Bomb Exhibition Near Washington Showcases War Devices
A Washington D C demonstration for War Department officials and Congress members featured grenades bombs and gas and flame projects and signaling methods. A De Haviland bomber dropped live bombs while observers witnessed crater effects and jet flames as night signaling rockets lit the valley.
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War Department
Army
Congress
Ordnance Bureau
Washington, D. C
Capitol
de Haviland
Five Texas Troopers Injured In Train Wreck Near Shreveport
A troop train moving east was ditched on the Vicksburg Shreveport Pacific near Wadley seventeen miles from Shreveport. Five Texas soldiers were injured seriously with internal injuries and were taken to a sanitarium for treatment. Three other soldiers sustained minor injuries as six sleepers and a box car went into the ditch. An official investigation is underway and officials suggest a brake beam failure as the cause.
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Shreveport, A
Sergt
Thomas Guernsey
Laredo
Tex
Charles M. Berry
Arthur M. Way
Vicksburg, Shreveport & Maeifie
J.C. Stamm
Voting Rights Clarified in Texas Primary Law
The Attorney General's Department ruled that only United States citizens may vote in the July 27 state cemetery election. Aliens with only first papers cannot vote in primaries, reversing prior practice that allowed such voters.
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Austin
Tex
Jefferson County
Attorney General's Department
United States
Romanian Leader Delays 1916 Dobrudja Advance Blunting Victory
Confessional dispatch reveals General Averescu halted a Danube thrust toward German and Bulgarian lines in 1916 after a high stakes appeal to Bucharest politicians. Von Mackensen notes a potential separate peace changing the eastern balance if Averescu had pushed.
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Associated Press
London
Dobrudja
Ourmania
Wield Marshal von Mackensen
Roumania
von Mackensen
Bucharest
Averescu
Danube
Carpathian Front
Germany
Averesen
Averesea
Buelarest
Dobridja
Y M C A Directors Select New Boys Leader
The Y M C A directors considered applicants for the boys work secretary position after J Floyd Smith left to join the army. The chosen successor will be announced by L A Coulter state secretary. George Wheeler will attend the Estes Park summer school for secretaries July 5 to August 22 as part of a national program expanding work for boys amid wartime duties.
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J. Floyd Smith
Army
L. A. Coulter
George Wheeler
Wil
Estes Park
Colo
United States
Soldiers to Get Home Comforts From London Committee
A joint English and American committee with Queen Alexandra as patroness will ship food and luxuries to American troops at the front. The plan includes correspondence with soldiers and adoption of individual servicemen to provide comforts not available at canteens.
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London
Queen Alexandra
Pledges to Raise Funds for Y M C A Work Campaign
Pledges totaling 49 280 000 toward a 172 000 000 campaign for the Y M C A to be conducted this fall were pledged by 300 business men and financiers from the eastern district at yesterday’s meeting. It was announced that 15 000 000 of the national fund will be given to the Y W C A as a gesture of support from the men in recognition of women’s involvement.
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New York
Young Men's Christian Association
Esterday
National Fund
Young Women's Christian Association
Prison Labor Bill Backed By Labor Groups
Washington July 11 President Wilson was asked by a committee representing the American Federation of Labor and the National Committee on Prisons and Prison Labor to endorse a congressional bill authorizing prison labor for producing war supplies and for government purchase of those supplies.
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Washington, D. C
Wilson
Ben
American Federation of Labor
National Committee On Prisons and Prison Labor
Congress
Social events and notices fill Thursday through Friday calendar
Society notes list St John’s Luther League and Woman’s city committee meetings on Thursday and Friday in Chandler building rooms. Red Cross groups meet at central work rooms and Catholic guilds convene evenings. A Catholic women’s mass meeting is postponed to Tuesday. Lieut Laurien Crisp and Miss May Hall marry at St Mark’s with reception at 406 East Locust. Updates include visitors, entertainment aims for Liberty bonds, and several travel activities of Mrs Will Hood, Miss Inga Miller, and other locals.
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Woman's City Committee
Chandler Building
Lieut
Laurien Crisp
Ja. Sos. CL
Remlig
Tex
Miss May Hall
Tampico
Mexico
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
W. Pertland Stevens
Kathleen Hull
W. B. Pettus
Fifty Girls Die in German Raid on Belgians
London reports a German air raid on an ambulance park at La Panne near the Yser front killed more than fifty girls. Fifty bombs hit the area, with several striking a villa near the hospital. Thirty in the villa were killed instantly and forty injured, twenty four of whom died later.
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London
la Panne
Yser
Angne
Emil
Elks ban language. Knights form lost soldier dept
In Atlantic City the Elks Grand Lodge adopts 28 resolution banning enemy language in club houses and plans a nationwide big brother campaign with a junior police system to locate and employ wayward youths. New York hosts Knights of Columbus opening a lost soldier department to track soldiers out of touch with families via cooperation with the Adjutant General's Office.
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Elks
Atlantic City
N.W
The
Grand Lodge
Wayward
New York
the Knights of Columbus
Adjutant General's Office
United States lifts export ban on food to Mexico
Washington announces free export licenses for 1.5 million bushels of corn, iron and steel goods, agricultural machinery, and certain foods to Mexico under US wartime restrictions. The move aims to ease trade while preserving needed materials for the war effort and invites Mexican requests for additional items.
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Washington, D. C
Daly
Mexico
Wilson
White House
State Department
United States
City of Mexico
Federal Food Administration
Dowling Spreads Cheer for Wounded Soldiers Across America
Michael Z. Dowling, president of the State Bank of Olivia, Minnesota and former speaker of the state house, travels under Army Surgeon General auspices to uplift returned World War I wounded. A self-made, legless veteran, Dowling emphasizes education, reeducation, and American medicine, foreseeing a mission in France to bolster morale and civil life reintegration for injured servicemen. He quotes a contrast in a man’s value from neck down versus neck up, and earns broad support from medical and military circles.
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Michael Z. Dowling
State Bank of
Olivia, Minn
Minnesota House of Representatives
America
France
Surgeon Generals Department of the Army
Minneapolis ‘Tribune
Minnesota
Michael Dowling
Mike
Dowling
Ife
Mr. Dowling
Tie
Amarion
Army
Chicago
War Department
American Doctor Decorated in Senates of War
Dr. J Breckenridge Bayne of Washington D C has arrived in Berne Switzerland after being held as a prisoner by Germany. He receives a decoration for his service and bravery during captivity and will be warmly honored by authorities there.
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Berne
Switz
J. Breckenridge Bayne
Washington, D
Roumenin
Grandmother Was the Druggist in Early America
In early days madmother used roots and herbs as remedies. Peppermint aided digestion, mutten helped coughs, skullcap eased nervousness, thoroughwort fought colds, wormwool treated bruises. Such cures inspired Mia Lydia Pinkham of Lynn Massachusetts to create her vegetable compound.
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Mia
Lydia‘. Pinkham
Lynn
Mass
Ako
Old Age A Crime The Haarlem Oil Cure Ad
Warning about kidney and bladder ailments urging prompt relief with GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules. Claims over two centuries of use and urges readers to buy from druggists and avoid substitutes. Presents health scare tone and calls neglect a crime against self.
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Haarlem
Holland
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