War Game Off Atlantic Coast Signals Rapid Naval Chase
A high sea war game unfolds as Rear Admiral Helm commands a defending fleet from the Whode Island while Admiral Mayo steers 15 active battleships toward the Atlantic seaboard. Navy units, destroyers, and the North Carolina cruiser squadron push east as a mock enemy fleet is sighted 600 miles east of Cape Hatteras. The exercise tests coordinated fleet actions and strategic maneuvering under a wartime scenario.
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Admiral Helm
Admiral Mayo
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Atlantic
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de Whode Island
Ar Agst
State Department
New Lord
Gibralar
Fed Feet
Cape Hatteres Tharey
Nyasin
Cape Hatteras
Eastport
Admin
Helma
Ehring
North Carolina
Greaves
Roemy Wis
Adinrat Misas
Peratras
Mayr
Patt
Married Orf lowis Mround Clara Prott Witness Clore Culpeper Va
The notice states the marriage of Clara Prott, daughter of Mr and Mrs William Fo P 411s, to Lvar Clore of Culpeper Virginia, performed in Baltimore on Sunday. The report appears abbreviated and partially unreadable.
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William Fo
Marrita
Clara
Culpeper
Baltimore
William Francis Meade
Stasius Meade
Wheatleys Chapel
R Richardson
Ueny G Gooch
Richmond
Firemen Off to Convention From Alexandria Pausing for Parade
Seventy three Alexandria volunteer firemen and 40 Phoebus members left for Harrisonburg Virginia to attend the Virginia State Volunteer Firemen Association convention. They will parade in blue uniforms and participate in the parade but not athletic contests.
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Harrisonburg
Washington
Port Rureau
King Street
Union
Virgina State Volunteer Firemens Association
Phoebus Fire Department
Alexandrians
Rebanca Engine Company
Woom
Glasgow
Columbia Engine Company
Clay Phillips
Keller Hook and Ladder Company
EC Howell
Virginia Plans Plague Quarantine Officials Declare Statewide
Richmond Virginia August meeting of health officers and physicians called by State Health Commissioner Ennion Williams adopts a resolution declaring Virginia in quarantine against all infantile paralysis infected areas effective noon August 26. A committee will work out details and the State board of health will formalize the action Thursday. Plans include supervising all passenger traffic from outside Virginia and excluding uncertificated persons from infected areas, with guards along the state border and strict enforcement at Virginia ports.
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Richmond
Ennion G Williame
Virginia
State Board of Health
Epidemic Rules Discussed by Health Officials
Representatives of the Public Health Service the Medical Society of the District and other groups met at the District building on Health Officer Woodward’s call to prevent infantile paralysis. Resolutions urged aligning District rules with state and federal recommendations and enforcing placarding, quarantine, and observation of exposed individuals. About 40 physicians attended led by Dr Woodward with Dr Rucker Dr McCoy and Dr Leake present from the Public Health Service and hygienic laboratory.
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United States
Public Health Service
The
Medical Society of the District
Washington Homeopathic Medical Society
District Health Department
Woodward
Aeans
Rucker
McCoy
Leake
Medical Society of the
Frank Leech
John S Wall
J C. Birdsall
J Ho
Branson
F A Swartwout
Hogs sell at record highs in Chicago market
Chicago August 22 hogs at 11.90 per hundred pounds at Union Stock Yards, the highest price since the Civil War. Dealers predict a move to 12 dollars in September. Beans also rise, dealers paid a year ago 5 cents a pound, now retail at 11 cents a pound. Demand from European armies and U S troops along the border cited as main drivers.
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Chicago
United States
Bill to Abolish Pale Ship Bill Sparks Allied Opposition
Russia’s plan to abolish the pale and grant Jews equal rights faces strong opposition in the imperial duma. Prof Millukov says reform aims to remove legal barriers, education limits, and trades restrictions while foreign talks with Jewish leaders shape the agenda. Allies warn of peasant backlash.Count Kokovtsov voices concern over outside interference. Embassy inquiries grow as McLemore pushes anti blacklist provisions and embargo powers amid ship cargo disputes. Houston Cotton Exchange decries reduced cable links with Spain, Italy, and Russia.
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Petrograd
Pale
Duma
Paul Millakov
England
France
Italy
Ruksian Duma
Tha
Miiilukov
Russia
Rothschilds
Prof Levy
Sorbonne
Paris
Count Kokovtsov
United States
McLemore
Everving
Houston Cotton Exchange and Board of Trade
Lansing
Spain
Y Barbers Strike Demands Gain Support in City
New York barbers strike expands as 2000 partners in 80 shops walk out. International Barbers' Union of America VP Charles M Fielder says by week end most of the 20 000 workers in the greater city will join. They demand a $1 weekly wage increase.
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New York
Charles M Fielder
International Barbers’ Union of America
Fielder
Rices To Explore Jungle In Upcoming Expedition
Special to The Washington Post. Dr Hamilton Rice, famed South American explorer, plans a new expedition into uncharted Amazon regions with his wife. They depart Newport October 5 aboard the Alberta, a yacht once owned by Leopold II, chartered for the perilous journey under the Royal Geographical Society of London.
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Washington Post
Philadelphia
Hamilton Rice
Orinoco
Amazon
George ‘Widener
Rice
Newport
Amazon River Valley
Alberta
Frederick G Bourne
New York Yacht Club
Dr Rice
Leopold 11
Belgium
Vaughan
Royal Geographical Society of London
Bulgarians Press Macedonian Front Near Salonika
Allied lines suffer heavy losses as Bulgarian forces push back detachments on the Struma front. Serbian positions at Lake Ostrovo retaken after a two day battle. Central powers report Serbian falls east of Banica. Bulgarian advances extend from Florina toward Koritsa and Kastoria with road seizures announced.
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Lake Ostrovo
Saloniki
Struma
Kavjola
Barak
Berlin
Malka Niezeplanina
Banica
War Office
Bubkova
Tahimos Sofia
Florina
Niezeblainia
Koritsa
Kastoria
Slav Force at Saloniki Ends Hope of New Greece
Athens August 22 Russian troops arrived to join the campaign in Macedonia shocking royalists who opposed Greece entering the war alongside the Entente. The move ends the dream of a greater Greece once pushed by Premier Venizelos and may influence Bulgaria's stance while some question Greece's foreign policy.
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Saloniki
Greece
Athens
Keven
Campaiga
Venizelos
Fnrves
Macedonia
Bulgaria
Italian Army in Greece Is of Large Proportions
Paris reports Italian contingent of troops landing at Saloniki of really important proportions according to information here.
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Greece
Paris
Saloniki
Addi- Se Ee Go
Italian Troops Land at Saloniki in Balkan Campaign
The Temps notes possible Russian troop presence along the Vardar River, signaling five allied contingents in the Entente Balkan campaign. It sees the Saloniki landing as a major reinforcement of the entente force, with Italy’s move suggesting prearranged political agreements despite past Greek sensitivities.
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Tion
Vardar
Balkans
Saloniki
Italy
Mediterranean
British Gains Reported at Guillemont and Pozieres Fronts
In Guillemont the garrison resists despite heavy artillery losses. Near Pazieres we advanced about half a mile reaching a road junction outside Mouquet farm and moving along the Pozieres Miraumont road. In the Leipzig salient near Thiepval gains extended to within 1009 yards of Thiepval with over 100 more prisoners taken. French front unchanged per the official statement from Paris dated August 22.
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Guillemont
Pazieres
Mouquet Farm
Pozieres Miraumont
Leipzig
Thiepval
Faris
French gains and heavy fighting on Somme and Verdun fronts
The war office says artillery duels persist on both banks of the Somme and at Fleury in Verdun. A surprise north of Maurepas yielded some prisoners. French advances north of the Somme near Clery and gains south of the river near Estrees and Soyecourt. German report says British and French attacks on the Somme were repulsed with limited gains. salient losses were retaken by a counterattack.
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Somme
Fleury
Verdun
Maurepas
Vaux-Chapitre
Clery
War Office
Estrees
Soyecourt
Berlin
Sayville
Thiepval
Pasleres
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