Senate set to debate child labor bill this week
The Senate plans to take up the child labor bill this week under pressure from President Wilson. Opponents include Southern Democrats and cotton manufacturers who argue constitutionality. The House passed a measure banning shipments in interstate or foreign commerce of goods produced with underage labor. Senator Robertson aims to bring it to a vote by Tuesday. A report from Atlantic coast station notes Carlstrom’s flight past Norfolk and the presidential yacht.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
Wilson
As A
South
National Association of Manufacturers
House
Robertson
Commerce Committee
Flying boat sets speed record at Newport News test
Aviator Victor Carlstrom and Lieutenant Maxfield U S N conducted a navy test flight in a new twin tractor flying boat at Newport News Virginia achieving an average speed a fraction over 95 miles an hour.
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Navy
Newport News
Val
United States Navy
Victor Carlstrom
Maxfield
Stratton Escapes From Joilet With Two Companions
Chicago July 31 Clyde Stratton noted convict and two prisoners escaped from the Illinois penitentiary at Joliet. It is Stratton’s sixth prison breakout in a short career. Stratton earlier crawled from Leavenworth. others, Hart and McGlade, serve life for murder.
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Joilet
Chicago
Clyde Stratton
Illinois
Jolet
Chicago Detective Bureau
Stratton
Leavenworth
Silvia
Ill
William Hart
William McGlade
Tax rate cut by Texas board from 36 to 20 cents
The Texas automatic board lowered the ad valorem tax rate from 36 to 20 cents per $100 of property. The school tax remains 20 cents and the Confederate pension tax is 5 cents. The total 1916 tax is 45 cents per $100 unless school tax changes. Estimated Texas property value cited is $2,754,313,023 with total appropriations of $7,299,788 available September 1.
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Austin
Tex
State Automatic Board
State Board of Education
Texas
Red Cross Rally Planned At Landa Park For San Antonio Base Hospital
Workers gathered at Landa Park to finalize plans for a Red Cross rally and picnic to aid a base hospital in San Antonio. Committee chairs from San Antonio New Braunfels and Austin announced transport arrangements supplies and publicity with events from 9 am to 9 pm including concerts vaudeville sports and dancing.
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Red Cross
Landa’s Park
San Antonio
Harry Landa
New Braunfels
Austin
Marin B. Fenwick
Mrs. Landa
Landa
Texas
Carl Starr
Sam Hr. Frieze
Starr
Frieze
American Express Company
Roy Campbell
Marin B. Penwick
U.S. Pfeuffer
Harry B. Jordan
Second Illinois Brigade
Winchester Kelso
American Red Cross Society
American Red Cross
M. W. Ireland
Fort Sam Houston
Illinois Artillery
New Braunfels ‘'Tigers
Wisconsin
A. B. Weakley
George Eiband
Sam Frieze
Hugh B. Rice
Mess Hall
J. H. Archibald
J. A. Cosgrove
Stires
Hoffman-Heyman Company
Castanola Company
Brown Cracker Company
Henne Hardware Company
L. B. Clegg
A. W. Daniel
J. J. Stevens
William L. Dunne
A. L. Matlock
George Potchernick
J. T. Woodhull
Hannah Hirshberg
Council of Jewish Women
Delaware
Henry E. Wilkins
F. C. Walsh
Gussie Rowley
Tuesday Musical Club
Adelaide Campbell
Frank Riley
Oeffinger
Julius Mehlitz
Mary Bennett
H. Dittinger
H. B. Rice
Elsie Crawford
E. M. Joseph
M. J. Muench
Louise Haynie
Hattie Levison
Gertrude Rowe
W. P. Gaines
A. M. Belvin
J. Kaufer
Richard Craig
Pfeuffer
Edward Oeffinger
William C. Clegg
Lucius Lamar
Sam H
J. Archbald
Julius Hehlitz
O. B. Schlather
R. Hill
F. A. Bordwell
San Francisco
B. O. Lewis
Seventh Field Artillery
J. 8. Hatches
Mis
Kaufer
Wolff
Joseph
J. W. Slaughter
E. Love
Adam
R. V. Perine
Paech
L. Krams-Beck
O. N. Farnsworth
Booth No. 3
T. M. Dechman
J. P. Lovelady
C. O. Nell
W. Kleberg
W. L. Dunne
K. J. Taylor
W. S. Whitworth
T. M. Anderson
A. de Zavala
Lula Lovelady
E. Lovelady
Aline White
Jean Maclinery
L. Miller
Mesdames Grisgold and
Wulff
Watermelon shipment for Red Cross rally to New Braunfels
Melons selected in Picton and packed under J C Waters supervision head to New Braunfels in a refrigerator car for the Landa Park rally. Mrs L B Clegg reports the purchase from Picton's J C Waters at a reasonable rate, with R T Pruitt securing the fruit for shipment.
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New Braunfels
Red Cross
Landa's Park
L. B. Clegg
R. T. Pruitt
J. C. Waters
Picton
Texas
Waters
Arabs seize Yembo as Mecca sheriff builds new rule
A Reuters dispatch reports Arab forces have occupied Yembo on the Red Sea after taking Jeddah and Mecca's sheriff announces independent authority. Guns, prisoners, and munitions fall to the Arabs as he arranges a weekly journal and appoints officials, doctors, and a police instructor. A note on Yembo’s role as a pilgrims transit point. Also mention of a novelty baseball practice target shaped like a hollow polyhedron with openings on each surface.
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London
Hejas
Red Sea
Jeddah
Yembo
Reuter
Cairo
Mecca
Holy City
Arabia
Taif
Medina
Egypt
Chicago cools as heat wave ends with 81 degree low
After a brutal spell that caused 115 deaths and hundreds of prostrations, Chicago felt relief as a north wind pushed temperatures down to 81. Parks and Lake Michigan drew thousands seeking rest and cooling, while concerns over coroner workloads and infant deaths remained amid dispersing crowds and scattered rioting at beaches.
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Chicago
Lake Michigan
Mitchell
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Duluth
Health Department
North Shore Beach
Clarendon
Rocky Mountains
Iowa
Illinois
Heat Wave Persists in South. Lake Region to Cool
Washington reports high temperatures remain across the South today and tomorrow with no relief in sight. Cooler weather expected by tomorrow in the lake region and Eastern New York.
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Washington, D.C
South
Weather Bureau
Lake
New York
Milwaukee Heat Wave Claims Thirty-One Lives
Milwaukee weather bureau logged a drop from 102 degrees yesterday to 82 by seven this morning as temperatures eased. Officials report thirty-one heat tied deaths occurred yesterday across the city.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Milwaukee Weather Bureau
Summer heat in Racine tops 47 years with deaths
In Racine Wisconsin on July 31 the hottest day in forty seven years caused three deaths and ten prostrations as thermometers climbed from 97 to 102 degrees. A shower at midnight eased the conditions.
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Racine
Wis
Heat continues to grip Kansas City area as cool wave forecast
Kansas City Missouri July 31 10 am temperature reached 90 degrees. Forecaster said a cool wave is due tomorrow. Western Kansas saw light rains last night and early today.
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Kansas City
Kansas
Rain Breaks Burlington Heat Spell
Rain began this morning in Burlington Iowa ending a two week heat wave with 100 degree temperatures cited in a July 31 report.
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Burlington
Towa
Texas to sell millions of horses in wartime surge
Col Ed D Steger U S S A retired reports the government bought 72 000 horses and mules for Fort Sam Houston to equip cavalry artillery and guards on the Texas border. He cites a 25 000 000 head count, claims 60 000 000 plus on Texas farms and notes 100 to 150 dollars per mount and a booming market.
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United States
Texas
Ed D. Steger
Fort Sam Houston
Steger
Bonham
Tex
Hughes in New York for notification of nomination
Charles FE Hughes arrived in New York from Bridgehampton for tonight’s Carnegie Hall ceremony where he will be officially notified of his presidential nomination. Republican leaders from across the country attend the event as Theodore Roosevelt and others are noted to be present.
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New York
Charles FE. Hughes
Bridgehampton
Carnegie Hall
Warren Harding
Ohio
Willcox
Hughes
Astor Hotel
Union
Theodore Roosevelt
Taft
Canada
James D. Reynolds
National Committee
Charles E. Hughes Jr
Notable Visitors and Guests at Local Hotels
A roster of travelers and business figures checked into the St. Anthony, Gunter, and Menger hotels. Names include W. T. Penareon from Houston, A. Van Diesar of Crowther, H. C. Clark from Atlanta, J. A. Graham of San Benito, Col. Edward D. Steger of Bonham, J. R. Page of Houston, Thomas J. Martin of Fredericksburg, Amos Rich of Brownsville, L. Ehrlick of New York City, A. Watson of Giddings Springs, William Holabird of Chicago, S. R. B. Houx of Dallas, and Phil L. Servive of Chicago, with varied occupations.
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A. van Diesar
Crowther
Tex
Gunter Hotel
H. C. Clark
Atlanta
Fredericksburg
Amos Rich
Brownsville
St. Anthony Hotel
L. Ehrlick
New York City
St. Anthony
A. Watson
Giddings Springs
William Holabird
Chicago
Menger Hotel
S. RB. Houx
Dallas
Phil L. Servive
Haig Reports New Adances Along Somme
Haig reports fresh German troops and guns and notes Allied gains on the Somme. He says counter attacks failed to stem progress as Russians score victories and Von Bothmer fights to hold positions near Lemberg TarnoPol.
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Lemberg
Tarnopol
Letchitsky
Dniester
von Bothmer
Sakharoff
Lutsk
Brody
German War Losses and Captures Reported
Berlin officials publish two year wartime totals showing 2,658,000 enemy troops captured by Germany Austria Hungary Bulgaria and Turkey while Entente forces took 1,659,000 Teutons prisoners. The report lists 1036 captured cannon and 4,700,000 shells among booty and notes 90.2 percent of wounded return to the front.
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Berlin
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Bulgaria
Turkey
Europe
Lst
Officials Try to Place Blame for Explosion
Officials contend an interloping barge loader with ammunition moored at their pier defied orders and caused the first blast. Four ammunition barges were destroyed with feared loss of crew. The big pier near the Statue of Liberty is a smoking ruin though the statue itself remains largely undamaged.
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New York
Russia
Lehigh Valley
Commissioner of Public Safety
Government to Probe New York Harbor Explosion
The Department of Justice and Interstate Commerce Commission began an inquiry into the New York harbor explosion to determine if federal law violations occurred. The investigation aims to establish responsibility and possible legal breaches.
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Department of Justice
New York
Washington, D. C
New York Harbor
Department of Justice and
Interstate Commerce Commission
Winnsboro Candidate Morris Reports Campaign Spending
Charles H. Morris of Winnsboro, a defeated primary gubernatorial candidate, filed an expense statement with the Dallas county clerk showing a total of 20 131.41 spent in his campaign.
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Winnsboro
Dallas
Tex
Charles H. Morris
Ford to Open New San Antonio Branch and Distribute Center
Ford Motor Company plans a three story San Antonio branch at 224 West Commerce Street to handle Ford cars and parts for 56 Southwest Texas counties and Mexico. The Clifton George Company will be absorbed and Paul W. Seiler will manage with J. B. Bloom as assistant, D. E. Humphrey leading the educational department.
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Ford Motor Car Company
San Antonio
West
Commerce Street
Ford Company
Texas
Mexico
Dallas
Houston
Ford Motor Company
Clifton George
Ford
Air
Paul W. Seiler
Nashville, Tenn
J. B. Blooo
D. E. Humphrey
Clifton George Company
South
West Texas
Seiler Moneday
United States
Ford Motor Company of
Detroit
Texa
Seiler
Ford Sales Company
May Oppose Slayden at Republican Executive Meeting
The Republican executive committee will meet August 8 at the St. Anthony Hotel at 10 AM to select a congressional candidate to challenge James L. Slayden, Democratic nominee. The gathering will also plan the August 26 Republican convention and address other agenda items.
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Congress
James L. Slaye Gen
Republican Executive Committee
St. Anthony
J. E. Elgin
Elgin
Two Deaths At Rock Island Heat Claims Increase
Rock Island Illinois reports two more deaths from the heat last night. The brief item notes rising fatalities linked to high temperatures as scientists discuss theories about bodily changes akin to disease in organic matter.
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Rock Island
Rock Island, I
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