New Measures Against Armenians In Turkey
Turkish government advances steps to dismantle the Armenian church’s democratic structure and place authority under Muslim direction. A new spiritual assembly replaces the church’s national assembly, with power limited to religious education and charitable institutions. The State Department reviews decrees and may raise the issue with Germany through Ambassador Elkus.
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Turkey
Washington
State Department
Elkus
Women in Politics Prompt Boss Warning
Quote from Baltimore American questions whether women in politics will dictate leadership, followed by a personal remark about marriage. The brief exchange highlights social attitudes toward female involvement in governance and relationships.
Sidney Lumber Co Promotes Best Town Housing Appeal
Do you want a good home in the best town on earth See as Sidney Lumber Co touts housing options and local advantages in a concise promotional notice highlighting community appeals and timber industry ties.
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Sidney Lumber CO
Teutons Take Lead as Germans Press Champagne Push
German forces launched five attacks in Champagne, checked by Russian machine gun fire, while British troops stormed a German fortified work called the Quadrilateral near Combles, advancing along a one mile front. French gains south of Combles and Verdun trench capture tighten entente positions. overall war front activity widens across the Western and Eastern theaters with pushes near Grand Court, Ablaincourt, and along the Somme.
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Champagne
Paris
Flaig
Somme
Fleurs
Combles
Nemecourt
Ablaincourt
Verdun
Dead Man's Hill
Grand Court
Albert-Bapaume
Peronne
Pripet Marsh
Russia
Galicia
Carpathian Mountains
Berlin
Vienna
Tuutsk
Carpathians
Maratowsa
Archduke Charles Francis
Petrograd
Braezany
Amaiupka
Pody ysche-Haticz
Bucharest
Transylvania
Sofia
Dobrudja
Albania
London
Rome
Vavala
Nidje Plania
Florina
Monastir
Vetreoik
Kajmackalan
Triest
Doberdo
Blackmail Band Nabbed by Federal Agents in Chicago
Eight members of an alleged blackmail gang including five men and three women are in federal custody in Chicago and will be sent to Philadelphia for trial. They allegedly used the beauty of the women and the charm of the men to extort more than 250000 from social rivals in Chicago Baltimore New York and Philadelphia through coordinated schemes. Their method allegedly involved compromising victims and then blackmail.
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Chicago
Philadelphia
Department of Justice
Baltimore
New York
German U boat Campaign Reported in August
An official German admiralty statement notes in August the destruction of 126 hostile merchant ships and 35 neutral ships carrying contraband to enemies. Submarines from September 2 to September 11 sank 26 hostile belligerent vessels in the English Channel and Atlantic, with several neutral ships sunk under prize laws for carrying contraband to England or France.
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Nowdrs
English Channel
Atlantic
England
France
Seth Low Dies at 66 in Bedford Hills Country Home
Seth Low former mayor of New York and onetime president of Columbia University died at his Bedford Hills country home after several months of illness from a complication of diseases. The prominent civic figure passed away at age sixty six.
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Seth Low
New York
Columbia University
Bedford Hills
South Dakota Rail Commission Rejects Rate Hikes
The South Dakota railway commission refuses express companies the right to raise intrastate rates. About ten thousand New York moving picture workers have formed a union and may strike if needed to win higher wages and better working conditions.
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South Dakota Railway Commission
New York
Moving Picture
Multiple wartime and policy items from a 1916 era
The report surveys diverse events including a Texas quarantine against infantile paralysis, Germany delaying sugar beet exports until autumn, a lynching in Vivian Louisiana, a looming railway strike prompting a Wilson appeal to Congress, the death of Archbishop Spalding in Peoria, Admiral Benson on naval war game lessons, and President Wilson’s planned recess appointment of George Rublee to the Federal Trade Commission with a senate confirmation push in December.
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Germany
Jesse Hammnied
Vivian
Wilson
Congress
John Lancaster Spalding
Peoria
Benson
George Rublee
Federal Trade Commission
Senate
Rublee
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Offers Constitutional Cure
There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than any other disease, historically deemed incurable by local remedies. Hall's Catarrh Medicine, made by F J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio, is advertised as a constitutional remedy taken internally and acting through the blood on mucous surfaces. A $100 reward is offered for any case it fails to cure, with circulars and testimonials available. Sold by druggists. The advertisement also mentions Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
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