President Wilson to move executive offices to Asbury Park
Washington dispatch reports the White House will relocate its executive offices to Asbury Park New Jersey for Wilson’s vacation starting tomorrow. A full staff of secretaries clerks and attaches accompanies him, with Shadow Lawn near Long Branch serving as the main base and Atlantic City to host a suffrage convention speech.
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Long Branch
Gadsden Woman Credit Granger Medicine For Health
Miss Jenne Usy of Gadsden Alabama wrote praising two Granger medicine products stating they were indispensable in her home. The letter describes regular use of Granger pills and tonic as a simple vegetable remedy aiding health and well being. The notice promotes Granger Medicine as available at local druggists.
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Granger
Six Masked Bandits Fail to Crack Train Safe
Six masked bandits försökte rob a Golden State Limited express near Apache Arizona. After six attempts to blow the car safe they fled on horseback. Passengers unharmed though one shot fired at the mail clerk. Two robers boarded the tender at Apache and the others waited at a camp fire. A posse pursues them.
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Associated Press
Douglas, Ariz
Golden State Limited
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway
Apache
Douglas
Pig iron sales in Birmingham soar
Birmingham reports about 60 000 tons sold this past week and 40 000 tons the week before, totaling around 100 000 tons in two weeks. Prices run 14.50 to 15 dollars per ton as major producers like Republic Iron and Steel, Woodward Iron, Alabama Iron, and Sloss-Sheffield report heavy tonnage. The Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company sells little iron amid a strong early September buying surge tied to munition orders. Industrialists expect the movement to continue for several weeks.
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McCormick Plans Regular White House Contact Amid Convention Visit
Vance McCormick head of the Democratic National Committee, based in New York, will visit Shadow Lawn at least weekly to meet the president. Secretaries McAdoo Tumulty Burleson and others will stay in constant communication with the president as he travels to St Louis for a convention of underwriters.
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Vance McCormick
Democratic National Committee
New York
Shadow Lawn
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Minnesota
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Burleson
Dutch Herring Prices Jump as War Boosts Demand
The Dutch fleet of 725 ships landed 671000 tons of herring in 1915, earning an average of 20 dollars per ton, up from 8. War conditions and German demand drove a 150 percent rise. Several ships were damaged by mines and nine were lost with twenty eight lives. The motor-lugger Catherina made 65000 dollars across ten trips.
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Associated Press
Scheveninger
Catherina
Da Vinci Bronze Statue Bought by Ferenczy
Budapest Hungary Sept 7 The Museum of Fine Arts has acquired an almost unknown bronze statue attributed to Leonardo da Vinci. Hungarian sculptor Stephen Ferenczy bought the piece in Italy in the early 19th century without knowing its creator. Authorship was confirmed after Ferenczy’s death.
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Associated Press
Budapest
Hungary
Museum of Fine Arts
Leonardo da Vinci
Stephen Ferenczy
Italy
da Vinci
Ferenczy
Mail volume growth from 1789 to 1913
The Associated Press reports on U S postal growth, noting 124,173,480 pieces in 1847 as the first estimate and 18,567,445,160 pieces handled in 1913, illustrating the department’s expansion since 1789.
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Associated Press
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United States
Missing Link Discoverer Charles Dawson Dies at 52
Charles A. Dawson, the Lewes magistrate court clerk and archaeologist who found the Piltdown skull, has died at Lewes at age 52. The skull, believed by scientists to be a prehistoric woman and the missing link in human evolution, was deemed the most important fragment of human remains ever found.
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London
Charles A. Dawson
Piltdown
Lewes
Dawson
Archaelogogy
Chamberlains Colic Cure Praised By Ohio Mother
Mrs Jennie Moyer of Lima Ohio reports her fourteen month old daughter survived cholera morbus after using Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. The physician advised trying it when other medicines failed and after the second dose the child kept medicine down and improved rapidly. Obtainable everywhere.
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Jennie Moyer
Lima
Ohio
Hungarian Premier Tisza Deflects Attacks in Parliament
In Budapest on September 7 the opposition pressed to oust Premier Tisza amid a violent session. Tisza defended Hungary’s actions in Transylvania and Romania, blaming Romania for starting the war and noting Allied plans on routes along the Bulgarian and Hungarian borders. Opposition leaders urged dissolution of his government as the session closed with continued protests.
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Associated Press
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Tisza
Count Tisza
Rumania
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Translovania
Vienna
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Apponyi
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Karolyi
Romania
Opeee
Hungarian Parliament Adjourning Steps Amid Opposition
A Zurich dispatch reports Hungary plans to prorogue parliament if opposition attacks escalate. Premier Tisza says he obtained from Emperor Francis Joseph a decree to prorogue and will convene and publish it for every sitting if violence continues.
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Associated Press
London
Zurich
Tisza
Francis Joseph
Germans Spin New Cloth From Cotton and Paper
Copenhagen September 7 a new German textile blends paper with about 20 percent cotton. Downy unspun cotton is glued to paper rolls and the paper is drawn into narrow bands then spun with the cotton side outward. Danish experts show paper under clothing and coverings but cost is too high to compete with cotton or wool.
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Associated Press
Copenhagen
English Remedy for Catarrhal Deafness Promised in Advertisment
An American bulletin promotes a British treatment for catarrhal deafness and head noises. It cites damp English climate and claims the internal remedy restores hearing, describing a home formula using Parmint double strength with hot water sugar and four daily tablespoonful doses.
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