British 60 Into Battle Smiling at Allied Victory
Allied forces push across occupied territory with 17,000 prisoners and 200 captured cannons. British tanks lead infantry through ruined villages as Canadians, Australians, and British troops press the line east of Mehaubout to Pierrepont, while German troops retreat under air and ground fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British War Office
Cantons
Weday
Fitish
Mehabout Poloy
Rainecourt
Warvillers
Aauifort
Folio
Hanges
Pierrepont
Contorre
Thursay
Bodie
Americans Extend Lines at Fismes
On the Aisne Vesle front the American army pushed north of the Vesle river and captured the northern suburbs of Fismes along with 100 German prisoners. The French war office reported the seizure of Fismette, a suburb of Fismes, and noted hand to hand fighting and prisoner captures. German raids near Bazoches were repelled, and two German aircraft were shot down as cloud cover limited aerial activity but kept aviators busy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. G. Wales
Aisne-Vegle
Vesle River
Fismes
Fismette
Vesle
War Office
Rheims
Braisnes
Fismey
Bazoches
Mystic Kiss Shocks Buddhist Apostle in Japan
Rev. Mokusen Heki, returning from America, spoke at the Japanese Young Buddhist Association about a death-rate machine at the Panama Exposition showing higher youth mortality. Ladies kissed his hand in admiration, and at a dinner he faced awkward tango requests from guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East and West News
Mokusen Heki
America
Japan
Japanese Young Buddhist Association
Panama Exposition
Telegraphers Union Official Denies Nationwide Strike
Percy Thom as deputy international president of the Commercial Telegraphers Union of America said a nationwide strike planned to begin Monday is denied. He warned the situation is very serious as West Union discriminates against operators who joined the union despite President Wilsons proclamation granting employees the right to organize.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Percy Thomas
Commercial Telegraphers Union of America
Thomas
West Union
Wilson
Harvard athlete Major McKenna killed on Marne front
Major James A. McKenna Jr formerly of Harvard and a noted oarsman and baseball player was killed July 28 while leading men across the Marne near Villes-Fere. He served as a captain in the Fighting 69th New York National Guard and was promoted after seeing action in France.
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McKenna
Aisne-Vesle
James McKenna
Harvard
Marne
Villes-Fere
New York
James A. McKenna, Jr
France
Old “Fighting 69Th
New York National Guard
Bank Statement Highlights From New York Financial Report
New York reports early August figures showing average loans up 87.44 million, demand deposits up 0.497 million, time deposits down 0.088 million, reserves down 21.435 million. Actual loans rise 152.227 million, demand deposits down 10.283 million, time deposits down 3.934 million, reserves down 14.393 million.
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New York
Labor shortage declared local not national by labor report
The Department of Labor says price hikes are not caused by a national labor shortage. Building trades show a labor surplus due to material delays while farm and common labor are ample in the southwest. Auto repair workers are plentiful nationwide and female clerical labor is normal. factories could avoid shortages with improved conditions.
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Department of Labor
Washington
New York
Washington State
Department
HURTIN' ARSENAL CORP LIVES BRAVERY FIRST AID
Corporal Tomas Bartram of Lakeville Connecticut directed a first aid operation on his mangled leg after being run over by a motor truck near Stamford. He fell beneath the rear wheel and the vehicle dragged him along concrete. His upper left leg was ripped to the bone and shin splintered with severed veins. He remained conscious and organized a tourniquet to stop bleeding before removal to Stamford hospital.
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Stamford
Tomas Bartram
Lakeville
Conn
Bartram
United States
British capture Chapilly on Picardy front advances
Unofficial front reports say British forces reached Chapilly and pushed two miles beyond Chaulnes, a key German base, as cavalry and tanks advance. The deepest Allied progress to date is 15 miles on the Picardy front.
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Chaulnes
London
Chapilly
Happenings in This Viginiy 25 Years Ago
Yesterday was one of the hottest days of the season with a Brainerd drug store shade reading at 98. Peaches were shown to dealers by Josiah M. Hubbard. S. M. Foote leases Kilbourn House stables and moves in. Edward B. Smith the plumber moves into Parshley block. D. K. E. society of Wesleyan to occupy Nathan Starr place on High street. Industrial School home and chapel addition started. Livery business closed and horses moved to Moodus Oak Grove Farm. Nero the Newfoundland dog dies. Middlesex Assurance Co moves into new quarters. Three ex chiefs of police still living. four dead. Three Meriden men seek work. Elevator planned for Middletown Coal Co dock. Thomas O Connell enjoys Coney Island sea breezes. Sun spots blamed on freckled sun. Ely completes 30-foot gasoline launch.
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Brainerd
Josiah M. Hubbard
S. M. Foote
Kilbourn House
Thomas O’connell
Coney Island
Edward B. Smith
Parshley Block
Daniel P. Bradley
Meriden
Middletown Coal Co
Nathan Starr
High Street
D. K. E. Society of Wesleyan
Richard V. Singleton
J. C. Chapman
Nero
Stephen B. Chafee
Middlesex Assurance Co
Unfilled Steel Orders Decrease Slightly in July
United States Steel Corp reports unfilled orders totaling 8,883,801 tons as of July 31, down from 8,918,866 tons on June 30, a decrease of 3,065 tons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States Steel Corporation
Clearing House Statement
New York totals show sub treasury debits of 2 945 016, exchanges 513 041, balances 49 198 093 as of August 10. The data outlines daily banking movements across the Clearing House with emphasis on liquidity and settlement flows for the period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clearing House
New York
Sub
Treasury
Womans grief to service as canteen worker after loss in France
Mrs. Mabel Fonda Gareissen of 490 Riverside Drive New York City loses her son Lieutenant Ott McCormick Gareissen in France serving with American forces. She leaves mourning behind to become a YMCA canteen worker in the war effort explaining that mothers must rise to support the living and the boys who fight for peace.
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France
Mabel Fonda Gareissen
Riverside Drive
New York City
Ott McCormick
Gareissen
End the War Message Rallying Duty and Kaiser Defeat
A wartime editorial urges Americans to stay focused on victory over Germany. It emphasizes prosecuting total war, pressuring the Kaiser, and trusting peace will follow in due course. The piece frames persistence in battle as the path to ending the conflict.
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Pigardy
U. S
Apostle
Hurtin
Arsenal
Slainson
Han Enade Osion
Mand &E
Ih Edmonds & Co
Cormick
Gereissen
Boston Post
Tiffany
Fray Jewelry Co
Providence
R. I
O “Rewer
Wain and Court Studte
Pat
Havana
Kid Okfords
J. Polmer & Sons
Main and Ferry Sts
Connecticut
Seth Thomas
R. J. Atwell
Main
Louis M. Schmidt
Datent Wines
Middletown
Lyman D. Mills Co
Court ST
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