Avlies Gain Territory at Suvla Bay Front
A Reuters dispatch from London dated Aug 19 reports Allied forces near Suvla Bay have secured significant northern shore territory on the Gallipoli peninsula. The Irish division repulsed a Turkish assault on a hill near Suvla, heavy casualties noted, as Australian and New Zealand troops extend their line and gain water access and proximity to Turkish positions across the plain toward Anzac.
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London
Reuters Telegram Company
Dardanelles
Suvla Bay
Gulf of
Saros
Gaba Tepe
Proceeedings to recover Mexican schooner Isidoro in Pensacola
In Pensacola Florida on August 27 a libel was filed in U S district court to recover the Mexican schooner Isidoro now in port with war supplies. Salvador Alvarado governor of Yucatan acting through the Mexican navy commander claims Villa faction supporters seized the vessel and cargo. Court action followed treasury instructions to issue clearance papers. The schooner arrived from a Cuban port about two months ago with munitions and more supplies were taken off.
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Pensacola
Fla
Carranza
U. S
Isidoro
Salvador Alvarado
Yucatan
Villa
Collector of Customs
Treasury Department
Washington
Resinol Ointment and Soap Advertised for Babies
An old advertisement claims Resinol Ointment and Resinol Soap are gentle enough for babies skin troubles such as rash chafing and teething. It promises instant itching relief and speedy healing, noting doctors have prescribed the products for 20 years with free samples from Baltimore Maryland.
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Baltimore
AEX
Campaign to curb unnecessary noise urged by Civic league
Directors of the Civic Improvement league plan action against needless noise aiming for practical reductions. The American Civic association chairwoman Dr Imogene B Oakley spoke at the Washington convention urging public health laws to shield people from harmful noise while noting bells and street cries as avoidable disruptions. The local committee on unnecessary noises will push general legislation to curb such disturbances.
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Civic Improvement League
Quincy
National Civic Association
Imogene B. Oakley
Philadelphia
American Civic Association
Washington
Oakley
Clarence Blake
Boston
Committee On
Two girl and six boys among Chicago burglary rings
Chicago police report two separate gangs of underage burglars aged 15 to 17 arrested and confessing to scores of robberies. A 19 year old tutor Mary Hammersmith known as Baldheaded Mary is held, with two men charged as receivers Louis Berodin and Tony Mampine.
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Chicago
Cora Seidlick
Lillian
Seidlick
Mary “Hammersmith
Mary
Frank Carrion
Samuel Rice
Eugene Lanier
Eli Lapine
Philip Saratarri
Tony
Louis Berodin
Tony Mampine
CHUA WILL BUY SUBMARINE FLEET CHUA WILL BUY SUBMARINE FLEET
Financial circles in New York reported a rumor that the Chinese commission of naval experts in the United States seeks to purchase 100 submarines for 75 million dollars. It was said Charles M. Schwab of Bethlehem Steel was authorized by China to place orders with submarine builders and to oversee U S production of the naval program.
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New York
Chinese Commission of Naval Experts
Charles M. Schwab
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
McDonough County Struggles With Foot and Mouth Cases
McDonough County faces two new foot and mouth disease cases at farms of Joseph Wells and Charles Payne in Walnut Grove township, raising protests by farmers over threshing shutdowns and losses. They’ve hired attorneys, engaged Senator Compton to Springfield, and filed protests through Circuit Clerk Ford to push fumigation at sites instead of broad shutdowns.
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Heald
Compton
Springfield
Ford
Three Wight Riders Sentenced in Kentucky Murders
Hartford Kentucky August 27 three men admitted membership in a night rider band known as possum hunters that terrorized the region. Ephraim Reisinger a coal miner confessed to flogging Reuben Howard a merchant and his wife at Horton June 5. One man was acquitted yesterday and sixty six defendants await trial as Jerry Fulkerson and ten others face call next Tuesday for an attack on a Rockport negro settlement in April in which a person was killed. The grand jury remains in session.
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Hartford
Wester
Kentucky
Ephraim Reisinger
Reuben Howard
Horton
Jerry
Fulkerson
Rockport
Grand Circuit harness meet opens at Empire City park
New York August 28 Arrangements are complete for a five day Grand Circuit harness meeting at Empire City park with fast horses and substantial purses. The opening day features Lee Axworthy Peter Scott and Worthy Prince, the trio that finished first second and third in Detroit in the Merchants and Manufacturers stakes.
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New York
Empire City Park
Lee Axworthy
Peter Scott
Worthy Prince
Merchants and Manufacturers
Detroit
Police Detail for Peace Convention in Chicago
Chicago August 27. One hundred plain clothes policemen requested by J J Tobias chairman of Friends of Peace to preserve order at the society convention opening Sunday afternoon. Five thousand delegates expected. Plans to present petitions signed by half a million demanding an embargo on ammunition exports.
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Chicago
J. J. Tobias
Friends of Peace
May Postpone Advance on Petrograd
Petrograd reports weigh the likelihood of a German advance on the capital. The Reich notes the Russian retirement covers the approaches to Petrograd and expresses doubt that Germany could risk operations against Petrograd this autumn without undisputed control of the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Riga.
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Petrograd
London
Baltic Sea
Gulf of Riga
Collision in Colorado injures train riders near Idlewild
Colorado Springs reports an excursion train on the Colorado Midland crashed head on with a freight train at Idlewild, fifty miles west, injuring three seriously and leaving many others badly bruised or shaken up as darkness fell.
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Colorado
Clorado Springs
Colo
Colorado Midland
Idlewild
Arrest Arson Leader Nabbed in Portland
In Portland Oregon Sanford Currier named by police as head of an arson ring active in Seattle San Francisco Los Angeles and Portland was arrested today and jailed on twenty thousand dollars bail.
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Portland
Ore
Sanford
Currier
Seattle
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Taft Elected President of Unitarian Churches Meeting
In San Francisco on Aug 27, Howard Taft was elected president of the General Conference of Unitarian Churches during the 26th annual meeting. The session gathered leaders from across the denomination in a formal appointing event.
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Taft
San
Francisco
Wil
Howard Taft
General Conference of Unitarian Churches
Chicago woman Lillian Davis arrested for vagrancy
A young woman identified as Lillian Davis, claiming Chicago as her home, was arrested by Officers Ford and Maas near Sixth and Maine streets around midnight for vagrancy. She said she had no place to stay and was wandering the streets.
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Lillian. Davis
Chicago
Ford
Maas
Maine
Town Topics Notes on relatives sales and local happenings
The column lists Misses Ruby and Fiorri Kinsmann visiting relatives, Grant Stuart and H G Riggs traveling for business and leisure, Mrs P L Dickhut’s improved health after a western trip, a Gas Heater promotion, a Civic Improvement League display at the post office, a velvet ribbon sale, drainage work on the South Quincy district, and a bankruptcy-trustee sale of Kleckner millinery to Tisher and Ricker for 256 dollars at the Maine Street shop.
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Ruby
Fiorr Fiora Kinsmann
Iéave
Halbach-Schroeder Co
J. Grant Stuart
Broadway Bank
Montana
H. G "Riggs
P. L. Dickhut
Hampshire
South Quincy
Halbach- Schroeder Co
Civic Improvement League
Joseph Schwartz
L. E. Emons, Jr
Kleckner & ‘Kleckner
Joseph Tisher
Ricker
Emimons
United States District Court
Maine Street
Sixth
Two Men Bound Over For Brookfield Bank Robbery Plot
Bound over at Karksville Joe Horton and Otto McCarthish to the grand jury in Linn County Mo for a Wheeling bank robbery. Local police report received yesterday but offered no details on pleas or bond amounts.
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Karksville
Joe Horton
Otto McCarthish
Meiing
Wheeling
Brookfield
Linn County
New Government Boat Passes Up River to La Claire Indiana
A government steamer with a dredge boat and two barges passed Quincy yesterday afternoon en route to La Claire Indiana. The vessel La Claire, just completed at Grafton, is headed to the dam site at La Claire at the head of the Rock Island rapids.
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Quincey
Grafton
la Claire
Shipping facilities scarce at Aden warns US state department
Washington reports from Aden Arabia show merchants complain of limited shipping between Aden and the United States. Italian lines allegedly favor shipments to Italy, with no space for US cargo and freight and passenger rates up 100 percent and 33 1/3 percent respectively since before the war.
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Washington
State Department
Arabia
Department
Aden
America
Mer
Ness
United States
Italy
Railroad Experts Challenge Bankers Policy at Conference
Kansas City August meeting of the State Agricultural and Good Roads conference heard railroad agricultural experts condemn bankers policy as too lenient toward farmers. They argued banks should require farmers to use methods that protect borrowed capital and warned that farmer diffidence is hampering extension work, with one speaker noting reduced railroad farm extension efforts in the state.
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Kansas City
State Agricultural and Good Roads Conference
W. C. Gordon
Marshall
Missouri Bankers’ Association
Haiti Pact Ratification Seen As Likely Soon
Dispatches from Port au Prince report Haitien leaders under President D Artiguenave pledge support for the treaty to make Haiti a financial protectorate with American led police and customs administration. The plan includes deploying US officers from the Philippine constabulary to police the island if needed.
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Washington
State Department
Port Au
D'Artiguenave
United States
Haiti
War Department
Island
Miss Marie Daugherty Hosts Birthday Evening for William Smith
Miss Marie Daugherty of 1225 Elm street entertained a company of friends last evening for William Smith on the occasion of his twenty first birthday. An enjoyable evening was spent with guests including Hazel Wagner Ruth Eaton Helen Eaton Mamie Daugherty Maude Daugherty Carlerne Mohrenstecher William Smith Ben Kessel Irwin Lummis Lee Duncan Chas Little and Harry Lenane.
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Marie Daugherty
Elm Street
William Smith
Hazel Wagner Ruth
Helen ‘Eaton
Mamie
Maude Daugherty
Carlerne Mohrenstecher
Ben Kessel
Irwin Lummis
Lee Duncan
Chas, Little
Harry Lenane
Visitors Entertained in Chicago Hostess Ruth Githens
Mrs Ruth and Harry Githens at 1228 Vermont street hosted a party for fourteen friends last evening honoring Miss Gertrude Scheid and Glenn Smith of Chicago visiting here. Music, games, prizes to Grover Pfeiffer and Lewis. Out of town guests included Miss Réta Martin of Coatsburg and Mr Sanderson of Montana.
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Chicago
Ruth
Harry ‘Githens
Vermont Street
Gertrude Scheid
Glenn Smith
Grover Pfeiffer
Lewis
Réta Martin
Coatsburg
Sanderson
Montana
Allies Act in Harmony
London reports that Sergius Sazonoff, Russian foreign minister, has stated that the highest military authorities in Great Britain France and Russia are in full accord on strategy and that there has never been any disagreement among the high command.
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London
Petrograd
the Times
Sergius Sazonoff
Great Britain
France
Russia
Quincy Lads Scoré Hit-Lieut High King Letter Home
Quincy Lads Scoré High King receives a letter from his son Francis King serving with the Naval Reserves. The message reports the boys are well, left Chicago on the Isle De Luzon, traveling to Detroit then Buffalo for arrival around Monday or Tuesday. King and Christ credited for signaling skills learned in Boy Scouts, praised by older sailors for rapid proficiency.
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Quincy
High King
Francis King
Chicago
Isle de Luzon
Buffalo
Detroit
Young King
George Christ
King
Rave
Five Room House For Sale In Good Condition
For sale a five room house in good condition with cellar two cisterns a stable and sheds on a sixty foot lot. Easy terms. Inquiries welcome at Albright's Cigar Box Co phone 1689 J.
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Albright’s Cigar Box Co
For Rent Four Room Flat Near Park
Advertisement for a four room flat to rent near Washington Park with bath and gas and electric light. Inquire at Albright's Cigar Box Co. Phone 1639 J.
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Washington Park
Bath
Albright’s Cigar Box Co
Real estate transfers and chancery filing summary
Ison E Hampton and Myrtle Harvey transfer lots 6 and 7 block 7 Columbus to E M Harvey for 1500 dollars. Reuben H Baird transfers to Prank N Green and Lou Green and M P Carrott lot 3 block 5 Highland Quincy for 2000 dollars. Katherine Bross Eckert and John Klusmieyer, by master in chancery, to M I Carrott part lots 11 and 12 block 75 Woods Quincy for 989 dollars.
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Ison E
Hampton
Benjamin
Myrtle Harvey
Block
Columbus
Reuben H. Baird
Lou Green
M. P. Carrott
Highland
Quincy
Katherine Bross Eckert
John Klusmieyer
M. I. Carrott
Wood's
Lafayette area farms offer stock grain and fruit plots
Indiana land listings advertise 135 acres near town with 8 room brick house and improvements plus 400 acres in Tippecanoe County near Lafayette. Proximity to Purdue University noted. Prices from 125 per acre for large tracts to 5 500 for a 30 acre poultry and fruit farm. Also 20 acres on interurban line and other small farms. Written inquiry requested.
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Indiana
Pike Teads University
Tippecanoé Ca
Court- House
LaFayette
R. R
M. R
Doran
Ind
Italian Army Briefing Reports August 25 Advances in Alps
Official Italian army statement dated August 27 describes operations on August 25 in the Adamelio range Tonale plateau Vedetta De Pasagna pass Lagdscuro and Corno Di Bedole. Troops gained peaks despite strong enemy resistance and bombarded Riva Borgo Arab ia and Cherz as movements continued with artillery exchanges along the upper Cordevole and hospital at Pieve Di Livinal longo damaged.
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Adamelio Range
Tonale
Monticello
Vedetta
de Pasagna
Lagdscuro -Pass
Corno di Bedole
Val Sugana
Borgo
Pieve di Livinallongo
Arabia
Cherz
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Ohio
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