Eastland Disaster Blamed on Criminal Negligence
Chicago police allege criminal negligence caused the Eastland catastrophe. Investigations proceed as divers search the swamped hull and authorities account for roughly 1,000 dead or missing. The ship listed and capsized within minutes after loading 2,480 passengers near Clark Street dock.
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Union News Service
Chicago
Chicago Police
Eastland
Second Regiment
Clark Street
Michigan City
Lake Erie
Theodore Roosevelt
Mastland Narrowly Avoids Disaster In Harbor Incident
Chicago reports a near miss aboard the Mastland between Chicago and South Haven Michigan. Passengers were moved to one side during ballast loading to prevent a list that could have mirrored the Theater disaster eight years earlier in 1908.
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Chicago
South Haven
Mich
Eastland disaster statement on overloading and tickets
Chicago noted that the Hastland catastrophe was not caused by overloading. W K Greenebaum of the Indiana Transportation Company said 2408 tickets were taken at the Eastland gangway under federal supervision. The capacity mark was 2600.
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Chicago
W. K. Greenebaum
Indiana Transportation Company
Eastland Gangway
Note on Lusitania Crisis Shows Moderated U S Stance
The United States released the full text of its reply to Germany on Lusitania and submarine warfare. Officials say the tone is not an ultimatum and focuses on restricting submarine actions affecting American ships rather than supervising all German wartime conduct.
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Lusitania
Wilson
Count von Bernstorff
State Department
Germany
United States
Secretary of State Presses Germany on Neutral Rights
Washington notes to German ambassador reject July 8 1915 note as unsatisfactory and urges adherence to neutral rights on high seas. US cites Lusitania sinking as unacceptable while urging avoidance of retaliatory acts harming neutrals and seeking principled, universal rules of naval warfare.
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Department of State
Washington
United States
High Seas
Great Britain
Kaiser's War Plans Target Warsaw and Calais
Western Newspaper Union News Service reports Kaiser Wilhelm convened a Berlin crown council and seeks Warsaw and Calais capture before negotiating peace. Germans storm two villages south of Warsaw and cross the Narew as they press toward the Bug and the Warsaw Vilna railway front.
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Union News Service
Paris
Posen
Kaiser Wilhelm
Berlin
Copenhagen
Germany
Warsaw
Calais
von Hindenburg
von Falkenhayn
London
Narew
Rozan
Pultusk
Bug
Vilna
Petrograd
von Buelow
Courland
Kovno
Grodno
von Mackensen
Lublin- Cholm
Reivetz
Lemberg
Cholm
Tidewater Oil guards and manager arrested in Bayonne riot case
Samuel H. Edwards general superintendent and 52 Tidewater Oil Co. guards were arrested in Bayonne New Jersey on charges of inciting to riot after shots were fired at nearby homes. Edwards released on 500 bail with August 1 hearing. guards jailed on 500 bail each. labor representative P Leon Bergoff also arrested and released on 1000 bail.
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New York
Samuel H. Edwards
Tidewater Oil Co
Bayonne
N. J
Kinkead
Edwards
P. Leon Bergoff
Cincinnati Grain and Livestock Markets Listing Prices
A detailed price listing from Cincinnati showing Wheat, Corn, Oats, Hay, Eggs, Poultry, Cattle, Bulls, Calves, Hogs, Sheep, and Lambs. Includes No 1 to No 4 grades, weights, and per unit prices, with varied ranges for each commodity and live stock category.
Red Cross Nurses Recalled From Europe
American Red Cross doctors and nurses will be withdrawn from European battlefields October 1 due to funding shortages. Two Belgian units may continue. fourteen detachments return to the United States. Serbian Sanitary Commission and other funded work will continue as long as contributions come in.
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United States
Washington
Red Cross
Belgium
Serbian Sanitary Commission
Woman Finds Relief from Monthly Pain with Vegetable Compound
Florence, South Dakota woman recalled months of severe bearing down pains and backache before trying Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. After one bottle she felt improvement and completed a course of three more, returning to work. The ad claims the product treats displacements inflammation ulcers tumors irregularities and other female ailments and offers confidential advice from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Florence
Dakota
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn
Mass
True Fighters and the Black Watch in France
W. Bourke Cochran recalls the Black Watch fighting well in France earning praise from Germans and Irish admiration. He tells the Pat McCann tale of a black eye nose split lip and missing tooth after a confrontation with Tim Sullivan with Bridget chiding him and Pat defending the dead.
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Black Watch
France
W. Bourke Cochran
Pat McCann
Pat
Tim Sullivan
Bridget
A Catty Girl Encounter Revealed in Conversation
The dialogue sketches a meeting between Algernon and a woman as he mentions having time to kill. The exchange implies a possible idle motive and hints at underlying tensions or social dynamics.
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Algernon
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Dickerson N. Hoover
Chas. Westcott
Searights
Cornish
Lansing
Garrison
Daniels
Gerard
Kaiser
Teutons
Cincinnati
Carter
Daisy Fly Killer
Harold Somers
de Kalb Ave
Dakine
N.y
Parker
Dean
Kentucky
Thomas G.page
Washington ,St
Glasgow
Jeays
Monroe
Doan
Iris
Foster-Milburn CO
Buffalo
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