French Hold Front After Somme Breakthrough
French forces repelled German counter attacks along nearly four miles of front north of the Somme, holding captured ground from Saturday’s drive. Over 1000 German prisoners taken, numerous machine guns and field guns seized, as General Foch’s troops consolidate gains and push Italian front advances continue into the Carso and Isonzo fronts. Descriptions note renewed fighting through the night and German efforts to regain lost positions. In other notes, a Brooklyn jeweler drowns at the Delaware Water Gap, and thirteen miners die in a Blythe explosion.
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Somme
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kaizer
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Bomme
Monaco farm
Clery
Itatiane
Cadorna
Carso
Isonzo
Vallone
Gorizia
Doberdo
Loans Money on First Mortgage on Real Estate
Institution advertises long term loans on first mortgages backing real estate. It promotes stability, noting the lender is a non living institution that does not die and will not call for repayment when the borrower is unprepared or expects difficulty.
Twelve of Family Killed In Somme Fighting For England
Chelsea Massachusetts reports that Peter Giles of this city was killed in the Somme trenches on July 16 during the river drive, making twelve direct family deaths in Europe. Another relative was wounded and is in an English insane asylum. Giles was thirty-two. The family, originally from Little Glace Bay Nova Scotia, had long lived in Boston suburbs before entering service.
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England
France
Chelsea
Mass
C. BE
Morris
London
Peter Giles
Somme
Europe
Gills
Little Glace Bay
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Hoston
Amusement Row Opens Sunday in Atlantic City
Atlantic City August 14 Amusement operators defy police by keeping stands open with fiber netting as hearings on charges loom. The boardwalk merchants report brisk business despite police actions and pending legal hearings next Sunday. Lightning kills a racehorse and injures another in Mount Pleasant while a boiler explosion in Butler, Pennsylvania, tears apart equipment but injures no one. Two men and two boys nearby escape harm.
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SHORE
Atlantic City
Butler
Rockdale
Roads and Men Fail to Agree on Arbitration Plan
Secretary Tumulty carries President Wilson's appeal to Chief Magistrate and railroad leaders as representatives from four railroad brotherhoods and managers head to Washington. Mediation meetings leave no clear verdict and workers reject the arbitration plan, though a new conference is possible.
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Washington
New York
brotherhoods of
Wilson
Tumulty
Woman held up by three women steals $66 in Chester
John D. Aulette of Chester reported being accosted by three women on August 14. A knife was placed at his throat as they took $66. Aulette followed the attackers to a trolley and a jitney, and identified Charlotte Burnett as the leader. Burnett is held on $1500 bond for court.
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IRON CLAW
PEARL WHITE
CREIGHTON HALE
SHELDON LEWIS
Juggs
Claw
Margery
Davy
ALICE HOWELL
LIZZit
Fatty Voss
Dunderworld Dens
L-Ko
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LANGOON
Chester
John D. Aulette
Rome
Weat
Graham street
Aulette
Aul
scense
Charlotte Burnett
Hammer Blows Fracture Skull in Shamokin Quarrel
In Shamokin Pennsylvania after a quarrel Joseph Gedro allegedly struck William Hollister Jr over the head with a hammer, fracturing his skull. Hollister lies unconscious as Gedro is held by authorities. London's Inhabitants include 471,000 flat dwellers.
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Shamokin
Joseph Gedro
Marion Heichts
William Hollister, Jr
Gedro
London
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