rise. Exports Council presents plan to President Wilson to ration neutral northern Europe. Senator Penrose attacks George Creel over public information role.
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Europe
Red Cross Council
Panama Canal
Wilson
Exports Council
Penrose
George Creel
Bureau of Public Information
Boxer Al Palzer Dies From Gunshot Wound in Minnesota
Al Palzer, the boxer, died from a gunshot wound inflicted by his father at Fergus Falls Minnesota. He was shot in the abdomen while trying to protect his mother and ran a mile and a half to the hospital. The father was held without bail. Clarence Shockley of Casper Wyoming won a special auto race from Denver to Cheyenne in two hours two minutes defeating a special train by twenty four and a half minutes. Earl Longley of Boulder Colorado placed second, fifteen minutes behind. Cheyenne Frontier Day announced new world Wild West champions across multiple events including rough riding Samuel Brownell Wyoming and others such as Mrs Edward Wright New Mexico Edward Eddie Oklahoma John Murrah New Mexico Ruth Parton Washington Harry Walters Colorado Samuel Garrett Oklahoma.
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al Palzer
Fergus Falls
Minn
Palzer
Clarence Shockley
Casper
Wyo
Denver
Cheyenne
Earl Longley
Boulder
Colo
Samuel Brownell
Wyoming
Edward Wright
New Mexico
Edward Eddie
Oklahoma
John Murrah
Ruth Parton
Washington
Harry Walters
Colorado
Samuel Garrett
Army draft law may apply to any subjects in the U S
A report notes the draft statute could reach all residents and subjects in the United States amid wartime policy. The item links broader mobilization to legal changes, citing implications for citizens and non citizens alike.
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United States
New York State
Late Market Quotations for Cattle and Sheep
Market report lists cattle and sheep bids with prie levels for steers cows and heifers. Prices span pulp fed grass figures for steers from 4.50 to 12.25 and lambs from 4.50 to 14.75 with several categories including feeders stockers and wethers.
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Crolce
COE Pecarcee Traveratt Craters Alse Ie Axe
Grolco Ics
Aes
Ek Aesiearele Ip Poaene
GOP
Ae Calae
Bane
Market prices for hay and feeds in Colorado and Nebraska
Prices shown per ton for various feeds: Colorado upland at 20.00 to 24.00, Nebraska upland 18.00 to 22.00, prairie hay old crop 19.00 to 21.00, prairie hay new crop Colorado and Western states 16.00 to 18.00, Timothy 22.00 to 24.00, alfalfa new crop 12.00 to 15.00, South Park 23.00 to 25.00, Gunnison Valley 21.00 to 24.00.
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F. O. B. Renee
Carlond
Colorado Upland
Nebraska Upland
Neb
Ise
Colo
South Park
Gunnison Valley
Market prices for metals and concentrates reported
Lead spot at 111 cents. Copper electrolytic at 26.50 to 27.00 dollars. August onward 23.50 to 26.50. Tin firm at 62.62 dollars. Bar silver 78. London bar silver 39 pence per ounce. Boulder tungsten concentrates 60 percent at 17 dollars per unit. Crude ores 60 percent at 15 dollars or 9.40 to 12.00 with 10 percent at 8.70 to 10.00 per unit.
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New York
London
Boulder
Chicago Live Stock Quotations Report
Chicago hog and cattle prices listed with range details for bulk light mixed heavy and rough hogs. Cattle prices cover native beef cattle Western steers stockers feeders cows and heifers calves. Sheep quotes include wethers ewes and lambs with price ranges.
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Chicago
Chicago Grain and Provision Prices
Wheat No 2 red 2.48 No 3 red 2.42 2.45 No 2 hard nominal No 3 hard 2.48 Corn No 2 yellow 2.25 2.26 No 8 yellow 2.2544 2.26 Oats No 8 white 78 80 standard 79 81 Barley 1.25 1.52 Timothy 4.00 7.50 Clover 12.00 17.00 Pork 41.15 Lard 20.42 20.52 Ribs 21.45 24.95
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Chicago
Market Prices For Produce Eggs And Poultry In Kansas City
Kansas City markets report butter creamery at 36c firsts 34c seconds 33c packing 33c. Eggs firsts 30c seconds 25c. Poultry hens 16c roosters 13c broilers 20c.
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Kansas City
Secretary Lansing Demands Democracy to End German Aggression
Secretary of State Lansing declares that peace can come only when the united democracies overthrow the German military system. He warns that German imperialism threatens the world and urges student officers to support the justice of the Allied cause in France.
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Union News Service
Washington
United States
Michaelis
Lansing
Madison Barracks
N. Y
Robert Lansing
Germany
France
America
Russians Halt Retreat on Galicia Frontier
Loyal Russians return to the army in Galicia and hold a key river Zbrocz height after a violent battle. In several sectors, Russian retreat is checked and new attacks are launched. Romanians report village captures in the valleys of Ca sin and Putna. Canadian front advances between Reservoir hill and Cite du Moulin. Violent artillery duels persist on the Aisne and Verdun fronts as German surprise attacks are repulsed.
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London
Galicia
Zbrocz
Casin
Putna
Reservoir Hill
Cite du Moulin
Lens
Aisne
Verdun
President Urges Fruit Saving in Nationwide Canning Drive
President Wilson appeals to women across cities towns and farms via Secretary D F Houston to curb losses of perishable fruits and vegetables. Twenty four states seek government aid and guidance on immediate canning preserving pickling drying and storing methods.
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Washington
Wilson
D. F. Houston
Paris Ambulance Section 31 Departs for Front
The Paris Ambulance section No. 31 of the American field service leaves for the front. Soldiers and medical corps prepare to support advancing troops as station duties shift to active service.
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Paris
Chicago Switchmen Strike Ends
Chicago switchmen reach a settlement after an all night conference. By breakfast time the strike is settled and by nightfall virtually all yards in the Chicago switching district are operating as usual.
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Chicago
One Man to Control Food Policy Agreed
Washington reports House and Senate conferees have settled on a single official to control food policy replacing the three member food administration board proposed by the Senate.
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Washington
House
Senate
Food Administration Board
Arizona Strikers Rioting Trial and State News Digest
The Globe trial for sixty eight strikers on rioting charges is reported alongside numerous state items. Updates cover mining progress at Calumet Jerome and Mayer, Copper production figures, desert terrain activity, Red Cross fundraising, drafts, and personnel movements across Arizona.
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Western
Union News Service
Globe
Arizona
Woman Credits Pinkham Remedy For Menopause Help
A Lowell Massachusetts woman describes three years of nervous trouble and headaches then reports relief after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She lists symptoms such as suffocation hot flashes and dizziness and invites others to seek confidential advice from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Lowell, Mass
Lydia E. Pinkham
Margaret Quinn
Bear
Worthen St
Lowell
Mass
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn
Inverted Rain Bullets Across Aviator Sight
An officer recalls a curious sight at 8 000 feet when bullets from rifles and machine guns rose past the plane like rain, the topmost parts moving slowly as if predictions of vertical range. The scene, observed during wartime, ends with the realization that the marksmen below were aiming. Wives are more liberal than husbands. The wife who has a mind of her own is apt to give her husband a piece of it.
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Sacred College
Rome
Eric Geddes
House of Commons
Cambridge
Ottawa
Murguia
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R. M. Blatchford
John Biddle
England
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Dominion Coal Company
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North Sea
J. J. C. Bratiano
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George Vuicich
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Mlle
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Minsk
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Joplin Sweer
Hutchinson
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Encylopedia Britannica
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David Schwartz
Chester
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Jacob Dickinson
Rock Island Railroad
William M. Garland
National Association of Real Estate Boards
Western Newspaper Union News Service
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Fr. O. B
Csiaeisie
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Calumet & Jerome
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Yuma
Della Rhodes
Eufrimio Arze
Tennessee
Chloride
J. S. Gatlin
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Forestry Department
Tucson
Coconino Forest
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War Department
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Bisbee
Columbus
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F. Graves
Kingman
Naco
Tom Reed
White City
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Wheeler
Yavapai County
Mayer
Arizona Binghamton Copper Company
Powhatan S. Wren
Arizona Pioneers
Prescott
Pioneers
J. F. Mahoney
Douglas
W. D. Patterson
Charles Irby
Harry Welch
Phenix Chamber of Commerce
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Peoria
State Bureau of Mines
University of Arizona
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Department of Agriculture
Fred 8. Breen
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