War News Roundup: Fronts Rive Across Europe and Asia
Combined dispatches note Italian troops pressing on the Trentino front and new gains along the Bosnia line while Russian advances claim 27 000 prisoners in three days. British and German actions broaden in Picardy and near La Bassee with heavy losses. Floods and political moves fill the rest of the week’s calamities.
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Trentino
Bosnia
Sette Communi
Trevignolo
Cismon
Dolos Disputch
Picardy
Haig
Trouveaux Wood
Bazentin- Longueval
London
Notable Crimes and Accidents In Early 20th Century Dispatch
A Washington dispatch reports Herr Lohmann profited three million by funding a US shipment of dyestuffs. A man killed his wife and child then himself on a riverbank in Lake Forest. A Floridian’s son was killed by a panther in San Pedro swamp. most of his body was eaten. The steamer Comus collided with a coal barge off Sea Girt. seven rescued, barge sank. Seven Hercules Powder workers were injured in a Kenvil NJ explosion. no deaths confirmed.
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Skokie River
Lake Forest
Anna Jonsen
Lint
Michael
Clayton McDonald
San Pedro
New Orleans
Sea Girt
N. J
Hercules Powder Company
Kenvil
Mexican War Conflicts and notable notes from Washington
Dispatches report Villa chieftain Augustin Gomez and ten followers executed in Zacatecas by constitutionalists under Captain Rodarto after Mexican snipers renewed fire near El Paso as Ninth Massachusetts Infantry units responded. Carranza offers a US commission plan to settle differences. Cardinal Gibbons marks birthday with Joseph Shriver in Carroll County. Ambassador Page and Mrs Page depart London for a month in New York. Former Senator Thomas M. Patterson dies in Denver at seventy seven.
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Augustin Gomez
Villa
Zacatecas
Rodarto
Mexico City
Cardinal Gibbons
Joseph Shriver
Carroll County
Baltimore
Mr. Shriver
Open Oregon California land grant lands to settlers this fall
The U S land office in Portland announced about 11 million acres of Oregon and California grant lands will open to entry and settlement by fall. Settlers may file on 60 acres each at 2 50 per acre. Also noted are Senate confirmations of Abrams and Elkus as ambassadors and policy moves on other matters.
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Oregon and California Land Grant
Portland
United States Land Office
Washington presses Britain over mails note in censorship dispute
The state department rejected Britain's memorandum on mail interference as evasive and demanded a concrete reply to the May 24 note. Officials call the censorship issue acute and dangerous and say the United States will press London until the principle involved is addressed with a specific reply.
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Washington
State Department
United States
London
Great Britain
Stile Department
White House
Airman Flies Over Germany Proclaims From Berlin
Paris reports French aviator Sub-Lieutenant A. Marchal flew across Germany dropping proclamations on Berlin. He landed within 60 miles of Russian lines near Chelm in Poland where Austrians captured him. The flight totaled about 1500 kilometers, linking eastern and western fronts by air.
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Paris
Germany
Berlin
A. Marchal
Chelm
Poland
Hns
Marchal
Pozieres Front Moves Amid Somme Fighting
London reports continued fighting around Povieres as British forces hit back against German counterattacks. Australians hold captured positions gaining additional prisoners as the town ruins bear witness to heavy combat. Farther south the French seized a Corian hatchery amid tree lines, while Paris announces a fresh run of German machines captured since July 20.
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London
Somme
Povieres
Othe
Paris
Negro Soldiers Wounded in Fort Sam Riot
Report from San Antonio notes four soldiers of the all black Wilshih Winnow infantry wounded when a crowd of 59 to 80 rioters fired on them at Fort Sam Houston. Guards fired low, four of five shots struck. All wounded men were leg injuries and none seriously hurt. Soldiers had been drinking while on passes.
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San Antonio
Tex
Duly
Wilshih Winnow Infantry
All Black
Fort Sam Houston
Fred Low
Negi
Man claims birth of chicken and a half confirms pre natal influence
Fremont Lounsbury describes a freak birth where a shell produced a complete chicken plus a half chicken with no wings neck or head. He links the incident to a hen run over by a motorcycle with a sidecar, asserting prenatal influence affects poultry.
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Fremont Lounsbury
Lounsbury
Corner grocer blamed for sandbagging sugar
Witness claims the corner grocer uses light weights. Myer asks how to prove it. Gyer says he bought a 25 pound sack of sugar and found it short.
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Gyer
Myer
Quick relief for skin troubles with Cuticura soap
This snippet promotes Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment for itching burning and disfiguring skin conditions promising instant relief and speedy healing. It offers a free sample by mail with a booklet and lists Boston address and general sale details. It ends with unrelated anecdote from John G. Zepp about a funeral oration.
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Dept. L. Boston
Wonders of Science on Farm Visit
A camera man from an educational film company explains he filmed life on a local farm. An old farmer asks about laborers in motion and reflects that science is a wonderful thing. The exchange captures curiosity about science and technology on rural life.
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Middle States
France Buys Lumber for Rebuilding War Shattered Buildings
France purchases 500 million feet of lumber in British Columbia to rebuild structures damaged by war. The plan calls for direct action, urging readiness to meet the supply by chartering a tug and heading out to the arrival point.
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France
British Columbia
Too Frequent Ex Gover Colquitt Mirrors Texas Debate
Ex governor Colquitt warns in a Texas debate that opponents spoke for 8001 and overreached like a young graduate. He recounts a tale of a fat middle aged widower pressuring a young graduate, who resists and declares she will be a sister, while the suitor vows to marry her mother. The New York Tribune is cited.
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Colquitt
Texas
Alice
Mr. Prendergast
Prendergast
New York Tribune
Howells Critiques a Poet with A Honeymoon Joke
William Dean Howells calls a poet over refined and delicate. He compares the poet to a newlywed who vows to stop taking the 8:15 express and will instead ride the 8:20 slow accommodation to ease parting after the honeymoon.
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William Dean Howells
No Complaints. Navy Morale Praised by Secretary Daniels
Secretary Daniels praised the morale of the American navy saying the men toil like Trojans. He recalled asking a boy apprentice if there were any complaints and the reply was that they are kept at the endless work, with the boy noting they “keep on making you keep on.”
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Daniels
Cinderella of this home quoted in Louisville dialogue
A Louisville Courier Journal excerpt features a wife's boast "I'm the Cinderella of this home" followed by her husband's quip about living in a flat and renaming her as the Kitchen etty in a witty domestic exchange.
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Louisville -Courier- Journal
Sympathy Fails to Replace Ready Money, Says Adage
The saying emphasizes that sympathy cannot substitute for immediate funds, underscoring the value of liquidity and financial readiness over emotional support in practical matters.
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