Chautauqua Fee Free Sherman Maintains Public Service
Illinois Senator Lawrence Sherman travels the chautauqua circuit without charging fees for speeches. Officials estimate potential earnings at up to 15000 or more if he billed at common rates, yet he insists public duties deserve paid-free messaging. He says a public official should deliver messages gratis and continues his summer schedule with no honoraria while traveling and campaigning.
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Lawrence Y. Sherman
Illiois
Williamennings Bryan
A. Lyceum
Bureau
Illinois
Republican
Sherman
Chicago Herald
Agent Investigates Recruiting Charge in Colorado
Roy O Sampson of the United States department of justice said he is conducting a general investigation into secret recruiting agents linked to Venustiano Carranza Francisco Villa and Victoriana Huerta in southern Colorado. He stated no recruits or ammunition shipments have been confirmed yet.
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Trinidad
Colo
Roy O Sampson
United States Department of Justice
Venustiano Carranza
Francisco Villa
Victoriana Huerta
Colorado
Mexico
Sampson
Danville clerk re arrested on larceny charges after safe is checked
Danville Illinois July 22 Morton Hain a registry clerk at the Danville post office who had been free on a 5000 bond on embezzlement charges was rearrested on a larceny charge after forcing his safe and finding no funds. Postmaster G R Tillin says an investigation should reveal a shortage around 600 in his accounts.
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Danville, Ill
Morton Hain
Danville
Dennis
Hain
G. R. Tillin
Fighting in mountains sues for Gorizia defense
UDINE Italy July 22 The battle of Gorizia and the Carso plateau grows larger as Italian forces attack Podgora Sabotino and other heights dominating Gorizia while an Italian contingent holds Plava despite Austrian assaults Monte Santo remains under pressure. Podgora top bears five forts and long range guns reach Cormons. trenches are crisscrossed with sliding armored shutters and cement walls disrupt Italian gains.
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Udine
Italy
Paris
Gorizia
Carso Plateau
Gradisca
Cormons
Podgora
Sabotino
Isonzo
Plava
Monte Santo
Improvement in condition of Leo M. Frank announced
Gai July 22 reports show marked improvement in Leo M. Frank's condition at the Georgia state farm. Physicians say no further bulletins will be issued unless there is a change for the worse. Inflammation from the knife wound in his throat has decreased materially and his temperature is near normal. He has received many letters and telegrams of sympathy from across the country.
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Milledgeville
Gai
Leo M. Frank
Georgia State Farm
Frank
Spirit of Revenge Made Him Informer in Bribery Trial
In Chicago on July 29, Christian B. Bertsche testified that revenge drove him to become an informer during the bribery trial of former Detective Sergeants Walter O'Brien and William Egan. He claimed city detectives shot him last fall, and he was a fixer for the clairvoyant trust under cross examination.
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Chicago
Christian B. Bertsche
Walter O'Brien
William Egan
Clairvoyant Trust
Air battles amid war theater captivate observers
Berlin reports that air battles between flying machines and submarines have been rare but spectacular. The duels are not common, yet their dramatic nature tests the iron nerve of participants, a quality beyond ordinary men.
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Berlin
Lost Hands in Arctic Sufferings of Norwegian Explorer Koren
NOME July 22 Johann Koren a Norwegian naturalist serving the Smithsonian suffered the loss of both hands from freezing during a Siberian Arctic expedition. From the steamer Corwin returning from a walrus hunt off Siberian coast the report notes Russian crew on the Kolyma stressed by scurvy with two deaths. Koren wrecked near Cape Serge in 1912 while collecting for Harvard museum and after harrowing trials crossed the Bering Strait to Alaska arriving in Nome March 1913. his hands and feet were severely frozen.
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Nome
Johann
Koren
Arctic
Smithsonian Institute
Kolyma River
Siberia
Corwin
Siberian
Johann, Koren
Kittewake
Cape Serge
John E. Thayer
Lancaster
Mass
Harvard Museum
Bering Strait
Alaska
War Notes From The Eastern Front In 24 Hour Review
An optimistic Vienna Berlin briefing notes large eastern operations in Poland and Russia with battles described as desperate. Russians fall back but resist near Blonie Nadaryzn Ivanogrod while Von Woyrsch’s forces invest Ivanogrod forts. Mackensen and Archduke Ferdinand push on between the Vistula and Bug as Austro Italian action grows fiercer.
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Vienna
Berlin
Poland
Petrograd
Blonie-Nadarzyn
Ivangorod
von W. ‘Oyrsch
Bug
Vistula
Lublin
Pfeld
von Mackensen
Joseph
Ferdinand
Gorizia
France
Belgium
Peasants Help Aviators Hide Behind German Lines
In a Niemen front dispatch dated July 22 from Petrograd two Russian aviators reconnoitered German positions then crash landed behind enemy trenches. They dressed as peasant women with improvised blouses skirts and baskets after villagers aided them to destroy their aircraft and walk unseen through German lines.
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Petrograd
Niemen Front
Bottling Up Villa in Nogales as Border Tension Rises
Americans at Calles' headquarters report General P. Elias Calles aims to bottle up Jose Maytorena Villa and about four thousand troops in Nogales to avoid straining border relations with the United States. Cananea also cited as context.
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Nogales
Ariz
P. Elias
Calles
Carranza
Sonora
Josep Maytorena Villa
Nagles
United States
Cananea
Segregation as a Solution Sparks Debate at Purity Congress
Walter J. Petersen former Oakland police chief urged segregation as a solution to urban social issues before International Purity congress delegates in San Francisco. He was interrupted for five minutes and applauded as his remarks ended, while B S Steadwell and several delegates opposed segregation as a false solution to the social evil problem.
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San Francisco
Walter J. Petersen
Oakland
B. S. Steadwell
Congress
Government Faces Trouble Over Navy Yard Pay
Washington July 22 President Wilson began weighing a request from machinists at the Washington navy yard to raise their wages over Secretary Daniels’ objection. A wage board meets in December and officials see a low chance of a strike though some workers may pursue private plant employment. a decision is expected tomorrow.
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Washington
Wilson
Washington Navy Yard
Daniels
Navy
Poor Week for the Submarines
London reports a quiet week for British waters as German submarines failed to sink any British merchant ships or fishing vessels. No American shipping incidents occurred this week, marking the first time since the war began with no submarines, cruisers, or mines causing losses. During the week 1,326 vessels over 300 tons arrived at or departed from UK ports.
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London
United Kingdom
Eight Hour Day Planned At Amunition Plant
New York July 22 Workers at the Buss & Co Brooklyn plant making war munitions will receive an eight hour day starting August 1 James W Lane an officer of the firm announced tonight An agent of the International Association of Machinists had threatened a strike at the Bliss factory Bridgeport unless the eight hour day is granted The company reportedly employs about 2000 men and the note mentions a related labor action in Bridgeport.
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New York
Brooklyn
James W. Lane
International Association’ of Machinists
Bridgeport
Bliss
Mrs Oglesby Improved After Restless Day
Mrs Richard Oglesby widow of the former governor showed slight improvement tonight after a day of restlessness. When her condition allows she will be moved to a Chicago hospital for an operation.
Local Halbach Schroeder ads and Quincy items mix
A dense ир assortment of small notices includes Halbach Schroeder Co. sales on wash goods gowns and negligee shirts, Chautauqua season ticket offers, a ship to Louisiana, Mo. from Sidney, Ohio, and local visits by Mrs. E J Barger, Miss Mary Dirigo, and Grace McWilliams.
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Amoskeiggingham
Halbach-Schtroeder Co
E. J. Barger
Carthage
Quincy
Herbert Harkness
State Street
Twenty-fourth Street
Halbach-Schroeder Co
Halbach- Schroeder Co
Babe LeMessurier
Dougherty
Clayton
Ben Vasen
California
Ress, Halbach- Schroeder Co
Vernon Higley
Chautauqua
Reed's
Fy Singleton
Tlinois
Bank
Thomas’ Marketson
Bowling Green
Cour
Yin “Progress Halbach- Schroeder Cay
Grace McWiliams
Fred.Hunsaker
Camp Point
Taylor's
Brown Mays
Heidbreder's
South Side
Fifth Street
Broadway Bank
Seventeenth Avra
Broadway
Illinois State“ Bank
German General on shell consumption in artillery
Berlin July 22 General Theodor von Rohne discusses the surprising shell consuming power of modern artillery in an interview published by the Vossische Zeitung. He cites 1870 battles where German batteries fired over 200 rounds per gun, while a Russian unit at Tuschitschau reportedly logged 492 rounds per gun.
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Berlin
Tleinrich Rohne
Vossische Zeitung
Military shell usage in historic wars
The text notes artillery fire in major wars, citing Franco German conflict with German artillery firing about 17,000 rounds, including a tenth at St Privat, and Russo Japanese war totaling 954,000 shells. It presents these figures as examples of wartime ammunition intensity without further context.
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St. Privat
Derbyshire Miners Gift to British Red Cross
Nottingham reports the Derbyshire coal mine owners and miners have given the largest Red Cross contribution of the war, about 350000 dollars. The gift includes 100 fully equipped motor ambulances with repair wagons and bicycles, plus 100000 dollars for ambulance maintenance and running costs.
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London
Red Cross
Nottingham
Derbyshire
Baker Signs with Morganton Club in Western NC Loop
Asheville July 22 dispatch reports Frank Baker former Philadelphia third baseman signed by Morganton club of the semi professional Western North Carolina league. Baker will be paid 50 dollars a day for the remainder of the season.
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Asheville
N.C
T. Frank Baker
Philadelphia
Morganton
North Carolina
Baker
Italian press reports Turkish German expedition lands in Tripoli
Cairo dispatches relay that a Turkish German expeditionary force has landed at Tripoli with Cyrenaica as its aim. The Italian newspapers declare Turkey has joined the war against Italy and say it is Italy’s duty to end the criminals administering Turkey.
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Rome
London
Cairo
Tripoli
Cyrenaica
Desplare
Turkey
Italy
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Palace Stables
Mary Dirigo
Monroe City, Mo
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Halbach
Schroeder Co
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Harry Thaw
New York County Court House
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