Thousand Islands, N.Y: Miss Christie MacDonald wins woman's motorboat race championship in thrilling speed contest. Los Angeles: Elks in gay costumes march at big gathering in Los Angeles where members of Grand Lodge review parade. Bay ...See moreThousand Islands, N.Y: Miss Christie MacDonald wins woman's motorboat race championship in thrilling speed contest. Los Angeles: Elks in gay costumes march at big gathering in Los Angeles where members of Grand Lodge review parade. Bay Shore, L.I: Society folk flock to horse show where blue blood equines are put through their paces. Boston, Mass: Suffrage leaders dress daughters in blue-jay costumes and send them out to tack up appeals for vote. Chicago: Athletes of the middle west contest in bouts to pick team for Panama Pacific meet. San Francisco: Schooner Hardy is rammed by steamer Shasta and left beached on Fort Point just inside Golden Gate. Bridgeport, Conn: Strike threatens tie up in arms industry where war munitions are being made for European countries. San Francisco: Director F.L. Brown of the Panama-Pacific Exposition, presents Edward A. McManus, of the Hearst-Selig News Pictorial with bronze medal marking highest award for moving picture industry given at exposition. Chicago: Woman jumps from Clark Street bridge on the Chicago River in test of novel self-inflating life jacket. Stratford, England: First exchange of prisoners between Germany and England is effected when skilled ambulance drivers held captive at Stratford are marched to pier to take boat for the Fatherland. On the Battle Line in France: Old French castle captured by Germans is made headquarters. Courtyard is filled with mounts of officers when call for horses is sounded. Nish, Serbia: Typhus plays havoc with Serbian forces. Special details of soldiers dig graves for dead. Convalescents form bread line. Written by
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