Warfront Updates From Rome To Verdun In Recent Fighting
Rome reports slight progress on the Trentino front against Austria Saint. Sweden plans protest to Berlin over sinking of Swedish ships. Turkish attack near Suez fails. Petrograd claims capture of six Sereth villages and Russian crossing. Meuse artillery intensifies with no clear advantage. Zeeland sunk, five other ships lost. Hindenburg drives Russians from Stokhod area and advances on Volhynia front. Allied losses total about 350000 since Somme offensive began. Australian second-line positions near Verdun face heavy German artillery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Trentino
Sweden
Berlin
Baltic Sea
Suez Canal
London
Petrograd
Sereth
Meuse
Zeeland
South Shields
Lloyds
Marshal von Hindenburg
Stokhod
Volhynian
Somme
Paris
Verdun
Chapitre Wood
France
Various World War I era notices from a British newspaper
Reports include Baron Wimborne’s reappointment as lord lieutenant of Ireland, French soldiers discharged due to tuberculosis, the Serbian parliament to be convoked, a Winnipeg factory fire causing 300000 dollars in losses, and royal betrothal ties. Also noted: execution of Villista leader Pedro Solis, typhus cure by Nicolle and Blaisot, a furniture painting industry for artists, potato fodder ban lift in Berlin, French prisoner totals, Cuba’s 30 day child quarantine, Korea’s governor general gifting albums to world leaders, Devonshire’s Canada governorship as a tour precursor, a skirmish near Mapimi with casualties on both sides, and the hanging of Roger Casement for Irish rebellion involvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnipeg Paint and Glass Company
Li Yuan Hung
Yuan Shi Kai
Pedro Solis
Villista
Carranzas
Chihuahua
Serbia
Korea
Wilson
Great Britain
France
Russia
Duke of Devonshire
Canada
Mapimi
Durango
Jacinto Trevino
Compean
Roger Casement
Pentonville
London
Dublin
Heat Wave Kills Near 1000 in Chicago and Local Notes
Four days of extreme heat caused almost one thousand deaths in Chicago. Chas E Hughes to speak in Denver August 26 and spend a week in Estes Park. Farmers State Bank of Florence Nebraska robbed of 1000 by auto bandits. Partial returns show Kentucky Democrats re nominated with nine Democrats and two Republicans. Six year old Margaret Murphy kidnapped by her uncle in Cheyenne. Will Orpet, using Hammond alias, hiding in Northern woods with his mother and a young Grace Hyde.
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Chas. E. Hughes
Denver
Estes Park
Farmers’ State Bank of
Florence
Omaha
Kentucky
Congress
Margaret Murphy
D. J. Mulholland
Cheyenne
Wyo
United States Manufacturing Value Reported for 1914
The census bureau put the 1914 value of U S manufactures at 24 246 323 000. Senate finance committee members recommend lowering income tax exemptions from 3 000 to 2 000 for singles and 4 000 to 3 000 for families. A White House denial followed Sen Lewis’s broadside on Mexican policy.
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United States
Census Bureau
Senate
Finance Committee
Lewis
Illinois
Fall of
New Mexico
White House
Bloomer Girls Defeat Firestone Club 9 to 8 at Firestone
The Bloomer Girls of Denver beat the Firestone Club at Firestone Colorado by 9 to 8. Meanwhile Lady Langer of the Los Angeles Athletic Club won the National AAU 440 yard championship at the New York Athletic Club meet. Circus attendees at Alliance Nebraska were disappointed Jess Willard did not appear in the usual program. President Ball of the St. Louis Americans offered a $5000 bonus for first place and a suit of clothes for each man if the team stayed in first division for three days.
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Bloomer Girls
Denver
Firestone Club
Firestone
Colo
Lady Langer
Los Angeles Athletic Club
New York Athletic Club
New York
Alliance
Neb
Jess Willard
Ball
St. Louis Americans
Union plan to seize railroads by rejecting arbitration
Reports say union men aim to force 1,700 railroads into receivership by denying arbitration. News also covers a 65 foot whale killed at Rockaway Beach New Jersey, Catherine Breshkovsky's safe arrival in Minussinsk, Charles E Hughes on campaign trip, a Salt Lake City shooting of two Mexicans and wounding of a third, and a Detroit 24 hour search failing to locate a payroll robber.
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Rockaway Beach
N. J
Minussinsk
Siberia
Catherine Breshkovsky
Alice Stone Blackwell
Boston
Charles E. Hughes
New York
Denver
Estes Park
Joe Martino
Frank Garcia
Salt Lake
Detroit
Late Market Quotations for Livestock and Hogs
Steers and cows show varied prices for pulp and grain fed, grassers, and canners. Veal calves range from eight to ten dollars. feeders and stockers listed at five to six dollars. hogs and lambs command nine to ten dollars, with scattered notes on quality grades.
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Lai
Hp Chuse Aid
Seeleig Rechione
Kideistesee
Prices for farm staples and feeds in Colorado and nearby states
The listing shows buying prices per ton for upland hay in Colorado at 14.00 and Nebraska at 12.00. Second bottom lines 9.50 for Colorado and 10.50 for Nebraska. Timothy 18.50, Alfalfa 9.00, South Park choice 17.50, San Luis Valley 15.00, Gunnison Valley 16.00 per ton. Straw 4.60, Wheat ch mill 1.62 per 100 lbs, Rye 1.30, oats 1.60, Colorado oats 1.35, Corn chop 1.68 per sack, Corn in sack selling, Bran 2.60 per 100 lbs selling price.
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Colorado Upland
Nebraska Upland
Colorado
Nebraska
Timothy
South Park
Choice
Colo
Idaho
Eggs priced by grade and case counts in Denver market
Eggs graded No. 1 net F.O.B Denver 22 23 cents per dozen. No. 2 net 16 17 cents. Case counts show new cases less commission 5.35 6.35 and misc. less commission 5.25 6.25. Market listings note handling in Denver area.
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Denver
Creameries and Fruit Prices in Colorado Markets
Grain and dairy items listed with Colorado sources show butter from creameries, packing stock and fruit prices. Apples, Colorado fancy and choice priced per box, berries and peaches listed by crate or pint crate. Prices range from 0.60 to 2.00 per unit.
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Colo
Market Prices List for Produce and Groceries
Local price listing shows carrots at 1.50 per dozen for bunches, corn from Colorado at 0.20 per dozen, lettuce from Colorado at 0.20 to 0.30 per head, peas at 6 to 7 cents per unit, and potatoes ranging 1.65 to 2.25 per unit. The OCR fragment covers several items with varied pricing.
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Howl
Corr
Colo
Miscellaneous Markets Prices Report
Spelter in Denver at 9.33, copper casting 24.12, lead in New York 6.35. Bar silver 4%c. Boulder Colorado tungsten concentrates range 20 to 30 per 60 per cent unit. Crude ore sixty per cent 20 to 22.50, twenty five per cent 12 to 13.20, ten per cent 8.80 to 10 per unit.
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Denver
New York
Boulder
Colo
Market Prices Reported for Produce and Poultry
Kansas City Produce and Kansas City Butter Creamery list prices with firsts at 28c and 26c seconds 23c packing 21 4c eggs firsts 22 14c poultry hens 16c roosters 10 4c broilers 21c
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Kansas City
Butter Eggs and Poultry Prices in Chicago Market Report
Butter Creamery at 24 percent, eggs Firsts at 23 and 23 1 4 percent. Potatoes Virginia barreled 2.60 to 2.65, Missouri and Kansas Ohio 75 to 85 cents. Poultry Fowls 17 percent, springs 18 to 21 cents.
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Chicago
Virginia
Missouri
Kansas
Ohios
Springs
Sign Peace Pact Ends Carmen's Strike
A tentative settlement ends the Carmen's strike as negotiators reach a peace pact. Details set the framework for workers and management to resume operations and monitor compliance.
Rights to organize conceded as New York strike settles
The surface lines in Greater New York nearly shut down until directors of the New York Railways and Third Avenue Railway voted to accept Mayor Mitchel and Oscar Straus plan. Workers gain right to organize and wage disputes will be arbitrated with negotiations by August 20.
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New York
Greater
New York Railways Company
Third Avenue Railway Company
Mitchel
Oscar S. Straus
Public Service Commission
Philadelphia
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company
U. S. Board
Washington
Board of Mediation and
Industrial Strife Must Stop Speech by Hughes in Detroit
Charles E Hughes addresses forty Detroit manufacturers totaling nearly 100 000 workers crediting them for welfare of their employés. He argues US democracy will not tolerate ongoing capital and labor strife and that workers are fellow humans, not mere economic units.
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Hughes
Detroit
Mich
Charles E. Hughes
United States
Decree Ends 1913 Import Duty in Mexico City
Mexico City abolishes the 10 percent extra import duties imposed in 1913. The decree becomes effective November 1.
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Mexico City
French Drive Routs Germans Near Somme Frontline
Paris reports French troops storm a line of German trenches between Hemwood and the Somme and gain ground south of the Thiaumont work. About 120 prisoners and ten machine guns fall into French hands while heavy fighting continues on various fronts.
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Paris
Hemwood
Somme
Thiaumont
Nicholson Heads Delegation Unity in Colorado Race
Denver delegates at the Republican county assembly directed the state assembly delegation to vote as a bloc for Samuel D Nicholson for governor. The instruction came from Nicholson forces at the El Jebel Temple.
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Denver
Nicholson
Republican County Assembly
el Jebel Temple
State Assembly
Samuel D. Nicholson
Cotton futures quotations from New York market
The New York cotton market shows middling at 13.85 cents. Futures for October 13.66, December 13.89, January 13.96, March 14.12, and May 14.24 cents.
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New York
Irish Girl Sergeant in Serb Army Arrives at Toulon
Miss Flora Sandes an Irish girl sergeant in the Serbian army has reached Toulon on her way to rejoin her regiment after a holiday in Ireland.
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Paris
Flora Sandes
Toulon
Ireland
Arizona State News Highlights From Across the Territory
A broad digest of Arizona events includes the New Mexico Bankers Association meeting at Grand Canyon, the Arizona State Fair in Phoenix, a smelter for Parker, a new labor day celebration in Miami, a cotton mill planned for Somerton, and a big ice and cold storage plant for Douglas. Reports cover mine accidents at Bisbee and Union Pass, a deadly lightning death near Sahuarita, a fire displacing Mexicans in Miami, a Deception Gulch flood, and various state developments from paving Flagstaff to surveys of 4,000,000 acres.
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New Mexico Bankers’ Association
Grand Canyon
Phoenix
Gold Roads
Tucson
Old Empire
Chloride
Teresa Martinez
Sahuarita
Arizona
Flagstaff
Douglas
Hassayampa
Prescott
Pioneer Smelting Company
Shattuck
Bisbee
Miami
Deception Gulch
Jerome
Arizona Eastern
Southern Pacific
Santa Fé
James G. Alden
Fourteenth Infantry
Max Findlay
Lyle Cooke
Thumb Butte
Union Pass
Eunice Wingo
Harry E. Kirk
St. Luke’s Home
Denison Woman Credits Lydia E Pinkham Remedy
Mrs G O Lowery of Denison Texas says after two years of severe female troubles she improved dramatically after starting Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She credits the remedy with curing daily chills hot flashes dizziness and near collapse and urges others with similar symptoms to begin treatment promptly.
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Denison
Texas
Monterey Street
Denison, Texas
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lightning strikes jail during storm observed
In dialogue about a recent storm a remark highlights the jail as a notable target for a lightning bolt, implying the storm caused an electrical or structural impact at the facility. No further details are provided in the readable text.
Red Cross Bag Blue advertises superior dye product
An advertisement claims Red Cross Bag Blue performs better than liquid blue and can be obtained from any grocer, promoting its wide availability and effectiveness.
Why She Worried Over Coal Famine Lie
In a comic exchange two women react to a newspaper claim that coal reserves in New Castle could last 800 years. One jokes about visiting a fortune teller to learn if she will live that long, highlighting skepticism about the prophecy.
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Newcastle
Red Rough Sores Hand Care by Cuticura Soap
A vintage advertisement for Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment promises soothing relief for red rough irritated hands. Soak hands in hot Cuticura soads, dry, then apply the ointment with a one night treatment. Free sample by mail with book. address postcard to Cuticura Dept. L Boston. Sold everywhere.
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Dept. L
Boston
Theatre Row Tale of a Curtain Misstep
A young man and his wealthy aunt attend a revue. As curtains rise, the aunt pulls him away in the lobby, calling the scene disgraceful for not having the performers fully dressed yet and expressing shock at the mismanaged show.
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Union News Service
Baron Wimborne
Amsterdam
German Food Regulation Board
Cuba
Secretary of Sanitation
Havana
Western
Shafroth
National Park Service
Government Bureau of War Risk Insurance
House
SPORT
Ubs
Lincoln Ry “Ae
Des Moines
Sioux City
Ee Ween
Wichita
Eee
Topeka
Sete Ewes
St. Joseph
Western Newspaper Union News Service
Denver Markets
HAY and Grain Market
Carload Price
Hay
Standard
D. P
S.ccctec
Metal Market
NEW York Company and
ION
Tative Settlement
Gotham
Western Newspaper
Mexico
Fleury
Pozieres
Tarnopol-Lemberg
Galicia
Kermanshah
Persia
Arizona State News
Parker
Somerton
Bisbee Fire
Roosevelt Reservoir
Charles F. Williams
Yuma
Salt River
Samuel
Isaac Appel
Pioneer
Jose Francisco
Indian Oasis
Association of Secretaries of Commercial Organizations
West Texas
Southwest
Phelps, Dodge & Co
Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Company
D. M. Lacey
Tombstone
Maldonado
H. G. Murphy
Woodbury Copper Company
Superior
No. 2
Shaft
United Eastern
Oatman
Lydia Pinkham
Dean
J. T. Sandoval
Doan
Steve
Foster-Milburn CO
Buffalo
N. Y
Boratory
Berkeley
California
One Remedy Co
Dept
Dearborn St
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