War news wrapup heavy with fronts and figures
Western newspapers report Austro German retirement under Russian pressure and Italian gains in Doberdo plateau. Russians claim 106 officers and 8,415 men captured on Streth. Gorizia reported in Italian hands with 10,000 Austrians taken. Stanislau evacuated by Vienna. Monasterzyska occupied after Sereth push. Eighty thousand Carranza troops patrol border. Letchitzky forces seize Stanislau. Train dispatchers gain wage rise. submarines L-6 and L-7 to launch Aug 31. London, Petrograd, and Rome note wide war activity.
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Berlin
Ottynla Line
Doberdo
Paris
Goritzia
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Thiaumont
Verdun
Caucasus
Bitlis
Mush
Petrograd
Stanislau
Vienna
Monasterzyska
Carranza
Obregon
Mexico City
Letchitzky
Halich
Sereth
Gliadka
Vorobleysk
Germany
London Morning Post
Earl Cottenham
Patricia Burke
John Humphrey Burke
California
Royal Material Testing Office
Gross-Lichterfelde
Bombay
Basra
Turkey
North Sea
Gladiator
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Herschel Island
Nome
Alaska
Stefansson
Banksland
Port of Missing Wheels
Margaret Tuttle describes Florida as a place where bicycles overflow city streets and Palm Beach ride-hire areas teem with bicycles. She contrasts with earlier decades when cars became cheap and bicycles faded, noting crowds of riders, bells, and fashionable cyclists in Palm Beach and surrounding roads.
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Palm Beach
Florida
Margaret Tuttle
Saturday Evening Post
How Dr Crane Saved the Empress and a College Trust
The New York Times reports that the will of Mrs. Sarah Gray Crane creates a $75,000 Amherst College trust. It recounts Dr. Edward A. Crane saving Empress Eugenie from a Paris mob on September 4, 1870, arranging her secret flight to Deauville after the Sedan news, and passage on Lord Burghoyne’s yacht to England, with the empress later rewarding him with a pearl.
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Sarah Gray Crane
Amherst College
Edward A. Crane
Amherst
Crane
Eugenie
Paris
Deauville
Republic
Sedan
Lord Burgoyne
England
Doctor Crane
New York Times
Potash in Texas and Potent Pimple Remedy Ad
Potash in Texas reports borings reaching hundreds of feet in salt beds with thick beds containing about 14 percent potassium chloride. An inferred large basin structure lies beneath three other beds. An unrelated ad promotes Cuticura ointment and soap for pimples with mail sample offers. Love phrasing hints at sea sickness.
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Boston
Texas
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Lisbon
Ill
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West Virginia
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Federal Public Health Service
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Ever Hammer
Kansas City
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Chicago
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