Boy says detectives nabbed by two confidence men
Orin Wheeler, 19, of 2840 Dalton Street, told police he was arrested by two impersonating detectives while en route to deposit $8,542 for Swift & Company. The men lured him off a Broadway car at Elm Street toward the Central police station, then fled when Wheeler raised an alarm.
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ST. Louis
Orin Wheeler
Dalton Street
Swift & Company, Packers
Broadway
Elm Street
Central Police Station
Wheeler
Britishers Take Office After Cabinet Shake Up
Sir Eric Geddes who once worked on an American railroad is named first lord of the admiralty in a cabinet shake up. Winston Churchill returns as minister of munitions while Edwin Samuel Montagu, a Jew, becomes secretary for India after Austin Chamberlain is ousted for Mesopotamia campaign failure.
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Eric Geddes
England
Admiralty
Winston Churchill
Antwerp
Gallipoli
Edwin Samuel Montagu
India
Austin Chamberlain
Mesopotamia
Complete quiet after Petrograd riot restores cabinet plan
Washington reports complete quiet in Petrograd and plans for cabinet reconstruction along prior party lines are underway. Dispatches cite 56 killed or dead and 850 wounded from three days of disorders.
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Washington
Petrograd
Red Cross rushes comfort kits for Pershing’s forces
Washington July 21 hurried orders sent thousands of comfort kits from New York Philadelphia and Baltimore to Red Cross headquarters. The kits were requested by the war department for General Pershing's troops in France. Pershing thanked the savers saying the gifts show the home front support and boost morale. The kits include writing paper tobacco knives and other items as Red Cross teams prepare more for the front.
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Washington
Red Cross
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Red Cross War Council
War Department
General Pershing
France
Pershing
Bar Visitors From U. S. Mint
Philadelphia July 21 visitors barred at the United States mint due to war conditions. Only persons with special business may enter as the mint handles heavy demand for smaller coins and gold and remains unusually busy due to war needs.
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U. S. Mint
Philadelphia
United States Mint
Majority measure adopted in German Reichstag vote
COPENHAGEN July 21 The German reichstag adopted the majority peace resolution by 214 to 116 with 17 not voting. Dr Michaelis said Germany would not prolong the war for an honorable peace and warned intervention would not disturb Germany’s aims. The Reichstag later voted for a war credit of 15 billion marks, with independents among the minority.
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Copenhagen
Reichstag
Michaelis
Germany
America
Hearl
Germany seeks a peaceful purified may Germany to rise
In a Reichstag address Chancellor Michaelis speaks of a morally purified Germany, aims to avoid world conquest and tyranny, and pledges to fight for a strong peaceful nation through a dangerous sea voyage from Copenhagen on July 21.
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Michaelis
Germany
Copenhagen
Reichstag
Fears Disease Spread by Immigrants in New York Warning
The Treasury Department seeks legislation to grant the Public Health Service quarantine authority at the Port of New York. The move aims to prevent importing infectious diseases via immigration after a Senate amendment funding quarantine property was removed from a civil appropriation bill. Currently, all ports of entry except New York and Baltimore are under Public Health Service control.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Congress
Public Health Service
New York
Senate
Pubolic Health Service
Baltimore
Flyer sinks U boat and wrecks Zeppelin heroics noted
Hamilton Ont July 21 Lieut Basil D Hooks of the Royal Flying Corps won a letter of congratulation from Admiral Jellicoe and recommendation for the Victoria Cross for destroying a German submarine singlehanded and then attacking a Zeppelin. In a sea plane he swooped down and dropped bombs until both targets sank and the airship burned with its crew killed.
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Hamilton
Basil D. Hooks
Royal Flying Corps
Admiral Jellicoe
Germans repatriate incapacitated French in 1000 daily return
French men women and children under eighteen and over fifty unable to work are being repatriated by Germans via Switzerland to France from occupied northern areas at about 1000 a day. Thousands in pitiful condition have arrived at Evian les Bains on Lake Geneva where accommodations are inadequate.
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London
Switzerland
France
Belgian Relief Commission
Evian-les-Bains
Lake Eneva
Power Behind the Kaiser Vitt von Ludendorff as quartermaster general
General von Ludendorff is described as the power behind the Kaiser and the German military, with consultations on major political moves alongside General von Hindenburg. He masterminded the East Prussia strategy that boosted Hindenburg’s war leadership, with insiders calling Ludendorff the real backbone of the campaign.
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von Ludendorff
General von Hindenburg
Germany
von Hindenburg
East Prussia
Goethals May Ask Release From Duties
Washington July 21 the ship building row showed evidence of important developments beneath the surface. Reports persisted that Major General Goethals, manager of the fleet corporation, had asked President Wilson to relieve him of duties. Goethals declined to discuss the reports, while the White House said Wilson knew nothing about them. Chairman Denman and the shipping board said differences with Goethals were rapidly clearing.
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Washington
Surace
Gen. Goethals
Fleet Corporation
Wilson
White House
Denman
Shipping Board
Gen. Goethal
Premier Lyoff resigns. Kerensky named new premier
Say Premier Lyoff resigns and Alexander F. Kerensky appointed premier while temporarily keeping war and marine portfolio. M. Tzeretelli named minister of the interior. M. Nekrazoff provisional minister of justice. M. Pereveizeff resigns. deputy M. Looff replaced?
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Petrograd
Burse Gazette
Lyoff
Alexander F. Kerensky
War and Marine
M. Tzeretelli
Interior
M. Looff
Posts and Telegraphs
M. Nekrazoff
Justice
M. Pereveizeff
To Call Up Air Measure
Senator Chamberlin, chairman of the senate military affairs committee, said the $610,000,000 aviation bill would be placed before the senate again Monday and probably passed before adjournment. Leaders said no filibuster or obstructive tactics are planned, though several senators oppose the draft provision for aviation service.
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Washington
Chamberlin
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Senate
British Royals Attend Carisbrooke Wedding at St James
London July 21 Prince Alexander of Battenburg now marquis of Carisbrooke wed Lady Irene Denison at St James Palace chapel. King Queen and royal family members attended the ceremony. The bride is daughter of the Earl of Londesborough. the groom is a son of Princess Beatrice.
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London
Marquis of
Carisbrooke
Prince Alexander of
Conscience Money Goes To Grant County School Fund
Morton McRae auditor of Grant county in Marion Indiana received $10 from a conscience struck donor. An unsigned note explains the money belongs to the common school fund and was the result of an error by a former auditor. The donor requests the funds be directed to the school fund.
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Marion
Ind
Morton McRae
Grant County
First World War Draft Lottery Drawn in Washington
Secretar y Baker presided as the selective draft began with 10 o'clock muster and ended at 2 18 a m the next day a blank was drawn among 10500 numbers 258 was the first call and 4380 men summoned figures show about 1 000 000 represented in the first 1000 numbers 687 000 will be called for training across 16 cantonments with 1 374 600 to stand for examination final records to be mailed to local boards.
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Washington
War Army
Senate
Baker
House
Crowder
George E. Chamberlain
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Herbert Dent
Alabama
House Military Affairs Committee
Francis Warren
Wyoming
Julius Kahn
California
Bliss
McCain
John H. B. Philips
Pittsburgh
Wilson
War Department
National Guard
National Army
British Women Building Army Huts At Front
British troops cut food waste by 15 percent as supply depots curb excess. Women extend into clerical and frontline tasks, with 600 young carpenters building semi cylindrical Canadian huts under women lieutenants.
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England
Bee swarm stings farmer in Huntington incident
Huntington Ind July 21 Eagle Wampner a farmer is nursing a sore swollen head after a swarm of bees settled on his head and shoulders as he climbed a binder. Ross Kaufman, owner of the farm, rescued him and counted the stingers pulled from his head and shoulders.
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Huntington
Ind
Eigle Wampner
Ross Kaufman
Kaufman
Wampner
Tragic double tragedy in Fort Wayne quarrel ends in murder suicide
In Fort Wayne on July 21 George Cooper, 34, colored, shot and killed Dorothy Quawn, 30, colored, during a quarrel and then killed himself. The two had been living together.
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FT. Wayne
Ind
George Cooper
Dorothy Quawn
Canadian Troops Praised During Governors Island Visit
Major General Bell praised the Canadian Highlanders and their band during a visit to Governors Island as part of British recruiting week. The Highlanders under Lieutenant Colonel Guthrie were escorted by U S troops to parade grounds for a review, then marched through Wall Street and Broad Street receiving an ovation.
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New York
Franklin Bell
Canadian Highlanders
Kittie’ Band
Governors Island
Bell
Canada
Guthrie
United States
Wall and
Broad Streets
Financial District
New Newspaper Law Upheld by Ohio Court of Appeals
In Columbus on July 21 the circuit court of appeals upheld the constitutionality of Ohio’s newspaper act allowing papers to publish public records without damages. Samuel Heimlick, a Cleveland lawyer, sued Dispatch Printing for 10000 over an arrest report for perjury tied to referendum petitions on the Wames tax law, but the verdict favored the Dispatch.
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Columbus
Ohio
Circuit Court of Appeals
Samuel Heimlick
Dispatch Printing Company
Heimlick
Cleveland
Dispatch
Army Buys Gained Goods for Army Navy Supplies
The Public Information Committee announced contracts for 500000 cases of canned peas needed for the coming year. Hoover and Quartermaster General Sharpe outlined government needs to cannery representatives, with contracts distributed among firms near army and navy depots.
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Washington
Army
Navy
Public Information Committee
Herbert C. Hoover
Quartemaster
Sharpe
Defense Council
Wilson nominates Morris ambassador to Japan
Washington July 21 Roland S Morris of Philadelphia was nominated by President Wilson as ambassador to Japan.
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Washington
Roland S. Morris
Philadelphia
Wilson
Japan
Three French Merchant Vessels Sink After Submarine Attack
Paris reports that last week three French merchant ships over 1600 tons and two under 1600 tons were sunk by a submarine attack. The weekly official statement also notes four French merchantmen were unsuccessfully attacked.
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Paris
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