Italians Gain On Isonzo Front In First War Front Advances
The British, French, Italians and Russians report 167 780 prisoners since April 9 and Italians claim success on the Isonzo front. Hill 304 near Verdun falls to French forces after a bold assault. Canadians and Germans clash near Lens with ground lost and regained. Sixty guns captured along the Julian, Isonzo and Corso fronts.
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British War Department
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Douaumont
Meuse
Forges Brook
Champagne
Berlin War Office
Lens
Ypres-Menin Road
West Flanders
War Office
Haig
la Basses
Ypres
Italian War Office
Julian
Isonzo
Corso
Houston Clears Negro Soldiers After City Riots
District Attorney John Crocker filed murder charges against thirty four negro soldiers of the Twenty fourth Infantry held in the county jail after last night’s riot that left seventeen dead including four city police. Orders came for immediate removal of the troops from Houston as martial law remained in effect. Major General George Bell Jr to assume control. General Parker confirmed Hulen’s appointment earlier.
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Houston
Tex
John Crocker
Twenty Fourth Infantry
Twenty-fourth Infantry
George Bell, Jr
John A. Hulen
James E. Ferguson
Weather Summary across states with temps and storms
The report covers Ohio Indiana Kentucky and Tennessee fair conditions for Saturday and Sunday. West Virginia shows fair skies in the west and thunder in the east with a Sunday calm. Temperature readings at major stations include Montreal and Chicago with highs in the 80s and 60s respectively and rain gauges showing minimal precipitation despite scattered activity.
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Ohio
Indiana
Kentucky
Tennessee
West Virginia
Famed Shrine in Peril as Saloniki Fire Rages
Dispatches from Athens report a second fire burning in Saloniki following a major blaze last Saturday that destroyed 1,000 houses and left 60,000 homeless. Incalculable damage to Byzantine monuments and priceless works, including St Demetrius Cathedral, is feared.
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Athens
Saloniki
St. Demetrius
Board of Control to Enforce Army Clothing Labor Standards
Secretary Baker announces creation of a Board of Control to enforce industrial and sanitary standards in army clothing manufacture. Louis Kirstein chairs. Florence Kelley and Captain Walter E. Kruess serve on the board. The move aims to inspect factories and standardize bidders while expediting production and reducing labor troubles.
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Board of Control
Baker
Louis Kirstein
Boston
Florence Kelley
National Consumers’ League
New York
Walter E. Kruess
Quartermaster’s Corps
Quartermaster General
Right Up To Date Features In Sundays Commercial Tribune
Sunday issue highlights include a tuning up your boy concert pitch piece about military training and costs, a retrospective on the submarine and its long history, theater shifts due to war, foreign news including bread cuts and Holland-Germany tensions, a Rankin piece on labor distribution, women’s interest features, and fashion and home tips with recipes and advice.
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United States
Sam
New York
Dr. Dernberg
Berlin
Holland
Germany
Jeanette Rankin
Montana
Sylvia Gerrard
Mary Lloyd
Madam Lucrezia Lori
Government Aims Coal Price Rollback by Curtailing Mines Output
Washington Aug 24 The fuel administration plans to curb coal prices for households by regulating the industry. Dr H A Garfield states profits for retailers may be fixed and if price fixing fails the government will requisition coal at mines for public sale. Licensing for operators and jobbers may extend to retail trade to enforce President Wilson’s price limits.
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Washington
New Fuel Administration
H. A. Garfield
Wilson
Garfield
Running Battle Reported Between U S Liner and U Boat
An American liner escaped a U boat in the Irish Sea after a running fight with fifty shots by the gun crew and thirty five from the submarine. Destroyers protected the liner while zigzagging, and two American destroyers escorted it to port. Survivors from earlier sinkings, including Frank Davis of the Azian, recounted near misses and aid refusals by the submarine crew.
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Atlantic
Irish Sea
Entente
Frank Davis
First Russian Jury Sits in Treason Trial of General Soukhomlinoff
In Petrograd the Cassation Department of the Senate heard the treason case of General V A Soukhomlinoff, ex Minister of War, and his wife with a jury for the first time in Russia. Over 200 witnesses, including Rodzianko Milukoff and Grand Duke Sergius testified as the trial opened publicly. Soukhomlinoff faced charges of sharing military information with German and Austrian spies and failing to push ammunition production.
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Alexei Polivanoff
Ivan Grigorovitch
Soukhomlinoff
Russia
Great Warrior and Family Haig Portrait Portrait of Sir Douglas Haig
Sir Douglas Haig shown with family on the Western front. The silent commander favors patience over publicity and remains devoutly Presbyterian. He studied at Oxford and Sandhurst, joined the cavalry, married Dorothy Maud Vivian in 1905, daughter of the Baron Vivian, and has two children born in 1907 and 1908.
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General Haig
Germany
Oxford
Sandhurst
Joffre
Hindenburg
Ypres
Headquarters Town
Haig
Dorothy Maud Vivian
Baron Vivian
Queen Victoria
Queen Alexandra
House committee backs war insurance bill for soldiers and sailors
Washington hearings on the administration soldiers and sailors war insurance bill drew general commendation. Support came from Miss Julia Lathrop and others while insurance company opposition and pension purists threaten protracted debate before possible quick House action. Secretary McAdoo says the bill does not affect existing pensions and aims to safeguard dependents in future war deaths or injuries.
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Julia Lathrop
Children’s Bureau
M. E. Wills
Trainmen’s Brotherhood
Edwin O. Sweet
Commerce
A. L. Hereford
Springfield
Ill
National Fraternal Congress
McAdoo
Lafayette
Indiana
Champion Love Letter Writer Held by Federal Authorities
John Francis Beckwith, described as a prolific writer of poems and love letters, is charged with defrauding women across Ohio and beyond to fund a luxuriously funded Adirondack home. Postoffice Inspector George F. Smith brought Beckwith into custody in Cleveland, citing hundreds of alleged victims and a history of multiple marriages and prior swindles.
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Cleveland
John Francis Beckwith
Adirondacks
George F. Smith
Albany
N. Y
Beckwith
John Francis
Christiana
Supreme Court
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America
Ohio State Penitentiary
Nebraska
Adirondack
A. E. Peterson
Elm Street
Sycamore
Nalinois
Ohio
Canton
Akron
Columbus
Portsmouth
Ashland
Famine-Stricken Subjects Of Emperor Charles On Verge Of Revolution
A lengthy cable report describes Austria Hungary facing food riots and political tension as Emperor Charles and Count Czernin press for peace talks. It notes food shortages, protests, and the emperor's growing popularity amid amnesty moves and potential peace before winter.
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Copenhagen
Austria
Galicia
Vienna
Count Czernin
Berlin
Foreign Office
Baron von Dem Bussche-Haddenhausen
Hans Delbrueck
University of Berlin
Philipp Scheidemann
Lemberg
Cracow
Altho
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