Russians Break German Lines in Galicia and Halicz Push
Russian Gen Kornilov’s offensive in eastern Galicia advances with villages captured and over 1000 prisoners taken. Deep wedges into Austro German lines near Halicz threaten Lemberg while German reserves slow the drive. Front reports also note actions near Lomnica river and on the Anise front with limited German gains.
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Petrograd
Korniloff
Galicia
Lomnica
Stanislau
Halicz
Lasnarg
Lemberg
Berlin
German War Office
Riga
Dvinsk
Smorgon
Peace moves in Berlin subma rine debate influence Reichstag
A Berlin report says Herr Erzberger seeks abandonment of the submarine campaign and a peace program with no annexations or indemnities. The Reichstag majority is seen aligning with peace aims and favors a parliamentary ministry under Stressemann. Rumor also claims resignations of Berlin officials were decided by the Emperor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Copenhagen
Berlin
Erzberger
Catholic Center Party
Reichstag
American
Russia
France
England
Gustave Stressemann
Phillip Schechmann
London
Yar Melfferich
Alfred Zimmerman
William
Col W H Green to wed Miss Matel E Harlow
Chicago reports Colonel Edward H Green son of Hetty Green wealthy heir to a $100 million estate will marry Highlands Park Illinois resident Matel E Harlow age 40. Green notes he seeks “a real home” rather than millions. The announcement follows years of public fascination with his proposed unions.
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Chicago
Fdwarg_H. H. Green
Hetty Green
America
Matel E. Harlow
Highlands Park
Illinois
Mr. Green
Colonel Green
Matthew Astor Wilkes
Guardsmen to Receive Typhoid and Smallpox Vaccination
To protect guardsmen Kansas National Guard units will be vaccinated for typhoid fever and smallpox within days after federal service begins on August 5. The adjutant general announced vaccination will occur at each unit as they mobi lize at home stations and is expected to be completed within 12 days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kan
Kansas National Guard
Adjutant General
Chinese Royalists in Forbidden City Amid Retreat
General Chang Hsun and monarchists withdraw into Peking near the Temple of Heaven as republican forces tighten control. Nanking confirms Keng Kuo Chang as president and Tsuan Chi Jui as premier while clashes near Lang Fang and Kalgan continue. a 100,000 reward is offered for Chang Hsun.
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Washington
Chang Lsun
China
Reinisch Tedzy
Imperial City
Temple of Heaven
Peking
Chang Hsun
Nanking
Keng Kuo Chang
Tsuan Chi Jui
Tien Tsin
Tsao Kun
Chi Li
Chuan Chi Kwein
Kalgan
Imperial Palace
Lang Fang
Chang Hisun
Tuan Chi Jut
Feng Kua Chang
Land at 18 Cents How to Own Vast Brazilian Lands
G W and A P Greer returned to Woodward Oklahoma after seven months in Brazil seeking land and cattle business prospects. They toured the nation five and a half months to assess land prices and water sheds with no labeled boundaries, noting the zebu cattle and fine grasses. They describe Brazilian society with Portuguese as the language and taxes on exports rather than property, including colorful remarks on attire and cooking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brazil
G. W
A. P. Greer
Woodward
Oklo
Republic of Brazil
South America
Texas
Death of F A Baughman in Lawrence Visit
Frank A. Baughman aged 65 died yesterday at his sister Mrs J M Ketchums home 1416 Tennessee street He lived in Clay Center with his son Lawrence and had come to Lawrence for a visit on July 4 The body will be taken to OsKaloosa for burial with no services planned.
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F. A. Baughman
Frank A. Baughman
J. M. Ketchum
Tennessee Street
Baughman
Clay Center
Lawrence Baughman
Lawrence
Oskaloons
A. G. Ellison
Health officer program proposed for Douglas County
The state board of health seeks a special government health officer for Douglas County in cooperation with the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce. A physician would be assigned for one or two years to conduct a health study and improve public health services with the government paying the officer’s salary and providing a sanitary inspector and nurse, while local groups cover other assistants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Board
State Board of Health
Douglas County
Rupert Blue
United States Public Health Service
Lawrence Chamber of Commerce
Washington
United States
S. J. Crumbine
Fine Arts Concert by School of Fine Arts Faculty
Fraser Hall hosts the final summer session concert by the School of Fine Arts faculty. Soloists include Professor Carl A. Preyer, Professor Charles S. Skilton, and Mrs. Evelyn Fogg Olcott with a varied program of Bach, Wagner, Smetana, Liszt, Lalo, and more for Lawrences music lovers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
School of Fine Arts
Fraser Hall
Lawrences
Carl A. Preyer
Charles S. Skilton
Evelyn Fogg Olcott
Bach
Walkyre
Wagner-Brassin
Liszt
Lalo
Horsman
Ruabindranath Tagore
iMrs
Evelyn F. Olcott
Allegretto
Horatio Parker
Mailly
Charles 5. Skilton
Lawrence Rotary Club Receives Charter As Affiliating Chapter
The Lawrence Rotary club was granted a charter from Rotary International in Chicago and becomes an affiliating Rotary club numbered 804. The group plans to meet in Tonganoxie tomorrow night with supper at 7:30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence Rotary Club
International Association of Rotary Clubs
Chicago
Lawrence
Rotary Club
Rotary
Gia
Tonganoxie
Hollweg Stands Ground In German Peace Demands
Berlin reports quote Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg insisting on fighting to obtain terms of peace with annexations. He denounces Erzberger as unpatriotic for advocating peace without annexations or indemnities amid a central party clash in Bern.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Berne
Switzerland
Berlin
von Bethmann-Hollwegg
Reichstag
Mathias Erzberger
Catholic Center
Death of Thomas Farrell
Thomas Farrell a 60 year old single man died last night in a local hospital. Funeral services will be in Tonganoxie at 10 oclock tomorrow morning with Father McNaboa of Kansas City in charge. Interment will be in Summett cemetery. He had suffered long from blood poisoning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Farrell
Tonganoxie
Father McNaboa
Kansas City
Summett
Mr. Farrell
Prowler Alarm On Pi Phi Fire Escape Prompt Action
Mrs. Helen Thompson, matron of the Pi Phi sorority house on Mississippi Street, reports a prowler used the fire escape three times this spring. A man climbed to the top and tried to unfasten a door, then fled. Police say the fire escape cannot be shortened. Residents seek safety steps after another fright.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pi Phi
Mississippi Street
Helen Thompson
Sorority
Pi Phis
Welfare Commission to Hold Minimum Wage Hearings
The Kansas Industrial Welfare Commission will start hearings the week of July 16 to set a state wide minimum wage for women workers. They will hear merchants clerks and female workers from various towns and manufacturing lines. Initial guidance suggests a base wage around seven dollars a week with variations by town and conditions. The commission plans months of investigation to craft uniform rules across districts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hutchinson
More Fine Guernseys From Wisconsin Arrive At Fritzel Farm
A car load of twenty four Guernsey cows and a bull arrived in Lawrence on July fifth from Fox Bros. of Wisconsin for J W Fritzel to augment the dairy herd. John Fritzel and his son selected the cattle, notable milch cows, for the Fritzel operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. ¥. Fritzel
Lawrence
Fox Bros
Guernsey Cattle Breeders Association
Wisconsin
John Fritzel
J. W. Fritzel
Chamber of Commerce Raises Funds for Good Roads and New Industries
The Wood land Park Fourth of July event Profits totalling 2442 will be shared equally by Red Cross and Army Y M C A fund. Concessions added 149.9 to receipts and expenses leave a net for charity. A 20 percent dues assessment funds manufacturing interests and road improvements in Lawrence. City auto owners may contribute to road work and district formation funds.
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Woodland Park
Chamber of Commerce
H. B. Sparks
Red Cross
Army Y. M. T. A. Fund
Ccc Eee
F. B. Ober
Chamber
Gear Roads
Amber of Commerce
Lawrence
Kansas credited with over 9000 enlistments in national draft
Kansas prepares for the first national draft with more than 9000 enlistments credited to the state. Governor Capper reports to the Provost Marshal General by Sunday night to secure credit for national guardsmen and regular army enlistments across classes A B and C.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Topeka
Kan
National Peoundant Regula Army
National Army
Capper
Crowder
Chasses A
Adjutant General
Militia Bureau
Kansas City
Wichita
Seed County
Adjutant General's Office
Midland merchant robbed in quiet last night
Robbers broke into Henry Corder’s general merchandise store in Midland and took a light haul. Missing were 100 pennies, an Ingersoll watch, and a $10 business college note. Sheriff and police received the report but had no clues on suspects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Midland
Henry Corder
Business College
Work Longer Hours On New City Water Plant
City commissioners authorize the city attorney to seek state labor approval to extend shift hours to nine or ten per day for workers at the new water plant. Plan includes extra improvements and an estimated $16,000 load. Bowersock Mill & Power Co. to supply electric current at 12 cents per kilowatt. Community concerns include levee grading and a special tax assessment on City Railway for paving Thirteenth Street.
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New City
Black & Veatch
Emporia
E.R. Tibbetts
Kansas Construction Company
Massachusetts Street
Bowersock Mill & Power Company
Conviision
Citizens’ Advisory Water Committee
Rbowersack Wi" & Power Company
New Hampshire Street
Gea Savage
City Railway
Thirteenth Street
American Well Works
Aurora
Lawrence
S. S. McCann
Elm Street
Francisco
Board debates water charges and hires eight teachers
Local board discusses city water billing for schools and investigates municipal water policy. Eight teachers are elected for next year including Martha Trinder and W B Pease, with plans for building and lighting improvements at Central and other schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Education
Algee Owund
Lawrence Water Company
O. Rately
Cout
Martha Trinder
Household Arts
W. B. Mae
W. R. Pease
Mabel Wilks
Jane E. McCabe
Stella Bomwell
Mary Anderson
Mary Brinkman
United Presbyterian Church
McAllaster
Woman's Forum to Hear William E. Cramer in Kansas City
Mrs W E Cramer of Kansas City chairs the legat e alumnae association bureau and will address the University Women’s Forum at 2 30 pm in Greenhall Little Theater. The talk promotes placing women into profitable positions and supporting the bureau’s work. Kansas City Taggart takes a new $5 000 a year post with headquarters in Kansas City. Gerald Carter, Lawrence native, joins the U S Navy and writes from San Francisco that the Navy life suits him at eighteen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. E. Cramer
Kansas City
Little Theater
Greenhall
William E. Cramer
Burea
Cramer
Taggart
Josephgart
Ft Commission
Gart
Kansas
Navy
Gerald Carter
U. S. Navy
San Fancisco
Carter
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Russ
Paris
Anisne Front
War Office
Hertebise Monuments
Center Party
Teuton
Bhe Cole
Adeline DeMare
Mary Roberts
Gail Hall
Forbidden City
City of
State Board of Health and Chamber of Commerce
Carl Preyer
C. S. Sicilian
Olcott
Hollweg
George Bryant
Kansans City
Bryant
Thuan
Haskell Institute
Cooper Stone Contracting Company
Corder
Stire
Water Advisory Board
Central School
EB. B.meyer
Diffe Lighting Companies
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