Gardener slain at Schumann-Heink estate near San Diego
Wilhelm Besthorn, a German born gardener at Mme Ernestine Schumann-Heink's Grosamont residence near San Diego, was beaten to death and buried in a yard. His dogs uncovered the grave triggering sheriff investigations to identify the killer as authorities search crews. Besthorn is said to have been a naturalized American with a sizable sum on him. The singer Mme Schumann-Heink is currently away in the East.
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San Diego
Mme
Ernestine Schumann-Heink
Grosamont
Wilhelm Besthorn
Besthorn
Schumann Heink
Schumann-Heink
Forest Fire Threatens Rackerby Town in California
A forest fire near Marysville threatens the mountain town of Rackerby on Hon cut creek NE of here. The blaze, believed controlled last night, rekindled with strong winds this morning. Dozens of men fight the fire as hundreds of acres burn. authorities suspect a boy’s matches started it.
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Marysville
Cal
Rackerby
Honcut Creek
Here
Rainbow Division Bolsters Line Near Ferre en Tarde
Washington dispatch reports the Rainbow Division reinforcing near Ferre en Tarde nola under Gen March. The Third Division also in heavy fighting at Clerges as six new divisions form at camps Logan Kearny Sevier Deauregard Travis and Dodge with two regular regiments each. A cable to Gen Pershing requests casualty reports in full as battles continue.
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Washington
Ferre En Tardenola
March
Rheims
Clerges
Logan
Kearny
Sevier
Deauregard
Travis
Dodge
Pershing
French chemist patents liquor solidification tablets
A French chemist has devised a method to convert liquors into solid tablet form. The innovation promises portable, tasteless doses suitable for travel and controlled portions. Further details on composition and applications were not disclosed.
Watch the Little Pimples They Are Nature's Warning
Warning about skin pimples and disorders, urging prompt blood purification with 8 8 8 text as a remedy. Claims the product cleanses the source in the blood and offers free medical advice from Swift Specific Co. Atlanta.
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Swift Specific Co
Swift Laboratory
Atlanta, Ga
Fare Decision Awaits Result of Book Probe
City officials and labor leaders await the traction company books probe results to set a wage scale from 60 cents an hour, rising 6 cents in year two and 10 cents in year three. The plan may cut into revenue needed for dividends and service improvements, with ratification by workers next.
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Traction Company
War Labor Board Sets Carmen Wages at 42 to 48 Cents
The national war labor board will fix Carmen wages from 42 to 48 cents an hour. The board plans to issue a formal award today as Carmen workers from over 40 cities press for wage increases. Board experts spent the night summarizing testimony from hearings in a dozen cities.
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Washington
Carmen
National War Labor Board
7 Cent Fares in Tacoma Fail to Improve Service
Tacoma workers staged a mass meeting to protest 7 cent street car fares. Traction company figures claim a 40 percent raise boosted revenue, but 28 percent of the increase funds higher wages, leaving no extra money for equipment and promised better service.
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Tacoma
Traction Company
Waa
Enemy Retreat Presses Toward Filmes Front
The report describes mined bridges over the Ourey and roads to the river, strong enemy machine gun pits, and barbed wire barricades. American artillery destroyed defenses as troops advanced, with hand to hand fighting, ambulances flowing to the front, and prisoners taken from Bavarian reserves and foot guards.
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Ourey
Roada
Oureq
Signal Corps
I'risonera
Chasseurs
Fifth Foot Guards
Boche
Marne
Efficient Service McAdoo Demands Efficiency
Washington July 31 Every railroad employee must devote himself to work with new energy to justify the pay increases and better conditions granted by the government. Director General McAdoo advised shop employees on federal controlled roads. His message was included in a pamphlet outlining the railroad board of adjustments findings in the shop men's demand for higher pay. Copies of the decision were mailed to every employee.
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Washington
McAdoo
Railroad Board of Adjustments
Threaten to Raid Venice as Reprisal
PERNE July 31 threats of air raid reprisals against Italians for attacks on Austrian towns are contained in an interview with Vice Admiral Von Nagybanya published in the Pester Lloyd. The admiral says Italians should cease raids on Pola Trieste and Dalmatian towns or face reprisals. Venice is hinted at in the interview.
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Perne
von Nagybanya
Pester Lloyd Today
Pola
Trieste
Dalmatian
Venice
Seven men to entrain for Camp Fremont from draft board No. 8
List notes that seven men on Selective Draft Board No. 8 will entrain for Camp Fremont, California, on August 5. Also includes obituaries for K. Snow of Kent Alaska, Mrs. Kate McDonald of Seattle, and other brief local notices on deaths, thefts, missing persons, and court actions.
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Selective Draft Board No. 8
Camp Fremont
Cal
K. Snow
Kent
Alaska
Alliance
Neb
Boy War Orator Knox Price To Speak In Seattle Sunday
Knox Price, 44 year old boy orator son of Mr and Mrs E C Price of San Francisco, arrives in Seattle Sunday to support war work. A fully accredited four minute man he appears in military uniform at the Liberty theatre Sunday afternoon with additional engagements to be announced.
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Knox Price
Seattle
E. C Price
San Francisco
California
Knox
Liberty Theatre
Tanlac relief transforms Seattle man after intestinal illness
Harry R. Wheeler of Seattle recounts severe stomach pain and weight loss from seventy pounds to 152. He credits Tanlac with ending agony, restoring appetite, aiding sleep, and steady weight gain. Wheeler states his strength returned and urges others to try the medicine sold by Bartell Drug Stores.
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Tanlac
Harry R. Wheeler
Pacific Coast Steel Plant
Forty Eighth Ave
Seattle
Taniac
Bartell Drug Stores
Regiments of German Dead Lie Buried Not
Special to The Star by NEA Amsterdam July 21 reporting from Soissons front. German boasted offensives left whole regiments wiped out with dead unburied and piled corpses ready for burning. Wounded overflowed base hospitals as officers questioned the value of the Hindenburg breakthrough strategy after the mass casualties.
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Solwwens
Europe
German Women Hurl Stones Over Holland Labor Policy
Amsterdam reports thousands of German women protested the hiring of Dutch laborers to replace front line troops. Women pelted the latest batch of Hollanders with stones as police, weakened by war, struggled to intervene. Most imports go to Krupp works.
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Amsterdam
Holland
Eanen
Krupp
Burglars Loot Mrs Crawford’s Basement Overnight
Thieves ransacked the basement of Mrs. J. H. Crawford at 1741 12th Ave. S. Tuesday night and stole about 150 pounds of auto tools along with 10 gallons of Karo syrup and a assortment of minor items including clothes and knitwear.
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J. H. Crawford
12Th Ave. S
The Lydia E Pinkham Remedy Promises Health and Beauty
Women with headaches backache and dragging pains suffer long and show signs of woe. The ad urges turning to Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a traditional root and herb remedy to improve health and consequent beauty.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Founder of Bank in China to Wed Here
M. Joseph Adolphe Perrotte of Paris founder of the Bank Industrial de Chene in China will wed Miss Marguerite Buckler of El Paso Texas at St Jaques cathedral Wednesday. Perrotte, one of China's wealthiest bachelors, and his bride-to-be, formerly with the Chicago grand opera, will travel to New York and Paris before returning to Beijing to reside.
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M. Joseph Adolphe Perrotte
Paris
Bank Industrial de Chene
China
Marguerite Buckler
el Paso
Tex
St. Jaques Cathedral
M. Perrotte
Chicago Grand Opera
New York
Peking
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Pike
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Elliott
Columbia Grafonoa
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August Records
Union St
DOCS
Rainbow
Fere
Ohio
University ST
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Filmes
Kate McDonald
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Beattle
Los Angeles
Ody
Rotary Club
Masonic Club
Kansas City
George Murphy
King County
Democratic Club
St. Joseph's Church
18Th Ave. N
Ivy Peterson
Harold Peterson
Mitchell I’ Angel
A. F. Shephard
Ninth Ave
Canat Hotel
William Eklimb
Hilda Gunderson
King At
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Martha Lowe
Great Falls
Arcade Hotel
Will K Humphrey
British American Relief Association
Fagles’ Hall
Seventh Ave
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Everett
Wash
Harry Wheeler
NEA
Germany
Soissonn
Hoosier
Grote-Rankin
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