British Flag on Minnesota Sparks Contention
A report notes debate over a new seamen's law allowing ships to fly foreign flags if crews include Americans, with the Great Northern Inner Minne possibly flying the British ensign from Nagasaki. The Minnesota, damaged after running aground in the Japanese Inland Sea, is expected to arrive July 5 after repairs.
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Minne
Nagasaki
Pacific
Mail
Robert Dollar
Minnesota
City Population Update Shows Growth Figures
The government census lists Seattle population at 330 834 with a rise of 17 805 since July 1 last year and 8 903 since January 1, 1915.
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Seattle
Famous Pastor Russell to Be in City Sunday
Pastor Russell of London and Brooklyn tabernacles will speak at the Moore theatre Sunday at 3 p m on The Battle of Armageddon. The famed author and lecturer, longtime Bible prophecy student, is known as the Anti Hell Fire Preacher and has published a popular Bible study series. His 40 year career includes a motion picture Bible study Creation which drew large crowds at the Moore last spring. Sunday's lecture is free with no collection.
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London
Brooklyn
Christ's Kingdom
Russell
Brimstone
Europe
Moore
Liberty Bell to arrive July 14 for five hour exhibition
The council public safety committee instructed Mayor Gill and Council President Erickson to arrange the reception of the Liberty Bell from Philadelphia. The bell will be exhibited in Liberty for five hours beginning at 9 15 a m with officials to receive the event.
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Council Public Safety Committee
Gill
Concil
Erickson
Philadelphia
German press urges sinking of two liners bound for England
A Berlin dispatch quotes the Post and Tages Zeitung urging that the liners Arabic and Orduna, sailing from the United States to England with ammunition, be torpedoed. The reports say Britain is not intimidated by the Lustania sinking.
Zeppelin Sinks Fishing Craft Off Holland Coast
Amsterdam dispatches report a Zeppelin sank two small English fishing vessels off the Holland coast. A Dutch steamer rescued the crew after bombs dropped from the airship blew their boats apart.
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London
Holland
Amsterdam
Dardanelles Impregnable Says Emden Captain
Vienna reports Capt. Von Muck of the Emden declares the Dardanelles cannot be forced as Turkish troops resist fiercely and Allied bombardment has worn the warships. He says the Turks fought well and the bombardment caused heavy losses.
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Berlin
Dardanelles
von Muck
Emden
Repulse of Austro German Army Reported Along Polish Front
Petrograd reports repulse of Austrian and German forces along the Polish and Galician fronts. East of Stry, Von Linsingen's army is driven back to the Dneister at Zurayne with heavy enemy losses. 6,500 captured including 188 officers. Lemberg's German advance checked. invaders pushed four miles toward Preemysl.
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War Office
Stry
von Linsingen
Zurayne
Lemberg
Preemysl
Fierce Fighting on Italian Front for Isonzo Bridge
Rome reports heavy fighting for control of a bridge over the Isonzo River five miles from Geritz. Austrian forces attempting to retake the Freikopel pass were repulsed with heavy losses and 1,000 prisoners were taken.
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Rome
Isonzo River
Geritz
Freikopel Pasa
Allied bombardment presses at Gallipoli as land and sea attacks unfold
Athens reports a two day ceaseless assault on the Dardanelles forts by the allied fleet. Mytilene dispatches say land forces struck the Turks while naval operations continue with little pause. The outcome remains uncertain.
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Athens
Dardanelles
Mytilene
Liner Zwelna Torpedoed. Sixteen Rescued
Berlin reports the Batavia liner Zwelna was torpedoed and sunk. Five crew members and eleven passengers were rescued by Dutch fishing vessels, according to today’s reports.
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Berlin
Batavia
Zwelna
Plant of Butte Paper Blown Up
Police investigate the dynamiting of the Butte Socialist weekly newspaper building in Butte Montana. No suspects named yet. The paper had been tied to past local labor dispute when a faction of miners seceded from the Western Federation of Miners and later violence occurred.
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Butte Paper
Butte
Mont
Butte Socialist
Socialist
Sleepers Routed By Early Fire at Lenora Street Lodging House
Fire in a two story lodging house at 88 Lenora Street drove sleepers from their beds at 4 42 a m Friday. The blaze was stopped with a small rose. The cause was a guest who fell asleep while smoking a cigarette.
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Lenora
Submarine threat to Venice in great war tale
Venice braces for attack as Austrian submarines and torpedo boats loom from Pola. The Giudecca canal and Grand Canal defenses flank a city built on piling while patrols guard the lagoon and entrances to major canals.
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Grand Canal
Giudecca Canal
Giudecca
Italy
Austria
Venice
Lagoon of
Litorale di Malamocco
Pola
Adriatic
Islands
Sur
Bridge of Sighs
Governor Renews Plans for Shrine Meeting in Seattle
Governor Lister will skip eastern travel in July and attend the national Mystic Shrine meeting in Seattle during the week of July 11. John L. McLean, secretary of the 1915 executive committee, was notified Thursday night. The program includes Nile Temple band concerts Shrine night at the grand stand a Philadelphia band concert a Moslem temple Detroit music festival and a Tilikum day parade with a baby carriage procession.
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Seattle
John L. McLean
Nile Temple
Grandstand
Lulu Temple
Philadelphia
Grand Shrine
Detroit
Festival of Music
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