Wilson Note Presses Germany Over Submarine Warfare
The note warns German submarine commanders against acts violating American rights and signals readiness to seek mediation. It frames the phrase deliberately unfriendly as the final US position and invites Germany to cooperate to restore freedom of the seas while excluding Great Britain’s actions from negotiation. The note awaits a German response days after publication.
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United States
Mae
Wilson
Lusitania
Germany
Anal Aera Psi
Great Britain
Lansing
Washington
President Wilson to study national defense plans with Garrison and Daniels
Washington July 24. Formal White House statement says President Wilson will return to Washington to confer with Secretary Garrison and Secretary Daniels on plans to improve the army and navy. He has asked for reports from war and navy departments and aims to outline a practical national defense program. The plan includes a reserve army of at least 500000 and increased regular forces, with navy work accelerating submarine and aeroplane development.
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Washington
White House
Wilson
Garrison
Daniels
War and Navy Departments
Secretary of War
Secretary of the Navy
Congress
Army
Navy
Hawaii
Philippines
Panama Canal Zone
United States
Béard
Reventlow Announces Stand Pat on Submarine Campaign
Berlin via London July 24 Count Von Reventlow asserts in Tages Zeitung that Germany will maintain its stand on the submarine war and that no note from Washington will alter the attitude. He says further negotiations remain possible despite the American note and that the German position is fixed.
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Berlin
London
Ernest von‘ Reventiow
Tages Zeitung
Germany
Count von. Reventlow
Af Anzieger
Washington
Penultimate note praised by London papers
The Westminster Gazette calls America's new note to Germany a penultimate note and notes it reasserts firm principles without breaking relations. The Pall Mall Gazette praises President Wilson for self restraint and intervention, while London papers discuss the necessity doctrine and its implications.
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London
Westminster Gazette
America
Germany
Pall’ Mall
Weer
Vna Keay
Weather Summary For Alabama Mississippi Regions Tonight
Brief weather note indicates generally fair conditions tonight across Alabama with lighter winds, and similarly in Mississippi with fair skies and light north to northeast winds prevailing at night. No significant storms or precipitation reported.
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Ius
Alabama
Noethenet
Mississippi
Cowart and Cheney Indicted by Montgomery Grand Jury
Lee Cowart former state immigration commissioner and John C. Cheney former chief clerk in agriculture were indicted by the Montgomery county grand jury on embezzlement and grand larceny charges. No amounts named. both men free on bond.
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Cowart
Cheney
Montgomery
Ala
Lee Cowart
Immigration
John C. Cheney
State Department of Agricultural
Montgom County
Grand Jury
Alabama bill would empower sheriffs to search institutions
Senator Hartwell submits a bill reported favorably by the senate education committee granting sheriffs the right to search convents sem inaries hospitals and other enumerated institutions in Alabama. Senator Hollis authored the measure saying it is a general test to uncover unlawfully held persons in any institution.
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Montgomery
Ala
Hartwell
Senate Education Committee
Hollis
Alabama
Alabama health reform bill stalls in house
The state health committee report on a sweeping medical reform bill ends in a tie. Dr Yarborough chair notes no agreement and the measure is sent to the education committee, signaling a split in support and a push for reform. Mobile ball club official Parker opposes the anti Sunday amusements bill as Mobile County officials scout road work with White trucks.
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Committee On Education
Yarbrough
House
Montgomery
Ala
Health Committee
Committee On
Education
Temperance
Senate Parker
Mobile Baseball Club
Ward
Bolton
Green
Mobile County
White
Grayson
Brakenridge Convicted in False Pretense Case
Newell B Brakenridge yachtsman globetrotter and contractor to Alaskan mail routes was found guilty in city court of attempting to defraud E J Buck of 1200 dollars by claiming ownership of the yacht Pequot free of encumbrances Brakenridge 55 dressed in a linen suit faced a brief jury deliberation and likely will appeal authorities say the fraud stemmed from a false ownership claim made more than two years ago.
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Glober
Battles
E. J. Buck
Brakenridge
McCarron
Cramer
Battle Over Warsaw Persists Amid Russian Fight and German Attacks
July 24 report notes continued combat near Warsaw with Petrograd acknowledging fighting sx miles southwest of Ivangorod. German forces smash wire entanglements but incur heavy losses from Russian counterattack. Vienna and Berlin claim Austro German forces clash along the Lublin Chelm Railroad and at a village on the line. Grand Duke Nicholas is believed to be aiming to save Warsaw as German reinforcements move from Libau to the south. Western front quiet aside from Italian success on the Carso plateau.
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London
Warsaw
Petrograd
Ivangorod
Vienna
Berlin
Lublin-Chelm
Grand Duke
Nicholas
Riga
Libau
Italy
Carso
Italians Claim Gorizia Taken as War News Spreads
Geneva dispatch reports from Milan that rumors say Italian troops have captured Gorizia after major advances. The note notes delayed confirmation and mentions captives and movements, with officials in New Orleans related to a separate arrest case.
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Gorizia
Geneva
Paris
Tribuna
Milan
Denn
Zia
Burch
New Orleans
Brakenridge
Crescent City
Mobi
Globe
Trotter
Oes Thacher
Crenshaw
Eastland Disaster Drowns Hundreds on Lake Steamer
The Eastland carrying 2500 passengers capsized in the Chicago river at dawn. Rescue crews recovered hundreds of bodies as officials opened investigations and prepared for a grand jury inquiry. Survivors recalled panic as the hull flooded and life preservers were used.
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Federal League
Pnts
Dr Ae
Natorm
Schuettier
Apo
Theodore Roosevelt
Eastland
D. Gadory
Disaster on the Eastland Boat Excursion Tragedy
Eyewitness accounts describe the Eastland sinking in the river as passengers crowded the deck on an excursion. The hull listed and capsized near the dock with many leaping or trapped inside cabins. life savers and tugboats rushed to rescue survivors and recover bodies including Mrs. Peter and Mrs. Kommer.
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Chicago
Eastland
Western E Company
Biet
David Jones
John E. Traeger
Mt Picaine
Aero
Harry Pederson Dell Fisher
Clark Street Bridge
Gadory
G. Hall
Western Electric
C & St. Louis Transportation Com
Clark
Mobilians May Have Been Lost in Disaster
Captain A H Brinkman of Ne shota reports a son and son in law worked for General Electric. After learning of the disaster he feared one or both may have been aboard the ill fated vessel. A Mobile resident Bidgood, linked to a well known Mobile family, was also said to be a GE employee and the family seeks to learn if he was among the victims.
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A. H. Brinkman
Neshota
General Electric Company
Bidgood
Mobile
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Pough‘eepsie
Globe-Trotter
Pri Oces
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