Today -100: August 8, 1916: Beware of well-dressed Austro-Hungarians

Police now think that the fire that set off the high explosives on those barges that blew out windows all over Manhattan on the 30th was set on purpose by two “well-dressed Austro-Hungarians.”

Sen. Lee Overman (D-North Carolina) argues against the proposed anti-child labor bill, saying that states which don’t regulate child labor at all, like North Carolina, have much better behaved children.

The National Council of French Socialists votes to sever relations with German socialists.

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