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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1917
Page
6
War updates from the front note German shock troops reorganized into grades while US transport teams in France build supply lines for locomotives bridges and plants. Reports cover Russian gains in Galicia Greek severed ties with the Central Powers and French advances near Moronvilliers with Balkan and Pacific agency mentions.
Washington moves detail step by step for selective service exemptions. Local and district boards assign red ink serials, publish call orders, require physical exams, and outline exemption grounds and discharge rules. Applicants must file affidavits within seven to ten days, watch board notices, and may appeal to district boards or the president.
In a Reichstag address from Copenhagen, Doctor Michaelis, Germany’s new chancellor, defended submarine warfare as lawful and necessary to shorten the war. He blamed Britain’s blockade for the conflict and said America failed to curb Britain. The speech also lauded former chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg and noted a Berlin socialist demonstration dispersed by police.
A brief exchange notes Jones appearing to be fading in health, but the line reveals he was simply coasting on his wheel, implying no illness. The humor centers on misinterpretation of his condition and a playful metaphor.
A brief dialogue shows a young lawyer asking how they performed in a trial and a friend replying that the other side did better for their client. The exchange hints at courtroom swagger and evaluation among peers.
President Wilson granted clemency to sixteen suffragists who were serving 60 day sentences in the Occoquan Virginia workhouse for White House picketing. Secretary Tumulty said the pardon speaks for itself with no White House explanation. Miss Lucy Burns and Dudley Field Malone offered cautious reactions as militants refused the pardon.
Shooting in Petrograd ended last night after street fighting that left about five hundred dead or wounded. The government arrests mutineers and weighs transferring the provisional government to Moscow.
A munitions factory at the Hungarian iron and steel rolling mills near Budapest burned on Sunday. The fire ruined the entire stock, according to reports received in Zurich dated July 20.
The North and South News Agency reports a Russian destroyer sank a German submarine in the Baltic Sea by dropping charges. The crew were left unknown as details remain incomplete.
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