War progress across fronts. Allies advance and captures reported
Western Union dispatch detailing Allied breakthroughs in France and Belgium. Canadians seize Purvillers and Poc, French capture Ribecourt, British and American forces push from Lys to Bray sur Somme, and Americans hold Frapelle amid heavy fighting. Archangel operations toward Vologda, Baku taken by British from Persia. Air battles Aug 8 through a week yield 339 German planes down, 123 Allied missing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Villers-les- Roye
St. Aurin
Armancourt
Chaulnes-Roye
Damery Wood
Avre
Marshal Foch
Aisne
Somme
Frapelle
Archangel
Vologda
Baku
Persia
Bagdad
Caucasus
Albert
Amiens-Roye Road
World War Era News Highlights From Across Fronts
Reports detail Darmstadt air raid and a 130 mile railway behind French lines, Gen von Boehn named to Somme command, Romania’s war toll surpassing 800000, Britain’s Czecho Slovak manifesto criticized, Roosevelt in Paris, Russia’s provisional government formed with Tchaikovsky. Also included are Nagoya riots over rice prices, France wheat output up 25 percent, Dupetit Thouars sunk, and London women streetcar conductors strike with male support. In Denver water carnival crowds enjoy pool thrills, DePalma wins Sheepshead Bay, and Richards and Tilden win national tennis doubles at Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Darmstadt
Grand Duchy of Hesse
Germany
Hans von Boehn
Somme
Romania
Great Britain
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Clemenceau
Paris
Roosevelt
Russia
M. Tchaikovsky
Nagoya
Japan
Dhaka
France
Dupetit Thouars
London
Washington Park
Denver
Ralph DePalma
Sheepshead Bay Speedway
New York
Ralph Mulford
Resta
Frontier Park
Cheyenne
Vincent Richards
William T. Tilden
Philadelphia
Beals C. Wright
Fred B. Alexander
Longwood Cricket Club
Boston
Mirlo Sinks Off Cape Hatteras as Nine Drowned
Reports from Beaufort North Carolina state nine crew members died when the British tank ship Mirlo was torpedoed by a German submarine off Cape Hatteras. In Chicago a jury found over a hundred leaders of the Industrial Workers of the World guilty of conspiring to disrupt the war program. All men aged 21 since June 5 1918 and on or before August 24 1918 must register on August 24 1918. British and Canadians in the United States may enlist voluntarily until September 28 after which they are subject to selective draft into the US Army aged 20 to 44.
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Mirlo
Cape Hatteras
Beaufort, N. C
Industrial Workers of the World
Chicago
United States
Sam Vlahovich
Globe
Globe-Miami
Jesus Munez
San Pedro
Hayden
Johnson Camp
Dragoon Mountains
Arizona
Cecil D. Boyce
Arizona State Fair Commission
Phoenix
Tom Eagan
Warren District Chamber of Commerce
Imperial Copper Company
Silverbell
Sasco Smelter
Arizona Southern Railway
American Smelting & Refining Company
Mexican oil tax decree altered to ease relations with allies
President Carranza modifies the Mexican oil tax decree amid tensions with the entente and United States. Separate dispatches report Bulgarian and Turkish ministers arriving in Berlin from Moscow. Treasury plans three Liberty Loan campaigns within a year, each targeting five billion dollars. Uruguay reports wheat crop damage of about two and a half million dollars due to wheat smut, confirmed by the agriculture department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
United States
Carranza
Russia
Berlin
Moscow
France
Uruguay
Uruguayan Department of Agriculture
Notable World War I Era News Highlights From 1919
The estate of Gottfried Krueger in Newark was seized by the alien property custodian. Jesús Prado was court-martialed and executed in Chihuahua City for dynamite supplies used in Villa’s train sabotage. Senator Jacob H. Gallinger died in Franklin New Hampshire. Diplomatic moves were made by the US and Britain against Carranza’s oil decrees. Spain warned Germany of retaliation by seizing refuge tonnage. A million-dollar Catholic publicity endowment was proposed by Matthew J. W. Smith in Chicago. Wilson issued aliens control law regulations and flights from the US were restricted. Wilson and Mrs. Wilson vacationed in Manchester Massachusetts with Col. E. M. House. A bank robbery in Greeley Kansas left four wounded and loot between two thousand and thirty-eight thousand dollars.
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Gottfried Krueger
Newark
N. J
Jesus Prado
Penitentiary Plaza
Chihuahua City
Prado
Villa
Martin Lopez
Consuelo
Bachimba Pass
United States
Jacob H. Gallinger
New Hampshire
Franklin
N. H
Great Britain
Carranza
Spain
Germany
Matthew J. W. Smith
Denver Catholic Register
Catholic Press Association
Chicago
Wilson
Congress
State Department
Manchester
Mass
Miscellaneous markets report from Boulder and Chicago
Boulder prices show tungsten concentrates at 60 percent 20.00 22.50 per unit 25 percent 12.00 12.50 1u per cent 9.40 12.20. New York lead 8.05. spelter East St. Louis delivery 8.50 8.75. copper 25. silver 9.95c. Chicago live stock quotes list hogs cattle veal and sheep with varied price ranges and grain and provision prices including corn oats rye barley timothy lard and ribs.
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Wetherson
Denver
Colorado Upland
Colorado
Nebraska
South Park
Gunnison Valley
Colo
F. O . Enver
H. H
Boulder
New York
East St. Louis
Aear
Chicago
Kansas City Produce Price Listings
Kansas City Missouri Butter Creamery offers firsts at 42c and seconds at 40c. Eggs firsts 38c and seconds 32c. Poultry prices include hens 25c, roosters 18c, springs 26c, and broilers 27c.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
New York Cotton Prices Report
New York cotton futures quoted for October at 30.47, December 29.96, January 29.83, March 29.90, May 29.838, with middling price at 3.35 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Market Prices for Hides Pelts and Pelts by Weight
Fragmented ad lists prices for hides skins and pelts. Entries include salted hides horsehides dry pelts wool pelts butchers and mur- rabid text shows varying prices and weight classifications. Pricing mentions green salted and heavy cured hides with approximate per pound rates and lot numbers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cs Sk
Murrain
Foch Takes Roye and 3,000 Boch es Morsain
Foch secured Roye and 3000 troops at Morsain in a rapid advance during the campaign. Allied forces reported successful seizure of the town and consolidation of positions near the Somme.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foch
Roye
Boches
British Beat Off Counter at Merris as German Losses Mount
British forces captured Outtersteene ridge near Merris and repelled a vicious counter attack with heavy German losses. More than 500 Germans were taken prisoner while Anglo-French advances extended from Lys to Oise fronts with gains around Roye, Lassigny, and Soissons enhancing Allied position.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Outtersteene Ridge
Merris
Lys
Armentieres
Merville
Matz
Oise
Lassigny
Thiescourt
Pimprez
Noyon-Compiegne
Soissons
Carlepont
Fontenoy
Aisne
Roye
Somme
Call Draft Begins With Older Men First in New Plan
Washington Secretary of War Baker told the House committee that 18 to 19 year olds will be last drafted under the new man power bill. He said 19 to 36 year olds will be placed in separate first call classes, with the 18 year olds delayed as practicable. Provost Crowder seeks to extend draft ages to 45 to win the war. Eight states were asked to provide 5,709 white grammar school age registrants for general service. these men will board trains September 1, with voluntary enlistments through August 26.
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Washington
Baker
House Military Affairs Committee
Crowder
Hughes Wealth to Widow and Family
The will of Col. William Edgar Hughes, Denver capitalist, filed in Dallas Probate Court, leaves over five million dollars to relatives and employees. Mrs. Annie C. Hughes is principal beneficiary and, with granddaughter Annie Clifton Hughes, named executrixes without bond. The bulk of the estate goes to the widow, the granddaughter, and three great-grandsons.
Police hunt Cecil Mc Clure in Bessie Ramey murder case
Denver police conduct a city wide search for Cecil W Mc Clure who is wanted as a suspect in the murder of 30 year old Bessie Ramey. Investigators say the motive and exact details are under inquiry as officers advise the public to report sightings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Cecil W. McClure
Bessie Ramey
Japan riots erupt as soldiers aid police in citywide unrest
Tokyo reports soldiers deployed in almost all major cities to curb mob violence stemming from the rice riots. Rioters attack property of wealthy merchants after protests over high prices. Japanese farmers declare hoarding 120 million bushels of rice amid the unrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokio
Japan
Nogales to Get New Oil Plant and Local War Efforts
Arizona reports outline plans for a new oil plant at Nogales while wartime activities expand across the state. Jerome see curfew, $7.25 daily for carpenters, flood of new nurses, Sulphuric acid plant planned at Patagonia, and Cananea copper output. Federal funds for vocational education, rail and mining developments, thefts, and casualties in fire and war appear alongside local guard, deportation trials, and mass recruitment notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nogales
Jerome
Jerome Carpenters
Dan W. Thomas
Globe
France
Prescott
Gleeson
Tejon
Arizona
Patagonia
Nervous Breakdown Recovered After Lydia E Pinkham Use
Newark New Jersey recounts a three year nervous breakdown relief credited to Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Miss Kelly of 476 South 14th Street says she was weak with daily headaches, under a physician, but felt better from day one and is now able to work. She recommends the remedy and gives permission to publish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newark
N. J
Lydia E.pinkham
Miss Kelly
14Th St., Newark
Lydia E. Pinkham
That Pot of Beans in the Trenches
Francis Rogers recounts a trench scene from the Vigilantes about soldiers in the first detachment. He recalls fighting raids and the deaths of Enright and Hay, then humorously describes a German shell hitting a pot of beans cooling at the trench edge, delaying supper but triggering a rain of beans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enright
Hay
Francis Rogers
Ferocious praise from Arkansas resident on soldiers fighting Germans
A Kansas City Star snippet quotes a prominent Rumpus Ridge resident in hot praise of American soldiers, likening them to ring tailed catamounts in battle. Gap Johnson adds a domestic jab about his fourteen children bicker over candy brought home.
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Rumpus Ridge
Arkansas
Gap Johnson
Kansas City Star
Woman Keeps Secret About Dress Reuse
The saying suggests any woman can conceal the fact that a new dress is simply a refreshed old garment. It reflects social ideas on fashion and modesty from the era.
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George Stewart
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Arizona State Federation of Labor
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