Community notes from Hillside July visit and fest
Farmers busy with haying wheat harvesting and crop cultivation. Rain slowed progress but crops look good with oats especially promising. Local visits include Dr Catton of Ashville and multiple residents of Lottsville and Bailey Hill. A Salvation Army play day at Hillside Hall on July 30 draws crowds.
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Catton
Ashville
North Carolina
Flora Allen
Charles Johnson
Lottsville
John Johnson
Fox's Bear Worth Thousand Dollars Lures Fox Cub Home
New York July 20 The call of the wild draws a black fox cub back to its pen after escaping through a wire hole at William H Kane's black fox farm near North Long Island. Kane and hunters chased the cub with dogs but it returned at night, reuniting with its mother and securing the valued pelt.
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New York
William H. Kane
Kane
North
Long Island
Romance Redeems Childhood Sweethearts In New York Tale
In New York a 16 year friendship between Marion Este Flagge and George H. Beckman, now 20, is celebrated as an engagement announced at a luncheon. Both families run groceries. The couple met as four year olds and plan to marry in two years.
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New York
Laur Jean Libbey
Bloomingdale
George H. Beckman
Marion Este Flagge
Beckman
Flagge
Live Wire Fatality Strikes Bath Baseball Player
William McElwaine was playing baseball in the street at Bath when he touched a charged wire and was instantly killed. The incident occurred in the Bath area today, drawing attention to street safety near power lines.
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Rochester
William McElwaine
Bath
War Front Updates Across Theaters In World War I
Reports show German gains in the Argonne while French forces bombard a German held town. Russian operatives claim 22 000 prisoners on the Lublin front as British and Turkish actions unfold in the Dardanelles. Western theater notes German mine blows and French counterattacks with 1 175 French soldiers captured, French trenches south of Chateau de Carleul taken, and Allied advances in the Italian and African theaters. The eastern front sees German advances toward Courland and Warsaw evacuation rumors, with Austrian forces pushing southeast. Italian front reports gain at Isenzo and Garua captures in West Africa accompany prisoner totals and submarine actions.
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Argonne
Crermans
Lublin
Dardanelles
Chateau de Carleul
Przenysz
Poland
Warsaw
Konsya
Kolno
Olszanka
Suwalki
Austria
Galacia
Gallipoli
Vosges
Lorraine
Courland
Russia
von Mackensen
von Hindenburg
Rheims
Ainse Ams
Meuse
Baltic
Bessarabia
Berlin
London
Vienna
Rome
Andras
Lana Pass
Sokol
West Africa
Paris
Garua
Neaanders
Gulf of Guinea
Teutons
Petrograd
Isenzo
Guiseppe Garibald
Western and Italian fronts update from World War I fronts
The report outlines Allied and German actions across multiple theaters. In the Western theater British losses include Hill 60 while gains occur east of Ypres. French operations shell Soissons and Colmar Station. in the East Austrians capture Radom with about 50,000 prisoners and two towns near Warsaw are taken. in the Italian front Rome notes large gains on the Isonzo since July 15.
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Berlin
Meuse
Souchez
Oise
Argonne
Paris
Soissons
Colmar
London
Flanders
Ypres
Radom
Warsaw
Vienna
Rome
Isonzo
War end claim denied by Tageblatt
Berlin July 21 The Tageblatt stamps as a plain invention the foreign press claim that the war would end in October as attributed to Emperor William.
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Berlin
William
Tageblatt
Becker’s Final Appeal Sought Over Becker Murder Case
New York reports Becker plans to seek a stay and new trial on grounds of newly discovered evidence. The condemned ex police lieutenant’s account to Governor Whitman ties the murder of Herman Rosenthal to “Big Tim” Sullivan and a plot to protect Rosenthal’s gambling interests. Becker says Sullivan funded efforts to keep him silent as others fired the fatal shot.
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New York
Charles Becker
Herman Rosenthal
Becker
Martin T. Manson
Supreme
Beckers
Whitman
Sing Sing Death House
Big Tim” Sullivan
Big Tim
Rosenthal
Waldo
Rose
Sullivan
Jack Rose
Dp Rose
New York Central
Harlem
J. P. Curry
Postmaster General proposes abolition of assistant postmasters
The Postmaster General recommends ending all assistant postmaster positions and sending the matter to Congress. If approved, John H. Miller of this city would lose his job or be reassigned. Burleson sought to abolish the office entirely, but Congress did not permit it.
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Congress
John H. Miller
Miller
Burleson
The Dealer Promises Better but Substitutes Often Sell
A consumer warning outlines how shopkeepers push a “better” substitute when asked for a product from soap to tires. The guide cautions buyers to insist on the exact item and avoid dealers who push replacements for higher profit. It stresses guarding against substitution by seeking the specified product.
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Hillside
McCullen
J. Woodburn
Cale
Sherman
Bailey Hill
Olive Baker
Comstock
Dugall
John Dougherty
Simmamahoning
Mrs
Hulbert
Mary
Dorothy Verruth
Geo. Johnson
Harry Cale
Youngsville
Alice
Pearl Johnson
Bemis Point
Wilma Lindsay
Hazel
Fox
Cub
Warren Mail
Mark Cross
Curley
Gem Junior
Week
Gillette
Durham Duplex
Enders
Ward
Arnold
Keen Kutter
Clark
Star
Yankee
Ever Ready
King
Auto Strop
Yale
The
Gie’” Webber
Marty Vallon
Metropole
P. M
National Anti-Substition League
Philadelphia
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