War Dispatches Report Vast Russian Manpower Mobilization
Western Newspaper Union reports Russia will call 8,000,000 reserves. British losses total 381,983 by Aug. 1. Hindenburg’s forces reach Vidzy on the Dvinsk Vilna line. France extends wartime credits to 6.31 billion francs. Russia and Germany incur massive monthly expenses. Soviet and Ottoman actions include sinking ships near Sinope and moving financial hubs inland.
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Russia
Adriatic
la Suisse
von Hindenburg
Dvinsk- Vilna
Vidzy
House of Commons
Asquith
London
Sinope
Asia Minor
Black Sea
Constantinople
Athens
Exchange Telegraph Company
Ottoman Bank
M. Ribot
Germany
France
Great Britain
Ribot
Chamber of Deputies
Paris
Riga
Stripa
Galicia
Vilna
Grodno
Western Auto Mail Delivery Planned in Colorado
The piece notes Colorado to implement auto mail delivery. It also mentions Guatemala day at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco marking the fifteenth independence anniversary, a large suffrage convention in San Francisco under the Women’s Congressional Union, and relief drives in Duluth for Canadian soldiers. It adds reports of bandit threats to foreigners near the Mexican Northwestern railroad and final surveys for Union Pacific expansion from Wyoming into Colorado. Newman Erb, financier and railroad reorganiser, is recovering at his Deal New Jersey summer home after swallowing poison tablets, awaiting specialists’ verdicts.
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Guatemala
San Francisco
Women's Congressional Union
Duluth
Minn
el Paso
Tex
Union Pacific
Wyoming
Colorado Field
Newman Erb
Deal
N. J
World and Local News Items From The Era
Colombia cabinet resigns after clash with Congress while Mexicans celebrate a holiday peacefully. Cardin al Penedetta Loren zelli dies in Florence. Britain orders $45 million in artillery for Canada. Peru Senate approves amnesty bill after Chamber of Deputies. Regla mayor seeks rifle permits amid fears of a negro uprising. Rolland, 95, dies. lone survivor of Sidi Brahim battle. Nicholas grants amnesty to 100,000 political prisoners per Petrograd dispatch. Duma prorogued to mid November by imperial order. Ruby schooner reports Stefansson alive and well after Arctic voyage. Jack Torres defeats Dick Wells in Ramona Colo. Minnie Reed elopes in Pueblo. Goshen, umpire, tied to Zoo park. Waynetta sets mile state pacing record at Pueblo. Gibbons McFarland bout draws 24,845 paying attendees. gross receipts $58,069. Frank Clay aeronaut dies after parachute fall at Pueblo fair. Weldon Cook killed attempting loop the loop at California fair.
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Regla
Havana Harbor
Secretary of the Interior
Bugler
Rolland
Sidi Brahim
Algeria
Turin
Italy
Gazetta del Popolo
Petrograd
Nicholas
Storker, Storkerson
Ole Anderson
Martin Point
Alaska
Polar
Beaufort Sea
Sam Goshen
Colorado Springs
Minnie A. Reed
Pueblo
Goshen
Zoo Baseball Park
Colo
Waynetta
State Boxing Commission of
New York
Gibbons-McFarland
Frank Clay
Weldon Cook
California
State Fair Grounds
Heat wave claims ten deaths in the east
Ten deaths were reported in the east from the heat wave. The first cargo of German toys for Philadelphia arrived on the Holland-America line steamer Zaandyk, 1 200 cases. Mayor Mitchel warned the 1916 budget may reach 212 million, boosted by a 19 million direct state tax. Rockefeller Jr donated 19 000 toward a hospital for drug habitues on Rikers Island. At Lobo Texas Frisbie drowned in a flood from a cloudburst, Napoleon Expall killed by lightning on the Cadwallader farm near Panlo. In Martienville Oklahoma one site was lost and property damaged on three railroads, amid twenty-five years worst food conditions.
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Philadelphia
Zaandyk
Mitchel
New York
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Rockefeller Bureau of Social Hysiene
Katherine D. Davie
Commissioner of
Corrections
Riker
Eland
Lobo
Tex
Frisbie
Napoleon Expall
Cadwall
Bernstorff 10 Settle With U S and Germany
An agreement or settlement involving Bernstorff, the United States, and Germany appears in the record. Details indicate a diplomatic arrangement or resolution between the parties. The text references a notable figure or envoy and a formal settlement action between nations.
Germany open to settlement of submarine dispute in Washington talks
Count von Bernstorff has complete information on Germany's wishes and policy and is authorized to negotiate a settlement with the United States subject to home government approval. A long report to Berlin and instructions to the ambassador signal confidence that the submarine issue can be quickly and safely resolved. Foreign Minister Jagow says Germany will participate willingly in Washington talks and hopes for satisfactory results.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union News Service
Berlin
Washington
Count von Bernstorff
United States
Germany
Gerard
Gottlieb von Jagow
America
Herr von Jagow
Kaiser to Aid Turks in Great German Army Move
A Constantinople message quotes Enver Pasha saying a large German army will go to Turkey to aid the Turkish war effort in Berlin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Constantinople
Enver Pasha
Turkey
Historic Abbey Burned At Wraysbury Grounds
London reports a fire destroyed the Wraysbury mansion grounds famous for King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. The historic Ankerwycke estate suffered extensive damage with the historic ruin burned, authorities investigating the blaze.
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London
Ankerwycke
Wraysbury
Henry VIII
Anne Boleyn
New Conference Moves Toward Recognizing Mexican Faction
Secretary Lansing and representatives from Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Uruguay, and Guatemala propose extending formal recognition to a Mexican government faction. A Washington meeting in three weeks will decide elements of recognition while each nation will judge capacity to protect lives and property before acting.
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New York
Lansing
United States
Brasil
Chile
Argentina
Bolivia
Uruguay
Guatemala
Mexico
Washington
Nationale
Public Library Quip and Irish Wit
A London library encounter has a boy delaying a book return to avoid a bath, the librarian urging him to finish it tonight. The page also shares a short Irish joke from Lieut. Andy Rohan about immigrants seeking opportunity in America, as recounted to police reporters.
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London Public Library
Andy” Rohan
Old City Hall
Ireland
Matty” White
Manny
Brogana
Top Hat
Amerikky
Annybody
Chicago Herald
The Explanation Quote and Global Money Note
The fragment mentions a remark praising a man who eats corn gracefully and an assertion that a person is an expert flute player. It cites per capita money in circulation as 34.53 dollars in this country and 5 dollars in 1800.
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Union New Service
Western
Colorado
Congress
Florence
Penedetta Lorenzelli
Lucca
Congregation of Studies
Lima
Peru
Senate
SPORT
Jack Torres
Albuquerque
Dick Wells
Cincinnati
Ramona, Colo
Bernstorff
U.S
Kaiser
Pos
Fletcher
Castoria
Fon Grocers
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