Happenings of the Past Week Across Nations and News
A digest of global events notes United States attorney nomination Thomas Allen for Nebraska favorably reported by the Senate judiciary committee, war and political moves in Europe, labor and prohibition debates, and major economic and military developments. It covers Verdun, naval losses, postal savings records, and defense funding, with mentions of Wilson, Asquith, and domestic policy signals.
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Washington
Thomas 8. Allen
United States
Nebraska
Senate Judiciary Committee
Nebraska Events Calendar and Valuation Report
Nebraska announces dates for fairs expositions and gatherings across August and September including Tractor Week at Fremont and Frontier Days at Silver Creek. An assessment report shows Douglas County wealth rising 28 to 48 percent for improved and unimproved property and declares Nebraska building and loan assets among the top in the Midwest.
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Fremont
State Press Association
North Platte Valley
Omaha
Valley Photographers’ Association
Lincoln
Nebraska
Grand Island
State Federation of Labor
Old Settlers
Mitchell
Douglas County
Counsman
United States League of Local Building and Loan Associations
St. Louis
Indiana
Mississippi River
United States
Union Pacific
Sidney
North Platte
Grand Istand
Beatrice
Clarence Sandquist
Geneva
J. E. Longmore
Milwaukee
Dakotas
Tripp
Bagley
Papillion
Blair
Herman
Herman Village Board
Creighton
Norman Peal
Rock Island
Fairbury
West Point
Gage County Board of Supervisors
Schuyler
Kaasch
Mary Kaasch
New York
Connell
W. W. Whitman
Hooper
Sam” Bouvier
de Soto
Merrick County
St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church
Falls City
Jesse ©. McNish
Republican State Central Committee
Joe Stecher
Dodge
Harold Christensen
Herman Riderhagen
Springfield
Jack Roth
Nebraska City
Kearney
Sanitary Conditions Good at Camp Llano Asks for Better Food
Western Newspaper Union News Service reports that only a small portion of the Fifth regiment seeks discharge as families depend on them. Nebraska guardsmen on the border will improve meals. Major General Bliss recommends fresh beef daily and in-camp bread via ovens and enlisted bakers to replace canned rations and hard tack.
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Union News Service
Camp Llano
War Department
Paul
Perdue University
Indiana
Tasker H. Bliss
United States Army
Llano Grande Camp
General Bliss
Brownsville
Texas
May Revise Amendment Title Points to Full Ballot Print
Attorney General Reed advised Secretary of State Pool that the amendment could be printed in full on the November ballot instead of a shorter title. The law caps ballot titles at 200 words, while the amendment runs 216 words. Pool has not yet decided how to proceed.
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Cleveland Waterworks
Wilson
Washington
Congress
Reed
Secretary of
State Pool
Clarence Harman
Food Commission
Secretary of State
Pool
State banks' guaranty fund to pay depositors first
Nebraska’s banking board orders Secretary Royse to apply the state guaranty fund to depositors before the general fund. Three failed state banks with about $300 each have funds on hand: Farmers' State Bank of Decatur, State Savings Bank of Sutton, and State Bank of Superior.
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State Banking Board
Banking Board
Royse
Nebraska
Farmers’ State Bank of
Decatur
State Savings Bank of
Sutton
State Bank of
Superior
Naval Exhibit Planned for State Fair Booth
Navy recruiting officer J. B. Zimmerman of Lincoln plans an exhibit at the state fair. A booth is secured and Washington must approve. The display would feature model ships including dreadnoughts submarines and the U S S93 with materials and paraphernalia supplied from department headquarters.
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J. B. Zimmerman
Navy
Lincoln
Department
Zimmerman
Washington
U.S
Nebraska Regiments Sanitation Praised at Camp Llano
General Bliss and General Plaummer conducted a tour of Camp Llano praising the camp. Both Nebraska regiments received high marks for sanitary conditions and appearance. Colonels Eberly and Paul were congratulated. Captain Herbert Smith and Major John Birkner oversee sanitation.
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Nebraska
Camp Llano
Tasker
H. Bliss
United States Army
Edward Plaummer
Eberly
Paul
General Bliss
Herbert Smith
Fremont
John Birkner
New General Hospital Established at Brownsville
A general hospital is established at Brownsville forty miles from Camp Llano to serve sick soldiers from Brownsville to Sam Fordyce. Emergency field hospitals will be kept at all camps along the line for urgent care. A sanitary train will depart Brownsville daily to pick up the ill and injured. The Fifth Nebraska field hospital under Major John F Spearman will shift to provide only immediate attention care. A school of instructions for hospital men will be set up soon.
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New General Hospital
Brownsville
Camp Llano
Sam Fordyce
Fifth Nebraska Regiment
John F. Spearman
Lincoln
State Expenditures Reported by Auditor William Smith
The quarterly statement shows stove expenses totaling 1 032 457 for April to June. The previous quarter was 1 421 840. Of past quarter costs 335 073 went to 15 state institutions under the board of control. The governor’s department spent 2 042 mainly for salaries. The national guard used 8 730 with about half for armory rental, not on the books due to border absence.
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William Smith
Board of Control
Governor's Department
National Guard
Omaha Captain Leidy Seeks Border Chaplain Post
Captain J. M. Leidy of Omaha says his Washington application waiving pension rights for a border chaplaincy with Fourth Nebraska has not yet been heard. He was rejected on medical grounds despite commission and now heads Omaha recruiting after the guard left the state.
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Washington
J. M. Leidy
Omaha
War Department
Nebraska
Leidy
Lincoln
Adjutant General Hall
Nebraskan First At Camp Llano To Join Reserves
Otto G. Hallgren of Company B Fourth Regiment becomes the first Nebraskan at Camp Llano to join reserves under the Chamberlain bill. Enlisted three years ago, his term expired July 13 and he is eager to depart for the northland.
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Camp Llano
Otto G. Hallgren
Hallgren
Northland
Candidates on Border Remain Eligible for Ballot
Nebraska Attorney General Reed rules that primary nominees who serve in the National Guard at the border have not jeopardized their legal standings. Their names stay on the ballots and they will be voted for in the normal election process.
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National Guard
Reed
Nebraska
Postmaster Lippincott Sees Class Change Hint
The salary of Postmaster F. E. Lippincott at Liano Grande for one day last week was $72. The fourth class office receives all the cancellations. If wires to Washington can only be cut, Lippincott will in a few weeks be in a class with Henry Ford.
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F. E.,lippincott
Liano Grande
Washington
Lippincott
Henry Ford
Nebraska Troops Train On Border With Increasing March Distance
Nebraska troops on the border practice daily marches at about four miles per hour. An outline for the first five weeks of camp prescribes daily hikes from ten to twelve miles, rising weekly. Week one uses full canteens, week two adds haversacks, and equipment load increases to full gear by week five.
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Nebraska
Captain Leedom Celebrated Birthday
Captain J W Leedom marked his birthday on a busy day with his company mounted as guard and serving as officer of the day. A water canal broke down prompting a hurried on foot trip to shut the gates, adding an unusual celebration to the occasion.
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Leedom
J. Ww.Leedom
Soldier Boys Get Pink Underwear At Camp Llano
New equipment arrives at Camp Llano daily with issue of shirts shoes and underwear. A shipment of underwear was found to be pink in color, a delicate shade not fitting for a warrier of Uncle Sam, yet it was issued to the soldiers.
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Camp Llano
Uncle Sam
Munitions Blast Blamed on White Star Line Fallout
New York reports property losses estimated at 25 million dollars from massive explosions of ammunition stored on Black Tom Island near Jersey City. Casualty figures remain uncertain as investigators await checks on workers and moored ships while detonations rattled five states.
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Union News Service
New York
Black Tom
New York Bay
Jersey City
Chicago Heat Wave Reaches Record Highs
Chicago endured extreme temperatures with 102 degrees at eight stories high and 106 to 112 on streets. The heat caused seventy deaths and overwhelmed morgue space as prostrations spiked and horses collapsed in the streets.
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Chicago
Health Department
Titanic settlement ends four year claims case
New York reports the White Star line is absolved of all liability for the Titanic sinking after a 665000 settlement outside court. The decree ends four years of federal litigation by hundreds of claimants who alleged negligence by navigators with owners’ privity and sought about 18000000 dollars in total claims.
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New York
White Star Line
Mayer
Bill to Limit National Guard Enlistment Terms
Representative Sloan introduces a bill in the house to limit national guard enlistment to the period of their guard service and federal duty only. Sloan says the idea comes from guardsmen serving on the border and urges passage.
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Washington
House
Representative Sloan
National Guard
Sloan
Lincoln to host state democratic party headquarters
Lincoln Nebraska appears to be the likely site for the state headquarters of the democratic party for the present campaign. A committee meeting will decide the location and appoint a secretary treasurer and other officers.
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Lincoln, Neb
Democratic Party
Lincoln
Langhorst
Senate Approves $2 Million Relief Fund for Militia Families
The Senate agreed to an amendment funding two million dollars for relief of dependent families of enlisted men in the organized militia and regular army serving in the Mexican emergency. The measure attaches to the army appropriation bill.
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Washington
Regular
Senate
Villistas Captured in Zacatecas Amnesty Granted
Report from Mexico City says five hundred Villistas were captured in Zacatecas by General Plank. All are released with amnesty.
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Mexico City
Zacatecas
Plank
Women's Ticket in the Field in 17 States
Miss Anne Martin, chair of the National Women's party, says women congressional and senatorial candidates will enter the field in all seventeen suffrage states this fall if President Wilson and Charles B. Hughes do not take a decisive stand on the Susan B. Anthony federal suffrage amendment. The Women's party would become a protest force replacing the Progressive party.
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Wilson
Charles E. Hughes
Susan B. Anthony
Colorado Springs
Colo
Charles B. Hughes
Susan B. “Anthony
Anne Martin
National Women’s Party
Miss Martin
Women’s Party
Progressive Party
Russians Capture 6250 Germans and Turkish War Moves
In the western theater 6,250 Teutons were taken prisoners by Russian forces with five guns and twenty two machine guns seized. In the Caucasus Russians continue pursuing retreating Turks and capture a depot of war materials at the fortress of Dzr i ngan.
Execution of Captain Fryatt Stirs Britain Across World
London reports the execution of Captain Fryatt of the Brusells has inflamed the British nation. The foreign office asks James V. Gerard in Berlin to obtain full details. Fryatt, commanding the Wrexham, was said to have tried to ram a German submarine in 1915.
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London
Fryatt
Brussells
Foreign Office
James V. Gerard
Berlin
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Canada
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Phelan
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Paris
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North Sea
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Asquith
England
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Raggedy Man
Indianapolis
Ind
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Plaza de Toros
Queretaro
Thomas M. Patterson
Denver
Senator Patterson
Spain
Edward Morris
Newfoundland
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Great Britain
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Durango
el Faso
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Leon
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Torreon
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Aragon
Morehead
Federal Trade Commission
Department of Agriculture
Houston
Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo
C. W. Bryan
Nogales
Ariz
California Guard
Plains States
Pacific Coast
House of Commons
Nebraska State News
Doane College At
Crete
Edward Whitin
Whitinsville
Mass
Whitin
Tom Taylor
Valley
Markson
Nye-Schneider
Clarkson
St. Paul’s
C. W. Bryant
Express
Wyoming
Antelope Park Zoo
John
Adolph Ruhlmann
Loup River
Monroe
Sutherand
Alliance
Frank Jesse
Pansy
Omar Pickerill
Syracuse
Burlington
Chalco-Yutan
Sioux City
Shubert
Stella
Humboldt
Republican
Tecumseh Commercial Club
Lang Canning Company
F. J. Woeltance
Colfax County
F. J. Pimper
Howells
Andrew Andersen
Gage County
Fred Haveman
Avoca
Fremont al
Goldsbury
Park Bathing Beach
John Goldsbury
Northwestern Nebraska Medical Society
Long Pine
Wood Lake
Hastings Democratic Club
Company G
Hastings
Mercedes
Tex
the State House
J. W. Evans
Fairfield Independent
Co. H. Fifth
Cago
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