Cloak strike settled with wage increase for workers
After tense talks at Metropolitan Tower a compromise on the union issue was approved. Workers gain a basic wage rise while arbitration methods are simplified, though preferential shops favor employers and enforcement is limited. Union leaders call it a lasting peace while manufacturers claim a victory for their side.
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Tron
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Regel
Bil
Benjamin Sehlesinger
Hillquit
Schlesinger
Gas tragedy in Cleveland waterworks tunnel report
In Cleveland on July 24 a gas incident in the new tunnel under the lake killed fifteen men and left eighteen others overcome. Rescue boats and crew are at work, with workers brought ashore as efforts continue to reach the remaining men.
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Cleveland
Pitemen
Fife Raving
Debated Irish settlement bill wrecks in Parliament
London July 24 A bitter debate over the Irish settlement bill ends with the government further from Home Rule. Asquith appeals for national support while Redmond Lloyd George and Unionists clash over concessions. Martial law and civil administration loom amid party strife.
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London
Asquith
Lloyd George
Ireland
Hedmond
Redmond
Asquith Smids Synak
Amd
Mr. Redmond
Sk Led
Ape
Edward Carson
Dretary Lloyd George
Tle
House of Commons
Baldness study claims men more prone than women asserts
Miss Dorothy Osborn of Ohio State University reports in the August Journal of Heredity that baldness is hereditary and not caused by hats. She notes men have twice the chance of baldness, due to a dominant in males and recessive in females, a pattern called X-linked, similar to horn inheritance in sheep.
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Washington
Dorothy Osborn
Ohio State University
Journal of Heredity
Miss Osborn
Thomas R. Arkell
Millionaire’s Will Leaves Tombs Angel Income and Gifts
Executor James Nash Webb filed final accounting in Surrogates Court for William G. Wood estate. Miss Mary Kellard, once the Tombs Angel for missionary work, to receive income from a $40,000 trust plus $18,000 outright as a compromise for $25,000 owed for services. Residual estate goes to wife Virginia Wood and daughter Mary A. Wood, who was adopted from an orphan asylum.
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James Nash Webb
William G. Wood
Mary M. Kellard
Tombs Angel
Wood
Wood Memorial Church
Bronx
George T. Laird
Miss Kellard
Angel
Ems Wood
Miss Kollard
Cured of Anthrax by Branding Iron on Riverhead Farm
On July 24 in Riverhead Long Island Alexander Woupenski recovered from anthrax after a cauterizing iron treatment. Dr. Allen G. Terrell noted the harsh remedy worked, contrasting with the death of George F Stackpole last winter. Woupenski returned to farm work claiming the method would help others too.
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Riverhead
Long Island
Alexander Woupenski
George F. Stackpole
Mr. Stackpole
Waupenski
Allen G. Terrell
Alleged Luxury-Fueled Theft Ties to New York Clerk
Miseverony parance, thirty, of West 146th Street, is under arrest for larceny of $5,000 from Krauber & Co. at 867 Broadway. Police say she confessed that love of luxury led to the theft. Arraigned in Jefferson Market Court before Magistrate McQuade, held for indictment with $2,500 bail set for July 28.
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Kraubertron, & Co
Broadway
Miss Barnholte
New York
California
Barnholte
Klauber Hros
Jefferson Market Court
McQuade
Valor of Australians Praised by Gen Haig
London July 24 General Sir Douglas Haig sent a telegram to the Australian government noting that part of the First Australian Division conducted a gallant and skillful attack on Pozieres village capturing two guns and some prisoners with slight loss.
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London
Douglas Haig
France
Pozieres
Deutschland Submarine Faces Hostile Waters in Atlantic Dash
PromantAm Correspondent reports on the Deutschland breaking barriers at Baltimore piers, its final dash for the Atlantic looming as crews survey enemy vessels and tests of submerging tanks begin. Allied warships reposition near Virginia Capes heightening alert as Koenig faces perilous voyage back to the Fatherland.
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the Tribune
Baltimore
Deutschland
Atlantic
Patapreo
Neckar
Otto Apitz
Frederick Hinch
Fastern Forwarding Company
Ceptain Koenig
Naomi
Akatoria
Virginia Capes
United States Navy
Paul Koenig
Fatherland
Czar's Wedge Cuts 12 Miles Into Riga Line
The report from London notes a major Russian advance south of Riga as General Kuropatkin drives a wedge through German lines, pushing back Hin denburg on a thirty mile front with a twelve mile depth, signaling a significant east front development amid war weariness in Petrograd and cautious officials.
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London
Dvina
Germany
East
Somme
Riga
Carpathian Wall
Kuropatkin
von Hindenburg
Petrograd
Yankee Fliers Use Cloud Bank to Fool Enemies
Paris July 24 Two American escadrille pilots Sergeant Kiffen Rockwell and Adjutant Bert Hall drew five German fighters to battle then slipped into a cloud bank to escape. They returned to base with their Nieuports scarred by bullets. Paul Pavelka joins the escadrille while four American ambulance drivers receive the Croix de Guerre. French report notes bombings on Lunéville and Vigneulles with enemy planes downed and shells fired on rail and air targets.
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Hall
Paris
Kiffen Rockwell
Bert Hall
Fokker
Paul Pavelka
Escadrille
John W. Clark
Flushing
L. J. Wheeler
Yonkers
Everett Jackson
Colorado Springs
Thomas W. Potter
Westchester
Luneville
Chaput
Fresnes-en-Woevre
Fort Vaux
Conflans
Vigneulles
Dieuze
Frederick H. Allen
New York
Lafayette
Thiepval
Montauban
Contalmaison
Brandeis Resigns From Jewish Relief Groups
Justice Brandeis of the United States Supreme Court resigns from the executive committee of the American Jewish Relief Organization and the Jewish Congress citing pressure of judicial duties. His secretary said retirement from all Jewish activities is not being considered, while Brandeis plans a ten day vacation. Reports of an exit from Jewish work met skepticism from friends and colleagues who cited his long service to Jewish causes and Zionist advocacy.
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Boston
Justice Brandeis
United States Supreme Courty
American Jewish Relief Organization
Jewish Congress
Jacob de Maas
de Hana
Brandeis
Hotel Astor
Supreme Court of the United States
New York
Justie| Hiranders
Hia
United States Supreme Court
Beeen
Jewish Congress Committee
Provisional Committee of Seventy
Jewish Conference
Philadelphia
Victory promised as Somme fighting drags on
London reports David Lloyd George declares victory within months as Somme stalemate continues. British resolve, resources, and intelligence aim to snatch victory soon with gains at Pomeroes and Anzac thrusts on Albert ridge. Haig cites progress, while German counterattacks test gains and reinforce the longer war effort.
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London
Great Britain
David Lloyd George
Kitchener
House of Commons
Somme
Bapaume
War Office
Wellington
Napoleoni
Porieres
Albert Ridge
Pomeros
Cerain
Haig
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