Germany and Austria Make Bid for Peace
Chancellor Dr. Michaelis states that Britain seeks only wartime victory and German officials reveal alleged French plans for conquest. He cites secret French debates and treaties involving Briand Ribot and Russia, arguing Germany must resist calls for territorial renunciation and uphold a defensive war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Carson
Germany
Rhine
Joseph King
A. Bonar Law
House of Commons
Great Britain
Russia
Michaelis
Austria Ready for Honor Peace and Lasting Reconciliation
Vienna July 29. Foreign Minister Czernin says Austria-Hungary is ready for an honorable peace but will fight to the last if the Entente refuses negotiations on the basis of a peace by understanding as outlined by Germany. He cites Berlin and Vienna unity and urges universal efforts to secure guarantees preventing a future war. He stresses internal reform toward democratization while resisting external intervention.
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Briand
Ribot
Moulet
Cochin
Petrograd
France
Lloyd George
Paris
M. Doumergue
Berthlot
Romania
M. Briand
Alsace-Lorraine
Saarbruecken
Rhine
M. Tereschenko
Syria
Russia
Austria-Hungary
Otto Kar Czernin von Chudenitz
David Lloyd George
London
Reichstag
Dr. Michaelis
Germany
Vienna
Berlin
Reichsstag
Tag
Count Czernin
Austria
Hungary
Food board fight reaches Wilson as conference ends
Conference committee reaches complete agreement on all questions. Final enactment of the bill this week is hoped for by the conferees but not regarded as certain.
Conferees near finish on war bill differences with White House
Representative Lever and Senator Chamberlain lead Senate talks over remaining disputes with President Wilson on wartime controls. The panel aims to settle the food board and broader necessaries provisions as changes broadening federal regulation pass the conferees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lever
House
Chamberlain
Senate
Wilson
White House
Food administration powers expand amid wartime controls
A new section authorizes requisitioning of factories, packing houses, mines, pipelines or other plants producing designated necessaries for military or public use. Just compensation is included. A Senate amendment to appropriate 10 million for acquiring soda nitrates for fertilizer and sale to farmers at cost was adopted. The Senate provision tying food admin employees to civil service was dropped, but the Pomerene amendment to regulate advisory commission contracts was accepted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Pomerene
House
Nelson
The
Food Administration
Advisory Commission
Iceless Refrigerator and Sun Drying Demo at Boston Library
Demonstrations of an iceless refrigerator and a sun drying apparatus for fruits and vegetables drew crowds at the Boston Public Library as part of the Women's Municipal League food conservation exhibit. A pine box unit used evaporative cooling to reach about 50 degrees, while the drying system exposed sliced produce to sun and dust protection, finishing with a warm oven minute to kill insects. The display featured dried lettuce, celery, and other produce, plus a canning exhibit and resource tables with multilingual bulletins and gardening guides.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Women’s Municipal League
Boston Public Library
Alice Blood
Seven tipped from canoes on Boston's hot Sunday
On Boston's hot Sunday 8000 people canoeing on the Charles River saw seven capsize and wash ashore or be rescued. Meanwhile 750000 residents stayed home and faced heat. four were hospitalized. High reached 83 at 1 30 pm. Names and addresses of five heat victims listed with locations of injuries and relief stations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles River
Boston
John Connors
Hanson Street
South End
Tremont Street
City Hospital
Herbert J. Keller
Commercial
North End
Dewey Square
Haymarket Square
Lee J. Hinckley
United States
Commonwealth Pier
South Boston
Park Street
Relief
John Murphy
St. Andrew Road
East Boston
Meridian and
Paris Streets
East Boston Relief Hospital
Berlin papers favor holding Belgium amid war debate
Berlin papers split on Belgium in World War I. Lokal Anzeiger rejects Asquith’s question as rhetorical and says Belgium must not return to England and France. Cologne Volks Zeitung argues annexations are necessary to protect German frontiers. Tages Zeitung supports this view. Some radical papers claim the Reichstag’s stance pressures peace without annexations or indemnities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Belgium
Copenhagen
Lokal Anzeiger
House of Commons
Asquith
England
France
Cologne
Volks Zeitung
Michael
Tages Zeitunge
Woman shows 41 cent meal for six at Roxbury store
Miss Margaret Wiggin of the Women's Municipal League of Boston demonstrates a five cent per person meal for six at the Timothy Smith Company store in Roxbury. The menu includes cream of peanut soup baked corn and cheese breadcrumb brown bread and ivory jelly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Wiggin
Women’s Municipal League of Boston
Roxbury
Timothy Smith Company
Miss Wiggin
East Boston Woman Falls From Window in Fatal Wounding
Adeline Riggo, 22, of 219 Sumner Street East Boston, plunged from a second story window at her home last night. She sustained a brain concussion and probable skull fracture and is dying at East Boston Relief Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adeline Riggo
Sumner Street
East Boston
East Boston Relief Hospital
U Boat Sinks Dutch Fishing Vessels
A German submarine yesterday sank five Dutch fishing vessels eighteen miles from the Dutch coast between Scheveningen and Ymuiden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amsterdam
Scheveningen
Ymuiden
Union Leaders Help End Chicago Switchmen Strike
In Chicago officials from four major railroad brotherhoods arrived to aid ending the strike of Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen switchmen. They planned to offer services to both striking workers and railroads and tomorrow may join the general managers' committee. Attendees included H B Sheppard M W Cadle A J Lovell L G Griffing H E B Wills and W F Clark representing the major unions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Great Railroad Brotherhoods
Brotherhood of Railroad
General Managers’ Committee
H. B. Sheppard
Cedar Rapids
The
Order of Railway Conductors
M. W. Cadle
Cleveland
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
A. J. Lovell
Logansport
Ind
Brotherhood of Firemen
L. G. Griffing
H. EB. Wills
Washington
W. F. Clark
Mi o na Tab lets relief for indigestion
Do not continue to suffer with heartburn dizziness after dinner distress headache biliousness pain in the bowels of sour and gassy stomach Get relief at once buy today a 50c box of Mi o na Tab lets They quickly and surely end indigestion and stomach distress or money refunded Liggett s Riker Jaynes Drug Stores can supply you.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liggett’s Riker- Jaynes Drug Stores
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