World News Briefs From War Fronts And Air Raids
A London dispatch from Athens reports French and British aeroplanes over Constantinople dropping bombs on Galata with heavy casualties. Salonika cites a German submarine sunk by a mine in the Sea of Marmora. Berlin confirms the loss of Austria’s U-12 with Commander Lerch drowned. Reports claim 300000 to 400000 German and Austrian troops massing on the Serbian frontier. Austrian forces bombarded the Italian Littoral from Mol Fetta to Seno San Giorgio with rail depots burned at San Spirito. six killed in another German air raid on England. The Austrian U-3 submarine sunk in the lower Adriatic with twelve crew saved. British submarines claim the gunboat Berk-i-Satvet and a transport torpedoed in the Dardanelles, Marmara, and Black Sea. Austro-German advance toward Petrograd seizes Lukow and Zambrowa. Ramsey sunk by Meteor and Meteor blown up in the North Sea, per official London.
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London Daily News
Athens
Constantinople
Galata
Salonika
London
Sea of Marmora
Berlin
Lerch
Berk-i-Satvet
Dardanelles
Sea of Marmara
Black Sea
Riots and incidents plague wartime news from Milwaukee to Alaska
Reports detail a riot at a Milwaukee shrapnel factory injuring seven and protests against interned German ships, plus disturbances as 1 300 Italian reservists and friends sail from Boston. Other items list naval academy dismissals, Criminology meeting opening, Rockefeller wage criticisms, Jane Addams address, and several fatal accidents across Indiana Ohio and Alaska.
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Boston
Amerika
Cincinnati
Many Flee Flood Texas Coast Towns
Texans recount a fierce coastal storm with winds up to 75 mph as Galveston and other Gulf towns flood. Refugees flee by train. water fills streets and railroad stations, while the sea wall holds. Several towns report houses toppled and residents marooned. officials fear further disaster and enforce censorship.
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Texas
Galveston
Houston
Tex
Texas Gulf Coast
Santa Fe
Victoria
Captain Bolivar
Bolivar Peninsula
Sabine
Sabine Pass
Port Lavaca
Corpus Christie
Orange
Hurricane devastates Jamaica and martial law in Cape Haitien
A hurricane caused ten million dollars in damage along Jamaica's northeast coast with plantations wiped out. In Cape Haitien renewed fighting between Bobo and Zamor factions prompts Admiral Caperton to declare martial law, taking control with American Marines and informing the navy department. A Berlin dispatch reports fatalities from explosions after a fire at a Reinsdorf powder works near Wit tenberg, Germany.
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Cape Haitien
Haiti
Bobo
Zamor
Caperton
Navy Department
Berlin
Amsterdam
Reinsdorf
Wittenberg
Germany
United States Replies to Austria-Hungary Notes on Armaments
Washington made public the U S reply to Austria Hungary noting reasons for refusing to stop exporting arms and munitions. It cites fear of forcing militarism and references past wars where arms were sold by powers to belligerents. The piece also mentions rail rate cases and grain product price decisions. It notes inquiries by the War Department to U S war supply manufacturers about potential emergency service.
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United States
Austria-Hungary
Washington
Germany
War Department
Attorney James A Martin slain at home in Murphysboro
The attorney James A Martin, husband of the woman beaten to death in their Murphysboro home on July 11 30 by Joe De Berry a negro who confessed, then dropped dead at West Baden Indiana at age sixty.
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James A Martin
Murphysboro
Joe de Berry
West Baden
Ind
Mexican Revolt Looms as Plan of San Diego Urges Civil War
General Frederick Funston reports from San Antonio on border troubles praising the Plan of San Diego which seeks to kill every American male over sixteen in Texas and seize border states to form a republic for Mexicans and other races. Three more Mexican outlaws die in a Mercedes Hidalgo County battle as forces clash near the Rio Grande.
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Frederick Funston
Washington
San Antonio
Tex
San Diego
Texas
Rio Grande
New Mexico
Colorado
Arizona
California
Mercedes
Hidalgo County
Kidnap of Leo M. Frank from Milledgeville Jail
Milledgeville Ga August 18 25 men raided the state farm overpowered the warden and abducted Leo M Frank. He was taken away by automobiles and his fate is unknown. An alarm spread as efforts to pursue began with focus on Marietta near Atlanta where Mary Phagan once lived. Reports speak of organized groups seeking swift punishment for Frank.
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Milledgeville
Leo M. Frank
Milledgeville State Farm
Smith
Frank
Marietta
Atlanta
Mary Phagan
Georgia
Silas Ebersole commits suicide in jail cell
Silas N. Ebersole, former Dunkard minister once accused of murdering Hazel Macklin in 1914, hanged himself in a county jail cell in South Bend Indiana. Police investigate after attorney Charles A Davey claimed the death was murder though no confession was found.
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Forrmer Dunkard
South Bend
Ind
Silas N. Ebersole
Dunkard
Hazel Macklin
Ebersole
Charles A. Davey
Davey
First Balloon Ascension Noted in 1783 History
A historical note records the first balloon ascent in 1783. The fragment urges health through drinking Denison’s Coffee and counsels men to guard their reputations as their own watchmen.
Distressful Pimples Advertised Cure Offered By Mail
A vintage advertisement touts Cuticura Ointment and Soap for clear skin with a five minute wash routine. It invites free samples by mail from Boston and urges continued bathing routines. Nearby, a New York essayist attends a Washington Square tea with artists in green burlap djibbahs and sandals. He quips artistic longings resemble long hair and long faces, not long purses.
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Cuticura
Dept. XY
Boston
New York
Washington Square
Mystery in the Busy Household Sparks Laughs
In a lighthearted exchange, Busy asks where Clarence is and learns he is inside playing jack straws. Edith’s whereabouts spark humor as speculation ranges from sailing a boat to testing a new airplane.
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Clarence
Edith
Misers and Marriage Question in Comedy Exchange
Simpson ponders why most misers are single as Mrs. Simpson quips that married misers are common and not worth noting.
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Simpson
Panama Canal Waters Grow Salty
Notes suggest the water in the Panama Canal is gradually becoming saltier as local reports indicate ongoing trouble and concerns about the lock systems and marine life.
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Panama Canal
Photograph Return Request Turns Into Gift Exchange
The woman asks for her photograph, regretful she gave it in girlish folly. The reply refuses the single image but offers to return his entire collection, over 500 photos, with instruction to keep her image and return the rest by passenger train at his expense.
A Ferlorn Hope
A rural dialogue reveals a farmer hoping his college son gains skills to better utilize land. The exchange highlights tests of future value others may bring, including sports and social graces, with the father seeking practical farming advantage from education.
Easy Money Vacation Menu Tales From The Sea
A fragment recalls a vacation by the sea where food was scarce yet fishing provided meals. A price of 15 dollars a week was charged for serving the self caught fish, highlighting hardship and cost during leisure.
Office Chatter and Ink Waits for a Blotter
A witty exchange frames office life as the blotter comments on dirty work and absorption. A quip about ancestors excuses misdeeds while Cordelia is named as a female bookkeeper who could be a countess.
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Cordelia
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Claude Huttinger
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Aliel Bergman
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Margaret F. Andrews
Paul A. Andrews
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August Belmont
C. O. Robinson
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George H. Knox
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R. B. Sutton
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Denison
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