08 Jul 1916
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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1916
Page
1
Repaired roofing and painting services offered with reasonable prices. Call 914 for full hardware line, tools, paints, tinware and enamel ware. Strong emphasis on repairs and contact information.
Russian forces drive Teutons westward from Riga to Volhynia amid heavy fighting. They seize Komarow Grady and Manevich along the Styr and capture dozens of cannons and hundreds of prisoners. Letchitzky and Kaledines threaten Austrian lines as Germany reels from renewed assaults.
President Wilson weighs Senator Thomas Walsh of Montana as associate justice to replace Hughes. Walsh, a leading Democratic lawyer, hails from Missouri and moved to Montana in 1893.
An official war office statement notes over 300 officers and 7 415 men captured from July 4 and 6 in west of the Byr and below Kolki. Six guns, twenty three machine guns, several thousand rifles, two searchlights, eleven bomb throwers and seventy three ammunition lights were seized amid fierce fighting near Gruttatyn and east of Baranovichi.
Washington July 8 A House resolution by Representative Hulburt New York would authorize a civilian commission of at least three members to inspect military food to ensure it matches purchase specifications and is wholesome. The panel would serve during the president’s tenure with salaries of 5000 dollars annually each, and was referred to the military affairs committee. The piece notes over seven million dollars is spent yearly on golf balls in the United States.
British and French forces report success and heavy fighting on the Somme front. British trench gains east of La Boisselle are announced amid fierce clashes near Ancre, Ovillers, Contal Maison, and Thiepval. World War I battle updates detail Allied progress, German counterattacks, and shifting pressures along the Somme and Picardy fronts.
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