Edison to head civilian inventors advisory bureau
Thomas A Edison has accepted Secretary Daniels invitation to lead an advisory board of civilian inventors for a navy bureau of invention and development. The plan aims to organize a department to evaluate and develop new devices, including submarine warfare innovations, using Edison’s renowned problem solving to meet wartime needs. Daniels emphasizes leveraging American ingenuity to drive practical, experimental work across military and civilian inventors.
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West
Orange
N. J
Thomas A. _Edison
Daniels
Bureau of Invention and Development
Navy Department
Washington
Mr. Daniels
Mr. Edison
Department of Invention and Development
Navy
Miost
United States
Lawson Denied New Trial In Colorado Mine Collision Case
John R. Lawson of the United Mine Workers faced rejection of his request for a new trial in the murder in the first degree case of deputy sheriff Nimmo. Judge Granby Tillyer ruled July 12 that the trial was fair and that no retrial was warranted. Lawson, escorted by the sheriff and local union officials, declared the denial a challenge to protest per Principles of workers amid the Ludlow incident.
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Trinidad
Colo
Granby
Tillyer
John Nimmo
Ludlow
John R. Lawson
United Mine Workers’ of America
Colorado
Lawson
Hillyer
Edison calls for civilian board to evaluate American ideas
West Orange New Jersey Edison announced he would gladly accept Secretary Daniels invitation to form a civilian advisory board. He urged assembling engineers from leading industries to assess feasibility of ideas by young Americans, especially military officers, to accelerate invention and development during wartime.
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West Orange
N. J
Daniels
Edison
Europe
Army
United States
Supreme Court Weighs Motion to Bar Judge in Coal Mine Strike Trials
The Colorado Supreme Court today took under advisement a writ barring Judge Granby Hillyer from presiding over the trial of three former coal mine strikers at Walsenburg. Attorneys for United Mine Workers defend the request, while the attorney general opposes. The proceedings cite alleged prejudice due to the judge's past employment with coal operators and associated figures, including Rockefellers. The defense asserts bias and questions the judge’s ability to render a fair trial.
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Denver
Cole
State Supreme Court Today
Horace N. Hawkins
A. M. Belcher
United ‘Mine Workers of America
Granby Hillyer
Third Judicial District
Walsenburg
Farrar
Norton Montgomery
Hillyer
John R. Lawson
Colorado
Rockefellers
Supreme Court of Colorado
Cemetery Scene of Fighting on Western Front Deepens
London reports on renewed heavy combat on the western front with German forces pushing to seize the Souchez cemetery near Arras and Lens. French and British lines endure bombardment and hand to hand fighting amid shifting positions as Allied efforts to regain ground continue amid broader European war activity and uncertain pauses.
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London
Souchez
Arras
Lens
Lille
France
Belgium
Ypres
Poland
Galicia
Warsaw
Konigsberg
East Africa
Austria
Vienna
Floods Kill Many in China Provinces of Kwangtung and Kwangsi
Washington reports unprecedented floods in the Chinese provinces of Kwangtung and Kwangsi causing widespread distress and loss of life. Shameen island in Canton flooded two to three feet. trade and rail traffic halted. Red Cross and Christian Herald urged to aid. $1,000 telegraphed from Secretary Lansing to Canton for flood relief.
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Washington
Kwangtung
Kwangai
China
State Department
Chesshire
Canton
Kwangsh
Red Cross
Christian Herald
Shameen
Mabel Boardman
Red Cross Relief Committee
Lansing
State’ Department
Prominent Editor Blethen Dies in Seattle at 69
Col Alden J Blethen longtime editor publisher of the Seattle Times has died at his home in Seattle at age 69 after months of poor health and a two month bed confinement. His death had been expected hourly for the last week.
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Seattle
Col
Alden J. Blethen
Seattle Times
Pacific Northwest
Col. Blethen
Strike Ends as Carpenters Return to Work in Chicago
Ten thousand carpenters who had been on strike since May 1 return to work in Chicago. Labor leaders say the remaining 600 strikers will be back by Wednesday. About fifty thousand other building workers affected by the carpenters strike resume labor as well.
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Chicago
Treasury official worries over omnibus appropriations case
Springfield July 12. State Treasurer Andrew Russell said a motion to refile Munro suits challenging omnibus appropriations would be heard at the current Sangamon county term if the attorney general approves. He pledged to pay warranted appropriations, but hold up salaries and other state officer lists listed as in doubt by the omnibus bill. He noted that many named in the suit are not state officers but department employees.
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Springfield
Ill
Fayette B. Munro
Highland Park
Forty- Ninth General Assembly
Andrew Russel
Munro
Lucey
Migh
Russel
Circuit Court of
Sangamon County
State ‘Treasurer
Sagaméon County
Supreme Court
Board of
Munroe
Dispatch Confirms Capture and Carranza Advances
Dispatches to Carranza authorities in Nuevo Laredo report fighting around Mexico City triggered a capital panic. Zapata troops evacuated as General Gonzalez Carranza forces moved in. Carranza cabinet ordered to Vera Cruz to Mexico City to speed government setup amid several recent town seizures in Coahuila and nearby states.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Carranga
Villa
Paredon
Monterey
Coahuila
Las Vacas
del Rio
Texas
Hermans
Monclova
Co. Paredon
Saltillo
Carranza
United States
Hermanas
Choctaw Steamer Lost in Lake Huron Fog
The Cleveland steamer Choctaw was wrecked in dense fog off Presque Isle Lake Huron Sunday night. Sixteen crewmen are believed drowned. James H. Reed of the Reed reported finding wreckage but no survivors. Oil barrels indicated a possible collision with an oil freighter. The Choctaw and coal cargo were valued at $100,000.
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Presque
Tsle
Lake Huron
Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company
Sault’ Ste Marie
Mich
James H. Reed
Bor Brown
Reed
Fie
Romania given month to accept territorial offer
London July 13 Roma nia has been given a month to accept or reject an offer of territorial compensation for active military assistance or neutrality, according to the Times Balkan correspondent. A note presented at Bucharest on August eighth proposed cession of Bukowina with the Sereth river as northern boundary and concessions to Romanian inhabitants, including a university at Brasso Kronstadt.
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London
Romania
Times
Balkan
Sofia
Bucharest
Rumania
Bukowina
Sereth
Tyer
Brasso
Kronstadt
Quarantine Lifted Across Nebraska and Iowa
The Nebraska Live Stock Sanitary Board lifted the statewide quarantine, ending the foot and mouth disease restrictions. Colorado had earlier raised its quarantine against Nebraska and Iowa, prompting the change during the board’s meeting in Lincoln.
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Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska
Towa
Colorado
Civil War Veteran Henry J Turner Dies in Chicago
Henry J Turner a Civil and Spanish War veteran and former commander of the First Regiment I N G and a prominent resident of Chicago died suddenly at his residence this evening. Apoplexy, from which he had suffered since stimulant during the Spanish War, was the cause of death.
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Chicago
Henry J. Turner
Puomger
Stunstinad
Konigsberg Cruiser Wrecked After British River Action
The German cruiser Konigsberg, sheltering in the Rufiji river in German East Africa, was heavily engaged by British two revolver monitors Severn and Mersey. Four sailors killed and six wounded as the vessel suffered extensive damage and was finally total wreck.
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London
Admiralty
Konigsberg
East Africa
Rufiji River
Severn
Eric Fullerton
Robert A. Wilson
Cape
H. King Hall
Mersey
New German Giant Aircraft Reported by Daily Mail
Basel correspondent says the German army aircraft department finished six giant triplane airplanes. Each carries twenty men, mounts four machine guns, and has eight motors with four propellers. The machines represent a new type and are described in the Daily Mail from London dated July 18.
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London
Aircraft Department
Daily Mail
Basel
Britain to Follow U S Lead on Mexico Government
Washington July 12 Great Britain plans to follow the United States in recognizing a government in Mexico. Miguel Diaz Lombardo Villa faction foreign minister briefed British ambassador Sir Cecil Spring Rice in a conference tonight on the policy.
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Washington
Great Britain
United States
Mexico
Miguel
Diaz Lombardo
Villa
Cecil Spring-Rice
Death sentence on two men for Bulgaria king plot
London reports the death sentence was imposed on two men charged with attempting to assassinate King Ferdinand of Bulgaria. The Sofia correspondent notes it is the first London news of such an attempted royal assassination.
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London
Ferdinand of
Bulgaria
Daily Mail
Sofia
Bedford hearing ties 1860s killings to Hedrick and Smith cases
In Clarinda Iowa and Bedford Indiana area news a widow Margaret J Pease recounts killings by Taylor county outlaws in 1865-1868 linking her father William Hedrick and Nathaniel Smith cattleman to a gang that left a belt with a note and cash. Attorney Bullman arrives with witness Porter as hearings proceed despite rain.
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Clarinda
Bullman
Miam Collins Porter
Bedford
William’ Hedrick
Pease
Smith
Stockman
Hedford murder case tied to earlier Des Moines killings
W W Buchman special attorney in the Hedford murder case said the Des Moines Peace of Des Moines murders are not the ones he works on, though believed to be by the same gang. He noted Hedrick and his campaigns were killed about three years before Nathaniel Smith and his son, before Jonathan Dark joined the gang.
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Des Moines
Taylor County
Nathaniel Smith
Bedford
Margaret J. Pease
William Hedrick
Collins
Colen
Harmon
Smith
Hedrick
Westboro
George Hedrick
Western
Hawaii
Oo, Ao
Pease
Tate
Villisca
W. W.buchman
Hedford
Mra M
Peace of
Land Is Segregated in New South Wales War Settlement
Sydney report states the New South Wales government has allocated 25 000 acres of wheat land for irrigation and a further 250 000 acres of irrigation settlement by soldiers during the war.
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Aus
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