Fire boat aids steamer racing for alspax
A fire boat moved to assist the steamer named Alspax which had raced to a location, with the vessel needing help after the incident.
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Alspax
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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1915
Page
8
Fire breaks out aboard Minnehaha near Halifax
Fire reoccurs in No 3 hold of the British steamer Minnehaha causing hatch battening and heavy water jets. Two of 200 horses perish. explosion likely from a time bomb or spontaneous combustion amid whiskey and explosives cargo. Fire crept to stern as fire boat and sailors fought the blaze at quarantine.
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Halifax
Frank Holt
Holt
Searmen
Universalist convention elects Worcester as next meeting city
Pasadena July 10 universalist general convention elected officers today and chose Worcester Massachusetts as the site for the next annual gathering. It passed a resolution urging President Wilson to establish a neutral national form a board of mediation to settle the European war.
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Pasadena
Cal
Universalist_ general convention
Worcester
Mass
Wilson
War notes and naval moves reported worldwide
An editorial note from Washington Berlin reports withheld official reactions while European warfare continues. German submarines sink additional merchant ships, and a British submarine is said to have sunk a German battleship in the Baltic. Austrian Hungarian forces concentrate at Sarajevo and Semlin as Serbian threats arise along the Danube Save.
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Cornish
Washington
Berlin
Lorian Naval
Baltic
Ras
Pomme
Rome
Adraitic
Vithe
Nish
Serbia
Danube
Austria
Hungary
Sarajevo
Semlin
Herzegovina
Russians ask armistice to bury dead on Bukowina front
London reports that Soviet forces sought a four hour armistice to bury dead after heavy losses on the Bukowina front and along the Dniester. Russians faced severe Austrian artillery, retirement occurred at several points beyond the river.
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Czernowitz
London
Bukowina
Dniester
Bombs found aboard Kirkoswald sugar cargo in New York
Nine dynamite bombs concealed in the British steamer Kirkoswald’s sugar cargo were found discharging at Marseilles bound schedules. Officers report bombs fitted with time devices to explode at sea. Possible connection to Frank Holt, Morgan case associate, cited as suspect. Vessel sailed from New York five days before the Lusitania sinking.
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York
Kirkoswald
New, York
Marseilles
Frank Holt
J. P. Morgan
Fabre’ Line
New York
Lusitania
Lift embargo on raw hides and French flour trade
Paris dispatches report France offers to lift the raw hides embargo in return for American feather goods to support military needs. The plan could release a large quantity of hides for U.S. manufacture amid cattle slaughter in France. France also seeks American wheat flour for civilian bakers, with government purchases and rebates.
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Washington
France
Adwces
Paris
Editorial Comments on German Note in War Be Retrieved
A compilation of editorials from several papers reacting to Germany's note to the United States over the Lusitania and submarine warfare. The pieces debate whether the note satisfies neutral rights, warn against bargaining, and call for firm American stance to deter further aggression. Names of city papers from Boston Buffalo Cincinnati Springfield Louisville Baltimore and others appear in the quotes.
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United States
Cincinnati
Volesblatt
Germany
Ohio ‘State, Journal
Columbus, . C
Wilson
Boston
Herald
Buffalo
Springfield
Mass
Lusitania
Washington
Louis City
Baltimore
Berlin
Louisville Courier
Tornado Strikes Decatur Farms Wrecks Barns
A small tornado northwest of Decatur Illinois at noon injured one man likely fatally as a tree fell on L Provost in an orchard. Another man was carried a block into a ditch but unconscious yet unharmed otherwise. Barns and outbuildings were destroyed and debris blown for miles. Crops damaged with corn flattened across fields.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur
L. Provost
Forecast of multiple storms and heat waves across July
Washington reports indicate a series of warm and cool waves crossing the continent from July 9 to 21. Forecasters warn of dangerous storms, hottest weather on the Pacific slope mid month, and potential frosts in elevated eastern areas. Stay alert for warm wave locations and lows via newspaper updates.
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Washington
D. C
Pacific Coast
Pacific Slope
Great Central Valleys
Pacific
Great Central
Tral Valleys
Meridian 90
Serbia votes war measure amid drive for arms
A Messaggero dispatch from Paris notes Serbia received war material and the national assembly voted a 50 million dollar credit to sustain military operations. Sanitary conditions are improving though typhus caused many deaths. Recruits on furlough are recalled, and Belgrade plans an offensive along the Danube-Sava corridor with Austro-Hungarian troops massed at Sarajevo and Zeilin. The crown prince joins the general staff and Montenegro pledges to march with allies into Serboia.
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Rome
Paris
Messaggero
Serbia
National Assembly
Col ‘Ors
War Council Held Regently Geneva Dispatch
Geneva wire reports Austrians and Italians consolidating positions near Laibach with another war council held there. Since the war began 1,800 Slavs and 5,300 Italians have deserted to Italian forces, about 100 civilians shot as spies since June. Russians and Teutons entrench while Austrian forces move to the Lublin front. Russians claim a victory at Jaroslau.
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Geneva
Paris
Laibach
Austria
Geneva Tribune
Innsbruck
the Tribune
Lublin
Jaroslau
Becker's Chances Gone in Becker Case
Becket's life hung by a thread as Justice Hughes declined to grant a writ of error to Bourke Cochran chief counsel for the condemned man Becker. The denial implies Becker will die in Sing Sing's electric chair on July 26 for the murder of Herman Rosenthal. Cochran had argued constitutional rights violated in a second Rosenthal trial but the court found no substantial federal question.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rangely
Maine
Charles Becker
Charles E. Hughes
United States ‘Supreme Court
Hughes
Bourke Cochran
Yman
Becker
Sing Sing
Herman’ Rosenthal
New York
Cochran
Rosenthal
Statewide push for stricter game and fish law enforcement
Early indications show the state will enforce game and fish laws more rigorously this year. Wardens promise strict adherence if amendments pass, with fast boats suspected for catching violators. The trammel net is barred in Illinois waters after a bitter sportsmen fight, while shooting young rabbits remains prohibited. Local deputies and officials report ongoing investigations and readiness to enforce rules across Springfield and Peoria regions.
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Daist
Fish Department
Tlinois
Alton
Springfield
Peoria
Bountia
Miners Strike In Pineville Kyr Workers Walkout By Hundreds
In Pineville Kentucky a large group of miners staged a work stoppage at coal mines operated by a rival company. The strike involved hundreds of workers and arose after a reported significant wage increase demand.
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Pineville
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Emerson Residence
Emerson
Quincy Gas, Electric & Heating Co
Han Ae
Foster
Servia
Murphysboro
John Pritchard
Butler
WAR Council
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