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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1915
Page
2
Western Newspaper Union summarizes wartime and economic news. United States policies, naval orders, crops, and international tensions are reported, with notes on Mexico, Britain, Germany, and Russia, plus domestic production, trade, and public notices.
In the north of France the Belgian king Albert's eldest son Prince Leopold Duke of Brabant, fourteen, enlisted as a private in the Twelfth Belgian infantry. The king expresses pride and extends his expectation that Leopold will continue the family mission in the war.
J Pidoux reports a stable observation near Copernicus crater beyond the terminator. The surrounding region remains in shadow while the crater itself appears clear.
At a Royal Asiatic Society meeting Professor Khan described experiments on animals reacting to music. In India musicians are staged near animals to test sensitivity, with a cow showing preference for a specific Indian instrument while birds signal desire for more music by tapping the musician.
A battered contemplation notes how a wrist watch once seen as mere ornament proved timely when a bullet was deflected by the watch worn by an English soldier, saving his life in battle.
Major General Frederick Funston reports on alleged San Diego plan to seize border states and cede large areas to Mexico. The scheme targets Americans and minorities, while promoting a Mexican republic. census data and regional reach are cited along with security measures along the frontier.
In Holdrege Nebraska, Vincent Winklemeyer of New York City was killed during a box car hold-up on Burlington freight No 70 between Holdrege and Funk. Fred E. Collum of Kansas City and E R Lee of Lincoln were wounded but not seriously. Nine harvest hands aboard fought the robbers as they demanded savings.
Washington report says war department asks American war supply firms for facility details and emergency output plans. Officials seek to know if private expansion supplements arsenals and armories as Congress eyes defense boosts and rising demand beyond wartime needs.
The treasury department announced that on December 1 Secretary McAdoo would make public the names and take steps to sue all persons able to pay who have failed to pay advances of money provided to help them return home from Europe at the outbreak of the war. The total still due from those considered able to repay runs to thousands of dollars.
Washington announces a four million dollar federal appropriation to aid militia organization for this year. Half goes to actual field service and rifle practice and is divided among the states in proportion to their congressional representation.
Despite hail ruining a quarter of the crop Red Willow county expects its banner wheat harvest. The county has the largest wheat acreage on record this year and yields per acre are projected to exceed previous peaks.
Etna Volcano erupts with steam and smoke as lava streams flow from two new craters on its eastern slope. Naples Messina and other Sicilian cities are in terror while shocks shake Taranto and Brindisi in southern Italy.
A US bishop reports 60 600 Armenian refugees arriving at Igdier near Van with expectations of 100 000 more from Van. Kurdish forces allegedly killed 10 000 Armenians in Bitlis villages, with bodies cast into the Tigris and Euphrates.
London reports a Zeppelin raid on England’s east coast causing thirteen deaths and injuries, with damage to property. The British cruiser India was torpedoed off Norway, and the destroyer Lynx sunk in the North Sea, alongside British and Norwegian merchant ships. An Allied air raid targeted Bavarian towns Weibruecken and Sankt Ingbert.
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