Germans Take a Town Across War Fronts in 1915 Dispatch
Berlin reports German forces advance toward Warsaw with the capture of Oxtrolenke on the Warthe river. Allies debate if Warsaw should be abandoned to avoid encirclement as Hindenburg’s forces push along Courland and the Baltic coast toward Windau, Riga, and a new naval base amid heavy Meuse combat losses and a notable coal strike affecting miners.
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Berlin
London
Warsaw
German War Office
Wartw
Sociatror
Courland
Field Marshal von Hindenburg
Bug
Copenhagen
Windau
Thia
Duplin
Windsu
Riga
Minnesthus
von Hindenburg
Yor Mackenpen
Krasnostny G
Paris
Meuse
Russians Unable to Hold Positions on Eastern Front
An Austrian statement says Russian forces could not hold their positions on the eastern battle front despite bringing up all available reinforcements. The report notes Teutonic allies gained victories along the line, indicating weakened Russian resistance.
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Viwnna
London
Italian War Forces Make Large Gains
Despatches from Paris report Italian forces advancing since July 16 with gains of over five miles in Cadore and Jesser valleys. Austrian positions near Tolmino and north of San Lucas retaken. two Austrian footholds recaptured.
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Paris
Tribune
Cadore
Jesser
Carnia
Tolmino
San Lucas
Sinking of Italian Cruiser Giuseppe Garibaldi Details
Rome reports details of the Italian cruiser Giuseppe Garibaldi sunk by an Austrian submarine after dawn on the eighteenth near Cattaro Gravosa. The official statement notes air raids and bombardments, the crew’s discipline, and the king's loyalty chants as they abandoned ship amid heavy enemy actions.
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Namocy Az
Rome
Giusppe Garibaldi
Cattaro
Bom
Barfiing
Trinat
Akure
Bicycle Rider Hurt In Collision On Salem Street
A serious bicycle automobile collision occurred Monday night at Main and Valley streets in Salem. Kenneth Ritter fractured his leg above the knee and suffered a minor leg cut. William Powers was knocked unconscious briefly but recovered quickly. The Clarkshoro car was driven by Strasider and Roberts, who were not blamed. The injured boys were reported doing nicely Tuesday morning.
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Salem
Main
Valley
Kenneth Ritter
Jane Ritter
William Powera
Young Ritter
Young Powers
Clarkshoro
Strasider
Roberts
German Successes Across Battle Line in Russia
Berlin July 20 official German war office report claims important successes for Teutonic allies along the battle line from the Baltic Sea to Bukowina. Gallwitz’s army holds the Narwe line near Warsaw, Windau port seized bringing Germans within reach of Riga. Report says 45,000 Russians captured.
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Rneae
Berlin
Russia
Battie Sea
Bukowina
Atl
German War Office
Gallwitz
Narew
Warsaw
Windau
Taye
Baltic
Riga
Riga City to Be Used as German Naval Base
Copenhagen dispatch says Danish military circles believe Germany plans to use Riga and nearby Win Hall and Tucum as bases for operations aimed at capturing Riga. The move would establish Riga as a new German naval base to support the military campaign in the region.
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Riga
London
Copenhagen
French Statement of War Operations
The official statement reports bombardment in Artois near Souchez and near Neuvilly St. Yaast with fighting to the north of Chateau Carloul. Aisne valley cannonade and Soissons bombardment are noted. On the Meuse heights the night was lively but infantry action was limited, with German trench attempts near Calonne repulsed.
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Paris
Artois
Souchez
Nuevill St. Yaast
Chateau Carloul
Aisne
Soissons
Meuse
Calonne
Renck
New Vote of Credit Introduced in House of Commons
In London on July 30, Prime Minister Asquith announced a new vote of credit of 750 million dollars to Parliament for war expenditures bringing total appropriations to 2.35 billion dollars. He noted that during the first seventeen days of July spending reached 270 million dollars with daily expenditures rising.
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East London
House of Comimons
House of Commons
Asquith
West Virginia builders push wage bond protection
July 20 Huntington report that the West Virginia Lumber and Builders Supply Association launches a campaign to revise the new law. The group seeks stronger protections for owners architects contractors subcontractors workmen and suppliers by enabling each to demand a bond ensuring all wages and accounts are paid.
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Huntington
West Virginia Lumber and Builders” Supply Association
West Virginia Mechanics O
General strike possibility looms in New York clothing trades
General strike fears return to New York apparel industry as labor conditions worsen and talk of a broad walkout grows. A committee of adjustment for workers and manufacturers remains in conference seeking a settlement of differences.
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New York City
New York
Weston woman Ida Shaffer acquitted in theft case
Mrs Ida Shaffer of Weston was arrested Monday and brought to the city by Constable C K Word. She was acquitted Tuesday in Magistrate W E B Starcher's court of stealing a gold watch and a gold ring valued at 25 dollars from Theodore Marshall at a Fury Street boarding house. Marshall had sworn out the warrant.
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Ida Shaffer
Weston
C. K. Word
W. EB. Starcher
Gaia
Theodore Marshall
Fury Street
Marshall
Local Masons to Attend Morgantown Temple Corner Laying
Morgantown Union No 4 invites a large group of local Masons to a grand judge meeting Thursday. The new Masonic temple corner store will be laid. Hermon Lodge No 6 is also invited. Charles D. Sturm and E K Stout, city officers of the grand lodge, will attend and play leading roles.
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Morgantown
Demoralization in U S Lumber Industry Warns Leader
Chicago July 26 R H Downman president of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association tells the Federal Trade Commission conditions in the lumber industry show eight years of demoralization. He cites little or no profits steady job losses unsold inventory and wasteful forest resources. Railroads have not been in the market since 1907 export demand shrank due to war and operations stopped in 1914. Prices wages and bankruptcies have worsened amid uncontrolled output and economic strain.
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Eny Pasoearan Rea
Chicago
R. H. Downman
National
Lumiber Manufacturers” Association
Federal Trade Commismon
Mr. Downman
Mr. Dowmans
Censis Tépirts
Forest Review
In Support of Life
Men Walk Out at Lunch Hour in Remington Strike
About 3,000 machinists walked out at the Remington Arms and Ammunition works and four sub contractors during lunch hour. Subcontractors reported all their machinists walked out while the company denied any walkouts. Union VP J J Keppler said no call was made for Lake Torpedo Boat Company workers.
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Bridgeport
Remmington Arms and Ammuanition Company
Gerted
Remmington Company
Major Penfield
Machinista
Gainor Manufacturing Company
Columbia Nut and Bolt Company
J. J Keppler
The
Machinists Union
Lake Torpedo Boat Company
United States
Early marriages urged as immoral by Purity Congress
Jey Redfield of Chicago told the International Purity Congress in San Francisco that child marriages foster vice and crime. He cited Biblical and historical examples of old parentage and urged delaying marriages, arguing the damage falls on those who wed and their offspring, not the couple. He suggested a stop to marrying children to curb immorality.
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Jey
San Francisco
Redfield
Chicago
Congresa
Confucius
Buddhas
Moses
King David
Jesse
Solomon
Ten Thousand Dollar Conscience Fund Gift Arrives
A plain envelope mailed from New York contained ten thousand dollars, the second largest single contribution ever received by the U.S. government conscience fund, delivered to the treasury department today.
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Associated, Press
Washington
Treasury Department
New York
Gompers Silent On Remington Strike At Bridgeport
Samuel Gompers president of the AFL refused to comment on the Remington arms plant machinists strike in Bridgeport. He noted no statement could be made at this time and that a conference with IAM officials had been called to review the situation.
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Associated Pneme
Washington
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Remmington
Bridgeport
Gompers
International Association of Machinists
West Virginia Institute program showcases school expansion plan
The West Virginia teachers institute issue features a flag design with a blue field and a slogan Better Schools in West Virginia. It includes a banner promising Better Physical Conditions and Extension of the School and presents banner cuts highlighting state efforts to extend school work beyond classroom walls.
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West Virginia Teachers’ Institute
Istitute Bankier
West Virginia
U S Probes German Sympathy Links With Allies Charges
United States attorneys and Justice Department agents pursue British government charges that German sympathizers in the United States violated American neutrality. Investigations proceed in secrecy with reports expected soon, independent of allies’ embassies. No conclusive proof yet that foreign influence caused strike attempts or disrupted war export hubs.
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Washington
United States
Department of Justice
County Prisoner Charles White Escapes Gang Trial Set
County prisoner Charles White who escaped from the county road gang near Bridgeport faced trial in Magistrate Jackson V- Carter's court Tuesday morning on the escape charge. He will serve sixty days in jail and work out capture costs. White was captured at Gilmer Station last Saturday morning by Deputy Sheriff Le Leo M. Wolfe.
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Charles White
Bridgeport
Jackson V- Carter
White
Gilmer Station
Leleo M. Wolfe
Forgery Case Involving W W Plant Names Wife of Wagon Driver
A forgery charge concerns turning on a Wilsonburg check for thirty dollars using W W Plant as the payee. Mrs Minnie Danis, wife of a West Mein and West Pike streets wagon driver, was arrested Tuesday and released on 500 bond for a Tuesday afternoon hearing in Magistrate W Starcher's court. The case stems from the alleged use of Plant's name in the transaction. In other news, Judge Chturies W Lynch of the state supreme court granted writ of error and supersedeas in the Wilson group case against H Clark Ice. Bond was set at 50.
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W. W. Plant
Wilsonburg
Grafton Bank
Chturies W- Lynch
State Supreme Court
Waller D .Wilson
H. Clark Ice
Wilson
Chemic Court
Harrison County
Polish Prince sunk by collision near Lowther Range
July 20 report states the British steamer Polish Prince was sunk after a collision with the Lowther Range. One man drowned and the rest of the crew were landed at Barry. The county court reconvenes at noon to resume the thirlf annual attainment meeting.
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London
Colliston
Obe Mian
Barry
Train Plunges Into Gulch Near Delbart Fatal Crash Kills Three
A loaded freight train on the El Paso and Southeastern railroad plunged 200 feet into a gulch near Delbart, Texas, Tuesday. Three men were killed: Engineer Brickley, Fireman Pricer, and Ce Kinley, all of Tucumesri. The engine and ten freight cars were destroyed.
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Delbart
Tex
Here
el Paso and Southeastern
Brickley
Pricer
Ce Kinley
Tucumesri
Adamston Merchant S W Jackson Dies After Illness
Adamston merchant S W Jackson died at five o clock Monday evening after a six weeks illness of blood poisoning. He was 67 and had run a Adamston grocery for twenty years. Survived by widow Susan and five children, sons W T, Jamies J Jackson of Adamston and W D Jackson of this city, daughters Mrs Eliza beth Seaton of this city and Mrs Beunr Yost of Adamston. Funeral Wednesday at 1 30 from the Jackson home with Rev D W Cunningham. Burial in Odd Fellows cemetery at Shiunston.
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S. W. Jackson
Adamston
Elizabeth Seaton
Beunr Yost
Jackson
D. W. Cunningham
Odd Fellows
Shiunston
Big Automobile Races At Norwood Park Soon
Edmund Denham manager of Norwood Park closed a contract with the Motor Racing Association of Pennsylvania for four big automobile races at Norwood Park on Saturday July. The program features eleven events with renowned drivers and high power cars including Packard Greyhound and Marmon Wasp. A parade hosting decorated cars is planned at 2 o’clock with prizes and judges announced.
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Edmund Denham
Norwood Park
Motor Racing Association of Pennsylvania
Aggirican' Automobile Association
West Virginia
Packard Greyhound
W. Johnson
Sutontown
I. Betterman
Tanlortown Bill
Beaver Bullet
Gardner
Saventh
Bulch
Grime
President Wilson Submits Tenet on German Note
President Wilson told the cabinet that an outline of the new German note is not yet finalized. He warned that future actions will determine if American rights are violated and whether the Orduna affair will be cited in the note. The White House reported no public announcement or immediate escalation.
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Emer Wren
Washington
Dent Wilson
Germany
Serine Lgiawer
Whiyrax
Righdenes
Shot Fired at Bayonne Oil Plant Strike
New York July 20 A Avery worker at Standard Oil Bayonne plant fired a shot during a strike causing arrests. About 6,000 Tidewater oil plant workers remain at work while others join the strike. Police report six arrests as authorities aim to end the loading of barrels for Europe.
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New York
Standard Ol
Bayonne
Cmeén
Europe
Cigarette Smoke On Board Warship Referenced in July Incident
Reports from Washington say a cigarette stub or burning match likely started smoldering on a vessel described as new jugught Oklahoma. Navy officials doubt incendiary work and note inflammable material believed to have caused the fire, with further fires aboard other ships under review.
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Oklahoma
Associated
Washington
Oklahome
Navy Department
Georgian Prison Farm Fatality Report Across Hours
Kran’s condition Milledgeville Georgia reports a physician attending Lep ME says the throat cutting victim at the prison farm remains in critical condition. Temperatures and respiration numbers are cited though unclear in the fragment. Hospital transfer noted to a private noon. Grafton July 20m Jay Mesid, a wealthy political figure, dies at 86 at Hnpttsrilo hospital.
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Milledgeville
Solyeo
Frank
Anc
Grafton
Jey
Kmesid
Thome
Bomb bombs air raid report resumes for aeroplanes
A fragment indicates a resumed report on aerial bombardment and aircraft actions. Details are incomplete but reference to planes and bombs suggests a wartime aerial event. The text reads as an entry note about aeroplanes and missiles.
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Bari
Clarksburg
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SsUsk
Adamston Merchant
Uniontown
Oydll Daves
Main Street
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Rayn
Dentam
Arad Qorar
Wiliam L. Gappert
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Samuel
Ita
Tenemany
Gosing
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