Great World War Battles Report From France To Belgium
A long war front stretches from Mons to Luxembourg as French and British allies battle German forces. Berlin reports defeat of the third French army while Paris notes French advances across Lorraine and into Alsace. Belgium retreats as German cavalry moves through Brussels and Brusells is bombarded. Russian forces cross into Prussia while Austrians seize Miechow in Russian Poland.
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Faria
France
Mons
Luxembourg
New York
Berlin
Washington
Upper
Alsace
Lorraine
Metz
Longwy
Brussels
Nicholas
Prussian
Antwerp
Meuse
Liege
Namur
De Palma Wins Elgin National Trophy Race In Dramatic Finish
Ralph De Palma drives a Mercedes to victory in the Elgin National trophy on the 301 mile course at Elgin Illinois with an average speed of 73.5 mph. Ed Pullen finishes second and Barney Oldfield third as spectators witness a spectacular race.
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Ralph de Palma
Spender Wishart
Philadelphia
Elgin
de Palma
Ed Pullen
Barney Oldfield
Hil
Mercedes
Stutz
Anderson
Peugeot
Mulford
Senate Rejects Kenyon Amendment to Clayton Bill
In Washington the Senate rejected the Kenyon amendment to the Clayton anti trust bill by a 26 to 26 viva voce vote, making officers and directors liable for embezzlement or misapplication of funds. The chamber then passed the war risk insurance bill authorizing 5 million dollars for American vessels overseas during the European war.
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Senate
Washington
Kenyon
Illinois news brief highlights election at Mount Carmel
Illinois Far state convention ends with Austin Hill of McLeansboro named president. Other officers named include J. T. Riggs, J. P. Doyle, J. E. Proudfit, J. D. Burnet, and W. Stroup. Also reports on Tibbons suing Pennsylvania railway, German day plans canceled in Chicago, a Woodland Junction wreck, a spinal TB bone transplant in a child, track records in Elgin, and local incidents in Williamsville Pecatonica and Belville.
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Austin Hill
McLeansboro
Mount Carmel
The
J. T. Riggs
Elizabethtown
John P. Doyle
Mount Vernon
J. E. Proudfit
Enfield
J. D. Burnet
Salem
W. Stroup
Danville
Henry Tibbons
Pennsylvania Railway
Tibbons
Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railway
Pennsylvania Road
Chicago
Kaiser Wilhelm
Wilson
United States
Committee of
Charles H. Wacker
Germany
Chicago & Eastern Illinois
St. Louis
Woodland Junction
Jeannette Dunne
Edward F. Dunne
Wall
Elgin
Spencer Wishart
Mercer
de Palma
Wishart
Williamsville
Charles Wasem
Millstone
Canada
Belleville
Pecatonica
Winslow
George Hagerty
Greenville
Vernie
Ninety-fifth Illinois unit reunion slated for September in Marengo
Illinois brief notes report the Ninety-fifth Illinois Volunteer Infantry to hold its forty-ninth annual reunion in Marengo on September 4. Other items list deaths, arrests, dignitaries, school acts, drought relief, and academy appointments across the state including Bloomington Dixon Springfield Rockford Anna and Effingham.
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Marengo
Ninety-fifth
Illinois Volunteer Infantry
Bloomington
Lester Hiett
Peoria
Leroy
Olla Johnson
Ames
Il Hnois Wesleyan University
Winslow
George Hagerty
Pecatonica
Noling-Milwais State Federation of Women’s Clubs
St. Paul A. M. E
Waterloo
Johanna Tripp
Harrisburg
Wilburn Griffin
Douglass Tucker
Claude Geer
Wasson
Greenville
Vernie
Thomas Flopkins
Pleasant Mound
Fayette County
Clayton
L. Y. Sherman
United States
Adams
Brown
McLeansboro
Duquoin
HE. J. Lang
Murphysboro
Fourth Infantry
Illinois National Guard
Paris
Duquin
BH. J. Ingersoll
Southern Illinois Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Reunion Association
Ilinois
Springfield
Walter Bennett
Harriet Woolem
Taylorville
Effingham
Effingham County
County
Rockford
Ralph Emerson
Illinois
Emerson-Brantingham Company
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson Institute
Mobile
Ala
Anna
Union Academy
W. M. Maxton
James R. EB. Craighead
Carbondale
Hugh Lauder
O. W. Showmaker
Hartford
Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound Ad From 1900s
A testimonial from Mrs Martin HeEtvic of Plover Iowa describes her daughter’s recovery from female weakness after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The letter touts benefits and urges ill women to seek advice from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co with confidential handling.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Plover
Iowa
Martin HeEtvic
Lydia EK
Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn
Mass
Setting the Captain Right at York Harbor
Mark Twain visits Captain Brooks in York Harbor Me and asks about an osteopath. The old fisherman jokes he has fished there forty years and never found one. His wife corrects him saying the bird joke misidentifies the doctor.
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Mark Twain
York Harbor
Captain Brooks
Mark
Jed Brookes
Left Out Honest Agriculturist and the Wage Debate
A terse exchange features a man insisting men ran things under a compensation law while excluding farm hands and domestic servants. His wife counters, claiming she is both. The dialogue, attributed to Puck, satirically critiques gender roles and labor protections.
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Puck
Stages of a Career.
Smith’s post college path shows a series of setbacks. Becker notes he severed a connection, resigned a position, and was fired.
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Eknicker
Smith
Becker
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Metropolitan Opera House
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Los Angeles
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