Mystery in Murder Shocks Tolleston Pastor Kayser
Gary Indiana August 27 two main theories emerge in the Tolleston pastor Reverend Edmund A M Kayser murder inquiry. Police weigh fanatical Allied opposition and a Lutheran Church factional feud linked to threatening letters from his congregation. Postal authorities hold letters written in German with crude drawings, warning of danger to Kayser and his wife if pro German views persist.
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Gary
Ind
Edmund A. M. Kayser
Tolleston
Kayser Wis
Thevangelical Lutheran Church
Kayser
Havitz
Kaysar
John Hunter
South Bend
H. B. Snyder
German Arrested as Spy Near Hampton Roads
Washington August 27 1917 Gustav Kopsch a German reservist aged 27 was arrested on espionage charges by the Secret Service. Officials say he possessed photographs and film of Fortress Monroe fortifications and Cape Henry defenses near Hampton Roads Chesapeake Bay. He had been in the United States two years and faces penalties including a 1000 dollar fine up to one year in prison or both. He is jailed awaiting bond set at 6000 dollars for the charge under the 1911 act.
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Washington
Secret Service
Department of Justice
Gustav Kopsch
Fortress Monroe
Cape Henry
Hampton Roads
Chesapeake Bay
Kopsch
United States
Two Die When Shell Explodes in Bethlehem Steel Test
Two men were killed and several likely fatally injured when a shell exploded while being moved to the Bethlehem Steel plant proving grounds at India Head Redington Pa. One victim was R Paul Stout aged 46 of Bethlehem assistant engineer of ordnance. Stout led a new test program.
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Allentown
Bethlehem Steel
Indiao Head
Redington
R. Paul Stout
Sage
Bethlehem
Ordnance
Stout
France to Limit Martial Law in France After September
Paris reports that martial law will be abolished everywhere in France except in zones of military activity after September 1, indicating no further fear of interior invasion. Officials of United Fruit say the steamship Marowijne with 86 aboard is believed sunk off the coast of Cuba.
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France
Paris
Orleeans
United Fruit Company
Marowijne
Cuba
Mediation urged as Germany ready to meet US demands
Washington reports diplomatic progress in the Arabic crisis with Germany willing to consider U S mediation between Berlin and London on freedom of the seas. Berlin says submarine captains followed orders not to torpedo without warning and would disavow any un warned attack like the Arabia.
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Washington
Germany
United States
Great Britain
Count von Bernstorff
Lansing
Arabia
Josephine L. Brugiere
Edmund T. Woods
Lusitania
French Flyers Raid Dillingen In War Aerial Attack
Paris reports the greatest air raid of the war as 62 French war planes strike Dillingen in Rhenish Prussia. One hundred fifty bombs hit blast furnaces and arms factories causing heavy damage. Berlin broadcasts a German statement noting two enemy squadrons dropped bombs in the Saar valley near Saarlouis, with several killed or injured and four German aircraft lost.
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Paris
French
War Office
Dillingen
Rhenish
Prussia
Germany
Berlin
Saar
Saarlouls
Brest-Litovsk Falls to Austro German Forces
Berlin reports Brest-Litovsk, a key fortress behind which Russia held Warsaw, has fallen after a brief siege. The bold capture by Austro German troops marks a major victory and a pivot in Russia’s second line of defense.
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Berlin
Brest-Litovsk
Warsaw
Europe
Wood Score Regret Over Roosevelt Speech At Camp Plattsburg
Secretary Garrison telegraphed Major General Leonard Wood to deprecate Theodore Roosevelt's sensational speech at the Plattsburg citizen soldiery camp and to forbid any similar remarks at other camps. He cited Roosevelt's comments on military unpreparedness and the administration's attitude.
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Washington
Garrison
Leonard Wood
Citizen Soldiery
Plattsburg
N. Y
Theodore Roosevelt
Secratary Garrison
Roosevelt
Jealous Man Kills Wife and Self in Corry
Corry Pennsylvania on August 28 a jealous husband Fred Braedon shot and killed his young wife on the front porch then killed himself. He died minutes later.
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Corry
Fred Braedon
Wounded Germans From Riga Transport Arrives In Koenigsberg
A dispatch from London reports a transport carrying seriously wounded German marines from the Gulf of Riga has landed at Koenigsberg after sailing from Libau.
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Riga
London
England
Patch
Gulf of Higa
Koenigsberg
Libau
Teutons Storm Fort Near Kopytow In Riga Front
German army headquarters reports storming a hill at Kopytow southwest of Brent-Litovak as Teutonic forces push on. The Bremen telegram notes battles east and south of Kovno yield prisoners and machine guns, with continued pursuit and advances on Brest Litovak front. Berlin also denies sinking dreadnoughts or cruisers in the Gulf of Riga engagement.
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Berlin
Kopytow
Brent-Litovak
Teutonic
Niemen River
von Hindenburg
Kovno
Prince Leopold of Bavaria
Kleszczele
Bailocheslka
Meld
Marshal von Mackensen
Pulya
Bug
Pulva
Brest Litovak
Viadova
Amsterdam
Gulf of Riga
Kodak Firm Is A Trust In Monopoly Restraint
The Daat man Kodak company of Rochester is found in monopoly in restraint of trade in violation of the Sherman antitrust law. Judge John R Hazel of the U S district court grants the defendant an opportunity to present a plan for abrogation of the legal monopoly on the first day of the November term.
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Buffalo, N
Daatman Kodak Company
Rochester
John R Hazel
United States District Court
US to Aid Cotton Growers With Large Reserve Loans
Washington announces that more than 20 million dollars will be placed in reserve banks of the South to finance the cotton crop if needed. Funds will be re loaned to growers at low interest. In Galveston streetcar service resumes after ten days of disruption, traffic returning to normal following last week’s storm.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo
South
Galveston
Tex
Australian gold arrives in San Francisco by Ventura
A steamship from Australia delivered six million dollars of gold to San Francisco on Tuesday morning. This marks the first installment of an anticipated eighteen million dollars to be sent through that source.
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San
Cisco
Ventura
Australia
Outlaws Clash With Peace Officers Near Progreso
Twenty armed Mexicans invaded Texas near Progreso as 50 U S troopers pursued them west of here. Mexican bandits fired on soldiers across the Rio Grande near Santa Maria for two hours. Two cavalry horses were wounded. In another note, the Pan American conference plans to reassemble to discuss peace proposals in Mexican affairs with favorable replies from Villa Zapata and others except Carranza.
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Brownsville
Tex
Texas
Mexico
Progreso
United States
Prograso
Falturrias
Brooks County
Rio Grande
Santa Maria
Washington
Republic
Villa
Zapata
Carranza
Haiti urged to accept ten year customs and finance control
Port au Prince reports the U S government pressing Haiti to promptly accept a draft convention for a decade enabling effective customs control and finances administration by a receiver general and American staff. In New York, James Connor Roche, Irish dramatist and former war correspondent, dies at seventy two. In London, an official White Star line statement says the Arabic carried no gold for ally war supplies when sunk.
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Port Au Prince
Haiti
New York
James Connor Roche
Jvondon
White Star Line
Bulgaria, Turkey sign treaty for rail link and neutrality
Reports from Sofia and Constantinople state Turkey grants direct rail access to Bulgaria by sea while Bulgaria pledges benevolent neutrality. In Milan, Premier Pachitch of Serbia says Serbia concedes to Italy on Albania as part of Balkan settlement.
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Berlin
Sofia
Constantinople
Turkey
Bulgaria
Milan
Balkan
Pachitch
Serbia
Italy
Albania
Green barbed wire for war use in Europe
Pittsburgh P a Aug 28 Barbed wire painted foliage green is being manufactured for use of the army in Europe. Reports show a short distance away the green wire becomes invisible.
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Pittsburgh
Europe
Reichstag backs bureau to seize food for people
Berlin Aug 28 The reichstag adopted a socialist resolution urging a government created bureau to manage the food problem. The bureau would have authority to confiscate products.
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Berlin
Reichstag
Pershing Wife and Three Children Die in San Francisco Fire
Mrs Frances Warren Pershing wife of Brig Gen John J Pershing A S A and three of her four children suffocated and badly burned in their quarters at the Presidio San Francisco Their bodies were found with two escapees and three servants alive Gen Pershing commander of the Eighth Infantry brigade in El Paso Tex was told and overcome by the tragedy and planned to travel to San Francisco to learn full details
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San Francisco
Frances Warren Pershing
John J. Pershing
Presidio of
Walter Q. Boswell
Warren Pershing
Helen
Anne
Margaret
el Paso
Russians Evacuate Grodno Fortress Amid Drive Toward Vilna
Petrograd reports Grodno fortress evacuated to delay German advance with only delaying troops remaining. Olita fortress on the Niemen captured by Germans, opening a path toward Vilna and Grodno. German admiralty refutes Russian claim that Moltke and other ships were destroyed in the Gulf of Riga.
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Petrograd
Grodno
Olita
Niemen River
Kovno
Berlin
Niemen
Vilna
Moltke
Gulf of Riga
Admiralty
Eastland Disaster Indictment Names Greenebaum and Officials
Walter K. Greenebaum, general manager of Indiana Transportation, indicted for manslaughter in the Eastland sinking. Grand jury also charges six steamboat inspection officials and checkers, deemed culpable by jurors in connection with the disaster.
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Chicago
Walter K. Greenebaum
Eastland
Grand
Greenebaum
Indiana Transportation Company
Fastland
Steamboat Inspection Service
Escapad
Robert Reid
C. C. Bekiff
Ira B. Mansfield
William Nicholas
H. G. Oakley
L. A. Lobdell
Bishop Heffron Shot in Winona Chapel
Rt Rev Patrick R Weffron bishop of Winona diocese was shot in the private chapel of St Mary's College during Mass by Rev L M Lesches a demented priest who had sought an appointment. He walked to his residence with aid from priests and the assailant was arrested. Meanwhile an auto crash near Camden New Jersey left two dead Miss Anna V Potts and Emily Potts and three others injured including George T Puzey who may die.
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Winona
Minn
Patrick R. Weffron
St. Mary's College
Father L. M. Lesches
St Mary's College
Heffron
Camden
N. J
Missen Anna V
Emily Potts
Here
George T. Puzey
Potta
Wales Strike Renewed Over Runciman Award Fallout
Dispatches from the South Wales coal fields say 25,000 miners have joined a renewed strike. The protest stems from growing dissatisfaction with the award given to Walter Runciman, signaling renewed labor unrest and potential disruption in mining districts.
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Wales
London
South Wales
Walter Runciman
Games of Zulu Children
The article describes Zulu children playing like other children, with girls loving dolls and boys building huts, playing with clay cattle and fowls, and staging realistic marriages. It notes night parties, clan battles, strong honor, greed, and hunting games, with boys favoring boys and girls, and occasional pairings in shared huts.
Great Man Didn't Scare Cuvier The Wise Naturalist Laughs
A student dressed as a fearsome animal tried to frighten the famed naturalist Cuvier in his room. He confessed his ruse with a hollow cry, but Cuvier instantly laughed and noted the creature had horns and hooves and fed on grain, proving he was unafraid.
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Cuvier
These United States Land and Acreage Figures
The United States covers 3,000,000 square miles with 1,903,000,000 acres of land. Of the total, 878,000,000 acres lie in farmed territory, while 478,000,000 acres remain unimproved and unproductive.
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United States
Small Comfort and Donkey Charge Riles Debating Duel
Asker He mockingly calls me a donkey and questions my resolve. I should challenge him to prove it, or ignore the taunt and stay steady.
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Asker
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound praised by mother
A Plover Iowa mother credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing her 13 year old daughter's female weakness after three doctors failed. Five bottles restored regular periods, strength, and health, with hundreds of similar grateful letters cited as proof. The notice invites readers to seek advice from Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Plover
Iowa
Martin Hulvig
Lydia
Pinksham
Lynn
Mass
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