Studying Peace Making Shells and Naval Notes
Washington reports Secretary Laving sees no clear point in the submarine war situation amid German note developments. He lacks word from the president and will not rush to Cornish or return. The State Department continues preparing memos for the president. The July 13 briefing notes the president's focus on the German note and submarine warfare while playing golf and leaving sections unset.
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Washington
Tary Laveing
Clupponts
Cornish
State Department
Garrison Accepts Resignations of Two Army Ordnance Officials
Secretary Garrison announced the resignation of Lieutenant Colonel Odus C. C. Horney and Major William A. Phillips of the army ordnance bureau. They had been offered roles with firms tied to large munition contracts from European belligerents as part of a broader argument that national safety depends on industrial development.
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Washington
Garrison
Navy tests torpedo nets to shield battleships
Washington July 13. For experimental purposes the navy department bought several torpedo nets to hang around battleships and protect them from torpedo attack. Sec naval secretary Daniels said the nets are same type used by European navies. Experiments are underway with nets aboard ships of the Atlantic fleet to reduce submarine dangers. The nets are made of wire links.
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Washington
Navy Department
Daniels
Atlantic
Guerrero gunsboat lifts Mexican blockade at Guaymas
The Carranza gunboat Guerrero, after a planned attack was postponed, left Guaymas harbor and began moving south. The blockade established Saturday was ended by the Guerrero's departure.
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Guaymas
Mex
San Diego
Carranza
Guerrero
Vargas
Cuerrero
First Cable Message Reaches Mexico City via Vera Cruz
Consul Silli men in Vera Cruz telegraphed the state department that the first cable message passed through to Mexico City yesterday. The through train from Vera Cruz is due in the capital today as workmen speed telegraph lines. Thousands of accumulated messages await dispatch.
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Washington
Sillimen
Vera Cruz
Elate Department
Mexico City
Many Weddings Made in London
London reports marriage licenses at nearly four times normal. Over the last three months there were about 4000 more weddings than the same period last year. Bridegrooms include men on leave from trenches or training camps and those about to enlist. officials ease rules to help them.
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London
Putting screws on the strikers as coal conflict widens
The British government plans to apply the provisions of war measures to the South Wales coal strike. It reasons the stoppage endangers war production and the supply of vital fittings. The decision was announced in the House of Commons.
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Lowlon
Juig
Gov‘inet
South Wales
House of Commons
Harvest comes out of throes of war in Germany
Berlin reports harvest has begun in western and middle Germany with rye oats wheat and barley crop sizes expected large. Sugar beet yield higher than usual and fruit harvest anticipated to be satisfactory.
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Berlin
Wid
Germany
Wool Reaches Historic High Prices in Barbour County
Wool buyers from eastern markets push to move the year’s clip to mills as several thousand pounds sell in Barbour county at 35 cents a pound. Demand from warring countries cited as the cause.
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Parkersburg
W. Va
Barbour County
School Board Plans Portable Classrooms And Lighting Upgrades
The school board approved lighting upgrades at the high and Bonneville schools and will issue bids for eight to ten portable schoolhouses to house students until the new high school is finished. Six portable rooms will have center partitions for two classrooms each, with local contractors favored if competitive. Five hundred copies of the superintendent’s annual report will be bid for publication.
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Bonneville
Pocatello Creek
Garfield and
Center
Public Library
Emerson and Lincoln
Siders
Four Hour Stop Made in Spokane
Thousands viewed the liberty bell during a four hour stay in Spokane. Elaborate patriotic exercises accompanied the event before the train departed at noon for Wenatehee.
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Spokane
Wenatehee
Shriners Take Possession of Live Mount Rainier Scene
Mystic Shriners parade through Seattle for imperial council session. Plan include elaborate music and entertainment in the afternoon and evening. Eastern Shriners, led by Nile Temple Seattle, will ascend Mount Rainier to join the session spectacle.
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Shriners
Seattle
Mystic Shriners
Imperial Council
Mount Ranier
Eastern Shriners
J. B. Chilberg
Nile Temple
Lofty Peak
Elks Open Session in Los Angeles with Ruler Installation
The grand lodge of Elks begins its meeting in Los Angeles with James R. Nicholson of Boston installed as grand exalted ruler. Thousands arrive on special trains for the union and week long program of entertainments as delegates campaign for the next reunion in Atlanta.
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Los Angeles
Grand Lodge of Elks
James R. Nicholson
Boston
Elks
Union of the Grand Lodge
The
Baltimore
Atlanta
First Annual Bulletin of Idaho Tech Ready
The Idaho Technical Institute announces its first annual bulletin from the Tribune press detailing education plans. It lists faculty openings, college and vocational courses, and a birdseye view of opportunities for high school graduates and non traditional students including evening courses and extension work.
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Idaho Tech
Tribune
Idaho Technical Institute
University of Idaho
Idaho
Miake
Weather Forecast Snapshot From THE WEATHER
Washington fair with few showers in the south. Fair conditions on Montana with showers noted. Cooler temperatures expected across the region.
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Washington
Montana
Germans Routed and Thrown Back in Labyrinth Assault
Paris reports a German attack on Labyrinth last night was repulsed under rocket fire. Germans were decimated and pushed back to their lines. Air raids targeted Vigneulle Les Hattenchatel and Caloune trenches as aviators dropped 171 bombs. Bombardments of Arras area continued since June 27, devastating the cathedral and museum.
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Paris
Labyrinth
Argonne
Lepretre
Vigneulle- Les-Hattenchatel
Caloune
Apremont Forest
Ammuntion
Arras
War Department
Saint Vaast
Rocks Thrown at the Bell on Liberty Trip
In Walla Walla Washington on July 13 youths on a high bank between Pendleton and Walla Walla threw rocks at the bell during its liberty trip. One rock struck the bell but caused no damage Officials called it the first unpatriotic act of the journey.
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Walla Walla, Wash
Pendleton
Walla Walla
Bell
Open Sagehen and Dove Season Start October 16
A 1900s style note clarifies that open shooting for sagehens and doves runs from August 15 to December 1 under the game law. The author explains the legal start is August 16, not the 15th, and warns against shooting on the 14th or 15th despite customary practices.
Britain hits three billion war loan subscriptions
London reports official confirmation that the national war loan subscriptions have reached almost three billion dollars, marking a major funding milestone for Britain’s war effort.
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London
Great Britain
Eucharistic Congress Opens in Montreal
The Catholic Eucharistic Congress begins in Montreal with Cardinal Bevig and Archbishop Bravdesi presiding. Cardinal Begin serves as honorary president and will attend the clergy meeting at Notre Dame. Auxiliary Bishop Hayes of New York is the only American prelate invited to participate. Pope Benedict XV’s pontifical blessing will be read at the public meeting. The congress runs three days with separate sessions for French and English prelates.
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Montreal
Canada
Bevig
Bravdesi
Cardinal Begin
Notre Dame Church
Hayes
New York
Benedict XV
Berlin War Dispatches Report Grenade Attack and Cemetery Push
Army headquarter bulletin notes a hand grenade attack on the Souchez sugar refinery repulsed and German troops advancing across the cemetery. Cabaret Rouge on the Arras road captured. French artillery actions between Meuse and Moselle heavy with losses. Russians fortifying the Romanian border in Czernowitz area.
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Berlin
Souchez
Cabaret Rouge
Arras
Meuse
Moselle
Czernowitz
Bukowina
Bavarian crackdown on price gouging spreads nationwide
Munich July 13 reports an order from the first corps district mandating a year’s imprisonment for dealers who overcharge for daily consumption goods such as food and heating and lighting substances. The measure, initially for Munich, is now extending to the entire Bavarian kingdom.
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Munich
Bavaria
Candy Men Make Merry At National Confectionery Meeting
Brighton Beach hosts the National Association of Confectionery Salesmen convention with about 400 candy men, women, and children attending. The three day gathering brings merriment as trains bring in candy families and events unfold along the coast.
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Brighton Beach
N. Y
National Association of Confectionery Salesmen
German Women Take Roles as Blacksmiths and Educators
In Berlin and across German regions, women are stepping into trades and leadership roles. A Kiehberg blacksmith now employs his three daughters as smiths while his five sons serve in the war. A female teacher has been appointed principal of a Marienburg gymnasium, a rare wartime milestone as the head fights in the conflict.
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Berlin
Kiehberg
Passau
Silesia
Marienburg
West Prussia
Germany
Death of safety first movement founder Dr. Joseph A. Holmes
Washington July 13 Dr Joseph A Holmes director of the federal bureau of mines died today in Denver of tuberculosis His work greatly reduced the death toll among underground workers He is regarded as making the Safety First national movement
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Washington
Joseph A. Holmes
Federal Bureau of Mines
Denver
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