Paper Carriers Keep The Light Informed Camp Wilson Troops
The Light forms a militia delivery corps to send the San Antonio paper to Camp Wilson soldiers. Nearly 2000 subscribers at Camp Wilson receive papers as quickly as city subscribers. Brigadier General Jack Foster praised The Light for militia coverage, ordering it sent daily to Illinois homes. Carriers deliver, solicit, and collect from regiments, with routes to Leon Springs, Landas Park, New Braunfels, and beyond.
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San Antonio
Camp Wilson
The
Light
the Light
Jack Foster
Illinois
Foster
Leon Springs
Landa’s Park
New Braunfels
H. Halkyer
Greon Springs
George Westmeyer
New Braunfels-Seguin
Burns Waggener
Wisconsin
William Ford
John Shook
Illinois Battery
Fred Tarrant
Frank Groesbeck
Archie Helland
Wallace Steele
Illinois Figures and Units in War Era Record
Kingsley Brown of Illinois accompanies Fourth Illinois, John Davis of Sixteenth Cavalry and Seventh Field Artillery, Dwight Bourn, and Second Wisconsin noted in roster entries.
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Linois
Kingsley Brown
Illinois
John Davis
Sixteenth Cavalry
Seventh Field Artillery
Dwight Bourn
Wisconsin
Relics Destroyed At Smyrna Museum Station
The Turkish war department says British warships bombarded the Berlin museums station near Smyrna. Erected near the Apollo Temple ruins at Didyma to house Greek art treasures, the building was reduced to ruins after shelling by two English cruisers. The director and assistants escaped with scant belongings. two years of antiquities were lost.
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Berlin
Turkish War Department
Smyrna
Didyma
Samos
Investigation of Shark Invasion Reaches Federal Study
Washington Aug 5 The shark invasion along the Atlantic coast prompts a federal push. Secretary Redfield directs the Fish Commission to study causes, including hurricane effects on small forage fish and Gulf Stream shifts. Experts consider commercial fishing and cross species meat comparisons with swordfish.
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Washington, D. C
Atlantic
United States
Commerce Redfield
United States Fish Commission
Carribean Sea
Gulf of Mexico
Washington
Jersey
Therr
Fish Commission
London Court to study single commercial language plan
The Court of Common Council referred a resolution to a committee proposing that one language be recognized as the commercial language and taught in all schools to support future allied trade cooperation.
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London
Court of Common Council
Dodson's Liver Tone replaces calomel, promised gentle relief
The ad warns calomel harms the system causing cramps and sickness and promotes Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe vegetable substitute priced at 50 cents a bottle. It claims the tonic starts the liver without stomach upset and does not gripe, suitable for children.
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Dodson
Belgian armored cars aid Russian advance at Tarnopol Lemberg
A correspondent describes Belgian armored cars built in Paris and sent to Russia under Major Semet. Volunteers with wealth and education man the units. Five cars engaged to destroy Austrian machine guns along a seven to nine hundred yard front between Tarnopol and Lemberg. One vehicle disabled. De Becker dies heroically aiding the rescue, later buried at Tarnopol.
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Petrograd
Russkoe Slovo
Paris
Western
France
Russia
Semet
Brussiloff
Tarnopol
Lemberg
Zebroff
de Becker
Belgium
Mines Found Adrift Off Dutch Coast
Hague Aug 5 The Dutch ministry reports that between June 25 and July 15 thirty two large mines were picked up along Holland’s coasts. Seventeen were of English origin, eleven German, and the remainder of unknown origin.
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Hague
Dutch Ministry of Marine
Holland
Persian Jeweler Gifts Carved Stone to Wilhelm II
Mehdi Gassan a noted Persian jeweler living in Vienna presents a carved precious stone to Emperor William II as thanks from Persians and Mohammedans. The emperor replies with a personal letter and a diamond initialed stick pin. the pin’s value is described as a small fortune.
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Kaiser
Berlin
Mehdi Gassan
Vienna
William
Per
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Smith
Wolff & Marx Co
Redfield
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Joske
New York
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Harold Bell Wright
Galicia
San Antonio Gas Electric Co
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