City advances rat extermination plan via eight subcommittees
Fifty added health committee members divide into eight subcommittees to canvass merchants and manufacturers. Each will cover city territories and urge prizes for top rat catchers. Yerger aims to complete canvassing before the August 31 Ways and Means meeting for a report on progress.
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Public Health
Ways and Means Bort
Frank Yvrr- Ber
Health Committee
Yerger
Ways and Means
North Side
South Side
Dauphin
Conception
River Front
Brandon
S&s. E. Webb
W. H. Bryanxt
W. T. West
J. J. McMahon
St. Francis
W. W. Gill
Cr. M. Erdman
EF. M. Bailey
F. W. E. Q. Norton
Milawa
CC. L. Hutchisson
Arthur Nicks
G. C. Tucker
John
St. Louis
R. L. Waddle
Albert Bloch
B. F. Adams
Leon Schwarz
Beauregard
W. E. P. Wilson
John Mitchell
James C. Smith
Ed Engledig
Beer
Conti
West of Conception
W. W. Croom
W. B. Delchamps
J. C. White
Julius Goldstein
F. T. Harteau
One False Idea About Vitalitas Debunked in Ad Copy
An elderly man warns against drinking excessive Vitalitas, promoting a teaspoon in water as more effective than gallons of mineral waters for nervousness and debility. The copy touts Vitalitas as harmless, disease-banishing, and beneficial for indigestion to blood issues, urging visits to Sutton's drug store for a sample.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sutton’s Drug Store
Patten recounts perilous Belgian flight amid invasion
James A. Patten of Chicago and Mrs. Patten describe their escape from Belgium with a Dutch pilot aboard a ship navigating mine fields near Antwerp. They recount war chaos, refugees, Belgian engineers mining roads, and sightings of Depew in Dieppe during the invasion period.
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Belgium
Antwerp
Barman
North Sea
James A. Patten
Chicago
Montenegrin Army Near Ragusa Alarms Austrians
A Rome dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph says Montenegrin forces are within two hours marching distance of Ragusa, a fortified Austrian seaport in Dalmatia. Austrian authorities threaten to shoot hostages, including Count Ivo Vopiovaco, if the Montenegrins attack.
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London
Exchange Telegraph Company
Rome
Cettinje
Ragusa
Austria-Hungary
Dalmatia
Carnao
Nicholas
Ragusany
Ivo Vopiovaco
First Great Battle of War Rages in Belgium
Dispatches from London and Brussels report heavy fighting along the Belgian front as Belgian French and British forces engage the German advance. Reports describe sieges around Liege and Antwerp, naval activity in the North Sea, and Allied efforts to hold or push back gaps in the line amid growing casualties.
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Tirlemont
Paris
Brussels
Belgium
Luxemburg
Liege
Alsace-Lorraine
Alsace
Wolff Bureau
North Sea
Mlawa
Russian
Poland
Vladimir
Volhynia
Eydtkuhnen
Sabac
Ragusa
Dalmatia
London
Reuter Telegram Company
Gembloux
Jodoigne
Germans of Haiti Respond to the Call
Seven Germans on the way to the Fatherland arrived in Mobile Wednesday morning aboard the Norwegian steamer Cratheus from Port au Prince Haiti. They will go to New York and sail to Germany. The party includes Wilhelm Kahl Hans Valentine Ferdinand Ravet Joachim Liebner Wilhelm Liebner Hans Louvantzen and Gaston Broschen. Also aboard were three British passengers three Frenchmen one West Indian and one Italian none of whom were returning home.
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Fatherland
Mobile
Cratheus
Port Au Prince
Haiti
New York
Germany
Wilhelm Kahl
Hans Valentine
Ferdinand Ravet
Joachim Liebner
Wilhelm Liebner
Hans Louvantzen
Gaston Broschen
U S Plans Government Buy of Merchant Ships and War Risk Insurance
The U S will insure war risks and buy ships for the merchant marine. A government controlled corporation will operate the ships, similar to the Panama Railroad Company. Attending the conference were Secretary Tumulty McAdoo Simmons Underwood Alexander and others. The exact number of ships will wait on how many foreign-flag vessels join the program.
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Congress
Tumulty
Panama Railroad Company
McAdoo
Simmons
Senate Finance Committee
Representative Underwood
House
Ways and Means Committee
Representative Alexander
House Committee On Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Reno Lawyer and Wife Charged in Nelms Sisters’ Murder
Deputy sheriffs seek requisition papers to extradite Vic tor Innes and his wife from Eugene Oregon for the alleged murder of Eloise Nelms Dennis and Beatrice Nelms. Affidavits filed in San Antonio claim circumstantial evidence places the suspects in Atlanta and Texas.
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Nelms
Reno
Associated Press
San Antonio
Texas
Austin
Colquitt
Victor E. Innes
Eugene
Oregon
Justice Court
Marshal Nelms
Eloise Nelms Dennis
Beatrice Nelms
Atlanta
Law County
Victor Innes
Eloise Nelms
Dennis
Beatric Nelms
Justice Cell
Marshall Nelms
R. L. Barnes
United States Bureau of Investigation
James Galbreath
Innes
Springfield
Ore
War to Last 3 Months Says Witte From Tarhes
Paris Aug 19 a Tarhes dispatch quotes Count Witte the Russian statesman en route from Biarritz to Russia who declares the European war would not last more than two or three months. He predicts Germany will fall and Russia must intervene. He notes Russia mobilization was steady and its army would prevail.
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Associated Press
Paris
Tarhes
Count Witte
Biarritz
Russia
Germany
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Chauncey M. Depew
Sultana
Dauphin ST. EL Ryad
Ambola Coffee
Reuter
France
British War Information Bureau
Shabats
Servia
Belgrade
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Pluton
Madrid
Alfonso
Dato
San Sebastian
Spain
Pie
Washington
Japan
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Berlin
Velvet Joe
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Noes
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Witte
Nestlé's Food
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