Assassination of Archduke Fraces Ferdinand Shocks World
News item surveys the Sarajevo killing of Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife by Gavrilo Princip, with a bomb attack earlier in the day and Servian nationalist backlash. It notes monarchist tensions, retaliatory rioting, and the broader European crisis, including Albania and Herzegovina unrest, plus related diplomatic moves and other world events.
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Francis Ferdinand
Austria-Hungary
Duchess of
Hohenburg
Sarajevo
Bosnia
Herzegovina
Ferdinand
Royal Automobile
Gavrio Prinzip
Ferdingsort
Comd
Gabrinovics
Prinzip
Belgrade
Hapsburg
Nia
Alba
Williams
Albania
International Commission
Durazzo
Interna
Prince of Positor
Weid
Wied
Europe
England
France
New York Herald
Mexico
Vienna
Servia
House of Hapsburg
Archduke Francis Josef
Pan-Servian Union
Archduke
Nippur Tablet Fragment Found at Penn Museum
A missing half of a Babylonian clay tablet from the Temple of Nippur, matching a fragment in Oxford, yields a new version of the fall of man with no Eve mentioned. The find was announced by the University of Pennsylvania Museum officials. A second item reports Dr. M T Barrett unveiling a germ causing pyorrhea and a cure, noting the germ is a one celled amoeba like that of dysentery and liver complaint.
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Nippur
Temple of
Lanedon
Oxford
University of Pennsylvania
Eve
M. T. Barrett
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Dental Society
National Fourth at Philadelphia Celebrations Begin
Independence Hall hosts a national Fourth of July event with President Wilson and colonial representatives, the first national celebration of the day. Patriotic societies and troops participate in a large parade while bubonic plague reaches New Orleans prompting a governor general inquiry and rat control. New York imposes a quarantine on New Orleans.
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Philadelphia
Independence Hall
Cradle of Liberty
Wilson
New Orleans
Blue
New York
Indictment Brought Against Mellen and Railroad Men
A Cambridge grand jury indicts former New Haven president Mellen and seventeen railroad financiers over a fifteen mile link intended to connect the Boston and Maine with the New Haven. Minnesota Supreme Court upholds ten of twelve jurors verdict law after twelve hours deliberation in civil cases.
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Mellen
Cambridge
Mass
New Haven
Massachusetts
Boston
Maine
Minnesota Supreme Court
St. Paul
Electric Workers Reject Offer in Pittsburgh Strike
Seven thousand workers at Westinghouse in Pittsburg voted unanimously to reject company peace proposals and continue the strike. Officials offered to adjust grievances after workers returned to work, but the strike continues.
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Westinnghouse Company
Pittsburg
Congress Passes Cotton Futures Regulation Bill
Congress advances the Lever bill to curb cotton futures dealing aiming to strike the New York bid system. supporters say it could save the cotton belt $100 million annually while passage in the Senate follows. A suffrage delegation led by Dr. Anna Shaw and Jane Addams won pledges of support from Speaker Clark and Vice President Marshall. President Wilson signed the naval appropriation bill funding two superdreadnoughts and fourteen auxiliaries, plus a third battleship funded by the Idaho and Mississippi sales. Democratic leaders plan to stay on until trust legislation passes, with night sessions possible to push adjournment within six weeks.
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House
New York
Lever
Lowh Carolina
South
Senate
Clark
Marshall
Washington
Anna Shaw
Jane Addams
Breckenridge
Missouri
Wilson
Idaho
Mississippi
Greece
Daniels
Kern
West Virginia Enacts Stringent Dry Law Across State
West Virginia passes the new prohibition act known as the Yost law, creating a prohibition commissioner to enforce the measure. Liquor sales to residents are restricted to out-of-state orders or state border travel, with strict penalties for violations. The move makes nine states dry and shapes a large dry region in the nation.
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West Virginia
Panhandle
Georgia
Kansas
Maine
Mississippi
North Carolina
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Tennessee
Citizen’s National Bank
Penn’a Avenue West
Judge rules Mutual Union Brewing not guilty in bottle cap premiums
Pittsburg July 8 Judge James P. McFarlane in Common Pleas court found the Mutual Union Brewing Company not guilty of a misdemeanor for giving premiums in return for bottle caps.
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Pittsburg
James P. McFarlane
Common Pleas
Mutual Union Brewing Company
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