Zeppelins to Fire Aerial Torpedo and Other War Machines
London reports German ingenuity in aerial warfare including aluminium aerial torpedoes guided by wireless from airships and gas bombs. Copenhagen notes new Zeppelins with gas tanks and rapid bomb drops, plus an Italian destroyer plane with three engines designed to strike airships and battleships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Rotterdam
Daily Mail
Rohland
Stuttgart
Copenhagen
England
Plowed Up Lost Bills Found in Huntington Field
Huntington Ind farmer Clifford F Owens recovered a lost purse unearthed while plowing his field two years after it disappeared. The pocket book contained a $10 bill two $1 bills two tickets and some silver.
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Huntington
Ind
Clifford F. Owens
Inventor Tests Chemical Bomb on Condemned Cattle
Fort Sheridan conducts exhaustive trials of a chemical bomb by Dr. L. R. Fowzer with condemned cattle as subjects. Government chemists reportedly working for a year to perfect a similar device. Fowzer says the bomb could deter war and plans further testing on loading and firing methods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Fort Sheridan
United States Army
L. R. Fowzer
France Loses Over a Billion in Foreign Trade in War
United States Consul General A M Thackara reports France’s foreign trade loss exceeds 1.143 billion dollars by early 1915. Mostly due to wartime seizures, imports fell sharply while exports and industrial materials shifted, with Belgium and the UK also affected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
France
Department of Commerce
United States
A. M. Thackara
Paris
Republic
United Kingdom
Belgium
Indian Wife Wanted by Landowning Pendleton Man
A Pendleton item from the East Oregonian describes William Hadenfeldt of Rupert Idaho seeking an Indian wife with means. He offers forty acres of land and wealth, asking the Cayuses Umatillas or Walla Wallas on the reservation to respond if they have assets. He states she must have means, not beauty or grace.
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Pendleton
Ore
East Oregonian
Umatillas
Walla Wallas
William Hadenfeldt
Rupert
Ida
Judge Outlines Duty of Parents in Alienation Suit
Judge Charles M. Hough in New York federal court refused to let a $250,000 alienation suit proceed brought by Max Frederick Kleist against Juliet Breitung’s parents. He held parental authority ends with marriage but parental interest persists, and a wealth-based son-in-law claim cannot compel support or favors.
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Coachman
Justice Hough
New York
Love
Mammon
Charles M. Hough
Federal District Court
Max Frederick Kleist
Edward BH. Breitung
Max Kleist
Juliet
Breitungs
Mr. Breitung
Kleist
Michigan
First real meal after long illness comes for Miss Besse
In St Louis the 18 year old Miss Katherine Besse ate breakfast lunch and dinner after Dr Francis Kirsch performed a gas trotomy to restore her esophagus. She had not tasted food in sixteen years after lye injury as a child.
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Kirsch
Nature
Miss Besse
Washington Welfare Commission Sets 9 Dollar Minimum Wage
The Washington Industrial Welfare Commission fixes $9 weekly as the minimum wage for all females 18 or over in hotels and restaurants and similar lodgings or food prep venues, effective August 17. Under 18 earns $7.50. Deductions for room and board may not exceed $5 weekly. A proposal for $11 statewide minimum for waitresses was rejected, with a new conference planned to tailor scales by population and conditions.
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Washington Industrial Welfare Commission
Welfare Commission
Bees Have Paralysis Reported in Oklahoma Honeybees
Oklahoma City state entomologist C E B Sanborn of the A and M college reports a paralysis disease affecting honeybees in Oklahoma. Dead bees sent for study showed identical symptoms to healthy bees with paralysis including distended abdomens and lifted front legs.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
C. EB. Sanborn
A. and M. College
Oklahoma
War Material Orders Surge Worldwide From US to Canada
Dispatches report rising wartime purchases across nations. Italy spends 17 million dollars via Bridgeport plant while Lehigh valley contracts top 200 million. Canadian firms ship millions in munitions as Montana horses are sold for war food use. Sloan's Liniment ad completes the page.
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America
Italy
Bridgeport
Hartford
Conn
Colt
Remington
Winchester
Smith & Wesson
Dupont
Bethlehem Steel Company
Baltimore
Montana
Dillon
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American Press Association
Count Zeppelin
Echo Office
Sloan
Elliott Sells
Scenic Theatre
C. E. Hamilton
Lake Wenatchee
Lake View Hotel
Leavenworth
Lake
Auto Stage
Winton
Wm. A. Nelson
Prop
Tumwater Savings Bank
Pioneer Bank
Peach Blossom Flour
Wenatchee Milling Co
Wenatchee, Wash
The
Rutherford Mercantile Co
Joe Massies
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