News Review of the Past Week Line North of Chateau Thierry
The article recaps a week of World War I events with Ludendorff’s offensive along a 65 mile front from Chateau Thierry to Main de Massiges largely checked. American troops performed notably at Jaulgonne and Vaux, while French and Italian forces held firm northward toward Reims. The piece notes shifting strategic momentum, Allied morale, and broader actions in Albania, Russia, and Asia, including Hayti's war declaration against Germany.
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Edward W. Pickard
Germany
Hung
Sworth
Fach
Belleau Wood
Aisne
Soissons
Nouilly St. Front
Culchy
Chateau Thierry
Taclendorff
Ondendorff
Main de Massiges
Reims
Epernay
Chalons
Fiere
von Bernhardt
Vaux
Jaulgonne
Marne
Accross
Adopts Tank System to Foil Hold-Up Men
In St Louis a group stopped a Belt Line trolley directly in its path. With revolvers, one man aimed for the rear door as motorman Charles O. Wray signaled conductor Cecil Raynor. Wray charged, knocked the car off its truck, and escaped while the robbers climbed aboard and rode away.
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St Louis
Charles O. Wray
Quick Oeston
Cecil Raynor
Rayner
Wray
Girl Will Wed War Hero Despite Losses in War
Rochester Miss Helen Weston plans to marry Merwin Birdsell, a war hero who returned from France with both arms and legs lost. Despite his injuries, he and Weston remain committed, meeting in New York after their Canadian romance, and expect to start a home in Washington after their marriage.
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Rochester
Helen Wesston
France
Merwin Birdsell
Miss Weston
Oair
Canadian Rockies
Birdsell
Canada
Chicago
New York
Belgium
Hirdsell
Washington
Burn Babes For Jam Theft Details From Staten Island Court
Mr and Mrs Strang were sentenced to six months in the penitentiary by Justices McInerny Herrmann and Murphy after being convicted in the court of special sessions Staten Island. They were charged with torturing their children Raymond and Elizabeth as punishment for candy and jelly theft. The court noted the abuse was proven despite letters praising the couple. Strang accepted the sentence quietly while his wife sobbed and needed medical attention before imprisonment.
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New York
Charles Strang
Court of Special Sessions
Staten Island
Raymond
Diizabeth
McInerny, Herrmann and Murphy
Strang
War board official denies crisis justifying seizing stock
L L Summers testified before a House committee that there is no crisis in the platinum market to warrant commandeering all stocks. A fertilizer plant explosion near Jacksonville Florida destroyed American Agricultural Chemical company facilities with a loss estimated at a million and a quarter dollars. Thirty five Americans from the former Great Lakes steamer George L Hiton arrived in Losuon after their ship foundered at sea and were rescued by a warship. Countess Alexandra Vinida Schoete was arrested in New York as a dangerous enemy alien linked to German propaganda. Thomas J Mooney faces San Quentin execution on Monday August 23 per an order from Judge Franklin A Grittin in San Francisco. Ninety four Germans killed and 74 wounded when five aviators bombed a prisoner camp near Troyes France July 16 17.
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L. L. Summers
War Industries Board
House
American Agricultural Chembeal Company
Jacksonville
Ila
Great Lakes
George L. Hiton
Losuon
Superior Court
Troyes
Paris
Sinking of excursion steamer blamed on captain and pilot
Washington reports inspectors fault Captain H W Mehl and Pilot George T Williams for the Columbia disaster on the Tiltofa river between Peoria and Pekin on July 5. The report cites inattention to duty and unskillfulness with negligence, noting the loss of two lives and blaming poor seamanship for allowing the vessel to be held in shallow water after scraping willows.
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Washington
Columbia
Tiltofa
Peoria
Pekin
H.W. Mehl
George ‘T. Williams
Secretary of Commerce
Redfield
Reese V. Downs
George R. Bower
Mehl
Phot Wiliining
Food prices rise 63 percent in latest retail survey
Washington figures show retail food prices increased by percent from April 16 to May 15, with a 5 percent annual rise to May 15 last year. Boiling beef up 82 percent, cornmeal 40 percent, milk 26 percent, and pork chops 2 percent. Over five years ending May 15 there was an 8 percent average rise in food prices.
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Washington
United States
Istinatea
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bureau of Statistics
President Wilson forgoes summer vacation in 1916
Washington reports that President Wilson will not take a vacation this year. He will remain in Washington to handle pressing duties, with officials stating he will stay at the White House throughout the summer to attend to affairs of national importance.
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Capital
Washington
Wilson
White House
The Markets: Flour And Live Poultry Prices Listed
United States food administration flour standards show prices for barley, corn flour, white and dark rye, spring and soft winter wheats, and special brands. Hay and timothy prices, thrashed timothy, and clover mixed feeds noted alongside live poultry costs for turkeys, fowls, roosters, spring chickens, ducks, geese, and other fowl. Cattle, hogs, sheep, and veal prices per hundredweight or per head listed in varied grades and weights.
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United States Food Administration
Lydia Pinkham Remedy Promises Avoid Operation
A Baltimore Maryland woman urges others to try Lydia B Pinkhams Vegetable Compound before agreeing to an operation. She credits the remedy with curing organic troubles and easing monthly pain after years of debilitating illness. The message promotes natural health and includes a free Cuticura sample offer for babies and mothers.
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Baltimore
Lydia B. Pinkham
NeLam B
Castoria Advertisement Emphasizes Safe Use for Infants
A vintage ad urges careful use of Castoria the long trusted remedy for infants and children. It highlights the product as in use for over 80 years and features the line Children cry for Fletcher's Castoria with claims of maternal approval and importance of victory in health.
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Infanta
Lt Beata
Fletcher
Hymn of Hate mocked as a national song claim
In The Notebook of an Intelligence Officer Maj. Eric Isher Wood notes that the German Hymn of Hate could become England's national song. He compares it to Yankee Doodle and Dixieland era chants, describing a British regiment singing it and the chorus answering with a loud dogland chant.
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Elymn
England
Maj
Eric Isher Wood
Wan Tater
Yorktown
America
Doglund
Two Privates Debate Camouflage and Dinner Night
Two privates discussed the French language. Silence falls before one asks what camouflage in Bren means. An unexpected guest arrives at a boarding house for dinner as others comment on courage and laughter.
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United States
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