Murphy Button Aided Moderate Surgeons In Intestinal Surgery
Dr John Murphy a Chicago surgeon famed for pioneering intestinal operations died aged 66 at a Chicago hotel from heart disease Aug 12. He developed the Murphy button enabling moderate practitioners to unite severed intestines and later focused on joint diseases and serum treatments. His innovations earned a papal knighthood and international acclaim for transforming abdominal surgery.
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Mackinacland
Mich
John Murphy
Chicago
Murphy
Mindelain
Pope Benedict
Franklin H. Martin
Martin
New York
Academy of Surgery
Charles McBurney
McKinner
Meiturney
Meckinney
One Little Subboat Sinks Six Ships At Once
German submarine halted six ships at once on Thursday. The Marie’s crew fled to boats before the vessel was sunk. Two Norwegian steamers Credo and were among ships attacked as a Danish steamer Robert rescued survivors. deaths linked to a banquet poison incident in Chicago involve Dr John B Murphy and others.
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Marie
Credo
Archbishop Mundelem
University Club
Jean Crones
Andrew J. Graham
Richard E. Turke
Murphy
Mundelein
Ice Wagon Drivers Refuse to Deliver Ice to Dairies
St Louis Mo Aug 12 Union ice wagon drivers vote to refuse deliveries to nine dairies amid strike and lockout fears of a general walkout. Non delivery could halt milk supply as dairies rely on ice to keep milk wholesome. Temperature reported at 94 degrees.
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St. Lowis
I'mion
Twenty-Two Inch Rain Record in United States
Aespirate reports a 22.22 inch rainfall at Alta Pass North Carolina during 24 hours on July 16 setting a new U S record. The prior record was 21.4 inches at Alexandria Louisiana on June 16 1886.
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United States
Alta Pass
North Car
Alexandria
Louisiana
Anheuser Busch to Build Soft Drink Plant Extension
Anheuser Busch Brewing Company awarded contracts for a 2 506 000 addition to its St. Louis plant dedicated to a new soft drink. The plant will employ about 2 590 workers in bottling labeling packing and shipping at a pace of 1 235 carloads or two million bottles every 24 hours with demand strongest in Kansas.
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St. Louis
Anheuser Busch Brewing Company
Kansas
New Orleans Sees Shakeup in Fifth Levee Board
A conference among Senator Williamson and Representative Hamley portends Governor Pleasant appointing a new fifth district levee board within days. Rumors name Richard K. Honey to succeed John T. McClellan and Thomas P. Kell as president, with E F Rhodes’s successor and other changes across East Carroll Madison Tensac Concordia. A Hill charges inquiry exonerated Hamley.
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New Orleans
Norris E. Williamson
J. Martin Hamley
Lake Providence
Pleasant
Richard K. Honey
Duckport
John T. McClellan
Tallulah
Thomas P. Kell
King
Madleon Parish
J. Hamley
Hill
Hamley
Bryan secures law enforcement reply to Hughes
Former Secretary of State issues a formal statement responding to Hughes. The disclosure centers on legal enforcement actions and official duties.
Bryan Replies to Hughes on Civil Service Attacks
Kansas City Aug 12 William J Bryan former secretary of state answers Hughes attacks on his civil service record. He says he enforced the law to the letter and questions whether Hughes gave jobs to deserving Republicans as governor. Bryan defends rewarding Democrats where possible and criticizes Hughes for railroad and trust ties.
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Kansas City
William J. Bryan
Charles E. Hughes
Bryan
New York
Hughes
Santo Domingo
State Department
Trusts
Supreme Bench
Mr. Hughes
Federal mediators fail to settle railroad dispute
New York Aug 12 reports say the federal mediation board failed to settle the railroads and brotherhoods dispute after delegates rejected a new arbitration proposal. Presidents Wilson and state authorities considered a revised plan adding a 12 member arbitration board with equal railroad and union representation to avert a strike.
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Associated Press
New York
Mediation Board
Federal Mediation Board
Brotherhoods
Washington
Wilson
Board of Mediation and Conciliation
Warren 5. Stone
The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Shreveport Rate Case Decision Upheld Readjusted
The Interstate Commerce Commission ruled that Claus rates and other commodity rates between Shreveport and southern Texas points were unreasonable and prejudicial to Shreveport and ordered readjustment. This marked the culmination of the Shreveport rate case.
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Associated Pres
Washington
Shreveport
Texas
Interstate Commerce Commission
Georgia Senate OKs highway commission bill
Atlanta Aug 11 The Georgia Senate passed a House measure creating a highway commission to include the State prison commission the state geologist the dean of the College of Civil Engineering at the University of Georgia and the professor of highway engineering at the Georgia School of Technology Lawyers say Georgia may not receive its $2 000 000 share from the federal good roads appropriation if the bill becomes law.
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Atlanta
Georgia Senate
House
Highway Commission
State
College of Civil Engineering
University of Georgia
Georgia School of Technology
Congress
Georgia
$250,000,000 Loan for England for Munitions
Associated Press reports that negotiations are near completion for a new two year loan to Great Britain of 250 million dollars at 5 percent. The loan funds will finance munitions bought in the United States and distribute through American banks and the public.
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England
Associated Press
New York
Great Britain
United States
Pabie
Counter Attacks by Germans to Halt Offensive on All Forts
German forces mounted counter attacks to slow Allied offensives at multiple fortifications. Reports indicate renewed pressure on strongpoints, with artillery duels and ground assaults as Allied units press toward strategic positions.
Germans repulsed at Somme and Dover raid reported
Reports from multiple fronts say German counterattacks failed near Hemwood and Lamar Sonette, with heavy losses, while Pozieres and Verdun fronts also saw repulses. A German aeroplane raid hit the Dover naval base injuring seven. Russians advance in Galicia toward Lemberg and Stanislau, with near terms of Halicz and Bystritza region activity.
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Dover
Associated Press
London
Somme
Hemwood
Lamar Sonette
Paris
Pozieres
Verdun
Fleury
Veux Ard Chenois
Galicia
Lemberg
Stanislau
Halicz
Petrograd
Koropice
Bueczacz
Bystritza
United States to advance note on Austrian submarine attack
Washington reports the state department has prepared further data for the Austrian foreign office to back the Petrolite captain's claim that the attack violated international law. The U S has already demanded an apology punishment of the submarine commander and reparations. The new representations are due to go forward next week.
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Washington
State Department
Austrian Foreign Office
United States
General Smuts Dead in South Africa
General Tobias Smuts, prominent in the Boer War, is dead in Cape Town, reported by Associated Press. The obituary notes his long service and role in colonial defense and politics.
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Associated
Pres
Cape Town
South Africa
Tobias Smuts
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