Fierce British charges wrest woods from foe frontier news
London reports fierce fighting on the Somme in the Contalmaison Mametz and Trones sectors. British forces regain most of Mametz and push Germans from Trones while preparing toward Bapaume. German reinforcements surge. heavy losses mount on both sides. Continued bombardment and raids around Verdun and Lille noted as French and British seek advantage.
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Hy Cane
Tee Tribune
London
Batts
Coptalmaison
Somme
Mametz
Trones
Contalmaison
Haig
Bapaume
Contiimaison
Germaas
Trones Wood
Peronne
Berlin
Belloy-Soyecourt
Belloy-Estrees
Olinding
Meuse
British capture German field guns dated 1874
London July 2 Reuter reports at the British front two German field guns dated 1874 have been captured. The correspondent notes the find raises questions about German arms sufficiency and whether the strain on Germany is forcing them to seek weapons from older stock.
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London
Reuter
Five Die in Heat and Prostration Sweeps City
Overnight heat killed five residents in Manhattan and Brooklyn and left fourteen more prostrated. The Weather Bureau warned temperatures and humidity would persist. Reports cite multiple sunstroke deaths and two crisis cases, with brief notes on local fatalities and a factory shutdown affecting 250 workers.
Castle lap dog dies unexpectedly in Ithaca
Mrs. Vernon Unstie halted a twenty week Ithaca engagement to rush to New York after her small lap dog was killed in an accident during a play session with her two large Russian wolfhounds. A paw tap led to a squeak and the small dog died. she ordered a casket and sent cablegrams to Vernon, who is away in England, and telegrams to friends.
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Vernon Unstie
Ithaca
N.Y
New York
Mes
Castle
New "Cold" Light Found by Frenchman
A French engineer Doussaud described to the Academy of Science a new "cold" light obtained by automatic separation of heat rays from luminous rays. He has studied with Professor Branley and Cous tand. The light is intense enough to project newspaper images, postcards, and photographs in a lighted room as clearly as lantern slides. Paris, July 1.
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Movine
Doussaud
Academy of Science
Branley
Coustand
Paris
Fear Vessel Ramos Sinks After Distress Signal
Distress signals from the steamship Ramos reporting disabled engines and sinking were picked up 310 miles northwest of Watling's Inland by the steamship Van Hogendorp and relayed to Miami. Ramos, a 538 ton New York and Porto Rico line vessel, sailed from Philadelphia July 9 for Cartagena with coal, no passengers, crew of fifteen. Van Hogendorp reached the last reported position but could not locate Ramos in thick weather and continued search.
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Ramos
Watling
van Hogendorp
Miami
Fla
Marconi Company
New York
Porto Rico
Philadelphia
Cartagena
JUMPS INTO MEXICO PURSUER IS SEIZED
Nogales July 12 W Hi Schweibr held for alleged neutrality law violations escaped across the border. Brad Duncan deputy U S marshal pursuing him was arrested by Mexican authorities and is held at Nogales Sonora. Schweibs says he is a former German army officer. He jumped across to a waiting railway motor car as a Mexican soldier seized Duncan. Colonel W H Sage began negotiations for his release.
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Nogales
Ariz
W. Hi Schweibr
Brad Duncan
Sonora
Schweibs
Duncan
W. H. Sage
United States
Driver Picks Up Boy Killed by His Auto
A Bronx boy, seven year old Joseph McMahon of Tiebout Avenue, was fatally struck on 188th Street near Tiehout Avenue as a wagon spooked by a car driven by a chauffeur. Philip Dodge, owner of the auto, carried the body to Fordham Hospital and was paroled on his own recognizance to face Coroner Healy's inquiry.
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Larchmont
188Th Street
Tiehout Avenue
Bronx
Philip T. Dodge
West Fortieth Street
Tribune
Fordham Hospital
Joseph McMahon
Tiebout Avenue
McGovern
Fordham
Henry Letellier Weds Dying Woman in Paris
Paris hears Henry Letellier, former seller of the Paris Journal, wed Perry Gillespie who lies dying from consumption. She, once a Long Champs fashion figure, had resisted marriage but agreed amid illness. A war era charity supporter, she had been known for striking gowns at race courses.
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Paris
Henry Letellier
Paris Journal
Charles Humbert
Perry Gillespie
Letellier
Longchamps
Spanish Sailors Arrive to Take Charge of Submarine
Twelve sailors from the Spanish navy arrived aboard the steam ship Buenos Aires from Barcelona to supervise a government submarine built at Fore River shipyards in Quincy Massachusetts. They were led by petty officer Thomas Foconal and allowed ashore in Boston via Ellis Island.
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Buenos Aires
Barcelona
Fore River
Quincy
Mass
Thomas Foconal
Boston
Ellis Island
Glen Snodgrass
West Virginia
Tjorno
Majorca
Americ Piatgia
Serbian Artillery
Police graft fever crusade targets 12 arrests in police district
A crusade against police graft is under way with the District Attorney promising prompt action and arrests, including a civilian “man higher up.” Detectives Enright and Foley face questions about a 1915 Arlington Hall dance and related purchases, as the probe expands to twelve plainclothes officers across districts. The mayor and city officials push for clean up as infantile paralysis cases rise across boroughs.
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William J. Enright
David d. Foley
Arlington Boat Club
Arlington Hall
Enright
James F. Smith
Bext
Relub
Poles
Llubs
Smith
Foley
New York Police Department
Sevral
Arlington Boat
Mitchel
Health Department
New York Academy of Medicine
Rockefeller Institute
Emerson
Simon Flexner
Institute
Picture Tour of Camps in Texas by the 71st 7th and 4th
You saw them march away and reach Texas and now you can learn how the camps of the 71st, 7th and 4th actually look through the pictures. The photos provide a quick, visual story of the camps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Submarine Deutschland Rushing Return Trip From Baltimore
Work is rushed to speed the Deutschland home with a $1,000,000 cargo of nickel and rubber. Captain Koenig pushes negro stevedores as secrecy surrounds the loading at the Deutschland berth. Crew plans a Washington visit and a possible departure soon after Count von Bernstorff's arrival.
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Rom
Tribus
Baltimore
Patapsco
Koenig
Leas
Bremen
Count von Bernatorff
Red Cross
August Hecksher
Comrad
Hecksher
Washington
White House
State Department
Chesapeake Bay
Count von Bernstorf
Eastern
Thomas F. Timmins
Charles A. Rohde, Sons & Continued
Deutschland submarine trip to America sparks supply theories
Copenhagen via London July 12 reports naval expert Captain Persius in the Berliner Tageblatt says Deutschland likely received supplies from depots on its voyage to America. He notes the feat of the Deutschland is not as difficult or dangerous as the earlier submarine voyage to Constantinople.
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Copenhagen
London
Persius
Berliner Tageblatt
America
Constantinople
Lightning Kills Girl and Wounds Three Women in Mor risville
Miss Frances Cooperman was struck dead while consulting weather from a yard clothes line at Manor Farm. Her mother and two visitors, Mrs Loretta Litowitz and six year old Josephine, were nearby and unconscious. All were brought to hospital in serious condition.
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Trenton
N. J
Frances Cooperman
Manor Farm
Morrisville
Rookie officer saves runaway horse on Seventh Avenue
Patrolman Harry Hagstrand of the West 128th Street station stopped a runaway horse attached to a delivery wagon, grabbing the bridle as it galloped down 119th Street, leaping onto the wagon, and bringing the horse and wagon to a halt. He sustained injuries from the torn bridle but returned to duty an hour later.
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Yelix
Harry Hagstrand
West 128d Street
Seventh Avenue
119Th Street
Hagstrand
Man-Eating Shark Strikes Matawan Bay Four Victims
A shark attacked two boys swimming in Matawan Creek near Wyckoff’s dock, killing Lester Stillwell and W Stanley Fisher and injuring Joseph Dunn while another diver died later. Reports place the creature along New York coastlines from Spring Lake to Coney Island as authorities hunt the roaming predator.
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Matawan Creek
Raritan Bay
Ore
Matawan
Baldwin
Keyport
Lester Stillwell
William Stillwell
Joseph Dunn
East 128Th Street
St. Peter's Hospital
New Brunawick
W. Stanley Fisher
Stillwell
City
New York
Spring Lake
Charles Bruder
Bridgehampton
Long Island
Lower Bay
Coney Island
Rockaways
Raritan Creek
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Raritan
Lille
Rowly
Verdun
Naisers Generi
Fusiliers
Seaforth Iryni
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Weather Bureau
Joseph Daly
West 188Th Street
Lincoln Hospital
John Wagner
George Street
Williamaburs
Robert Hudson
Hudson Avenue
Greenpoint
Peter Peterson
Woodhull Street
Lloyd McCade
Brooklyn Avnue
Jennie van Ness
St. John's Place
John Mahnken
Bay Hancock Street
Fompten Lakes
Ratali
FEAR
Mexico
U. S
Peggy Gillespie
Pred B. Pitney
Queens
Richmond
Heal's Department
Alls Conference
Home Defence League
Camp Pictures
McAllen
the Sunday Tribune
Anit Duran
Cheulaina
Lanoy
Asbury
Asbury Park
Colin E. Carter
Hughes
Deutschland
Bernstorff
Germany
U Boat
Police
Creek
Jersey
Wyckoff's Dock
Wyckoff's
William Hyer
Albert O'Hara
Charles van Brunt
Andrew Bublin
Fellows
Lester
Cuge
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