Graft Grand Jury to Act Today in Police Probe
Grand jury to hear charges arising from Mrs Stout case against city police amid continuing graft investigation. Major Pullman assists questioning as former detective Kleindienst returns to Wilmington for new work while remaining silent on the graft claims. Witnesses to be examined in coming days, with indictments expected to be technical and issued after further proceedings.
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Kleindienst
Washington
May Pullman
Mrs. Stout
Stout
Maj Pullman
John B. Laskey
United States
McComas Hawken
Pullman
Ur Laskey
Hawken
Raymond O Kiemdienst
Margaret Stout
Philadelphia
Wilmington
Del
Union Station
Cornwell
Kleincheng
Wilmgton
Wo Stater
Kirindienst
Grand Jury
Mrs Stout
Raymond O Kreindienst
United States Attarney
United States Attorneys Office
Justice Gould
District Supreme Court
Covington
Types of Italian Soldiers and Scene of Fighting Along Mountain Frontier
English and Italian letters from Italy show contrasting war styles. British letters describe harsh trench realities while Italian soldiers write simply and vividly of duty and action. One Italy report details baptism of fire with pride and devotion to Italy and family.
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Hercules
Lybia
Italy
Official war reports from France and allied fronts
Paris reports describe ongoing heavy fighting in Artois and the Argonne with German penetrations repelled by counterattacks. Vosges clashes near Lingekopf and Schratmanle ended with heavy German losses, while Berlin and Constantinople fronts note mixed advances and repulses across Europe. Easton bakery fire in Maryland is also reported with injuries.
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France
Paris
War Office
Artois
Soucher
Argonnes
Fontaine Houyette
la Fille Morte
Vosges
Lingekopf
Schratmannele
Food for Great Drive British Losses in Officers Rise
British war dispatch details officer casualties since the war began and reports on Germany and Austria feeding advancing troops in Poland. It notes vast mobilization of cattle, mineral water, and rail reopenings, with neutral observers and celebratory receptions in cities taken by German forces.
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Berlin
Sayville
Poland
Prisoners To Be Exchanged Between Russia Germany
Arrangements completed to begin Thursday the exchange of incapacitated Russian and German prisoners of war. A steamer chartered to sail the Baltic between Telleborg and Sassnitz with 60 men per trip. Austrian and Russian prisoner exchanges will start next month.
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Russia
Germany
London
Copenhagen
Baltic
Telleborg
Sassnitz
British Tried to Lure Germans to Sink Rotterdam Says Berlin Paper
A Berlin Lokal Anzeiger letter dated Hoboken Belgium claims the Dutch steamship Rotterdam was detained by British authorities in June and forced to sail at night between Dover and Calais in hopes a German submarine would torpedo her thinking she was a British troopship.
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Rotterdam
Berlin
Aug
Lokal Anzeiger
Hoboken
Belgium
Dover
Calais
Oday Back as Arbiter at Chicago doubleheader
Henry Hank Day veteran umpire was reappointed by National League president John Tener during a Brooklyn Chicago double header. Tener invited Day to the box and after a brief conference Day returned in the fourth inning to umpire on the bases, receiving a ten minute fan ovation.
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Chicago
Henry
Hank” Day
John K. Tener
Tener
Quigley
O'Day
Kaiser Thanks King For Congratulations On Warsaw Fall
London reports Emperor William replied to the King of Württemberg’s congratulations on Warsaw’s fall. He praised the event as a step toward an honorable peace, and said German troops would continue to fight under divine guidance. The dispatch notes Field Marshal Prince Leopold of Bavaria received the Pour le Merite for his troops’ capture of Warsaw.
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Prince Leopold
Bavaria
Warsaw
Ivangorod
Lublin
London
Wurttemberg
William
Leopold
British Casualties Mount After Two Days of Fighting
London reports 3261 names in the latest casualty list published, including 171 officers with many killed and 2489 enlisted men among those named, with 54 killed in two days of fighting. The figures reflect a heavy toll as the conflict continues in the early weeks of the conflict.
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Specigh
Washington Post
London
Tyro Dayu
Des Moines Auto Race Protest Aims At National Body
Des Moines officials reassign first prize to Mulford after a racing tragedy. Coroner says no inquest needed for two deaths. Ralph Mulford awarded 5000 dollars plus 100 for leading at 100 miles. Ralph De Palma gets 2000 and 100 for 200 miles. Tom Alley plans protest over race officials ruling. Other prize winners include Brown Barndollar Henderson Shrunk and Alley. Coopers driver Joe Cooper dies in the incident and his body is taken home.
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Tom Alley
Des Moines
Ows
Automobile Association of America
Ralph de Palma
Ralph Mulford
Mulfords
Asj
Giana Koons
Mulford
de Palma
Eddie C Donnell
W Brown
W Barndollar
Pete Henderson
Seeventh
H W Ogren
Billy Chandler
Morris Keeling
Louis Pico
Joe Cooper
Will Retire to Urals If Need Be to Win Says Russian Committee
Petrograd reports a Russian committee told by M Rrabanch that if necessary they will retire to the Urals to win. The Moscow financier, speaking at the committee meetings, declared the military labor program will continue under Ajax presidency and that they will fight the duma to the last man, aiming for victory with wide representation from all parts of the empire.
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Urals
Petrograd
Aug
National Rifle Tournament Draws Civilians From States
A large national shooting event near Jacksonville Florida in October opens to civilian, college, and school teams alongside regulars and militia. Government aid totals fifty thousand dollars, with civilian clubs forming nationwide and a national competition testing club members across ten man teams.
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Florida
Rifle training in schools endorsed by War Department
The article promotes installing indoor shooting ranges in schools and colleges and YMCA buildings to foster marksmen. It cites National Rifle Association plans, backed by War Department officials, as a patriotically sound effort. Camps of instruction at Plattsburg, Presidio, Ludington, and Chickamauga will receive NRA donated trophies and medals for team and individual records.
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YMCA
War Department
National Rifle Association
Plattsburg Barracks
Presidio of
San Francisco
Cal Ludington Mich
Chickamauga
Germany Will Dictate Terms Says Herman Ridder
New York dispatch cites Herman Ridder asserting that peace after the war will be dictated by Germany and its allies. He argues England cannot dictate terms, claiming the British Empire’s rulers must yield before any lasting peace can emerge. The piece frames German unity and aims as defense rather than conquest.
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New York
Germany
Eee
England
Itaterra
British Empire
Herman Ridder
Britain Maintains Coal Exports to British Possessions
London orders that after August 3 British coal exports are restricted to British possessions and allied countries of Great Britain. The policy previously limited exports to British possessions and allies but the new rule removes export allowances to non allied nations.
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London
Great Britain
Lady Kitty Beresford Weds Turkish Diplomat and Fled to Vienna
Kathleen Beresford daughter of Admiral Lord Charles Beresford married Edward Blacque Bey a Turkish diplomat who was born in the United States. They fled England as war loomed and are now in Vienna where she denounces the war and blames diplomats.
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Kitty
Charles Beresford
Vienna
Washington Post
London
Kathleen Beresford
Lord Charles Beresford
Pecomidge
Kathleen
New York
Edward Blacque Bey
United States
Washington
Richard Blacque Pasha
America
Mise
Josephine Kahlmann
Arnold Kahlmann
St. Paul
Minn
Miss Kahlmann
Berlin
Gustave Scholle
Richard Blacque
Habje
Miss Kathleen
Great Britain
Waterford
Shinnecock Golf Club
Robert M Thompson
Virginia Hot Springs
Jim Hdward Blacgee
England
France
Enver Bey
Turkey
Three Children Die in Lake Delavan Cottage Fire
At Lake Delavan Wisconsin eight cottages burned early Thursday and three young children died. Helen Lucey and Mary Bryant, daughters of Racine Rubber Company president George G Bryant, perished in a cottage where a chimney overheated. Residents set grate fires to warm cottages amid cold weather. the children, dazed, refused to jump as flames trapped them.
Leelanaw’s Crew Returns From Sinking Sighting
New York reports Captain Delk and 37 crew members of the American steamer Leelanaw survived a torpedoing by a German submarine on July 25 while bound from Archangel to Belfast. One crewman remained aboard the sub after rescue and was taken to Germany. Charles Reb, a sailor, was arrested in England for denying German nationality. Bodies of Lusitania victims Harry J Keser, Herbert S Stone, and Lindon W Bates Jr. were brought to port on the St Paul.
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New York
Aug
D B Delk
Leelanaw Air
Archangel
Belfast
Aareo
Fax Ware
Ling
Star
Liverpool
Leela
Germany
Charles Reb
England V
Harry J Keser
Philadelphia
Herbert S Stone
Lindon W Bates Jr
Lusitania
St Paul
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Official War Reports
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Uncle Sams
National Rifle Association of America
T&e
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Staats-Zeitung
Staats-Zeiung
Ingiang
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Itta
G G Bryant
Rubber Co 1
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Brunswick
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Leelanaw
Desk
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Cosmopolitan Shoe
Leonard Roael
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Hook
Sida
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Olympico
the Mayer CO
15Th St
George W Robinson
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Phore
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Capitol
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Joly
Augnat
Carlisle
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Byron
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N. W. Burchell
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