Russian War Actions Throughout Seas and Loans
Telegrams from July report Russian submarine activity sinking two Turkish steamers and a sailing ship in the Black Sea and driving three armored schooners ashore near the Bosphorus. A Baltic engagement beached a German cruiser. Russians claim minor damage. Berlin notes large German captures of Russian officers and troops in May and June. London reports a Belgian steamer Bodnognat sunk by a German submarine and that Russia issued a five hundred million dollar war loan. Constantinople says British attacks at Avi Burnu and Seddul Bahr were repulsed.
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Associated Press
Petrograd
Black Sea
Bosphorus
Baltic
Berlin
Constantinople
Avi Burnu
Seddul Bahr
British Steamer Armenian Requisition Canceled Before Last Voyage
Ambassador Page reports the British steamer Armenian, sunk by a submarine with American deaths, had been requisitioned by Britain but the order was canceled prior to its final voyage.
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Washington
Ambassador Page
Great Britain
Wheat Crop Will Go To Waste In Coahuila
Laredo July 2 reports the largest wheat crop in ten years in Coahuila but harvest hands are lacking. A Public Health Service bulletin urges pure water for farm homes and outlines common sources, pollution risks, well construction, and purification methods to prevent waterborne diseases.
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Coahuila
Mexico
Associated Press
Laredo
Tex
United States Public Health Service
The
Public Health Service
Becker Innocence Claimed by Webber Attorney
New York July 2. Bridge Webber once a confessed accomplice in Rosenthal’s killing now says Becker had nothing to do with it according to Webber’s attorney.
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Rosenthal
Becker
New York
Bridge Webber
Webber
War Prisoners Improve Time at Groningen Camp
British navy prisoners in the Groningen internment camp organize themselves as a skilled community. They build a large recreation hall, run workshops and a gym, study languages and mathematics, produce artful knitwear, and stage a theatre troupe. Proceeds fund comfort for frontline prisoners. A brass band, church parades, and Gaelic services also feature amid disciplined daily routines.
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Groningen
Jackies
Holland
Collingwood
Groningen University
Germany
Penley
Timbertown Follies
Hague
Church of England
Summer Poultry Flock: Cool Houses and Feeding for Warm Weather
Practical summer management guidance from Texas A&M on keeping houses cool and airy, providing shade, clean water, and regular disinfection. It covers fattening rations, market pricing, feeding during molting, and use of cottonseed meal and beef scraps to support feather growth and overall flock health.
Weather Disturbances and Temperature Trends Forecast July 3 1915
Washington forecast notes disturbances crossing the continent from June 20 to July 4 and July 5 to 8. Temperatures June 29 to July 10 expected near normal with cooler than usual days 5 to 9 degrees and warmer near 2 and 11. Severe storms likely southeast of storm centers July 8. A storm near the California coast and another in the eastern sections are anticipated. A new disturbance reaches the Pacific coast around July 6 and moves inland by July 9 through the central valleys then to the eastern regions by July 18. The warm wave crosses the Pacific slope around July 6.
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Pacific
Atlantic
Friends of Foster’s Weather Bureau
W. ‘Tt Foster
Washington, D. C
California
Pacific Coast
Pacific Slope
Great Central Valleys
Black Woman Cut At College Car Tragedy Sparks Arrest
Della Childress, a Black woman from Col lege, was arrested and jailed today for cutting Alice Steptoe, another Black woman. The attack occurred just after an 11:00 PM car reached College last night as the pair quarreled on the car and the cuttings left Steptoe severely wounded.
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Della Childress
Alice Steptoe
Little man with wooden leg runs jitney in poem
A brief verse tells of a little man with a wooden leg who, lacking money, refuses to beg and instead takes four spools and an old tin can to call his jitney in a street-side tale from the New York Independent.
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Belgium
London
Bodnognat
Russia
I.W. Harper
Joe Groginsky
Netherlands
F. W. Kazmeir
A. & M. College of Texas
Negress
N. Y
Bryan Cotton Oil
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