Frontline Maneuvers and Shifts Across Europe War Report
The report outlines limited gains by French near Combles and a slight French advance near Belloy-en-Santerre with ongoing bombardments. It notes Teutonic pressure in Dobrudja, Romanian actions near Hermannstadt, Russian attacks in the Carpathians, and heavy fighting in the Macedonian front with unclear results. It mentions Serbs near Ostrovo making progress, Italian fronts against Bulgaria, Greek Kavala status disputed, and Athens reporting Dimitracopulos declining cabinet formation.
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Vienna War Office
Carpathians
Smotrec
Ludova
Capul
Vienna
Lake Ostrovo
Paris
Berlin
Sofia
Doiran
Mucukovo
Kavala
Germany
Plant Juice Man Promises Stomach Trouble Vanish
An advertisement quotes the Plant Juice Man claiming rising sales will erase stomach, liver, and kidney troubles from humanity within a generation. It cites W B Kingsford of Dedham Mass as a testimonial, detailing years of indigestion and weight loss, now cured.
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W. B. Kingsford
High Street
Dedham
Mass
Houghton & Dutton
French Forces Take Le Priez Farm Near Combles
On the Somme front the French report capturing Le Priez Farm near Combles and enlarging positions north and south of Bouchavesnes. They also say quiet elsewhere with gains maintained and further action east of Belloy-en-Santerre.
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Paris
Somme
le Priez
Combles
War Office
Bouchaves
Bouchavesnes
Belloy-en-Santerre
Austrian War Bulletin Reports Mixed Front Activity
Vienna dated dispatch from general headquarters notes repulsed enemy attacks on the Nagy Szeben front while Carpathian fighting continues with heavy artillery and repulses at Smotrec Ludova and Kapul. Italian front sees intensified shelling and Tyrol activity as Fasana ridge endures fire.
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Vienna
London
Nagy Szeben
Hermannstadt
Carpathians
Smotrec
Ludova
Kapul
Prince Leopold of
Bavaria
Carso
Tyrol
Forane
Fasana
Italian War Office reports Austrian frontline actions and Italian gains
The war office releases details of operations against Austria as Italian troops make a daring climb to seize key positions in the Zara valley and Monte Lagazuoi. An advanced post at Panta del Foame falls back after a forceful enemy push and heavy artillery exchanges continue.
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Rome
London
War Office
Zara
Pozina
Monte Lagazuoi
Travenantes-Boite
Felizon
Panta del Foame
War News In Brief From Somme To Macedonia Fronts
Allied and Central forces clash across Europe with several repulsed German assaults on the Somme and Meuse fronts. Serbian and Bulgarian battles in Macedonia favor the Allies as Serbian gains near Vetrenik and Lake Ostrovo are reported. Romanian defenses hold in Dobrudija with Romanian troops claiming eight light guns and Kavala fort occupation by Bulgarians. British forces seize a salient north of Mucovo in Macedonia as prisoners are taken.
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Somme
Verdun
Meuse
Vaux- Chapitre Wood
Paris
Vetrenik
Lake Ostrovo
Dobrudija
Silistria
Danube
Petrograd
Dobrudja
Kavala
Greek Aegean
Berlin
Macedonia
Mucukovo
London
Frontline Skirmish Rested With Tactical Losses
A brief battle report notes actions on Slatent and the Upper Tsonzo with clashes between Volzana and Cem Poni southwest of Tolmino. The engagement ended in repulse for one side, incurring losses.
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Slatent
Tsonzo
Volzana
Cemponi
Tolmino
British War Office report on battles around Arras Ypres Somme
Official dispatch notes unchanged overall situation with continued reciprocal bombardments south of the Ancre and activity between Arras and Ypres. It reports mine explosions near Neuville St Vaast, camouflets near Mt Sorrel, aerial combat with two enemy planes downed and one missing, and modest Allied progress north of Ginchy. It also mentions a successful raid near Souchez with prisoners taken and patrol activity on the Struma front.
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London
General Headquarters
Ancre
Arras
Ypres
Mt. Sorrel
Neuville St. Vaast
Somme
Ginehy
Pozieres
Thiepval
Ginchy
Souchez
Struma
German World War I Update From Front Line Reports
Berlin reports unchanged conditions for Prince Leopold’s army group and gains for Mackensen’s forces in Dobrudja. Austrian and German units claim repulsed enemy attacks on the Somme and Meuse fronts with heavy artillery activity and some prisoner captures.
Bulgarian Statement Describes Front Actions and Italian Engagements
The Bulgarian dispatch reports calm on the Danube front and continued Dobrudja advances. It mentions heavy artillery and infantry action near Lake Ostrovo and Moglenica with enemy counterattacks repulsed. two Italian battalions and support units driven back, one officer and 87 men captured. Scattered fire in Struma valley and a hostile fleet off the Aegean coast.
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London
Danube
Dobrudja
Lake Ostrovo
Moglenica
Bulkova
Druma
Struma
Aegean
War Office says fronts unchanged. Kurds active in Caucasus
Petrograd reports on September 14 that the western front remains unchanged while the Caucasian front shows increased Kurdish activity west of High Hamadan. Our detachments, through engagements, captured camels and cattle from the enemy in the Falplanchai valley near Hamadan.
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Petrograd
London
War Office
Hamadan
Briand predicts Allied victory and lasting peace
Premier Briand told Parliament today that complete victory for the Allies and a lasting peace are assured, as cheers rang through the chamber while he reviewed recent World War developments.
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Paris
Briand
France Brains War Unity As Allies Forecast Victory
Briand lauds allied actions in Saloniki and Greek territory as strengthening unity and independence. He warns against excessive optimism while urging renewed effort to press the foe, noting coordinated Allied advances and the momentum of Russian Italian and Anglo French forces toward victory.
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Italy
Rumania
M. Briand
Greece
Germany
Romania
Austro-Hungary
France
Turkey
Bulgaria
Greek
Macedonia
Zaimis
Saloniki
Serbia
Air and sea raids on Triest reported by naval unit
A naval statement from Vienna via London says a battle group of eighteen Caproni aircraft with three anti air escorts attacked Triest. Six torpedo boats and two motor boats aided the raid, causing only light damage with one mild injury. Our planes and batteries hit the torpedo boats. An effort over Parenzo dropped 20 bombs in a field with no damage.
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Vienna
London
Triest
Gulf
Parenzo
British Capture Salient on Macedonian Front
British forces report an advance through Mucukovo eight miles southwest of Doiran and capture of a salient with gains held after enemy counter attacks. Prisoners and machine guns were among the assets seized in the action.
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London
Balkan
Mucukovo
Doiran
Food Riots Reported in Hamburg by Angry Women
Amsterdam despatch says serious food riots struck Hamburg on Saturday evening. A mob of women raided closed shops over meat and vegetable shortages while another crowd gathered before the Town Hall shouting Down with the Junkers Down with the People’s torturers. Thirty seven women arrested and two policemen injured by stones.
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London
Amsterdam
Exchange Telegraph Company
Hamburg
Berlin
Junkers
Aldrich Dies at 38 in Littleton Home
Ephraim Fred Aldrich a leading Boston lawyer and son of U S District Judge Edgar Aldrich died Wednesday night at his parents home in Littleton New Hampshire after illness from pneumonia complicated by heart weakness. Born June 9 1878 he was a Dartmouth graduate and Boston University Law School alum. He practiced with Streeter Walker Hollis and later with William Shaw McCallum and left a wife Frances Vera Powers and daughter Barbara surviving. Also survived by parents sister Mrs Howard H Kniffen and several clubs.
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Boston
Edgar Aldrich
United States Court, District of New Hampshire
Littleton
N. H
Aldrich
Connecticut Lakes
Mr. Aldrich
Dartmouth
Streeter, Walker & Hollis
Concord
Boston University Law School
Boston Elevated Railway
William Shaw McCallum
State Street
Frances Vera Powers
Barbara
Howard H. Kniffen
Cedarhurst
Long Island
Boston Bar Association
Boston City Club
Dartmouth Club
Old Puritan Club
Algonquin Club
Brae-Burn
Funeral Rites for Clergyman Henry Hinckley Held at Cambridge
The Rev Henry Hinckley 84 longtime Baptist minister died yesterday at his home 116 Upland Road Cambridge His funeral is set for 3 30 pm tomorrow at First Baptist Church Cambridge He led churches in Ruggles Street Cambridge Lynn Winchester Roslindale and served on Baptist society boards He was executor of a 3 000 000 estate for Daniel Ford publisher of Youths Companion.
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Upland Road
Greater Boston
Ruggles Street
Lynn
Winchester
Roslindale
Wex
Chelsea
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Lahey
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St. Rose's Church
Fogarty
Pope’s Hill
Dorchester
Michael
Anastasia Fogarty
Boston
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Claymont Terrace
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Neponset Ave
Gardner
South Boston
Charles F
Rosanna Gardner
Second St
Gate of Heaven
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West Roxbury
Gertrude Mae Riedell
Halford Road
L. Tennie
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Roslindale Congregational Church
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Griffin
Catherine Griffin
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Irene Caroline Inman
Monadnock St
Walk Hill Street
Johnson
Roxbury
Marcella St
Annie
Daniel Johnson
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John Murphy
Parker St
Nashua
N. H
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Malden
Eugene
Horace
Hattie Nagle
Fraser
Highland Ave
Gloucester
Neilon
Somerville
Frederick S. Neilon
Cambria St
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Tate
Congressional Medal of Honor League
Central Club
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James A. Norton
F. J. Crosby
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Circuit St
O’brien
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Paterson
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Samuel Rea Orcutt
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Italians Strike Trieste With 172 Bombs In Raid
An Italian air raid on Triest targeted rail facilities and ships under construction near the arsenal. Five tons of high explosives were dropped creating large fires, while other actions included attacks on Auronzo Ravenna and San Giorgio di Nogaro, with one fatality reported in the Lower Isonzo district.
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Rome
London
Triest
War Office
Auronzo
Ravenna
San Giorgio di Nogaro
Villa Vicentina
Isonzo
Caproni
Lloyd's Arsenal
Russian Murometz planes bomb German seaplane station
A Petrograd Reuters dispatch reports four Murometz type Russian planes bombarded a German seaplane base on Lake Angern in the Gulf of Riga. Seventeen German seaplanes were seen, eight German aircraft attacked, eight were destroyed or driven off, and the Murometz craft returned safely despite anti aircraft fire.
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London
Reuter
Petrograd
Murometz
Lake Angern
Gulf of Riga
Mesopotamia Forces Resume Operations
The British army in Mesopotamia, inactive due to heat, reports recent minor actions on Sept 9 11. An enemy air raid on Sept 11 destroyed a small camp on the Tigris. A Sept 9 reconnaissance party near Nasiriyeh was attacked by Turkish irregulars, later driven northward. Over 200 enemy killed and ammunition captured or destroyed.
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London
British Army i
Mesopotamia
Tigris
Euphrates
Nasiriyeh
Kavala Forts Surrender to the Bulgarians
The Greeks surrender the Kavala forts to Bulgarian forces ending defense of the northeastern port. Entente ships relocate about 1500 Greek troops to Thasos amid reported Kavala rioting and looting. Americans and American tobacco property valued over 2 million dollars are at risk. no ships remain in Kavala harbor.
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Athens
London
Garrett Croppers
Kavala
Greece
Thasos
Multiple Bay Area Notables Tied by Sept 12 Notices
A long list of funeral notices and wedding announcements from Boston area entries dated Sept 12 to Sept 18. The record includes Katharine Huntington’s marriage to Frederick Conklin in Mt Vernon Minnesota, and numerous obituaries and funeral details for families in Boston and surrounding towns with explicit addresses, times, and church names.
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New York
Washington, D. C
Strout
EB. A. Strout Farm Agency
Dept
Boston
Tel
Secret Mail Plan With Germany Alleged
Federal investigators pursued an alleged secret mail system linking the United States and Germany. Indictments were filed in New York against Hans Edward Thompson and Frederick Uffelman for smuggling jewelry valued at 25000 into the United States on July 11. Both men were arrested August 20. Uffelman previously worked on a steamship between New York and Scandinavian ports. Affidavits on the secret mail system exist, but no formal charges there yet.
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Germany
New York
Hans Edward Thompson
Frederick Uffelman
United States
Uffelman
Scandinavian
Teutons Map Balkan Campaign with 300,000 Troops
A Rome wireless dispatch reports that the central powers council at the German Emperor's headquarters outlined an offensive in the Balkans. Germany would deploy 200000 troops and Austria 100000 for the operation.
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London
Rome
General Council
Central Powers
Balkans
Germany
Austria
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