Record of important events in the past week
Berlin admits retreat of Austro Germans under Russian pressure and Italy claims Doberdo plateau. Russians report 106 officers and 8,415 men captured on the Streth river battles Aug 5–6. Gorizia reportedly in Italian hands with 10,000 Austrians captured. Cavernous fronts show Turkish advances and Austro German retreats. Wilkinson battles in Stanislau Monasterzyska Gliadka Vorobleysk. Also notes jinxe: naval launches L-6 L-7, flood toll 66 dead in West Virginia, Congress to adjourn, automobiles per US census, infantile paralysis conference, gashed border patrols, and sports matchups.
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Union Tews Sar
Berlin
Ottynla Line
Doberdo
Paris
Goritzia
Boschini
Thiaumont
Verdun
Caucasus
Bitlis
Mush
Petrograd
Stanislau
Vienna
Monasterzyska
Carranza
Obregon
Mexico City
Letchitzky
Halich
Sereth
Gliadka
Vorobleysk
Congress
United States Census Bureau
United States
Wilson
Federal Public Health Service
Washington
John J. Phillips
Pewtucket
Daniele
New York
Port of Missing Wheels
Margaret Tuttle notes in the Saturday Evening Post that Florida towns are filled with bicycles, unchanged by motor cars. She observes crowds on Palm Beach streets, belts of bicycles for hire beyond a veranda, and women in the lobby ready for cycling as bicycles reappear locally.
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Palm Beach
Florida
Margaret Tuttle
Saturday Evening Post
Saved an Empress by a Doctor’s secret flight plan
The will of Mrs. Sarah Gray Crane in Surrogate's court created a $75,000 trust for Amherst College. It details Dr Edward A Crane saving Empress Eugenie from a Paris mob on September 4, 1870, arranging her escape to Deauville after the Sedan, and passage on Lord Burghoyne's yacht to England, for which she gave a pearl as a reward.
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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
Cure pimples fast with Cuticura ointment and soap
An advertisement offers Cuticura for pimples with a five minute ointment, hot bath, and soap routine, best on rising and retiring, plus free samples by mail from Boston. The text then notes Texas potash borings finding salt beds and 14 percent potassium chloride, with references to a large basin and a playful line about love going to sea occasionally.
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Dept. L
Boston
Texas
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Wilmer Palmer
Rawlins
Wyo
John M. Thurston
Nebraska
Omaha
Northern Pacific Railway
California 8 Shipbuilding Company
Long Beach
Cal
Guy O’brien
Ida Torkelson
Lisbon
Ill
Lee
West Virginia
Hikonojo Kamimura
Savona
Italy
Havas
Rome
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
Sporting News
Johnny Dundee
Ever Hammer
Kansas City
Battling Levinsky
Brown
Chicago
Indiana Harbor
Ind
Jimmy Whalen
The
Bears
Evaneville
Muskegon
Wright Aeroplane Company
Glenn L. Martin Aeroplane
Wright-Martin Aircraft, Corporation
Hughes
New York Railways Company
Paso
Tex
George Bell, Jr
Paso Military District
Midwest Oil Company
Denver
United States Board of Mediation and
Deutschland
Grand Forks
N. C
Charles W. Fairbanks
Indianapolis
Clare
Pot
Lincoln
Ceesetese
Des Moines
Denver Ser
Castory
Ian Ve
Mtclue
Castoria
Western
Canada
Winnipeg
Regina
North Portal
Saskatoon
Fort Frances
Kingsgate
B. C
Coutts
Calgary
Alberta
V. Bennett
Reem 4
Bee Bidg
Nebr
Red Cross
Matey Roofing General
New York City
Philadel
Lenla Bosisa
Bonetio
Sotianopelie Ath
McPhee
McGinnity
Detsale
NVER
Colo
Montreal
Fichia
W. W. Bennett
Omaha,Neb
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