National defense talks push for navy build up and army plan
Washington reports a complete agreement on the army appropriation bill while naval plans clash over big construction and personnel. The Senate backs sixty six ships including eight capital ships, opposed by the House. Navy reform proposals face adjustments on officer promotions and retirement ages. The revenue plan targets levies on manufacturers profits and expands to include steel and munition materials under tax hikes.
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McAdoo
Strike Vote Signals Possible Railroad Shutdown
At a conference with the Big Four brotherhoods, 400,000 rail workers show overwhelming support for a strike if eight hour day demands are unmet. Union districts report high approval rates among engineers firemen conductors and trainmen across Western Eastern Southern regions and general offices.
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New York
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Big Four Brotherhoods of
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Rotherhood of
Southeastern
Western District
Eastern District
Brotherhood of
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Eastern
Southern
Two Teachers Drown at Hawthorne Lake After Camping Trip
Alberta Isa belle Ludlum and Adelaide Lockwood two school teachers drowned at Hawthorne Lake New Jersey as their companions including Mrs W T Ludlum watched. Separate items note bread price set at 10 cents in Salt Lake City and political results in Columbus and New York street car settlement in Manhattan and The Bronx. Norris named Farm Loan Commissioner to lead Farm Loan Bank system in Washington.
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Alberta
Isabelle Ludlum
Adelaide Lockwood
Hawthorne Lake
N. J
W. T. Ludlum
Salt Lake
Utah
National Association of Bakers
Columbus
Myron Y. Herrick
New York
Manhattan
Bronx
Westchester
Mitchel
Oscar S. Straus
Public Service Commission
Ines
Rio Janeiro
Brazil
Chambers
Washington
George Norris
Philadelphia
Wilson
Farm Loan Bank System
Senate Passes Child Labor Bill With 52 to 12 Vote
The Senate approved a bill barring interstate shipments of goods made by children under 14 and under 16 if over eight hours daily. The measure, urged by the President, passed 62 to 12 previously and 52 to 12 in this final tally. The law becomes active one year from approval. it bans employment in mines, quarries, mills, factories, and canneries for under 14, with stricter limits for 14 to 16 year olds.
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Oliver
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Smith
Georgia
Overman
Simmons
North Carolina
Tillman
South Carolina
Williams
Mississippi
House
Campaign books cost more as paper prices rise
Washington reports higher paper costs push up campaign literature for the Government. Congress weighs the Federal Trade Board inquiry into paper prices as the Government Printing Office expands speech printing and orders rise. Representative Cantrill loses $50 on a $300 order amid a 16 percent increase. Henry T. Brian cites paper shortages and exhausted reprints driving costs.
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Uncle Sam
Washington
Congress
Federal Trade Board
Representative Cantrill
Democratic State Campaign Committee
Kentucky
Henry T. Brian
Diphtheria Rife II Hospital Workers In Boston
Doctors and nurses at Massachusetts General Hospital battle a small diphtheria outbreak described by Dr. Frederick A. Washburn. Twenty seven nurses two house doctors and an ambulance driver are moved to other hospital departments to curb spread.
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Boston
Massachusetts General Hospital
Frederick A. Washburn
Bulgaria Rumania Frontier Incidents Strain Ties
Bulgarian soldiers are accused of attempting to seize a Romanian island in the Danube. The Romanian Foreign Minister says such incidents are too frequent and harm good relations between Bulgaria and Romania.
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Amsterdam
Danube
Russians Break Through Sereth Line at Front Rivalry
Report from northern Galicia states Russian forces captured six Teutonic villages along the Sereth and Graberki rivers south of Brody and gained the left bank of the Sereth. Berlin says Germans advance near Verdun and in the Argonne while British and French report limited gains on the Somme and at Verdun. Turkish front losses cited as British and German forces push back Ottoman troops. Austrians bombard Italian lines between Adige, Upper Isonzo, and Pasubio areas, with attacks repulsed per Rome.
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Turkey
Suez Canal
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New Zealand
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Isonzo
Pasubio
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Cordevole
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Muse
Fleury
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Poziéres
Mametz Wood
Teutons Check Russians in World War I Fighting
London reports three major theaters, Somme, Russia, and Galicia, showing heavy activity but no decisive battles. French gains along a three mile Meuse to Fleury front yielded trenches, support points, 600 German captives and ten machine guns. Russian front saw artillery duels and small-detachment assaults, with local offensives repulsed on Stokhod Turin and Stripa fronts.
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Somme
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Galicia
Meuse
Fleury
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Petrograd
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Turin
Stripa
Full Bench to Hear $102 Million Suit in New Haven
Massachusetts Supreme Court to reconsider a $102,000,000 suit against former directors of the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad for alleged improper expenditures between 1904 and 1909. Judge Crosby referred the bill demurrers and special pleadings back to the full bench.
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Crosby
Deutschland Submarine Eludes Allies With Painted Camouflage
A witness recounts how the German submarine Deutschland escaped Allied forces on August 2 by applying streaks of white and green paint that allowed it to blend with the sea. The observer described the getaway as a chameleon like dash to sea evading pursuers.
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Baltimore
Deutschland
Allies Gain Ground on All Fronts in World War I
London reports major Allied advances across three fronts. Italian forces break the Gorizia bridgehead and push Austrian defenses on the Isonzo while Russians threaten Stanislau and British French gains north of the Somme. Verdun remains a focal point as French retake Thiaumont with heavy fighting near Fleury.
PITH OF THE WAR NEWS
Smashing their way through a seventeen mile line south of the Dniester Russian troops drive near Stanislau on the Kolomea to Lemberg railway. Three advances bring Czars forces within fifteen miles of the town. Goritza in Italian hands opens path to Trieste Fiume and Pola. Submarine strikes in the Mediterranean kill many civilians.
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Staniglau
Kolomea
Lemberg
Goritza
Istrian
Trieste
Fiume
Pola
Somme
Verdun
Albert Plateau
Mediterranean
New Jersey Briefs Highlight Local Civic and Legal Notes
Cumberland National Bank marks its 100th anniversary from 1816. Reports cite school, church, and town matters across Cumberland and nearby counties, including tax delinquents, driver enforcement, union services, school finances, and community events.
Government aid in epidemic war
Trenton police stations and road check points seal the city to keep under sixteen year olds out amid infantile paralysis fears. Health Officer Fell urged strict quarantine as Dr. Frost of the Public Health Service coordinates a federal state campaign. Rumors of McAdoo departure denied. Ellen Wilson McAdoo and a McAdoo grandchild moved to Shadow Lawn ahead of Congress adjournment.
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Trenton
Board of Health
Fell
City
Lmits
New Jersey
Secretary of the Treasury
United States Public Health Service
Public Health Service
New York
Frost
The
McAdoo
Spring Lake
Coast Resorts
Ellen Wilson McAdoo
Bumper Year for Honey and Tax Question Highlight New Jersey Beekeepers
The New Jersey Beekeepers Association met near Mount Holly to debate honey marketing and price uniformity. Advocates urged selling locally to maximize returns in a bumper production year while warning against shipping scraps to distant markets. A separate Tax Board opinion says public property must be in public use to qualify for tax exemption, citing Middlesex Farm tract housing a sewage plant as the example.
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New Jersey Beekeepers’ Association
Harold Horner
Mount Holly
W. A. Sulzer
Walter Garrabrant
Chester
Elmer G. Carr
New Egypt
Association
Garrabrant
George T. Reid
Reid
State Board of Taxes and Assessment
Plainfield
North Plainfield
Dunellen
Borough of
Middlesex
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