Reichstag Expected to Hear Von Bethmann Hollweg on Policy
Berlin reports say Chancellor Von Bethmann Hollweg will address the Reichstag in a mid-summer session. The front agenda centers on a vote for a new war credit with possible discussion of foreign policy and internal policy readjustment. The Tageblatt hints the chancellor may respond to Lloyd George's Glasgow and Dundee speeches.
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London
von Bethmann-Hollweg
Reichstag
Copenhagen
Berlin
Exchange Telegraph Company
Tageblatt
Lloyd-George
Glasgow
Dundee
Reichstag Power Question Sparks London Commentary
In Copenhagen Théo dore Wolff of Berliner Tageblatt denounces Germany as a conservative bureaucratic regime where parliament cannot shape policy and war terms are decided in secret. He argues liberal franchise is undermined by district gerrymandering and urges open peace terms or a parliamentary system.
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Copenhagen
Théodore Wolff
Berliner Tageblatt
Reichstag
Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
Herr Wolff
Peac Tk
Amfrica
France
Italy
Vossische Zeitung
George Bernard
French Airman to Instruct Americans In Aerial Warfare
Lieutenant de Seyssel of the French Aerial Corps has arrived in the United States with seasoned airmen to instruct American army aviators in modern aerial warfare methods. He has earned numerous bravery medals and declines to reveal his German airman tally.
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de Seyssel
French Aerial Corps
United States
German reform appeals seek universal suffrage in Prussia
Radical and Socialist German papers publish an appeal to the government calling for a bill to establish universal and equal secret and direct suffrage in Prussia. Signers are national figures who favored postponing referendum until peace, now fearing wartime delay could ruin reform.
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Copenhagen
Prussia
Shipping upsurge at New York ports in June
Customs house statistics show continued growth in transatlantic shipping despite German submarines. June arrivals reached 465 ships with a total tonnage of 1,252,599, up from 428 ships and 1,099,433 tons in May, reflecting a 37-ship increase.
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New York
Customs House
Going up to Cloudcroft New Mexico July 8th
A reader asks about travel to Cloudcroft New Mexico on July 8 with a cool climate noted. The message cites a $21.00 round trip fare via Southern Pacific and includes an advisory from Aadv.
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Cloudcroft
N. M
Southern Pacific
Tanlac Restores Texas Woman After Prolonged Illness
Mrs. Mary Haddox of Caldwell Texas reports a dramatic recovery after months of stomach trouble nervous indigestion and rheumatism. She credits Tanlac with eliminating pain restoring appetite and improving sleep and energy and notes her whole family now takes the medicine. Tanlac is sold in San Antonio by Wagner's Drug Store and EB J H Meier under local Tanlac representation.
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Tanlac
Mary Haddox
Caldwell
Texas
Carroll Avenue
Dallas
Taniac
San Antonio
Wagner
Preparedness class graduates at Y W C A
The nine week preparedness stenography class led by Mrs. John H. Vaughan at the Young Woman's Christian Association held its graduation in the association auditorium. The class of 85 trained for government service with details sent to Gen. James Parker and a program featuring speeches by Bishop Capers Dr. Stevens General Parker and Mrs. Vaughan.
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John H. Vaughan
Young Woman's Christian Association
Association
Vaughan
W. Bertrand Stevens
Parker
Floyd McGown
National League For Woman's Service
Col. Malvern-Hill Barnum
Kate Coltrane
Louise Elaine Waltz
W. D. Phillips
Marion Shumate
Margaret Bridge
Mae Coltrane
Viola Crowell
A- M. Griegenbeck
Julia Moore
Irene Morris
FE. H. Pancoast
Edith Schuetze
Miss Claugherty
Miss Matton
D. C. Phillips
Edna, Doebbler
Maj
Hagman
W. Harris
Minnie Hope
Clara l Lindloff
Thula Lawson
Dora Mayfield
E. M. Resch
Eona Skutt
Eva Reeves
R. H. Grasham
White Fabrics Sale at Wolfson’s Timely Reduction
A Wolfson’s sale of white fabrics highlights late season offerings. Imported Swiss fabrics 38 inches wide and English white rep priced down to 98 cents a yard, with earlier figures at 1.29 1.59 and 1.69. Dress materials and garments emphasized for immediate use.
Stockholders Win Suit Against Southern Pacific
United States Court of Appeals affirmed a decree ordering Southern Pacific to distribute to minority stockholders of the Houston and Texas Central Railroad their proportionate share of the reorganized company's stock and dividends. Minority stockholders must pay $26.02 per share with interest from February 1, 1898.
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Southern Pacific
New York
Southern Pacific Company
Houston & Texas Central Railroad
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Minority stockholders sue over Southern Pacific foreclosure control
Lawsuits over the past 25 years allege Southern Pacific manipulated mortgage foreclosures on Texas Central lines. Claims were not ruled on due to insufficient proof, with minority stockholders arguing the major shareholding power harmed their interests.
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Rious
Southern Pacific
Texas Central
Insult to flag found near Kerrville post office
In Kerrville Texas on July 4 Sheriff Herman Ochs found two flags displayed at the post office with hostile inscriptions. One English flag bore a Woodrow Wilson image and the caption I fight for England and Wall Street. The US flag showed a death symbol and a George Washington image with I fought for my country. Sheriff Ochs pursues the case, suspected to disrupt Texas National Guard recruiting under Captain supervising authority.
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Kerrville
Tex
Herman Ochs
Woodrow Wilson
England
Wall Street
United States
George Washington
Ochs
Texas National Guard
Zeber and Martin Lead Red Cross Clothing Effort for Soldiers
Charles J. Zeber and Lieutenant Thomas J. Martin oversee Red Cross work making clothing for soldiers as men enlist rapidly. The brief notes the urgent recruitment and community support for wartime relief.
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Charles J. Zeber
Thomas J. Martin
The
Red Cross
Lectures On Food Conservation For 750 Summer Schools
Washington July 4 Herbert C. Hoover announced that lectures on food conservation will be in the curriculum of 750 summer schools nationwide as part of the food administration educational drive. Russians Honor Liebknecht
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Washington, D. C
The
Food Administration
Herbert C. Hoover
Liebknecht
Petrograd
Karl Liebknecht
Friedrich Adler
Congress of Workmen’s
Russia
Adler
Count Stuergkh
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Elizabeth Hein
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Florence Jaggi
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