Kaiser Pensions Seven Prussian Generals In Secret
Berlin reports the Kaiser will retire seven generals including Von Bredow and Von Wiestgzowsky. Kleist and Krahmer receive garrison commands. reasons for dismissals not disclosed. Signals of broader war activity plus other dispatches from London and Petrograd fill the day’s brief.
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Berliner Tagebint
von Bredow
von Wiestgzowsky
Glokke
Cramer
von Beuer
von Kleist
Krahmer
Wisconsin Republicans Name Hughes Backers and Riders
The state convention at Madison renames Gov. B. L. Philipp as candidate to succeed himself and endorses Charles Evans Hughes for president. Marshall Cousins of Eau Claire chosen for lieutenant governor. Hughes plans a national campaign kickoff in Chicago August 8 with a Detroit stop August 7. A collision near Jacksonville, Illinois, claims five lives and injures one.
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B. L. Philipp
Milwaukee
Madison
Wis
Charles Evans Hughes
Marshall Cousins
Eau Claire
Timnots
Chicago
Mr. Hughes
Detroit
Mexican War News Flurry Rises as Villa Cuts Lines
Reports say all lines of communication south of Chihuahua City are severed by Villa with railways torn near Jimenez and telegraph and telephone wires cut. Carranza says talks with Washington remain satisfactory despite tensions. US forces in Texas report camp placement and Mexican border clashes near Donna. A Diaz plot to topple Carranza surfaces in Nogales court with Col. Barron charged.
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Chihuahua City
Villa
City
Mexico City
Jiminez
Carranza
Washington
Mexico
United States
Felix Diaz
Sonora
Nogales
Ariz
Col
Alejandro Barron
Fire destroys summer palace. King Constantine escapes
A Paris Paris dispatch from Athens reports the summer palace of King Constantine burned and the king escaping in a car from a dangerous position. Meanwhile 1,000 Irish prisoners freed after Dublin rebellion sparked unrest as 1,000 Linniners wreck a Cork recruiting office and a London advisory committee urged release of 460 detainees.
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Paris
Athens
Constantine
Dublin
Cork
Ireland
House of Commons
London
Germany Submarine Deutschland Declared Peaceful by Neutrality Board
An advisory report to Acting Secretary Volk from the government neutrality board concludes the German vessel Deutschland is peaceful and entitled to all privileges of a peaceful craft. President Wilson addressed a citizenship convention urging loyalty from naturalized Americans and urging practice of loyalty. Washington lifts the embargo on supplies to Mexico's de facto government except munitions, and officials hint Pershing’s column may be withdrawn soon. Navy officials reportedly oppose mounting 16 inch guns on the new super-dreadnoughts under the pending navy bill.
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Volk
Washington
Government
Neutrality Board
Mexico
General Pershing
Navy Department
Navy
Russians Sweep On Berlin Admits Withdrawal Lipa River
Russian forces report a rapid Carpathian advance capturing Kirlibaba and Svinhui trenches near Riga, with 58 872 men and 326 officers seized, plus 24 guns and 14 machine guns. German withdrawal admits, while British gains on the Picardy front claim over ten thousand prisoners and heavy artillery from Ovillers to La Boisselle.
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Petrograd
Kirlibaba
Carpathian Mountains
Transylvania
War Office
Kirkhahos
Radautz
Riga
Sakaroff
Svinhui
Svininsky
Vladimir Drugmirot
Lower Lipa
Volhynia
Iiribaba
Berlin
von Linsingen
Lutsk
Lipa
Luga
London
Picardy
Bazentine-le-Petit
Ovillers
la Boisselle
Stnng
Illinois News Brevities: Monument Dedication and Local Notables
Entries note the September 4 dedication of an Oregon soldiers’ monument designed by Lorado Taft, cornerstone layings for Masonic temples in Ipava, and varied Illinois briefs. Reports include church homecomings, hospital bond votes, a Verdun wounding, fish licensing, and a wide mix of local incidents and civic notes across cities like Rockford Elgin Byron Peoria Springfield and Danville.
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Oregon
Lorado Taft
Chicago
Ipava
Pearis
Rockford
Elgin
Henry G. Fisher
Chicago Herald
St. Charles
Chronicle
the Times
Byron
First Congregational Church
Peoria
Illinois
H. F. Miller
Duquoin
Raymond Hull
Paris
Edgar County
Brubaker
Charles Brinkenhoff
Redman
DeKalb
Springfield
William B. Boulter
Verdun
Sangamon County
Sangamon County Farmers Association
Rochelle
Henry Friestad
la Salle
Doyle
Pecatonica
Winnebago County
Centralllinois
Interstate Association
Ilinois
Marwin Straubaugh
Danville
Central Ilinois Club Association
William Barnes
Decatur
Camp Wilson
San Antonio
Tex
Joseph B. Sanborn
First
Ilinois Infantry
Sanborn
Hampshire
Noah Lyon
Lyons
West
Minds Christian Endeavor Union
Anti-Saloon League
New Anti Aircraft Weapons For U S Battleships
Secretary of the Navy Daniels announced all U S battleships will be equipped with new antiaircraft guns designed by Rear Admiral Joseph Strauss. Built at the Washington navy yard, they were tested at the Indianhead proving grounds. The gun can fire straight up to 27 600 feet and has a range to reach aircraft at any operating altitude.
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Washington
Daniels
United States Navy
Joseph Strauss
Navy Bureau of Ordnance
Washington Navy Yar
Indianhead
Id.) Proving Grounds
Wilson to Visit Wisconsin for Extended Fishing Retreat
Rhinelander Wisconsin July 19 The president plans at least two weeks in Wisconsin's lake country to escape office burdens and prep for the fall campaign. Gus Nolan of the Hotel Northern expects to reserve a four room cottage in August on Attorney General Gregory's recommendation who visited Wisconsin last year.
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Rhinelander
Wis
Wilson
Wisconsin
Gus Nolan
Northern
Gregory
Auto Plunges Into River Drowning Four at Sioux City
An automobile with four Jefferson, South Dakota residents bound for a Sioux City circus plunged through a bridge railing into the Sioux River. All four occupants were drowned: George Fountain, 30, Florence Wakefield, 17, and Evelyn Wakefield, 15, along with another unnamed occupant.
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Sioux City
Jefferson
S. D
Sioux River
George Fountain
Florence Wakefield
Evelyn Wakefield
Canadian Parks Drive Tourism Across Western Canada
The Canadian Government extends extensive work to make National Park travel easier via routes along the Canadian Pacific, Grand Trunk Pacific and Canadian Northern railways. It stresses welcoming borders for Americans and British subjects, with parks offering glacier valleys lakes and plains, plus roads for motor and wagon travel, aiming to boost agricultural Western Canada.
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National Park System
Canadian Pacific
Grand Trunk Pacific
Canadian Northern Railways
Canada
Dominion
Great Britain
United States
Europe
Rocky Mountains
Witty Aphorisms on Marriage and Education
A collection of concise reflections noting that women’s gossip unsettles husbands, that education is about guiding out ideas rather than pouring in facts, and that a busy man avoids involvement in irrelevant matters. The tone critiques social norms with brief, pointed observations.
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Hull
England
Bute
Ben Aden
Saumie
France
la Maisonette
Blaches
Fanoe
Jutland
Copenhagen
Germany
London War Office
Somme
Longueval Village
Bazantin le Petit
Bazantin le Grand
Lower
Strupa
von Bothmer
Stokhod
Kovel
Buczacz
Vienna
David Lloyd-George
Seaham Harbor
Orpet
Waukegan
Ill
Marian Lambert
French Broad River
Asheville
N. C
Theodore Wasermann
Hector
Charleston
Santo Domingo
Cobler
H. A. Merrill
Charlotte, Mich
Hetty Green
Jacksonville
Wisconsin Infantry
Second Texas Infantry
A. 8. Horton
National Guard
Rio Grande
Donna
Tie
Kirligaba
Lipa River
U. S
Lake Country
Man
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