Week's Big News Events in War and Politics
Chronicle of diverse wartime items from 1914: immigration restrictions before August 1 1914, Rotterdam fire in Amsterdam harbor, Eastern Victory wrecked near Nyack New York, and appointments from El Paso to Belgians. Reports cover wage hikes at Colburn Machine Tool Co Newark carpenters strike, St Louis Spanish American War Veterans convention, Brooklyn captain Daubert nominated alderman, and Kitchener’s nephew going to France front. Also noted are river flood control plans in St. Louis, bankrupt Winona Assembly sale, Kansas wheat yield, Philadelphia child swimmer, Berkeley police summons, a Torrington car garage loss, Belgian coal strike spread, Panama Exposition delegate Underwood, Scilly Islands denial, Galveston repair work, German occupation governance, German railway fund, and Belgian relief efforts.
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Russia
Rotterdam
Amsterdam
Anna Shaw
New York
Nyack
N. Y
G. F. Hawks
el Paso & Southwestern Railroad
el Paso
Colburn Machine Tool Co
Franklin Pa
L. C. Dyer
St. Louis
Scranton
Jake Daubert
Brooklyn Nationals
Lieut. H. H. Kitchener
Lord Kitchener
France
Winona Assembly and Summer Schools Association
Warsaw
Ind
Department of Agriculture of
Kansas
Ethel Schutt
Philadelphia
Delaware River
Race Street
Mathis’ Shipyard
Camden
Berkeley
Cal
University of California
John W. Kline
Perkins
Torrington
Conn
Charleroi
Hainaut
Underwood
Alabama
Scilly Islands
Ottawa
Galveston
von Beseler
Antwerp
Thomas Edward Oliver
University of Illinois
American Commission For Relief
Belgium
World War News Flash From August Fronts
Berlin reports 50 000 British soldiers lost in Gallipoli assaults while a British submarine bombs the Galata bridge in the Golden Horn. Austria retreats on the Isonzo front as Italy advances. Zeebrugge bombardment kills 600. Von Mackensen drives Russians south of Kobrin near Brest Litovsk. German barracks at Milevenenk burned by a French aviator. Grodno fortress outer defenses fall to German forces.
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Berlin
Gallipoli
Dardanelles
Sea of
Marmara
Bosphorus
Golden Horn
Galata
Stamboul
Rome
Val Sugara
Isonzo
Paris
Temp
Sofia
Turkey
Bulgaria
Rumania
Serbia
Greece
Zeebrugge
Amsterdam
Belgium
von J Mackensen
Kobrin
Brest-Litovsk
Acbashiliman
Nagara
Dar
War and policy items from Washington tone in 1918 era
Washington discusses peace prospects with Pope Benedict and President Wilson while Secretary Lansing weighs war termination. Navy announces a reserve plan for 50 000 seamen. McAdoo returns to the White House for lunch. Postcard postage for sailors ads dropped. Cotton crop forecast at 11 800 000 bales.
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Cardinal Gibbons
Wilson
White House
Pope Benedict
Europe
Lansing
United States
Navy Department
Department of Agriculture
Postoffice Department
San Franciscos
Samoa
War Department
United States Army
Seattle
Secreary
District of Columbia
Washington
General Joseph Etter Sentenced in Waterbury Riot Case
General Joseph Etter an I W W organizer received a six month jail term for breach of the peace in Waterbury Conn accused of starting a riot. A Stockholm report says cholera in Russia was falsely claimed. Speaker Champ Clark saved a man from lynching in Bowling Green Missouri by dispersing a crowd. Portland businessmen offer Goethals a 25000 salary to run the city. France plans a postwar trade protection association. Japanese cruiser Asama reaches San Francisco after going ashore near Turtle Bay. John F Seaman, a drafter of the US China treaty, dies at Bar Harbor. Granite City plant of American Steel Foundries to restart after closure since Nov 1.
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Joseph Etter
Waterbury
Conn
Stockholm
Petrograd
Russia
Champ Clark
Harrison Rose
Rose
Bowling Green
Portland
Ore
George W. Goethals
France
Asama
Turtle Bay
California
San Francisco
John F. Seaman
United States
China
Bar Harbor
American Steel Foundries Co
Granite City
Thorpe to Aid Indiana in Football Coaching
Jim Thorpe, famed Indian football star of Carlisle, set to assist C. C. Childs in coaching the Indiana University football squad this year. Chick Evans, amateur golf great, eliminated in the first round of the amateur championship. Chief Bender, noted for the World Series, released by the Baltimore Feds. National Lawn Tennis Title matches begin at West Side Tennis Club Forest Hills. Alice, Gherardi Davis’s Q class yacht, wins Childs trophy for the fifth straight year with the Atlantic Yacht Club.
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Cathe Cauttal
Jim Thorpe
Carlisle
C. C. Childs
Indiana University
Chick” Evans
Bender
Baltimore
Feds
West Side Tennis Club
Forest Hills
Alice
Gherardi Davis
Atlantic Yacht Club
Foreign news clocking global unrest and relief efforts
Reports note US marines occupy Petit Goave Haiti custom house. Rebels are repulsed at Braga and Caxias in Portugal. Greece signs a commercial treaty with Entente powers. Yuan Shikai proclaimed emperor in China. Carranza garrisons revolt in Frontera and San Juan Batista. 929 cholera cases reported in Austria. Chester arrives at Canea with 470 Beirut refugees. First bale of Georgia cotton sold in Liverpool for 750 dollars, aid to English war relief fund. Body of submarine I-4 sailor found in Honolulu wreckage.
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Timaru Sia
Ariruene
United States Marines
Petit Goave
Hayti
Portugal
Braga
Caxias
Greece
Yuan Shi Kai
China
Carranza
Honolulu
Germans Drive at Riga and Baltic Fronts
The report tracks German advances toward Riga and the Baltic, with Russian defense at the Dvina River under General Ruzsky, and mentions Austro German efforts at Grodno and Grodno’s forts. It notes Allied pressure at Gallipoli and Dardanelles efforts while signaling potential German gains in the Gulf of Riga and Pernau.
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Paris
Riga
Baltic
Lennewada
Divina River
Friedrichadt
Eastern Front Stalls German Advance and Gallipoli Losses
Petrograd reports Russians halt German push on all eastern fronts and foil a German bid to dislodge Grand Duke Nicholas’s wings. Berlin confirms counterattacks near the Stripa River in Galicia and partial Russian reversal of Austro–German pursuit. Submarine damages Galata Bridge. Turkish artillery claims Seddul Bahr position destruction. Berlin says 100,000 British troops attacked Gallipoli with over 50,000 casualties and 600 officers. Constantinople denies separate peace talks. the Tansun article condemns any suggestion of peace with the Quadruple Entente.
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Patris
Capiaus
Petrograd
Nicholas
Berlin
Stripa River
Galicia
Galata
Bosporus
Constantinople
Pera
Turkey
Gallipoli
Seddul-Bahr
British Win at Gallipoli In Close Range Action
General Ian Hamilton reports another battle at the Ardanilles where British forces defeat Turkish troops in close fighting. British gain an important tactical point overlooking the Buruk Anafarta Valley and advance ground previously held by the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps.
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London
Ardanilles
Gallipoli Peninsula
Ian Hamilton
Buruk Anafarta
Monument to Pegoud Namesake Hinted in Paris Street
Paris reports Henri Deutsch head of the Aero Club of France motors to Belfort with a wreath for Pegoud's funeral. A fund for a Pegoud monument at his birthplace Montferrat is planned and a Paris councilor asks to name a street after Pegoud.
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Paris
Ilenri Deutsch
de la Meurthe
Aero Club of France
Belfort
Pegoud
Montferrat
Cherioux
Pith of the War News from Europe and Africa
London reports deny peace rumors and stress the Russian retreat through marshy districts. Berlin cites Paris saying France and England may send export strategists to Grand Duke Nicholas. Russian command reshuffles with General Russky returning to the north. Vienna cites Galicia losses for Russia and the capture of Lutsk. Fighting on the Austro Italian front remains static. In Kamerun, British and French forces seize a town from Germany.
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London
Riga
Dvina
Vilna
Berlin
Paris
France
England
Nicholas
Russky
Vienna
Galicia
Sereth River
Bessarabia
Lutsk
Dubno
Rovnotermes
Galician
Kamerun
Doctor's Wife Held for Murder in Providence Case
Elizabeth F. Mohr widow of Dr. Charles F. Mohr was arrested in Warren on a charge of inciting murder after three colored men testified she promised them 5000 dollars to kill her husband. She was released on 10000 bail after arraignment in Superior Court with named sureties.
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Providence
Elizabeth F. Mohr
Charles Franklin Mohr
Here
New
Warren
Chicago Education Board orders disbanding of teachers federation
The Chicago Board of Education voted 11 to 9 to abolish the Chicago Teachers Federation, ordering its disbandment within three months. The move, led by Jacob M. Loeb, followed a debate over suspending rules for balloting, and was praised by Myer J. Stein as a step toward reorganizing the public school system amid investigations. The federation reportedly has under 500 members of 7,500 Chicago teachers. Parents supported the investigation and saw the report as a public victory.
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Chicago Education Board
Chicago
Chicago Teachers' Federation
Board of Education
Jacob M. Loeb
Loeb
Myer J. Stein
Baldwin Senate Education Inquiry Committee
Teachers’ Federation
Stein
Fort Totten Mortars Score High in Warship Test
The second test of the 1 cinch mortars at Fort Totten satisfied officers in charge. Eighteen shells from four miles hit within fifty feet of a twelve by twelve foot target. one shot struck the target. Sixteen more shots that evening were near the mark, totaling thirty four shots with an excellent showing.
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Fort Totten
New York
Writer may lose passport for carrying German messages
Washington reports the State Department could strip James F. J. Archibald the American war correspondent detained in England of his passport if it is proven he carried despatches for German or Austrian governments. The department views service as a dispatch bearer as unneutral and damaging to citizens with passports.
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Archibald
Washington
State Department
James F. J. Archibald
England
Department
Standard Oil of New Jersey Grants Eight-Hour Day in New Jersey
The Standard Oil Company of New Jersey declares an eight-hour workday for 25,000 Jersey employees effective September 15, following Bayonne strike riots. A 10 percent wage increase was also implemented, with notices posted across plants. Sheriff Eugene Kinkead helped end the strike, citing promised gains.
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New York
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
Bayonne
Standard Oil Corporation
Broadway
Standard Oil
Eugene Kinkead
Hudson County
London agrees to release German goods for shipment
Washington reports Britain has assured the United States that many German and Austrian manufactured goods contracted by American importers before the March 2 orders in council will be released for shipment. The items, valued in the millions and including chemicals dyestuff pharmaceuticals and Christmas toys, lie on Rotterdam docks awaiting approval and criteria for release are not yet clear.
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Washington
Great Britain
United States
Rotterdam
Global briefs report wartime actions and trials
Washington considers radical Naval Academy changes after the gouging scandal. Berlin reports 55 million marks spent on relief for soldiers families in the war’s first year. Orozco funerals held in El Paso. Taft urges preparedness at Panama-Pacific Exposition. Cobb County Grand Jury finds insufficient evidence in Leo Frank lynching case. Greece and Entente sign navigation pact. Boston plans municipal mail order house to aid local merchants. Karlsruhe awards honorary doctor of engineering to Otto Rau senberger. Harry K Thaw files for divorce from Evelyn Nesbit Thaw in Pittsburgh.
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Washington
Naval Academy At
Annapolis
Berlin
EL Paso
Pascual Orozco
Texas
San Francisco
William H. Taft
Marietta
Cobb County Grand Jury
Leo M. Frank
Paris
Athens
Havas
Greece
Boston
Curley
Boston Industrial Development Bureau
Technical Academy
Marlsruhe
Otto Rausenberger
Pittsburgh
Harry K. Thaw
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
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Kaiser
Baltic Port
Straits
Germany
Grodno
Niemen River
Suvla Bay
Near East
Dvina River
Ruzsky
Bzura
Gulf of Riga
Pernau
von Eichhorn
Czar
SAV
Slayers
QIL CO
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