Allied gains in Balkans and Western Front clashes
British and French reports outline advances east of Villers-Brettenneux and Corcy victories in Champagne. Italian and Albanian fronts show activity with gains near Berat as forces strengthen Piave positions. Korniloff disputed leadership in Russia while UK and French communiqués note raiding success and improved positions along the Somme and nearby sectors.
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Nia
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Morris and Kert
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Morris and
Festubert
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Shake up in Colorados Guards and stock exchange suspensions
A Colorado national guard restructuring is reported imminent with removal of Ma sé Buell from state militia treasury roles. Separate items note suspensions in the New York Stock Exchange involving John Muir & Co. and a high voltage accident in Norwalk leaving a man in serious condition. Details are fragmentary.
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Colorado
Norwalk
Andrew Bukodes
Cliffside
N. J
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Norwalk Hospital
No Goal for Beer Industry Doomed by War Fuel
Washington July 11 The brewery business faces doom for the war period as Dr Garfield United States Fuel Administrator warns beer and malt producers cannot expect coal beyond on hand needs. Cereal stocks may keep breweries running eight to ten months more while they receive only 50 percent of normal fuel. The move aims to conserve coal for essential war needs and signals possible action against other non war industries.
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Congress
Garfield
United States
United States Food Administration
Fuel Administration
Food Administration
New England
Railroad Administration
McAdoo Declines Dinner Invitation at Lake Tahoe Event
Telegraphing from Tahoe Tavern California to William S. Walker president of the Pacific Railway club Director General McAdoo today declined the club's invitation to be its guest at dinner when he reaches San Francisco. He said he must decline all invitations due to his imperative duty in the present emergency to the important railways which called him west.
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McAdoo
Lake Tahoe
Washington
Tahoe Tavern
William S. Walker
Pacific Railway Club
San Francisco
Inquest Into Columbia Disaster Opens in Peoria
Peoria Illinois July 11 with the Columbia disaster inquest to be held tomorrow over the remains of Harry Brown of Pekin. Scores of survivors and boat officials have been summoned to testify.
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Peoria
Ill
Harry Brown
Pekin
Brooklyn Lieutenant Becomes America's Fifth Air Ace
Lieutenant James A. Meissner of Brooklyn is credited with his fifth air victory, hailed as America's latest ace. He had just earned the French Croix de Guerre for his fourth win, after a duel with a German opponent in which both planes collided head on. Meissner's aircraft survived with a damaged wing while the German plane was destroyed.
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James A. Meissner
Brooklyn
America
Meissner
Earl Poulett Dies at 34 in London Influenza Death
Earl Poulett, a member of the anti aircraft corps and famed for his marriage to chorus girl Sylvia Storey in 1908, died of influenza at 34. A street organ grinder once claimed the title, causing aristocratic controversy.
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London
Earl Poulett
Anti-Aircraft Corps
Earl
Sylvia Storey
William Henry Poulett
Happenings in This Vicinity Aged Items From Town
Twenty grocery clerks visited three dealers resisting store closures on two nights weekly for six weeks with no success. Fresh eggs 20c a dozen butter 18c and a pound 12c. Town quiet. many at seaside and mountains. schools vacant. Berlin Iron Bridge operates nights. Cutaway Harrow Higganum restarts on three quarters time after two week shutdown. A hen at Wilbur Smiths laid an egg four inches long and six and a half around. F. G. Russell schooner hauled out at Gildersleeve for repairs. Nolan offers silk vests at 48c. Cresent Beach vacation for David C. Tyler. Co. H Mansfield Guards drill tonight. T McDonough Russell sails for Europe with Rev E Campion Acheson Wednesday. Sylvia C. Hull largest three masted schooner on river unloading lumber at William street. draws 12 feet. John Bliss antique dealer has a chair George Washington sat in at Whitfield House Guilford. Plans for corner stone laying of new Y M C A building. Charles F. Browning chairs city meeting. $50,000 voted for new high school. grammar and high schools to be separate buildings. Kerensky to visit Rome this week. expected end of week per official dispatch.
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Cutaway Harrow Co
Higganum
Wilbur Smith
Candlewood Hill
F. G. Russell
Hamilton
Gildersleeve
Nolan
David C. Tyler
Crescent Beach
Co. H. Mansfield
T. McDonough Russell
Europe
E. Campion Acheson
Sylvia C. Hull
William Street
John Bliss
Central National Bank
George Washington
Whitfield House
Guilford
Charles F. Browning
Alien Pastor Returns Home Amid Threats in West Hope
The Rev. Philip Peters, expelled alien pastor, returned to West Hope Ohio under cover of darkness with federal investigators arriving simultaneously. Peters is charged as an I. W. W. leader and a German propaganda director. New threats of violence followed after he trampled an American flag Tuesday night. Governor Cox telegraphed Sheriff Spencer to deploy troops if needed.
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West Hope
Philip Peters
Peters
Cox
Spencer
Mrs Florence Hilles Plans Senate Suffrage Petition
Mrs Florence Bayard Hilles a prominent society leader and key suffrage worker will soon send a petition to the U S Senate signed by thousands of women in munition plants nationwide calling for equal suffrage Hilles herself works at Bethlehem Steel firing detonators for ten inch shells two months on the job she says she works for suffrage and justice.
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Florence Bayard Hilles
United States Senate
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