Storm Displaces Troops As Gulf Coast Hits Hard
Illinois Iowa Michigan and Virginia militia seek shelter in Brownsville public buildings after a 70 mph storm. Wrecked tents in Camp Cotton El Paso send about 500 Michigan infantry to temporary shelter. Pilot Boy foundered near Port Aransas with three crew saved. No local Galveston danger.
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San Antonio
Tex
United States
Fort Brown
Brownsville
Fort Sam Houston
Illinois
Iowa
Virginia
Edward F. Dunne
Houston
Texas & Gulf Line
Port Aransas
Galveston
Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi Bay
North Beach
el Paso
Thirty-first Michigan Infantry
Shipping Bill Passes Senate With 88 to 21 Vote
Washington reports the administration shipping bill creating a shipping board and authorizing 50 million dollars for government ship purchase or operation cleared the Senate 88 to 21 after House passage. Borah failed to attach immigration provisions and child labor measures moved to final stage for presidential approval.
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Washington
Administration
Senate
House
Borah
Wilson
Wilson vetoes army bill over articles of war clause
President Wilson vetoed the army appropriation bill on Friday and sent a lengthy message stating the veto stemmed from the provision that retired officers should not be subject to the articles of war. House Chairman James Hay reintroduced the bill with that clause removed within half an hour.
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Washington
Wilson
House
James Hay
Military Affairs Committee
Deutschland in Home Port Returns From U S Voyage
A private Berlin telegram reported the German submarine Deutschland reached Bremen from the United States. In Kentucky, President Wilson formally accepted Hodgenville as Lincoln birthplace per a new congressional act.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Berlin
Neue Zuercher Zeitung
Bremen
United States
A. S
Lincoln
Washington
President Wilson
Abraham Lincoln
Hodgensville
Congress
Earthquake Covers 60 Miles South of Rimini Causing Heavy Losses
A series of shocks along the Adriatic coast south of Rimini disrupted towns for 60 miles. More than 100,000 men women and children fled their homes as damage mounted across the region.
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Rome
Rimini
Adriatic
Bond Issue Favored To Meet Mexican War Expenditures
The Senate finance committee urged a $130,000,000 bond issue to cover extraordinary Mexican war costs, joining the $205,000,000 revenue bill. Treasury projects 1917 disbursements at $1,126,243,000 with a $762,000,000 surplus, and an additional $86,000,000 may be needed for border operations beyond December 31, 1916.
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Washington
Congress
Senate Finance Committee
Treasury Department
Finance Committee
Senate
Simmons
Siam prince recounts rough handling in Honolulu incident
Prince Mahidol Songkia of Siam, arriving from the East, says a United States customs official mistook him for a Japanese at Honolulu and assaulted him. Minister Karavongse will take the matter up with the state department, while the prince calls it a mistake and seeks no war. He says he was rescued by fellow passengers after being blocked from ashore without papers.
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San Francisco
Mahidol Songkia
Siam
Far East
Honolulu
United States
Karavongse
Washington
State Department
Rail crisis holds militia at home on border threat
Washington August 17 The War Department said no troop movements to the border while the railroad strike threat remains unresolved. The order to mobilize the remaining militia units from state camps for border duty would be rescinded and such troops will stay put for now.
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Washington
War Department
Senate approves Philippine bill with four year independence check
The Philippine bill reported from conference, minus Clarke's four year independence clause, was approved by the senate on Wednesday. It retains a promise of freedom once Filipinos demonstrate the ability to maintain a stable government.
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Washington
Senate
Formal notice of Wilson nomination set for September 2
Washington August 17 Formal notification to President Wilson of his nomination will occur on September 2. The date was chosen as arrangements place him in Long Branch New Jersey for the ceremony before he heads to Hodgenville Kentucky to speak September 4 at the Lincoln ceremony.
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Wilson
Washington
Long Branch
N. J
Longe Branch
Hodgensville
Philippine Bill Passage Moves to President
Washington August 21 The house approved the conference report on the Philippine bill by 34 to 89 and sent it to President Wilson for his signature after Senate passage.
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Washington
House
Senate
Wilson
Fight on Gerard Halts subsiding amid German papers clash
A dispute sparked by German newspaper coverage of Ambassador Gerard’s alleged remarks on German ownership is waning as the controversy slows. The fight was launched by multiple papers but shows signs of subsiding.
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Gerard
Berlin
House approves navy building program and personnel rise
The U S House approved the senate naval building program by 283 to 51 and supported increasing Navy personnel to 74 000. Conferees stood by disagreeing to senate increases for navy yard improvements and will return the issue to conference. The package totals about 661 million dollars.
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Washington
House
Senate
Mothers Fail to Save Sons in Lake Tragedy
In Warsaw Indiana on August 18 Lawrence Crist eleven and Arthur Stanford eight were drowned at Pike Lake while bathing. Their mothers Mrs A H Stanford and Mrs Elmer Crist were pulled from the water unconscious and rescued by bystander Daniel Daisy who saved Mrs Crist by diving in with shoes on. Lelia Crist thirteen survived reaching shore unaided.
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Warsaw
Ind
Lawrence Crist
Arthur Stanford
Pike Lake
A. H. Stanford
Arthur
Elmer Crist
Lelia Crist
Lawrence
Mrs. Crist
Daniel Daisy
Soldier shot to death in Brownsville murder case
Cor corporal J Léo Clement of the Second Virginia Infantry was shot through the heart by Carl Dunches of the quartermaster's department after Dunches, obsessed with a sixteen year old girl Josefa Valdez, visited her home and threatened to shoot her. Valdez screamed and Dunches wounded her in the back. Clement pursued Dunches to the Valdez home where he was killed as he entered. Dunches surrendered two hours later at the county jail. Clement leaves a wife. he was a jeweler from Warrington Virginia, formerly of Michigan.
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Brownsville
Tex
J. Léo Clement
Second
Virginia Infantry
Carl Dunches
Quartermaster's Department
Dunches
Josefa Valdez
Clement
Valdez
Warrinton
Michigan
British Forces Advance in German East Africa
British naval units have occupied Bagamojo and land forces report the capture of Mpapua in German East Africa as coordinated operations continue from London.
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London
German East Africa
War Office
Bagamojo
Mpapua
German Socialists Seek Peace Petition Gains Signatures
Amsterdam aug 19 socialists in Germany circulate a petition for swift peace without conquests with about seventeen thousand signatures gathered from workers at Broslow.
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Amsterdam
Germany
Broslow
Allied Forces Advance on Somme Front
French and British troops struck three directions on the Somme front and stormed nearly three miles of German trenches. Maurepas and Clery were flanked, with the road reached between Maurepas and Guillemont. South of the Somme, French forces advanced about three quarters of a mile from Belloy-en-Santerre and many prisoners were reported.
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London
Somme
Maurepas
Clery
Paris
Guillemont
Combles
Belloy-en-Santerre
Progressives Likely to Base National HQ in Indianapolis
Indianapolis likely becomes the Progressive party national headquarters for the campaign as Edwin M. Lee moves Indiana state office to new premises touting them as the national committee headqarters. A national committee meeting may be held here once membership is finalized by Acting Chairman Hale.
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Indianapolis
Edwin M. Lee
Indiana
Progressive National Committee
Lee
Hale
Boston
Eight Hour Day Crisis Deepens With Rail Talks
President Wilson, after week of conference with railroad officials and union leaders, signals no forward step yet. He defends arbitration as a principle while pressing a plan for an eight hour basic day and a federal commission to study feasibility, aiming to prevent future disputes.
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Union News Service
Washington
Wilson
White House
Fire at Aetna Powder Plant Kills Five in Drummondville
In Drummondville Quebec a blaze at the Aetna Chemical Company powder factory left five dead and six fatally injured with eight more seriously hurt. Authorities say an electric spark from a conveyor likely ignited a bin in the blending house which was destroyed. Estimated damage stands at $20,000.
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Montreal
Aetna Chemical Company
Drummondville
Quebec
Shark Breaks Up the Race at New England Beach
Boston report says Henry F. Sullivan of Lowell won a long surfing race from Race Point Provincetown to Nantasket Beach over 25 miles while Charles Toth of Boston was pulled from the water as a shark swam near him after he completed about 17 and a half miles in around 14 hours. Sullivan finished claimed 20 hours 27 minutes in water by his supporters.
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Boston
Henry F. Sullivan
Lowell
Charles Toth
Race Point
Provincetown
Nantasket Beach
Toth
Sullivan
British cruisers Nottingham and Falmouth sunk by German subs
The Nottingham and Falmouth, two British light cruisers, were sunk in the North Sea by German submarines during a mission to hunt the German high seas fleet. One German sub was destroyed by British forces, and another was rammed and possibly sunk, the admiralty announced.
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London
Nottingham
Falmouth
North Sea
Admiralty
Savage Attacks in Balkans Amid Balkan Front Fighting
An official Bulgarian statement from Sofia reports heavy fighting on the Balkan front with allied infantry attacks repulsed. The clashes occurred around Lake Doiran northwest of Saloniki near the Greco Serbian border, with larger forces reportedly engaged in the region.
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London
Balkan Front
Sofia
Lake Doiran
Saloniki
Editorial criticizes England's Ireland policy arousing U S resentment
The Manchester Guardian editorial claims that England's policy toward Ireland is creating suspicion and resentment in the United States, highlighting the influence of such approaches on transatlantic opinion.
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London
England
Ireland
United States
The
Manchester Guardian
Ways and Means and FTC to Probe Bread Situation
The ways and means committee of the house and the federal trade commission will cooperate in an investigation of the bread and flour situation in the United States.
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Washington
Ways and Means Committee
The
House
Federal Trade Commission
United States
Cincinnati markets grain and livestock price quotations list
The Cincinnati market page lists wheat corn oats hay eggs live poultry cattle hogs and sheep prices by grade weight and product. Prices cover No 2 red wheat 1.54 1.56 per bushel No 2 white corn 89 3 white oats and various hay egg and poultry rates plus cattle hog and sheep ranges.
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Bologna
Thirteen Dead in Corpus Christi Tropical Storm Toll
The tropical storm that hit Corpus Christi and ten nearby South Texas counties killed thirteen people. Nine crew members of the freighter Pilot Boy perished when it foundered near the Arkansas Pass Jetties. Property damage in the area reached about $2,000,000, with extensive loss to the lower coast cotton crop ready for harvest.
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Corpus Christi
Texas
Arkansas Pass
High Quality Sewing Machine Offer and Institute Report
An advertisement for New Home Sewing Machine Co orange mass offers a free booklet to help buyers evaluate sewing machines. The text also mentions a Rockefeller Institute report on infantile paralysis virus in monkeys, noting transmission via nasal or throat mucous membranes and potential long persistence.
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Newfoqme
THE
NEW Home Sewing Machine CO
Orange
Mass
Rockefeller Institute
Cuticura Offer Promotes Hair Care Soap and Ointment
An advertisement touts Cuticura Soap and Ointment as the best remedy for dandruff itching and scalp burning. It advises applying Ointment to touched spots then washing with Soap, claiming superior results and offering a free sample by mail with a booklet.
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Cuticura
Dept. L
Boston
Paper meals in history and spy tales
The piece notes German spy Von der Goltz and others reportedly consuming paper to cope with distress or hunger. It recalls the London Observer claim that paper meals were not unique and cites a legendary instance with Fanny Murray described by Horace Walpole involving leather and a £20 note between bread.
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von Red Goltz
Petrograd
London Observer
von der Goltz
Fanny Murray
Horace Walpole
Richard Atkins
Precocious Infant Audiences Classics
The exchange features Mrs Diggs exclaiming a baby chews a pocket edition of Epictetus and Professor Diggs praising the infant's notable taste for the classics as a rare display of precocious intellect.
Weather Talk Sparks Small Town Banter Across Night
In Singleton and Wedleigh residents recall a chilly evening with a cool reception. The exchange hints at lingering warmth after a cold front as neighbors joke about the night’s oddly brisk air and late arrivals.
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Singleton
Wedleigh
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