Brooklyn reports 23 deaths as infantile paralysis cases rise
Brooklyn Health Department reported 115 new infantile paralysis cases and 23 deaths yesterday, a drop from the prior day. Most cases were in Brooklyn and Manhattan, with Queens and The Bronx also affected. Officials warn mothers in tenements to heed precautions as citywide efforts focus on preventing spread amid school and church disruptions.
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Rockefeller Institute For Medical Research
New York
Ford Agent Bids Captain Boat Ship to Flee Plague
News of the infantile paralysis epidemic reached the American steamer St Paul mid Atlantic. Harold B White European representative of Henry Ford, aboard with H J Dickman of Copenhagen, urged Captain Mills to dock in Manhattan or Hoboken to avoid infection. The captain confirmed a health certificate would allow arrival but White insisted landing elsewhere and evacuated his party off the ship on the pier to reach Asbury Park and Detroit directly.
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New York City
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Mexicans Fire on Bay State Troops Again
At El Paso Texas on July 23 snipers fired on the 6th Massachusetts Infantry camp. Twenty shots came from the Mexican side. no militiamen were hit. A bullet struck an American house over a mile from the river front.
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Britain awards mark of honor to disabled volunteers
Alfred P. O’Farrell, an Irish man, quit his job in the steerage department of the International Mercantile Marine Company to offer service to Britain. Rejected for defective vision, he learned his post was filled during his absence and returned home with his wife and child. He remains hopeful to find work.
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Alfred P. O'Farrell
International Mercantile Marine Company
England
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Home Rule Plan Hit at Dublin Gathering
Dublin July comtix waves and ritualists opposed to partition of Ulster under Home Rule compromise held a meeting in Phenix Park today. This was the first public meeting permitted since the rebellion. Proceedings showed good feeling and no disorder. Resolutions pledged to oppose by lawful means the exclusion of any portion of Ulster.
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Phenix Park
Jersey City Man Performs Self Surgery
A man at 63 Webster Avenue Jersey City inflicted severe abdominal wounds with a razor in a failed self surgery. He was found dying and rushed to a hospital. Police classify the case as an attempted death by own action, though he claimed to end torture from illness.
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Jersey City
Gore
Bank cashier takes own life in Great Barrington
Clarence Culver acting cashier of the National Machine Bank shot himself in the bank office today, police noting overwork and worry may have unbalanced him. Two superiors, president F N Deland and cashier Charles Booth, have resigned in recent months amid work disputes.
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Clarence Culver
National Machine Bank
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F. N. Deland
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Five Die In Heavy Surf At City Beaches
A powerful undertow and heavy surf cost five lives at New York beaches yesterday. Abraham Perlin, 20, of Brooklyn. an unidentified 18 year old at Coney Island. Tsunkovsky, 35, of Manhattan. Adolph Winkoff, 19, Bronx. Harry O Connell, 23, Brooklyn. Samuel McNally, 22, Manhattan drowned at Coney Island Rockaway Beach and Jamaica Bay. Lifesavers rescued some, but currents proved fatal. Police estimate 300000 visitors at Coney with 150000 swimming. Two more collapsed souls, Moretti and Tulley, required hospital or home care.
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Manhattan Avenue
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Coney Island
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William J. McCoy
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James Moretti
Lexington Avenue
Harlem Hospital
Thomas Tulley
West Fifteenth Street
Battery Park
Flowers for fiancé who died in car crash at hospital
A South Lakewood woman visited St John’s Hospital in Long Island City with four bouquets for Roland Cook, injured in a recent auto crash. Sister Bernadita learned Cook had died half an hour earlier. the woman remained brave yet shaken, named as Gussie Miller, twenty, of New Jersey.
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Gussie
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Czar Smashes North Line and Advances Five Miles
London dispatch reports Russian offensives in east front making gains north and south. Sakharoff flanks Bothmer and Boehm-Ermolli, presses toward the Galician border and toward the Rovno Lemberg railroad. Letehitsky nears Maramaros Sziget as Austrians retreat to the Carpathians amid heavy rains hindering action. Teutons suffer about 50 000 losses with 14 000 prisoners and forty large guns captured in the swing from Lutsk to the Carpathians.
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Vienna
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Submarine Bremen Delay Amid Gold Shipments Rumors
From Baltimore July 23 Captain Koenig of the Deutschland says he will not sail until the Bremen arrives. Reported: $4.9 million in gold linked to the Prinzess Cecile internment in Boston and tied to Paul Hilken. Officials refuse full cargo details while deflecting questions about insurance and timing.
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Turning Point Reached Allies Believe Victory Is Near
London reports two years after the Austrian ultimatum that the Great Alliance is certain of a complete victory. General Botha and allied leaders expect a slow, sure war to continue for months to end the Hohenzollern and Habsburg empires, with rebuilding of the Old World to follow.
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Britain Slips Note Avoids Core Principles in Mail Dispute
Washington reports that Britain's memorandum on mail seizures was delivered to acting Secretary Polk after being read at the State Department. The note, about 1,400 words, reportedly addresses specific complaints and avoids stating the underlying principles. It was sent by Ambassador Page in London and submitted to Paris for approval.
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Foreign Office
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MacNiff Horticultural Company
New York
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Britain
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Department
United States
Ambassador Page
Paiie
Australians Take Town in Third German Line
London reports Britons and Anzacs broke through to Pozieres and Guillemont on a seven-mile front near Bapaume, driving German defenders from houses to hold the Albert Bapaume highway. The push aims to isolate Leipsic redoubt and straighten the front from Thiepval to Guillemont as Haig presses toward a crest victory.
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Craze Officer Slays His Men at Somme Fort
Paris reports a German fort on the Somme front destroyed after a heavy bombardment. A Bavarian officer, found amid ruins with a crushed helmet, claims thirty-two men occupied the work. Fire and a collapse trap many as the cavern erupts in flames. The commander dies in hospital.
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