British Renew Strong Somme Assault and French Gains
British forces renew heavy attacks on the Somme front and claim capture of the main German second line north of Potieres with gains between Pozieres and Thiepval. French reports Verdun thrusts hold with counterattacks repulsed as Thiaumont and Fleury remain contested. Russian advances around Korel and Lemberz meet stiff resistance on the eastern front.
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Associated Press
London
France
Potieres
Pozieres
Thiepra
Verdun
Paris
Fleury
Fleurs
Korel
Lemberz
von Linsingen
Stokhod
Eek
Brody
Lembens
Sereth
Frenry
Thiaumont
Fieury
Somme
World War I Rating of Military Leaders by Fortune
A 1915 United Press list ranks European military leaders by fortunes during the first two war years. It names German, British, French, Russian, Austro Hungarian, and Italian figures with notes on rises and falls, including Hindenburg, Joffre, Falkenhayn, Beatty, Monro, French, and Brusati, among others. The piece also cites actions around Verdun, Gallipoli, the Marne, and Galician fronts.
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United Press
New York
Europe
Sgerma
von Hindenburg
East Prussia
Hans von Bulow
von Hindenberg
Mazurian Lakes
Marshal von Mackelsen
Galicia
Falkenhayn
von Stuller
Emden
Great Britain
Beatty
Botha
Monro
Gallipoli
Robertson
Sturdee
Falklandes
France
Joffre
Foch
Marne
Marquis de Castelnau
Batte
Aisne
Petain
Verdun
Russia
Alexeier I
Grand Duke
Nicholas
Brussiloff
Germany
Prince von Buelox
Italy
Genzie
von Bluck
Paris
von Hansen
The
Admiral von Tirpitz
Ajef
Austro-Hungary
Auffenburg
Danki
Poland
Count Berchiolt
Brusati
Trajan Trentino
iSereth
Matysere
Tedas
Meidyrsory
Tehistopad
Tthe
Velesnive
Wesr
Brody
von Boehm-Ermolli
Sarny
Kovel
Stokhod
Rocola
Panevercia
Airships Wage Battle Over Istria Between Italian Planes
Berlin reports fourteen Italian battle planes crossed Istria from Pirano at 7 3 am and engaged by Austrian forces. Lt Banfield in a hydroplane ascended from Trieste, pursued the squadron across the Istrian peninsula, shot down one Italian plane with its pilot killed and two observers captured. Banfield and his craft were uninjured.
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Berlin
Isteria
Pirano
Banfield
Trieste
Istrian
Wisconsin Safety Plan Gains National Scope
W. Price, assistant to the Wisconsin industrial commission, directs a statewide accident prevention program. He has trained managers and foremen, advanced machine guarding, ventilation and illumination, and extended safety work into farms, shops, logging regions, quarries and mines, reducing dangerous incidents.
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Evem
Mae
Ludger
Natlons Safety Council
Northwesterm
Madison
Wis
W. Price
Wisconsin Industrial Commission
Knuwaty Managers
National Safety Jeune
Industrial
S Commission
Tme
Rail Strike Seen With 90 to 1 Vote in Ballots
New York Aug. 5. With five sixths of ballots counted from 400 000 railroad workers in 225 systems the strike vote stood 90 to 1 in favor. Officials of the four trainmen’s brotherhoods said counting would finish Monday and then they would meet with railroad representatives to consider the final vote.
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New York
Hatton Leads Wisconsin Progressive Campaign May Rally
William H. Hatton of New London opened his Milwaukee County speakership in West Division High School to a rainy audience. He appeared with the La Follette ticket as Walter Houser’s faction campaigned from Kenosha, touting progress under prior administrations and defending the Madison rally.
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Milwaukee
Wis
William H. Hatton
New London
Progressive Republican
Madison
West Division
la Fellette
Walter L. Houser
Imanager
Kenosha
Market Square
No Trace Of Bandits In Burroughs Paymaster Holdup
Detroit reports no trace yet of the five automobile bandits who last night reached the Burroughs Adding Machine paymaster and fled with an estimated 23000 to 34990. Police extend search to 100 miles around Detroit and consider an inside job theory while company officers deny any internal involvement. Rudolph Cooper, shot in the hip during the struggle, is improving and was the only guard to resist.
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Port Said
War Office
Eizit
Turkish War Office
Suez Canal
Mediterranean
Katia
Egypt
Romani
Porti
Roral
Bay of
Tina
Detroit
Burroughs
Adding Machine Company
Villa kills himself after skirmish with Ramos troops
Francisco Villa wounded in the right side during a skirmish with Gen. Matias Ramos's forces at Hacienda San Juan Durango. After ordering his men to scatter to save themselves and being pursued, he died by his own action. The La Radical account notes the event but headquarters neither in Juarez nor the military confirms it.
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Associated Press
el Paso
Texas
Francisco Villa
Maties Ramos
Hacienda San Juan
Durango
Sn 16
la Radical
Torres
Juarez
New Yorkers Walk Street Cars Idle Amid Big Strike
In New York six transit companies including Yonkers and White Plains face shutdowns as 7,000 of 15,000 workers strike. Police prepare for street clashes. crowds clog streets while automobiles aid some firms. Subways and elevateds run but crowded. Officials report about half of cars in service citywide.
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Yonkers
Weetchester
Elashin
White Plains
Bremx
Manhatian
Certail
United Press
New York
America
New York Railways Company
Queens County
Westchester
Flushing
Bronx
Manhattan
Bax
Lord
East Side
Jas
Wood
Whitman
ieGay
New York Ci Railways
La Follette Denounces Shipments and Party Split Cue
Malcom G. of Janesville urges the crowd to back a single party man for senate not half and half. He criticizes La Follette for thirty six years in public life, attacks his stance on embargo and shipments, and likens Democratic policies to hardship while praising Republican gains.
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Superior
Wis
la Follette
Malcoim G
Janesville
Senate
Waless
Denis
Mr. Defiris Entine
la Follettea
America
Republican Party
la Foliette
Hundreds of fish die in Green Bay area waters
The Green Bay east shore and Sturgeon Bay region report vast deaths of perch and bass washing ashore. Fishermen cite possible causes, with old Washington Island fishermen pointing to sand flies swarming nearby as a likely factor.
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Associated Press
Marinette, Wik
Green Bay
Sturgeon Bay
Meator
Washington Island
Great Brggbers
Menasha Hosts Vast Wil Wisconsin Skat Tournament Preparations
Menasha Wisconsin hosts a summer Wisconsin Skat League event with venues at Unity Concordia Hall Eagles Hall and Germania Opera House plus Elks Hall for ladies. A prize pool of 1000 with 150 for first is promised as guests arrive. James A Horky and Miss Emily Rebeau wed in Tomahawk and plan to return after visiting the couple's home in Menasha.
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Menasha
Wis
Mejeasha Skac Club
Liukk
Stummer
Uyncordia
Sthete
Joseph Horky
First Street
James A. Horky
Emily Rebeau
Tomahawk
St. Mary’s
Scandal Probe Questions Munitions Ties to Campaigns
Washington August 5 Investigation into munitions shipments to Mexico since Taft era ban grows. Rep Redenburg of Minds Republican introduces a resolution seeking links between shipment profits and political campaign funds amid claims Cleveland Dodge funded Democrats and Carranza imported arms after Dodge met with Secretary LansIng. Resolution referred to foreign affairs committee.
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Rodenburs
Ilinoia
Associated Press
Washington, D
Brexico
Taft
House
Representative Redenburg
Minds
Radenburg
Cleveland H. Dodge
New York
Democratic Campaign Fund
Carranza
Dodge
Lansing
Parral
Hocenburg
Foreign Affairs Committee
Carranza Note Delayed Turmoil Clouds Border Talks
Washington officials said the reply to General Carranza would not be formulated until President Wilson returns from a weekend cruise. The note is seen as delaying discussions on a joint border commission, with no US position announced yet. Reports also mention Mexican imprisonments linked to dynamite sales and a Canadian manager at Mexico City Electric Light and Power in prison.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Carranza
Joint Commission
Wilson
State Department
United States
Mexico City
H. A. Dunn
Zapata @itx
Aulines
Fulton
O Bletric Light and Power Comra
Mexico Ci
Missing family located after Claiborne county tragedy
Associated Press reports in Knoxville Tenn on August 5 that the Claiborne county disaster toll has fallen to twenty four as one victim was found downstream along Clinch River. McBee and his family, previously lost, were located. Twenty bodies have been recovered and no more deaths are known.
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Associated Pre
Knoxville
Tenn
Claiborne County
Clinch River
McBee
Index of Today's Paper Social News of the Week
The brief page index outlines social notes and weekly items from the FP Evening issue. It highlights streetcar activity and mentions Usher and Hughe in social items and society notices.
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Hughe
Vouy
EL B. Usher
Federal control of railroads urged in congress
Washington Aug 3 strong lecture by Senator Norris Nebraska arguing for government ownership of railroads to prevent traffic paralysis. He proposes a nationwide model system from Atlantic to Pacific and Gulf to Lakes operated on fair rates and wages and decries watered stock as the great evil.
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Ailmatic
Factic
Tielt
Crited
Washington, D. C
Norris
Nebraska
Pacife
Gulf
Lakes
Wisconsin Brigade Marches Toward Leon Springs
An Aug 3 Milwaukee dispatch reports the Wisconsin brigade begins a ten mile march from camp to Lees Springen with a return to Milwaukee if kept in Camp Wilson Texas. The piece details army provisioning, daily rations, and company profits from under drawing mess allowances.
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Milwaukee
Leon Springs
Wisconsin
Ten Mite Hill
Lees Springe
Camp Wilson
Texas
United States
Battery A
Wisconsin Brigade
Government Bank
Rvegimentals J
Tsoldiers
Revere
Light vote in Kentucky as primary selects captrons
Associated Press reports a light voter turnout in Kentucky as candidates for captrons and for judge of the court of appeals Ninth district prepare for the closing polls at 4 oclock this evening.
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Associated Press
Lovis
Illinois Guards Begin Camp Drill at Springfield
Springfield August 3. Companies of the Fifth and Sixth regiments National Guard began at a Springfield camp Danne at 8 oclock this morning to take up quarters for a drill camp. Sixteen hundred men are in camp.
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Associated Press
Springfield
Camp Danne
Oklahoma Primary Narrows Field for Corporation Commissioner
Complete returns from 25 counties show State Senator Gaeno Ibell Hassell of Warres leading J H Johnson by 2 108 votes for the Democratic nomination for a third term corporation commissioner. Early indications suggest the literacy test amendment to the state constitution trails badly.
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Semater
Associated Press
Oklahoma City
Ala
Gaeno Ibell Hassell
Warres
J. H. Johnson
Robins Sees Third Party Death and End of Progressives
Raymond Robins, Progressive leader and 1912 Illinois Progressive Senate candidate, says the Progressive party is dead and urges sincere Progressives to back Charles Evans Hughes. He argues for new national unity, social justice, and cooperation with Republicans to restore American political life.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Raymond Robins
Progressive Rational Convention
Illinois Progressives
United States
Charles Evans Hughes
Robins
Republican Party
Democratic Party
Progressive Party
Progressive National Committee
Senator Lewis Attacks Hughes in Mexico Policy Speech
Democratic Senate whip Samuel Lewis denounced Republican criticism of the administration’s Mexican policy as treasonable and blamed the Carrizal massacre on the GOP platform’s stance. He urged revolt against Washington’s Mexico policy and assailed Hughes as the Republican nominee.
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Aaeele Hemkes
Associace + Press
Washington, D. C
Lewis
Senate
Charles Hughes
Mexico
Carrizal
United States
Warranza
Villa
America
Washington
Charles Evans Hughes
Omro Bridge Blockade Leads to Criminal Charges
Excitement rose as Omro residents reported a man named Clark blocked a Fox River bridge by erecting a fence and iron chain. District Attorney Le Me Tome and Deputy Shen Colt moved quickly. Clark was jailed and charged on February 22. Town authorities plan further action to prevent future blockades.
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Nepority
Fox River
le Me Tome
Shen
Colt
Mr. Keefe
Agenie
Clark
Vilace
Omre
Last Day for Filing Nomination Papers Closing Soon
The notice says last day to file nomination papers with the office or secretary of state is today. It mentions Associated Madison and the Progressive Republican ticket submitting papers late, with the secretary of state keeping the office open this afternoon.
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Madison
Secretary of State
McGovern Campaign Turned Caustic in Milwaukee Rally
Milwaukees August campaign stop by Governor Francis E McGovern drew sharp remarks as he attacked opponents and touted reforms. He claimed support for the people and criticized complacent officials while outlining his plans and urging voter backing. Weather forecast predicted scattered showers with no major impact on events.
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Ian Hamilton
Marshal French
Mixon
Rawlinson
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Smith-Dorrien
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Rennenkampf
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Oklahoma
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Wice
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Kop Jeune
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