Russians Take All of Bukowina in Surprise Drive
Russians completed occupation of Bukowina after capturing key railway hubs in the northwest center and south. General Brussiloff’s forces freed Czer lunow and advanced into the Carpathians, with 60 officers and 2,000 men taken at Kimpolung. Frontier Romanian lines now border Russian troops as Austro Hungarian troops retreat westward toward Hungary. West of Sniatyn Russians seize Kilikhof and Toulchkol.
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Bukowina
Kimpolung
Crownland
Brussitoff
Borlowestern
Romania
Bukowing
Czernowitz
Carpathian Mountains
Hungary
Czernowitz- Kolomea
Czernowitz-Kuty
Sniatyn
Kilikhof
Toulchkol
Recluse William A. Peters Found Dead in New Brunswick
William A. Peters an eighty year old recluse with a $260000 fortune was found dead in the entrance of his New Brunswick New Jersey office building where he lived in a private room for twenty years He suffered from heart disease and left his estate to the First Methodist Episcopal church in New Kingston though no contact was made with his daughter in Brooklyn or sister in Kentucky. He printed and distributed his own religious books and led experience meetings despite a solitary life.
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William A. Peters
New Brunswick
N. J
Peters
Brooklyn
Kentucky
First Methodist Episcopal Church
New Kinswick
Vandergrift Fire Chief Dead by Suicide in Domestic Troubles
W L Held aged 38 fire chief of Vandergrift Heights fir edepartment shot and killed himself in a stable behind his home. Despondent over domestic troubles he had served as fire chief four years. He was the eldest of a family of twelve children.
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W. L. Held
Vandergrift
Becwuse
Vandergrift Heigh'shire
Held
Dentist Dies After Thumb Injury in Chicago Office
Dr. Frank Timmerman a Chicago dentist at North and Washepaware Buds died of blood poisoning after puncturing his thumb with a dental instrument while treating a patient.
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Frank Timmerman
Noth and Washtepaware Buds
Chicago
Railroads Seek Public Arbitration Over Wage Demands
Aged rail labor dispute prompts a public appeal urging arbitration over a proposed 100 million dollar wage increase. The text argues railroads serve the public with billions in annual transportation costs and warns a nationwide strike or government inquiry may decide the issue, noting most Eastern railroad workers earned varied wages in 1915. The managers urge a tribunal mandate and reference to existing arbitration laws or ICC submission, while workers’ representatives refuse the offer.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Montana Man May Get Hughes Seat
Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana is considered for associate justice of the Supreme Court to succeed Charles T. Hughes. Walsh, a leading Democratic lawyer in the Senate, is a Missouri native who moved to Montana in 1893.
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American Press Association
Thomas J. Walsh
Wilson
Thomas 43. Walsh
Montana
The
Supreme Court
Charles T. Hughes
Walsh
Senate
Missouri
General War Survey Reports Western Front Advances
Allied forces continue a fierce drive on the western front with gains reported north and south of the Somme. French and English advance while German counterattacks are repulsed, and the Kaiser’s guards join the Somme fighting. French near Peronne and La Bagsee, with Fricourt taken by English forces. Reports from the eastern front note German withdrawals near Kolki and ongoing fighting along the Styr.
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Somme
Teutons
London
Paris
Peronne
Teuton
la Bagsee
Fricourt
Belgium
Intenga
Estrees
Belloy-en-Santerre
War Office
Qazartorysk
Volhnia
Kolki
Berlin
Wield
Marshal von Hindenburg
Lake Narotch
Smorgen
Petrograd
Russian War Office
Vienna
Sadzanka
Pruth
Kolomea
Styr
Kalki
Indiana Folks Receive Goods News
The Progress learned Mae Sanford of Erie, who died in Atlantic City, is not a daughter or relative of Harry Sanford of Indiana. Erie reports confirm Mae is not in that family. Two properties changed owners: Calhoun on Wayne avenue to William A. Evans for 5200 and Rugh on Church street to Harry Trimble. Bids invited for general school supplies for 1916 1917. due August 5. list available at Elmer Allison's drug store.
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Indiana
Erie
Mae Sanford
Atlantic City
Harry Sanford
Wrie
Hugh Moorhead
Ewo
A. A. Calhoun
Wayne Avenue
William A. Evans
White Township
Mary T. Rugh
Church Street
Harry Trimble
Town
John McConnell
Elmer Allison
Glen Campbell Odd Fellows Mark Fifteenth Anniversary
Glen Campbell Lodge of Odd Fellows celebrated the fifteenth anniversary with a reception and banquet in their new rooms on Wednesday evening. Guests included County Commissioner W B Wagner Clerk Hugh R Wiley and Prothonotary Walter H Ayers who traveled by car from town to Pittsburg to attend the ball game between Pittsburg and Philadelphia. The piece notes the craft’s growth and the social event. The ad copy touts watch repair expertise and Luxenberg's jewelers as leading in three counties.
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Glen Campbell Odd Fellows
Glen Campbell Lodge of Odd Fellows
W. B. Wagner
Hugh R. Wiley
Walter H. Ayers
Pittsburg
Philadelphia
Luxenberg's
Accident on Devil's Elbow Hill Injures Five Men
Witness Purl Bennett of Marion Center reports a near fatal crash on the steep Devil's Elbow hill from Penn Run to Indiana Sabbath. A car with five men brakes failed, narrowly missing Bennett, then plowed into a rock and bank, tipping over but leaving the occupants largely uninjured. Alongside ad copy for ladies slippers from Hartock's Shoh Store.
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Bennett
Devil's Elbow
Penn Run
Indiana
Sabbath
Marion Center
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Francis Joseph
Carpathians
VIA Air
New Corporation
New York
American Aero Company
Wilmington
Del
Hydros
Sea Gull
Ford
Word Motor Company
Michigan National Guard
National Conference Committee of the Railways
Elisha Lee
P.R. Albright
Line Mailroad
Gentral of Georgia Railways
L. Bardo
New Haven
Hartford Railroad
Coapman
Southern Hallway
Cotter
Wabnah
P. E. Crowley
Fice
New York Central Railroad
G. H. Emerson
Gan
Great Northern Railway
H. Ewing
Philadelphia & Reading Railway
W. Grice
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway
Greig
Recsipara
St. Louis
San Francisco
Kouns
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway
W. McMaster
Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad
Matien
Norfolk and Western Railway
James Wussell
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
M. Schuyer
Pennsylvania
H. C. Christy & Co
Hughes
C. J. Dickie
Marshal
Penna
Hartsock
SHOH
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Ae Wans Faces
the Farmers Bank, of
Indiana, Pa
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