War in brief notes German advance and Allied responses
August reports outline German pressure along the Meuse Alsace Lorraine and Brussels, Belgian forces retreating toward Antwerp, and Japan issuing ultimatums over Kiao-Chow. British and French actions include reprisals, loans to Belgium, and cautions on a widening war front as naval and land operations unfold across Europe and the Far East.
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Gailey
Meuse
Alsace-Lorraine
Japan
Germany
Orient
Kiaua German Protectorate
Berlin
William
Brussels
Alsace
Menthausen
Altkirch
Rhine
Lorraine
Seille
Marne
Antwerp
London
Washington
Pius
Rome
United States
Switzerland
France
Belgium
Matin
Roussett
Great Britain
Treasury
Namur
Charleroi
Reuter Telegraph Company
Ghent
Oudenarde
Amsterdam
Malines
Official
Ostend
Waterloo
Kiao-Chow
Banks Form South Carolina Currency Association in Columbia
The National Currency Association of South Carolina is permanently organized with about 500 banks represented and 39 banks qualifying as members. President R G Rhett and officers were elected. surplus of over 8 million dollars could back about 2.4 million in additional currency, with more possible if all qualify. Bill to repeal the 10 percent circulation tax awaiting passage in Congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
National Currency Association of
South Carolina
Jefferson Hotel
McAdoo
R. G. Rhett
Charleston
Association
J. P. Matthews
John T. Melton
W. A. Clark
G. M. Berry
J. W. Norwood
Greenville
C. D. Jones
Lancaster
Congress
Clemson Ex-Students Prepare for Home-Coming
Clemson College announces a large ex-student home coming from August 27 to 21 with 1000 to 1200 expected. Dormitories dining hall and Memorial hall will host public exercises, and only ex-students will be registered or entertained during the event.
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Clemson College
Clemson
Riggs
Notes on Labor Organizations in South Carolina 1742 1861
The University of South Carolina issued a quarterly bulletin titled Notes on Labor Organizations in South Carolina 1742 1861 by Yates Snowden professor of history. It surveys trade associations in the pre revolutionary and antebellum eras and invites further archival study of gazette files and state papers.
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University
Office
The
South Carolina Historical Commission
Automobiles and Streetcar Collision Injures Two Women
Mrs H C Randolph and Mrs Paul Matthews were injured when their car stalled on a hill at Gregg and Gervais streets and was struck by a Columbia street railway work car. The vehicle crossed about 200 feet before stopping. Mrs Randolph was knocked unconscious after leaping from the car.
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Columbia
H. C. Randolph
Paul Matthews
Gregg and
Gervais Streets
Columbia Street Railway Company
Randolph
Matthews
McDavid Attends Annual Meeting of Thousand Club
Columbia report notes J. E. McDavid of Southern Life and Trust heads to Asheville for the Hundred Thousand Club gathering at Pinegrove Inn. It marks his fifth straight membership and inclusion in the Two Hundred Thousand Club. The Greensboro firm has invested $70,000 in Columbia since opening local offices.
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Columbia
J. E. McDavid
Southern Life and Trust Company of
Greensboro
Asheville
Hundred Thousand Club
Pinegrove Inn
McDavid
Two Hundred Thousand Club
Public Health Service Opens Pellagra Hospital in Spartanburg
After months of prep the Public Health Service opens a temporary pellagra hospital in Spartanburg with 25 beds and a six-member medical staff. A $47 000 emergency grant backs the effort as Congress considers a larger institute. the Robert M Thompson Pellagra Commission led by Col. Thomson studies 800 cases with 28 percent mortality. notable visitors include Dr Louis Sambon and Dr Simon Flexner.
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Spartanburg
Public Health Service
Congress
W. G. McAdoo
Secretary of the Treasury
Rupert Blue
R. H Herring
Robert M. Thompson
Medical Corps
United States Army and Navy
New York Post-Graduate School of Medicine
Siler
South
Louis W. Sambon
London School of Tropical Medicine
Simon Flexner
Rockefeller Institute
New York City
Farmers Institute at Yorkville outlines fertilizer advice
The Farmers Institute met in the graded school building with Jnc. R. Blair opening at 11. Prof. Harper from Clemson College, Paul H. Calvin, and Mr. McKeown spoke on fertilizer use and nitrogen producing crops. Harper urged reducing cotton and corn acreage and criticized potash purchases, recommending deep plowing to obtain it.
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Farmers’ Institute
Yorkville
Jnc. R. Blair
Harper
Clemson College
Paul H. Calvin
United States Department of Agriculture
McKeown
Rock Hill
Lake City Tobacco Market Sets State Daily Record
Lake City warehouses sold 490 315 pounds of farmers tobacco for 65 212 16 dollars in a single day. The big sale marked the largest one day total for any market in the state. Implied demand rose after Mr. Fulghum of Imperial Tobacco Co resumed buying following a two week absence.
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Lake City
Fulghum
Imperial Tobacco Company
First Bale at Fairfax Echoes Cotton Market Hope
A 530 pound bale of new cotton ginned at Fairfax for J. W. Williams was consigned to Pope and Fleming of Augusta Georgia to hold until market normalizes. Local cotton suffered rain damage but expected yield matches ten year average.
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Fairfax
J. W. Williams
Pope & Fleming
Augusta
Darlington Guards Plan Local Encampment at Big Springs
Company K of the Second Infantry N G S C recently left Darlington for a week at Big Springs. With no regular encampment this year the local company chose Big Springs for a self staged camp and secured a fine site near the spring from which the resort derives its name.
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Darlington
Second Infantry
Big Springs
Knoxville man kills neighbor in street shooting
Union resident John F. Faucett, a city mail carrier, shot and killed Will Eubanks near Pinckney and Academy streets. Eubanks was struck five times. Faucett surrendered after the incident. a coroner's jury previously exonerated him in a prior killing on his farm.
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Union
John F. Faucett
Will Eubanks
Pinckney
Academy Streets
Faucett
Euanks
Faucet
Japan Declares War on Germany and Mobilizes Far East
The Emperor of Japan has declared war on Germany signaling the start of hostilities in the Far East. Berlin has not replied to Japan's ultimatum as Kiao-Chow stands under siege and public celebrations mark the declaration.
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Japan
Berlin
Kiao-Chow
Tokio
Germany
Kiao Chow
Far East
Great Britain
Russia
Count von Rex
America
George W. Guthrie
Kaiserin Elizabeth
Tsing Tau
Austria
Foreign Office
Shan Tung
China
United States
Wilson
Allied Armies and Germans clash along twenty mile front
London reports a massive early phase of the war with fighting along the Namur Charleroi line. German dispatches claim 10 000 prisoners and 50 guns taken between Metz and Vosges while French forces oppose eight army corps. The British caution against premature expectations. The Eclair notes general Italian mobilization date set for August 27.
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London
Belgium
Alsace
Namur-Charleroi
Bavaria
Metz
Vosges
France and Britain Agree to Aid Belgium with 100 Million
A Paris dispatch via Havas reports France and Great Britain will advance Belgium 100 million dollars to meet wartime needs. Each country provides half of the sum.
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Belgium
London
Havas
Paris
France
Great Britain
Washington Reports Japan Declares War on Germany
Washington says Japan’s declaration of war on Germany has reached Berlin. The method of transmission by cable or wireless was not specified in official reports.
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Washington
Japan
Germany
Berlin
France and Britain Agree to Aid Belgium with 100 Million
The foreign office announced that France and Great Britain will advance to Belgium to help meet German demands, each contributing 50 million dollars for a total of 100 million. The plan aims to support Belgium in the face of aggression.
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Paris
Foreign Office
France
Great Britain
Belgium
Germany
Germans Advance from Brussels to Antwerp Amid War Tax
Brussels reports German forces push from Brussels toward Antwerp after occupying Aoest Wetteren and Mechlin as Belgian and French positions retreat. German cavalry screens precede a broader advance toward Ghent and Bruges with a wartime tax of 40 million dollars imposed on Brussels.
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London
Brussels
Antwerp
Ghent
Aoest
Wetteren
Gium
Mechlin
Malines
Brugies
Ostend
France
Belgium
German Cannons Captured Reported From French and Belgian Losses
Paris reports via The Paris Mafin that August battles yielded 24 Belgian cannon from Liege, 3 French at Margennes, 6 French at Othain, 12 French near Schirmeck, 12 Russian cannons at Stallapohenen and Gumbinnen, plus rapid-fire guns aeroplanes and 19 motor wagons seized.
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London
Paris
Exchange Telegraph Company
Liege
Margennes
Othain
Spincourt
Schirmeck
Alsace
New York Battles Severe Lightning Storm Headed Toward Night
A historic electrical storm left New York in darkness for about thirty minutes. One person died and about 2,000 bathers in a pavilion were thrown into panic when struck by lightning. Seven others were injured by a Broadway runaway incident.
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New York
Broadway
Italy Asks Explanation Over Austrian Arm Shipment
Rome reports Italy seeks a friendly explanation from Austria after a large shipment of Austrian arms landed at Medua in Albania on August 15. The Serb minister protested, charging Austria was arming Albanians against Serbia.
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Italy
London
Rome
Exchange Telegraph Company
Austria
Medua
Servia
French Defeat German Cavalry Near Basel
Paris dispatch reports French forces defeated a German cavalry detachment from Leopoldshoede and Heeningen near Basel. Germans retreated toward St. Louis leaving about 500 dead and wounded and many horses lost on the field.
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London
Paris
Leopoldshoede
Heeningen
Basel
St. Louis
Sugar price drop noted in local market report
San Francisco Sugar was quoted at seven dollars per hundredweight here, a reduction of fifty cents from the recent price, signaling a local market shift.
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San Francisco
Duras Reaches London After Brussels Briefing
American Vice Consul Victor H. Duras arrived in London after departing Liege a week earlier to file a report at Brussels with Brand Whitlock the American Minister to Belgium.
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London
Victor H. Duras
Liege
Belgium
Brussels
Brand Whitlock
Mobilization Order Calls Up All First Class Reservists
A Reuters dispatch from Amsterdam cites Vienna confirming a new mobilization order. The directive mobilizes all first class reservists, signaling heightened wartime readiness.
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London
Amsterdam
Reuters Telegram Company
Vienna
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