British French push on Somme front in latest advance
British, French and Canadian forces renewed the Somme offensive with gains from Montauban to Highwood and Bazentin positions. New Zealanders secured northern Bapaume outskirts while Australians pressed toward Dompierre. Prisons tally passes 21,000 as gains widen across the Oise and Aisne sectors.
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London
Somme
Mericourt
Bapaume
Montauban
High Wood
Longueval
Bazentin le Grand
Highwood
Ligny Thilley
New Zealand
Croisilles
Dompierre
Suzanne
Wancourt
Guemappe
Scarpe
Americans Gain Ground West of Fismes and Prisoners Returned
General Pershing reported progress near Fismes with Americans gaining ground and bringing back prisoners. The communique notes a local advance west of Fismes and an enemy loss as an American raid was repulsed with no further details.
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Washington
Fismés
Pershing
Fismes
Ameri
Home Guards Ordered to Shoot on Sight in Hastings
Aug 27 Hastings on Hudson N Y. Captain Frank F Grossman orders home guard to shoot on sight after discovery of secret signalling operations. Hills scoured for thizers said to signal to agents along the coast as a vessel and yacht club members observe signals from a ship off Hook Moon.
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Home Guards
Hastings-on-Hudson
N. Y
Home Guard
Frank F. Grossman
Sigwere
Hook
American Airmen Repel Assault Over French Front
Report describes American airmen engaging in combat in France with two enemy planes dropping rounds as one ammunition dump was struck. Despite pursuit by two hostile aircraft, the American forces held the line and repelled the attack.
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France
Mutinous Troops Rally in Amsterdam Frontline
Fragmentary report describes a German frontier battalion and officers ordering troops to obey orders as campaigns in Amsterdam in August proceed. Readable details indicate tension and strict adherence to directives amid retreat and defense concerns.
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Amesterdam
Licked Huns With Rocks and Fists Heroic Escape Tale
New York reports the tale of Bunt Cohen, famed Pacific coast amateur baseballer, who endured a brutal battle near Cambria, fought alongside US Marines, and escaped from Metz prison in a daring sequence. He describes stolen guards uniforms and a trek to American lines, detailing hunger, danger, and a vow to return to battle. He awaits recovery at Ellis Island base hospital.
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New York
Cambria
Cohen
United States
Metz
Oise
Red Cross Center Bombed Kills Twenty Three in Belgium
An Aug 27 report from Washington states twenty three people died and about sixty were injured when German shells hit a marked Red Cross bath house and refugee center behind Belgian lines. The laundry area housed 200 workers, all refugees displaced by the German advance. A girl lost both legs from shell fragments and a soldier carried in a severed arm of a boy.
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Washington
Red Cross
Pauline Vurlee
Gerard warns Germans know little of Allied victories
James W. Gerard, former ambassador to Germany, arrived in Philadelphia to open the national fraternal congress of America and warned that German people know nothing of Allied successes and are not ready to quit. He planned an Independence Square rally expected to draw 40,000 as the liberty singe.
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Philadelphia
France
Jamcs W. Gerard
Germany
Congress of America
Gerard
Independence Square
Prohibition Debate Proposed by Connecticut Committee
The Connecticut prohibition committee led by E. G. Rosenthal issued a challenge to the Trades Union Personal Liberty League. It invites President James T. Manee of Hartford to arrange public debates on prohibition any time after September 19. The proposal envisions statewide coverage with shared speaker duties and equal exposure.
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South Manchester
Connecticut Prohibition Committee
E. G. Rosenthal
Trades Union Personal Liberty League
James T. Manee
Hartford
Hohenthal
Hoarded Food Seized from Contractor in Bristol
State Food Administrator Scoville of Hartford seized a barrel of flour and 500 pounds of sugar found hidden in the attic of A G Stewart, a prominent contractor in Terryville Avenue, Bristol. Summons left for Stewart to appear and explain why he stored excess foodstuffs.
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Ann
Picanistrator
Scoville
Hartford
Terryville Avenue
Stewart
Connecticut Draft Registration Surpasses Sixty Thousand
About 32,000 Connecticut youths aged 21 or older registered in the draft in the latest period, joining approximately 2,000 previously registered in Hartford as of August 27. The total indicates broad mobilization readiness across the state, with registrants now subject to potential military service.
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Hartford
Connecticut
Mutiny Among German Troops Reported in Berlin
A mutiny of German troops en route to the front is said to have occurred at a Berlin railway station. Troops allegedly refused to march until machine guns were trained on them.
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Zurich
Berlin
Detroit Electric Railways Fares Hiked by ICC
Washington August 27 The interstate commerce commission granted Detroit Electric Railways Co permission to increase its fare.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Detroit Electric Railways Co
Senate Rebuffs Strike Ban in Manpower Bill Fight
Washington reports the senate rejected a bid to strike the Reed-Thomas anti strike provision from the manpower bill by 40 to 29. Cummins amendment, adopted 78 to 0 earlier, allows strikers to await war labor board rulings without losing deferred status and being drafted. Senate debated draft age limits and processes, with close votes and procedural rules guiding further action.
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Washington
Administration
Senate
McKellar
Tennessee
Cummins
Reed-Thomas
Hitchcock
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Lodge
United States
War Labor Board For Adjustment
Fall of
New Mexico
Congress
Calder
Fall
France
McCumber
New
Townsend
Watson
Frelinghuysen
Sherman
Iowa
War Labor Board
Payne Not To Resign As Ambassador Page Denied
Washington reports quote unofficial denials that Walter Hines Page American ambassador to Great Britain planned to resign due to ill health. It is learned he may sail home for rest soon but unlikely to abandon his post and would return.
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Payne
Washington
Walter Hines Page
Great Britain
State Department
Nashville Aces Hill and Hoover Gain American Title
Lieutenants Hill and Hoover of Nashville Tennessee are named American aces after earning their title through rigorous training at the American training camp. Both aviators are distinguished for mastering tough aerial maneuvers and earning the ace designation in military aviation.
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Hill
Hoover
Nashville
Tenn
Avia
Submarine chaser 209 sunk in mistaken fire by liner
Washington reports submarine chaser 209 sunk after being misidentified as a German sub by an incoming liner. Fifteen crew missing, nine survivors landed at New York and Lewes. four wounded, names given. Liner identified as Felix Taussig. Ship went down south of Long Island at 3 am. An Atlantic Port reports 17 crew missing, believed killed. A destroyer recovered eight survivors. ninth fate unclear.
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Washington
Navy Department
New York
Lewes
Del
Thomas Harrin
Claude Wilde
Clarence S. Evans
R. A. Cocoran
Elmer E. Gleason
Elmer S.kirby
Claude Kalmey
Charles N. Thomas
George B. Weigand
Felix Taussig
Long Island
Atlantic
United States
Sandy Hook
National Tune Night at Holy Trinity Church
The Council of National Defense asks Governor Holcomb for a nationwide nine o clock singing of the Star Spangled Banner. Middletown will host a central meeting at the Church of the Holy Trinity for loyal citizens to participate in the call. Steam Trawler Sink reports a German submarine sunk the Rush off the Canadian coast. crew landed.
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Council of National Defense
Holcomb
Church of the Holy Trinity
Middletown
Boston
Commonwealth Fisheries Co
Austrian Attack Repulsed in Cocci Valley
Rome reports an Austrian assault in the Cocci valley repulsed while Italian authorities announced a British raid that netted 270 prisoners. The brief item notes the campaign context and casualty remarks, reflecting wartime activity and prisoner counts.
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Rome
Cocci
Office
Senate
Asiage
Shipyard Wage Demands Threaten National Work Halt
Washington Aug 27 The shipyard workers demand 31 an hour with double time for holidays and overtime and a half holiday on Saturdays. The Shipbuilding Labor Adjustment Board will confer with President Wilson this afternoon. Members fear a general strike if demands are refused. They may seek a presidential appeal urging workers to stay at their posts for national duty and to prevent grave economic consequences.
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Washington
Shipbuilding Labor Adjustment Board
Wilson
Funeral for Mrs Prodensia Mungillo Held Today
Funeral of Mrs Prodensia Mungillo wife of Stevin Mungillo drew a large crowd from W J Coughlin's Sons Undertaking Parlors. Rev James P Donovan read services at St John’s Church at 2 pm. Family and friends offered prayers, pallbearers included Dominick La Vally Nicholas Battagl line Carmine Cermola and Joseph Di Jioia. Interment followed at St John’s Cemetery.
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Prodensia Mungillo
Stevin Mungillo
W. J. Coughlin
St. John’s Church
James P. Donovan
D. D
Dominick la Vally
Nicholas Battagline
Carmine Cermola
Joseph di Jioia
St. John’s Cemetery
Child dies at 11 months in Portland cholera infantum
Hazel Gertrude Norton daughter of Mr and Mrs Thomas J Norton died at the family home on Summer street Portland Monday afternoon aged 11 months 8 days funeral set for Wednesday at 9 am interment in St Marys cemetery Portland. Funeral of George S Rockwell held at 2 30 pm from A L Southmayd mortuary chapel Rev Harold J Edwards officiated interment in Pine Grove cemetery.
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Hazel Gertrude Norton
Hazel Gertrude
Thomas J. Norton
Summer Street
Portland
St. Mary’s Cemetery
George S. Rockwell
A. L. Southmayd
Harold J. Edwards
Church of the Holy Trinity
Pine Grove Cemetery
Prussian Guard Reinforces German Efforts Near Coucy Forest
General Boehm deploys crack Prussian guard troops to counter Mangin on the Aisne Vesle front. Prisoners captured reveal intensified German counterattacks at the Coucy forest northeast of Soissons. The enemy seeks to halt Mangin’s advance and prevent being flanked.
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Boehm
Mangin
Aisne-Vesle
von Boehm
Coucy Forest
Soissons
Card shark tale echoes German gun control anger
A letter to the New York Sun recalls a Weadville con artist from 1879 who pulled a fast ruse with a hold-out in a boot. The narrator notes the anticlimax when the card shark discovers his poker bluff betrayed by hidden cheating.
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Eddie Riggs
New York Sun
the Sun
Weadville
Rear End Auto Collision on Main Street
At 10 15 this morning a Ford struck the rear of Dennis O Brien s car in front of Elmer Auto Go on Main street denting the fender and bursting the rear tire. The Ford driver refused to give his name but his number 64 296. The car is registered to O 0 Heydenreich of 187 Russ street Hartford Conn.
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Ford
Dennis O’brien
Main Street
Heydenreich
Russ Street
Hartford
Conn
French Chef Seizes Knife at Stuecks Threatens Rampage
A French chef named John employed at Stueck's restaurant seized a butcher knife and cleaver shortly before 9 AM, threatened to kill staff, and was restrained by two men. Officers Addison Chapman and Joseph Dunn intervened, delivering him to the lockup where he slept off agitation. No injuries reported. danger averted but incident linked to heavy drinking.
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John
Stueck’s
Addison Chapman
Joseph Dunn
Chapan
Stock Quotations From Richter & Company Hartford
Listed quotations from Richter and Company bankers and brokers, members of the New York Stock Exchange, located at Central Row Hartford Con. Tel Charter 2600. Prices, varieties, and market movements summarized for traders and investors.
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Richter & Company
Bankers
New York Stock Exchange
Central Row
Hartford
Con
Charter
Cotton Market Up In Active Trading Day
New York August 27 cotton futures rose on active buying and covering with January and October contracts up 115 to 125 points, about six dollars a bale higher.
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New York
Lead and Spelter Prices Reported Steady
New York August 27 lead steady at 805 bid for spot and August. Spelter steady in East St Louis with spot August September at 91-8 to 93-8 and October November December at 9 to 1-4.
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New York
East St. Louis
Asking Awkward Questions
A Hamburg newspaper argues German rulers must explain to the people why promises about US entry, submarine warfare, and blockades proved false. It recalls Bethmann Hollweg and Hindenburg remarks and warns that Germany’s conduct may cost it the war as neutrals turn away.
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Springfield Republican
Germany
Hamburg
America
Japan
Europe
France
England
United States
Bethmann-Hollweg
Hindenburg
Aversions Of The Great Who Were Not Up To Date
A curious Columbia State fragment lists historical figures and bosses who shunned modern gadgets and norms. Old Colonel Eve refuses corset covers while Hannibal avoids tobacco and Peter the Hermit resists phonograph records. Genghis Khan and Dr Johnson skip vehicles. Moses shuns electric fans.
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Columbia State
Eve
Hannibal
Peter the Hermit
Gustavus Adolphus
Goliath
Genghis Khan
Johnson
Moses
Joy ride lands two boys in city court arraignment
Charles 19 and John Reo 16 faced Judge James R. Edlin on charges from a Friday night joy ride. They were charged with breaking entering theft of tires and operating a vehicle without permission. Anderson admitted no license offense. Guardian ad litem appointed. Witnesses described taking two auto tires and swapping them with new ones. Car owner Scanlon had sold the vehicle that day. none granted permission for use. Judge Edlin kept cases for tomorrow with bonds set. Separate incident: Fred B. Wells fined $1 plus costs for drinking and disturbance at Connecticut Hosp for the Insane grounds.
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Charles
John Reo
James R. Edlin
Anderson
Daniel J. Donahoe
Robinson
Guardian Ad Litem
Adams Express Pany
Benjamin F. Glynn
Frederick A. Clarke
Durham Avenue
Jose Scanlon
Joseph Dunn
Mr. Scanlon
Glynn
the Expresspany
Middlesex Hospital
Edlin
Fred B. Wells
Connecticut Hos For the Insane
O’neil
Big Sector of Hindenburg Line Taken
London August 27 British forces captured Henmel south of Wancourt and seized a large sector of the Hindenburg line. A Reuters front dispatch says Germany has committed 70 divisions in twenty days to stop the Allied Western Front drive.
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Hindenburg Line
London
Henmel
Wancourt
Reuter
Council Meeting Deferred to September 4 by Mutual Consent
The regular monthly meeting of the council is deferred by mutual consent of the mayor and a majority of the Common Council. The meeting will be on Wednesday September 4 at a time to be announced. Monday is Labor Day.
The Misses Florence Hedges and Elizabeth Ferry Visit
The Misses Florence Hedges of Hartford and Elizabeth Ferry are guests of Mrs. Thomas Lawton of Flatbush Brooklyn New York.
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Florence Hedges
Hartford
Elizabeth Ferry
Thomas Lawton
Flatbush, Byklyn, N. Y
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