Mexico’s Neutral Stance Stakes Tense U S War Relations
Washington reports say Mexico will likely stay neutral despite pressure and possible aid to the Allies. Officials caution a break with Germany could entangle U S obligations while Mexico’s “benevolent neutrality” allows American warships to dock at Tampico amid oil interests.
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Mexico
Germany
United States
Mexico City
Fletcher
Lansing
State Department
Carranza
France
Great Britain
Foreign Office
Huerta
Tampico
Kaiser Yields to Cry of His People for Vote
Columbus July 10 Congratulations poured in to Governor Cox after the announcement of his engagement to Miss Margaretta J Blair of Chicago An official close to the Governor said the romance grew out of many years of conversation and common interests within political circles
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Columbus
Cox
Margaretta J Blair
Chicago
Governor Courting Miss Blair Faces September Wedding
The Governor of a state engaged to Miss Blair a 26 year old Chicago socialite known for boating golf and riding. Their romance began after an accidental meeting in Hot Springs Virginia about a year and a half ago with many weekend trips later explained by the governor’s absence on supposed war business. The couple plans a September wedding at the bride’s Chicago home.
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Miss Blair
Cox
Helen Cox
Hot Springs
Chicago
Crown Council in Berlin Considers Universal Franchise
Reports from Berlin indicate the crown council meeting lasting three hours considered a franchise bill for direct universal suffrage and secret ballots. Chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg faced criticism in the Reichstag while ministers and cabinet members faced resignations over opposition to universal franchise.
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Amsterdam
Altho
Berlin
Crown Council
William
von Bethmann-Hollweg
Koelnischer Volkszeitung
Zimmermann
Karl Lelfférich
von Bethman- Hollweg
Lokal Anzeiger
Food legislation delays raise hunger fears and speculator profits
A Hoover report to President Wilson warns that farmers and consumers suffer as food speculators profit from delays in food control bills. It calls for immediate action and outlines Gore substitute aims like federal control over food and fuel, requisitioning, and a board to oversee prices, while simulating wartime restrictions on distilled beverages. The piece notes Wilson’s impatience with Congress and signals continued debate.
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Wilson
Herbert Hoover
White House
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Public Information Committee
Altho
Congress
Gore
Board of Food Administration
Senate
Weather service bulletin notes mixed conditions across states
Midwest and southern regions see fair warm days with showers at night or Thursday. Ohio and Indiana report warmer trend with northern showers, Kentucky and Tennessee mainly fair, West Virginia fair with warmer Thursday. Temperatures at multiple stations show varied highs and some precipitation, plus a July 10 1917 Cincinnati record.
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Kentucky
Indiana
Tennessee
West Virginia
Clothing found on riverbank tied to missing boy
Covington police traced a noon discovery of clothes along the Licking River to William Gore, 15, of Byrd and Kendell streets, who had gone rowing and left his garments on the bank. He returned home later that night minus his fathers.
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Licking River
William Gore
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Kendell
Russians Capture Halicz and Push Front in Galicia
LONDON July 11 reports Halicz, a strategic key to Lemberg, captured by Russians. Dispatches say Stanislau front drive continues with new successes, Berlin War Office noting villages, 1,000+ prisoners, three large guns seized. front fighting also reported on Aisne and Italian fronts with heavy bombardments and notable ground gains near Ypres.
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Halicz
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Galicia
Rewter
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Berlin War Office
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Aisne
Loux Mill
Ailles
Eux
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Corbery
Courcy
Auberive
West Flanders
Ypres
Wytschaete- Messines
Ostaverne
Camines Canal
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Hollebeke
Church Alliance Aims to Accelerate Food Conservation
Washington July 10 A national church led drive will aid food conservation through a weekly church based report system. Denominational committees will collect family progress cards showing seven meatless meals seven wheatless meals and seven extra left over dishes each week. Leaders Hoover Wilbur Cullen and other food administration officials outlined the plan during a conference with church representatives. Representatives from patriotic societies and fraternal orders are to join the effort in the days ahead.
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Washington
Food Administration
United States
Herbert Hoover
R. J. Wilbur
George A. Cullen
Patriotic Societies
Seven Missing After Lake Steamer Wrecks in Gale
In Ortonville Minnesota seven people are believed dead after the Muskegon excursion steamer foundered on Big Stone Lake nine miles from town during a fierce storm. Two of nine aboard were recovered on the lake shore. Rescued: Ole Tranberg and twelve year old David Manvell. The Muskegon, a seventy five foot launch, operated between Ortonville and Hartford.
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Peter Luff
Albert Nelson
Patrick Weatherly
Belle Larson
B. Sweeney
Ole Tranberg
David Manvell
Tranberg
Hartford
Lightning Believed To Have Struck Army Aviator
CAMP BORDEN Ontario July 10 A bolt of lightning is believed to have struck in flight Lieutenant Claire A Page of the Royal Flying Corps who was killed in an electric storm last night Cadet Donellin was seriously injured when his machine toppled on landing A third member landed safely Page hailed from Hamilton Ontario.
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Ont
Claire A. Page
Royal Flying Corps
Donellin
Page
Hamilton
Ontario
Nurse Massie Heroine in Paducah Hospital Fire
Miss Med die Massie, a nurse at the Illinois Central Railroad Hospital in Paducah Ky, died after rescuing twenty two patients when a fire broke out. She was trapped in an upper story and forced to jump. both legs were broken. The loss was $150,000.
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Meddie
Massie
Illinois Central Railroad
Greece to Ask France for Army Reorganization
Athens reported the Greek Government will request France assist in reorganizing its army. The assembly set to revise the constitution is called to meet in October.
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France
Girl Killed Officer Hurt When Motorcycle Hits Pole
Miss Grace Booth, 19, of 4221 Eastern avenue, died from a fractured skull after a motorcycle collision with a telegraph pole at Harrison avenue and Arwiler street. Patrolman Chester W. Butts, 3205 Mozart avenue, suffered a broken leg. Dr. Edward B. Reemelin of 3471 Cheviot avenue escaped injury as he neared the corner.
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Eastern Avenue
Chester W. Butts
Lving
Mozart Avenue
Harrison Avenue
Arwiler Street
Butts
Edward B. Reemelin
Cheviot Avenue
Miss Booth
E. D. Allgaier
Epworth
Juliétta’ Avenues
Patrolman Butts
General Hospital
Andy Hader
North Bend Road
Cheviot
Reemelin
John Franklin
Winifred Booth
German Conspiracy Tied to Chinese Rebels Claims
The North China Daily News says General Chang Hsun is allegedly in German pay as imperial forces struggle in China. A Nanking government dispatch confirms Feng Kuo Chang as President and Tuan Chi Jui as Premier, with moves to banish the Emperor and imperial family from Peking.
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North China Daily News
Chang Hsun
Reuter
Shanghai
China
Germany
Nanking
Feng Kuo Chang
Tuan Chi Jui
Peking
Tien Tsin
Elks Striker Force Hunts for Meals in Boston
Thousands of Elks and guests in Boston were left hungry as five hundred hotel waiters went on strike at 6 am. They demanded a sixty two cent weekly wage increase, but hotel managers refused, forcing many Elks and visitors to skip meals at the city's major hotels housing 35 000 visitors.
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The
Elks In Convention
Elks
Cry for new cabinet heard in Britain
London July 10 The Star calls for a new cabinet amid the first serious attacks on the Lloyd George government after the latest German air raid. Other papers note shaken public confidence as a secret Commons session debates the raid and its impact.
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Commercial Tribune
London
Lloyd George
Star
House of Commons
Train Derailment Kills One in Winthrop Loop Collision
In Boston, a Boston Revere Beach Lynn train derailed after jumping a switch between Pleasant Street and Battery stations on the Winthrop loop. One man was killed and several passengers injured as the crowded train headed toward Boston.
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Winthrop
Caledonien Sunk Off Mediterranean Coasting The Loss
French liner Caledonien sunk in the Mediterranean by a mine or submarine with fifty one lives lost. The vessel had 431 aboard on June 30. 380 escaped. Operated by Messageries Maritimes from Marseilles. 4140 tons.
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International News Service
Paris
Mediterranean Sea
Messageries Maritimes
Marseilles
Coal Schooner Sinks After Striking Tucker Nuck Shoal
A two masted schooner bound for Halifax struck Tucker Nuck shoals off Nantucket today and sank. Its four crew were saved by life saving crews of Stations 47 and 48 and landed ashore at Nantucket.
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Halifax
Tuckernuck Shoals
German Seaplanes Destroyed by British Trawler
London report says two German seaplanes were destroyed by an armed British trawler on Monday with four Germans captured.
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London
Harvard Graduates Hurt After French Seaport Fire
An American yacht arrived at a French seaport on July 10 with several Harvard graduate crew members injured by fire and smoke in bunkers. Some were revived with portatives after being overcome. they had enlisted as stokers and seamen.
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Harvard
Sunk schooner sighted off Cape Cod reported by wireless
News from Boston states a large schooner was sunk off Cape Cod. A collier rescued a boatload of survivors, picked up the survivors.
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Boston
Cape Cod
Leading hotel men submit radical economy plan to Hoover
A committee of four leading New York hotel managers has gone to Washington to seek approval from Herbert Hoover on a radical economy program. It calls for war bread for guests and staff, one beerless day a week, standardized bread and butter portions, and removal of free lunch cheese at bars. If Hoover approves, the plan will be recommended to the hotel fraternity nationwide.
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Washington
Herbert C. Hoover
Maiden Is Gagged And Spirited Away In Car
Mary DeRoss a 17 year old girl was abducted as she waited for a ride to work. An autoist tied a handkerchief over her face and drove her away. Police search for the kidnapper and three other missing girls including Anna Kaursky 14 who vanished two months ago. The cases are likened to a Ruth Cruger style disappearance.
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Cleveland
Mary DeRoss
Anna Kaursky
Ruth Cruger
Anna
Mary Wistein
Barbara Schacha
Hold up ends in murder and manhunt through streets
Adolf Bargen, 53, saloon keeper at Third and Elm, was shot dead in his saloon after 6 pm. Arthur Pendergast, 22, of Bridgeport, Conn., fled through downtown as a police chase ended with his arrest on suspicion. Pendergast allegedly confessed to the killing during questioning.
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Adolf Bargen
Third and Elm Streets
Bargen
Arthur Pendergast
Bridgeport
Conn
Pendergast
Pettebaum
Third Street
German crop outlook shows wheat at forty percent
Cable reports from Scandinavia indicate Germany faces poor crop prospects with wheat production at about 40 percent of normal. The same sources note a cold wet spring has damaged Scandinavian crops.
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Commercial ‘Tribune
New York
Scandinavia
Germany
Riots in Cologne as Troops Fire on Disturbers
Paris reports new food riots in Cologne with troops firing on disturb ers. Information received today confirms violent unrest tied to shortages and protests.
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Cologne
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