Allied drive reaches Chateau Thierry rail junction
Allied forces push toward the junction rail line serving German forces along the Boischons Chateau Thierry front. French American troops drive back the Germans along the Marne shore and near Solsons, with reports of 20,000 prisoners and 700 guns taken. Casualties and movements noted across the front as both sides reinforce and retreat.
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Associated Press
Boibsons
Chateau Thierry
Aisne-Marnd
Chateau Thierry Boissons
Chateau Thiery
London
Marne
Retaler
Tates
Paris
War Office
Alliea
Solasons
Soissons
Vossoy
Oeulily
Solosons-Chateau Thierry-Rheims
Soissonus
Alles
Maroe
Rheims
Chateau
Prmeny
Istata
March
Senate Military Affairs Committee
N. E
Penn
National Guard
Gouraud
Sconewall
Boissons
Marehmer
Men
Lake Garda
Mne
Viersy
Goissons
Foch
Chateau-Thierry
Myngin
Germans Withdraw From Rossignol Wood Into British Hands
London July 10 The Germans under heavy pressure have been forced to withdraw from Rossignol Wood between Beutherne and Bucquoy and the strategically important section is now in British hands according to a war office statement.
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Boerlin
London
Alame Marne
Chateaubierry
German War Office
Nouth
Marne River
Associated Press
Rossignol Wood
Beutherne
Bucquoy
War Office
Fifteen Die and Thirty Injured in Michigan Train Collision
Gascon Michigan July 20 Fifteen killed and 230 injured when a Detroit bound passenger car collided head on with a west bound freight car one mile west of Chelsea at eight o'clock tonight. Ten of the dead were Detroit soldiers returning from Camp Custer.
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Associated Press
Gascon
Mich
Chelsea
Detroit
Camp Custer
Madoo to Decide on New Wage Proposals
Seattle July 20 Director General W G McAdoo will announce his decision on the board of railroad wages report regarding wages of the mechanical craft July 25. Allied advances in France and new prisoner counts are noted in the war report from the fronts.
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Madoo
Associated Press
Seattle
W. G. McAdoo
Government Administration
Board of Railroad Wages
Roosevelt family torn by news of sons in war
Major Theodore Roosevelt Jr. is slightly wounded and in a Paris hospital. News confirms Quentin Roosevelt’s death in aerial combat. Captain Archie Roosevelt is recovering from severe wounds, while Captain Kermit Roosevelt has been decorated by Britain for gallantry and is en route to France. President Wilson expresses grief to Colonel Roosevelt.
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Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Paris
Colonel Roosevelt
Ted
Quentin Roosevelt
Archie Roosevelt
Kermit
Mesopotamia
S. S. Army
Washington
Wilson
Woodrow Wilson
American League Parks To Close As War Demands Hit
July 20 report says American league parks will close immediately unless new developments arise. Bancroft Johnson, president, announced no appeal of Secretary of War Baker's work or fight ruling and no plan to finish the season with veterans beyond draft age. Club owners will meet in Cleveland to wind up business and address financial fallout from the sports collapse. Some favor trying to weather the storm. others lament the slackerim and sudden player callups.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Bancroft Johnson
Secretary of War
Baker
Cleveland
Johnson
500000 Czecho-Slovaks Ready Desert Austria for U.S.
Lieut Anthony Holy, a former Czech officer, arrived in St. Louis to organize a Czecho-Slovak recruiting office for the French government. He estimated more than 600,000 Avatrian soldiers are eager to desert and aid the United States, sharing that many Bohmians were drafted at the war’s start.
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Associated Prose
ST. Louis
United States
Anthony Holy
Fire devastates Ganal parish church and barracks
Merlina Italy July 20 a fierce fire fanned by wind destroyed the parish church at Ganal with the adjacent barracks almost completely. Firemen with antiquated equipment confined the blaze as gendarmes and soldiers cordoned off the area. A funeral in progress for a young girl was interrupted and the coffin later found incinerated.
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Merlina
Italy
Ganal
Weather for Wyoming Shows Showers Then Fair
Local Wyoming forecast calls for showers Sunday with likely fair conditions Monday. Temperatures stay moderate as the pattern shifts from wet to dry.
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Wyoming
Germans Allowed Legal Service Men in Moscow
Berlin reports Moscow will employ numerous German soldiers in civilian dress, after refusing to allow a German battalion to guard the German embassy in Russia’s capital.
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Moscow
Amsterdam
Berlin
Heinisch Weatphalische Zeitung
Essen Seye
Martin endorsed by Pueblo County Democrats for Third District seat
John A. Martin was endorsed for the Third Congressional district nomination by the Pueblo County Democratic Assembly to succeed Edward Keating. The endorsement vote was 245 to 85, reflecting opposition to Keating over his war legislation stance early in the war.
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Associated Presa
Pueblo
Colo
John A. Martin
Puello County
Democratic Assembly
Edward Keating
Martin
Keating
Teutonic servility plot shocks Amsterdam schools
A strange ploy in Amsterdam involved three armed men two in soldier uniforms and one in a police uniform visiting every school to collect children’s atelebel claiming authority. They paid a small sum for leather items attached to the children and stole these items, a scheme later exposed as a deception. The incident sparked astonishment at the seeming lack of challenge to their authority.
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Amsterdam
Hesen
Ile War
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