Stefansson 18 Reported Safe and Finds New Arctic Land
Nome Alaska dispatch reports Vilhjalmur Stefansson age 18 now alive and well with two companions Storkersen and Ole Anderson. His expedition aboard the Ruby from Herschel Island reaches Banks Land east of the Mackenzie to continue exploration westward and confirm the new land southwest of Prince Patrick Island. Stefansson plans to base on Banks Land and press onward to map the continental shelf limits while seeking further lands after the Karluk sinking near Wrangell Island.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nome
Alaska
vVilhialmur Stefansson
Arctic
Ruby
Herschel Island
Stefansson
Storkersen
Ole Anderson
Martin Point
Polar Ocean
Beaufort Sea
8. F. Cottle
Banks Land
Mackenzie
Prince Patrick’s Island
Bank’s
Stefangson
Bank
Wrangell Island
Relief Commission Report Details Belgian Aid Efforts
London reports the Commission for Relief in Belgium has recorded eight months of activity with 50 million dollars moved and 15 million from the United States British Empire and Belgian donors. Belgians abroad contribute over half the aid, with additional support from Belgians inside Belgium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Commission For Relief In
Belgium
United States
British Empire
Global brief notes from Berlin to Brownsville and beyond
Socialist deputy and seventeen Duma members arrested in Russia. Luz Azpiroz de Rivera commits suicide in Mexico City. American troops clash with Carranza forces near Brownsville. casualties reported. Fire on Fabre Liner Sant Anna tied to explosives. ship carries 1764 passengers. Paris reports Italian engineer Louis Rota solves still space hold problem. Dutch bankers and merchants to visit US for economic ties. Baltimore & Ohio president Willard optimistic on railroad outlook.
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Berlin
Tuckerton
N. J
Stockhorm
Tceidse
Duma
Mexico City
Senora Luz Azpiroz de Rivera
Washington
Mexico
London
Russia
Brownsville
New York
Philadelphia
Ryan
Supreme Court
Paris
Louis Rota
Holland
United States
Baltimore
Daniel Willard
Baltimore & Ohio
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Hindenburg Forces Drive on Vilna Amid Eastern Front Struggle
London and Washington report on Britain protests against Orders in Council for non-contraband trade and Hindenburgs renewed push in the east. Vilna is captured or under threat. Dvina railway control and evacuation of government institutions advance as Russian forces retreat. Across the front, Austro German gains press the Russian line while Britain seeks fresh war credits in Commons.
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Washington
Lansing
New York
Great Britain
Germany
Austria
London
von Hindenburg
Dvinsk
Vilna
Dvinsk-Vilna
Vidzy
Dvina
Pinsk
Pripit Marshes
Berlin
Lida
Vileika
Baranovitchi
Marshal von Hindenburg
Archduke Leopold of
Bavaria
Galicia
Vilna-Petrograd
Riga
Stripa
Russia
Deadlock at Straits Keeps Positions Unchanged
London Reuters Dardanelles correspondent says combatant positions were virtually the same from July 12 to Aug 31. Turks remain well supplied with ammunition but not inclined to waste it. Two months of fine weather remain to pile up stores for winter.
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London
Reuter
Dardanelles
Submarine Losses Reported in Early War Stages
The Motor Ship and Motor Boat claims Germany lost twenty submarines since the war began while Britain lost seven including the F-7. At the start Germany had eleven sea-going subs and sixteen smaller ones. by June 1 ten new boats had been added.
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Germany
London
PITH OF THE WAR NEWS
The British fleet joined western operations shelling Belgian coast targets with French artillery support. Italian forces bombarded Austrian works and failed a main attack at the Flitch region, losing about 1 000 men. Allied troops rest on Gallipoli as sporadic artillery continues.
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Belgian Littoral
Nieuport
Vielgereuth
Lafraun
Flitch
Corso
Gallipoli
Perthes
Berlin
Asquith
Ward Kitchener
Great Britain
Ireland
Prince Leopard
von Mackensen
Pripet
Pinsk
Dardanelles
Dvinsk
Vilna
U.S. to Recall Villa Consuls from Northern Mexico
The State Department decides to withdraw consular officers from Sonora and Chihuahua as lawless bands maraud near the border. Americans are urged to return to the United States and not cross into Mexico while conditions remain unsettled under Villa’s inability to curb depredations.
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Washington
Mexico
Sonora
Chihuahua
United States
State Department
Villa
Son
Department
British prize court condemns $15 million American meat cargoes
British prize court forfeits fifteen million dollars of American meat mostly from Chicago for destined Germany. The cargoes aboard Norwegian ships Jim Alfred Nobel Bjoerstjerne Bjoernson and Swedish Fridland are ordered to the Crown. Appeal rights granted with security set at $25,000. American shippers plan Privy Council appeal and possible diplomatic or international commission action.
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WU. S
Prize Cour
London
Chicago
Germany
Privy Council
American State Department
Foreign Office
Jim
Alfred Nobel
Bjoerstjerne
Bjoernson
Fridland
Samuel Evans
National Security League to Reach All Colleges Campaign
The National Security League announced a campaign spanning all educational institutions from the Atlantic to the Pacific. New York members include many Harvard Yale Princeton and Cornell graduates with assurances of support received.
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New York
National Security League
Atlantic
Pacific
League
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Cornell
Governor Spry Threatened After Death Sentence Refusal
Threatening letters reach Governor Spry after he and the Board of Pardons decline to commute the death sentence of Joseph Hillstrom for the Hillstrom murder plot against J. G. Morrison and his son at a Utah grocery. The case ties to the J. W. W. songwriter Hillstrom.
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W. W
Slayer
Salt Lake
William Spry
State Board
Joseph Hilstrom
J. G. Morrison
Aul- Ing
Hillstrom
New Jersey News Highlights From Across the State
Weekly dispatch summary notes Oaklyn postmaster Edward Batten resigning from the Board of Education with William Myers succeeding him. Camden fire HQ upgrades promise separate apartments for firefighters. Laurel Springs and Vineland see school and business activity including a Grape Juice plant purchase and new baby carnival efforts in Williamstown. Demands and elections update Salem and Paulsboro politics with mayoral battles and court actions.
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Edward Batten
Oaklyn
Board of Education
William Myers
Market Notes on Hay and Straw Prices
Prime timothy quoted around 1.30 to 1.95 dollars per unit with No 1 at 1.81 to 2.09. No 2 hay at about 1.10 to 1.20 and No 3 around 91 cents to 1.00. Clover and ponte straw listed as nominal and rye straw around 0.60 to 0.75 cents per unit.
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New York
Ood
Emery Town
Scenseresnee
LL & RL
Penn
Tenn & Ky
Toeawe
L. L'& Jay
Eave Eeaeeser
Sevan
Cscseceunee
Jersey
Reece Remeren
Valley
Shelter Island
Hubbard
Papereaetheres
New Jersey
Delaware
Ss. C
N. C
Maryland
UcRiver
Dana d
Pennsylvania
Rio
Tobacco
Vena
Oden Oenasvessndt
Kean
Cevectree Secesorun AG
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Ward
Relief Commission Report
World’s News
Hindenburg
England
Commons
House of Commons
Bank of England
Dominions
Straits
U.S
Pancho
Obregon
Britain
GOV. Spry
Florence
Warren County Sunday School Association
Fifth and Arch Streets
Camden
Joseph I. Powell
Quinton Township
Laurel Springs
Salem
Salem County
Haddon Township
St. Clare's Catholic Church
Paulsboro
Doolittle
Cross Keys
W. Scott Thomson
M. J. Doolittle
Justice of the Peace
DeLuca
Vineland
F. L. Warren
Toney
Warren
Brown
Hammonton
Pleasantville
Atlantic County
Collingswood Public Schools
Amos Flake
William Stout
Pitman
Vineland Grape Juice Company
Albert V. Still
Moorestown
Fettit
Frank G. Stroud
L. M. Halsey
Williamstown
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