Women battalion fighter report from Galicia
Petrograd reports on July 27 that the Russian women battalion called the Command of Death fought near Smorgon on July 25 and captured German women. Wounded heroines, led by Vera Butchgareff and Marya Skrydloff, arrived in Petrograd as casualties and prisoners were counted among the opposing force. Berlin and Paris dispatches note ongoing Austro German offensives in Galicia and at the Aisne with Russian and Rumanian counteractions and German attacks repulsed with losses.
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Bulmlin
Petrograd
Ridas
Command of
Smorgon
Russia
Vera Butchgareff
Marya Skrydloff
Admiral Skrydloff
Vitebsk
Novospessky Wood
Galicia
Teutons
Russian War Department
Carpathians
Kirlibaba
Kedzi- Vasarhely
Berezozil
Kalskul
Putna
Boduple
Paris
Aisne
War Office
Paris Bombarded by Enemy Planes
Berlin reports German planes bombed railway stations and military sites in Paris last night. All airmen supposedly returned. An additional notice states no talks are underway to transfer German war prisoners from England to America.
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Paris
Berlin
London
United States
England
America
Woman Shot During Springfield Railway Strike
Springfield July 8 All cars of the Springfield Railway were ordered to barns after a woman on her porch was shot in the shoulder and Deputy Sheriff Walter Canfield was wounded in the stomach amid strike violence. Mrs Leo Sfreeman and Canfield were not seriously hurt. A fusillade intended for a passing street car struck the car body with seven missiles missing passengers.
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Springfield
Springfield Consolidated Railway Company
Leo Sfreeman
Walter Canfield
Wheeler
Freeman
Canfield
Police in Control at Chester Pa After Race Riots
In Chester Pennsylvania state police with local patrolmen and guards regained control after renewed rioting. The week’s sixth outbreak left two whites dead and more than 100 injured among whites and African Americans. Dozens held on bail as hospitals report four additional Black victims.
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Chester
Officials Facing Military Service in Des Moines
Des Moines Iowa July 28 officials facing draft exemptions described by Major Hugh Johnson judge advocate executive officer in cases from Adjutant General Guy S Logan. Local boards not exempt from liability to draft. marriage grounds for exemption depend on whether the wife is supported by the husband’s labor as decided by the board.
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Des Moines
Hugh §. Johnson
Guy S. Logan
Adjutant General
Stric t Measures Resorted to Still Un rest
Petrograd reports Premier Kerensky’s brutal crackdown on extremists, including the arrest of a Finnish suspect in Tallinn and the disarming of rioters. Dispatches note calmer Petrograd, growing insider support for repressive actions, and a focus on ending internal strife as the war continues.
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Petrograd
London
Kerensky
iNikolai Ienine
Ainoinoff
Kamanoff
Russia
Lenine
Times Odessa
Fla Council of Workmen’s
Daily News
Germany
Brussenloff
Tarnapol
Former Emperor Wicholes Injured Cycling at Palace
Dispatch from Petrograd reports former Emperor Wicholes fell and broke his leg while cycling in the gardens of the Tharskoe Selo palace, where he has been confined since the revolution.
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London
Exchange Telegraph Company
Petrograd
Wicholes
Tharskoe Selo Palace
Forest receipts rise for national forests in fiscal year
Washington July 28 Receipts from the national forests for the just ended fiscal year totaled 8,450,001 up 600,10010 from the prior year. Operating costs were about 4,000,000 leaving a burden of 550,000 on the government for maintenance of the lumber reserves during the year.
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Washington, D. C
National Forests
Forest Service
More Sammies Landed Safely in Europe Port
An American contingent arrived safely at a European port on July 28 aboard the same steamer that carried Kermit Roosevelt and family. Troops lined up for tenders, shouted Are we downhearted? No, as staff representatives observed the discreet disembarkation. The lads soon left for new quarters amid cheer from sparse spectators.
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Associated Press
Kermit Roosevelt
Warm weather to continue next week across regions
AP wire reports from Washington July 28 predict generally fair conditions in the Great Lakes region with scattered thunderstorms. Temperatures will run high the first half of the week, then drop after Thursday. Plains States and Upper Mississippi Valley also see generally fair skies with scattered showers and seasonable temperatures after midweek.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Weather Bureau
Great Lakes Region
Plains States
Upper
Mississippi
Mexico Resentful Of German Hint Headlines
An AP Leased Wire report from Mexico City notes Die Post of Berlin plans an article claiming Mexico remains unaligned with the Allies and could be swayed to the Central Powers. El Universal condemns the piece as a lie by German minister to Mexico Herr Von Eckhardt and predicts his departure in the future.
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Associated Press
Mexico City
Die Post of
Berlin
Mexico
Germany
el Universal
Herr von Eckhardt
Boxer Palzer Dies From Gunshot Wounds At Hospital
Fergus Falls Minn July 28 Al Palzer the boxer died this morning in a Perham hospital from gun shot wounds inflicted by his father the day before. Palzer was shot in the abdomen and staggered a mile and a half to reach aid. The father was held without bail.
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Associated Press
Fergus Fally
Minn
al Palzer
Perham
Palzer
Commissions for 20000 from officers training camps
Washington July 28 War department officials prepare to issue commissions to successful candidates at the officers training camps soon after the first camp series ends August. More than 20000 men expected to receive papers and be assigned to regular army national guard or national army. Ft Sheridan Ill July 28 The list of men to receive commissions at the reserve officers training camp has been completed and sent to Washington for final War Department approval.
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Washington
War Department
Regular Army
National Guard
National Army
Ft. Sheridan
St. Sheridan, Jr
Reserve Officers
Government Buys 12000-Acre Rock Island Proving Ground
United States District Attorney Edward C. Knotts announced title to 12 000 acres north of Rock Island Illinois has been secured for a government proving ground to test ammunition and guns. He returned from Rock Island to approve land abstracts.
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Springfeld, Ill
United States District
Edward C. Knotts
Rock Island
Ill
Knotts
Germany blamed for war in Times report on Haase speech
London July 8 A Times piece calls a reference to Hugo Haase’s Reichstag speech a pivotal clue to the war’s origin. It recalls a Potsdam meeting with the emperor and top officials deciding to dispatch Austria’s ultimatum to Serbia and accepting consequences. Haase urged peace talks amid government denials.
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London
Times
Reichstag
Hugo Haase
Leipziger Volks Zeitung
Potsdam
von Bethmann-Hollweg
Admiral von Tirpitz
von Falkenhayn
William von Stumm
Archduke Frederick of Austria
Count von Berchtold
Count Tisza
Fiuingary
Hoetzedorf
Serbia
Russia
Norway
England
von Bethmann Hollweg
Torriaase
Herr Haase
Ways and Means Seek Seven Billion Revenue Plan
Washington, July 28. Congress faced raising seven billion dollars in additional revenue for the next year to cover war costs totaling over 10.7 billion, with estimates from Secretary McAdoo and Senatorial committees shaping a plan to tax about two billion and fund the rest through bonds and treasury certificates. The Senate Finance Committee revised a large tax bill, aiming to increase excess profits and tobacco taxes to raise roughly 330 million, leaving about five billion to be funded by bonds, with possible serial bonds at four percent.
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Washington, D. C
Congress
McAdoo
House Ways and Means
Senate Finance Committee
Treasury
Senate Committee
England speed of airplane building rises in Britain
London July 6 The output of aircraft in Great Britain is increasing substantially says Dr Addison minister of munitions Since January when the ministry took charge of flying service supplies the program has grown largely and shows no limit while 100 factories work on aircraft construction and equipment Output advances by leaps and bounds with attack and defense needs in view
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Associated Press
London
Great Britain
Addison
Socialists Explain Conditions for Participation in Government
Philip G Schiedemann, socialist Reichstag member, said socialists would join a parliamentary government only if they could share responsibility not become subordinates to officials. He urged defending Germany against Russia while resisting revolutionary outcomes and warned against following abroad calls for revolution. He supported adherence to the council delegates program and Reichstag, denied German conquest aims, and asserted Belgium’s independence and France’s integrity.
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Gopenhagen
Philip G Schiedemann
Reichstag
Herr Schiedemann
Kerr Schiedemann
Germany
Russia
Council of Workmen's
Belgian
France
Herr Schliemann
Lloyd George
Schiedemann
Quincy Boy Unconscious After Auto Crash
Quincy physicians monitor ten year old Eldred Yakle who has been unconscious for 156 hours since a Saturday automobile accident in Clayton. Doctors report promising outlook for the boy's survival.
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Associated Press
Quincy, H
Quincy
Eldred Yakle
Clayton
Strike May Cripple U S Embargo On Perishables
The Chicago switchmen strike disrupts freight on nineteen railroads in the Chicago switching district. Federal mediation is sought but rejected by the yardmen, who vow to continue the stoppage. Officials impose an embargo on perishable goods and livestock, signaling potential national impact on cross‑country traffic.
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Chicago
Brotherhood of Mailway
Swiftech
Buren Street
Chicago & Alton
Chicago Switchmen
W. W. Hanger
Federal Board of Mediation and Conciliation
Federal Board For
James Murdock
Brotherhood of Railroad
Murdock
General Managers’ Committee
George W. Hanger
Federal ‘Bureau of Mediation
P Onciliation
Weather forecast for Iowa and Illinois in Chicago Tl July 28
Forecast notes fair conditions for Iowa with a warmer trend in the extreme east, and generally fair Sunday with slight cooling later in the northwest. Illinois expected fair tonight and Sunday with higher temperatures, warmer in the northeast.
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Chicago
Iowa
Illinois
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U.S
Hasse
London Times
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