Marines Break Through German Lines North of Paris
American Marines capture the village of Torcy and advance into Bouresches near Chateau-Thierry as fighting continues around Belleau Wood. Paris reports gains on the Torcy Belleau and Bouresches fronts with French and American forces pushing back Germans and capturing prisoners in Picardy.
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Associated Press
Marne
Torcy
Bouresches
Chateau-Thierry
Belleau Wood
Paris
Torcy-Belleau
War Office
Noyon
Montdidier
Picardy
Aisne
le Port
Fontenoy
Vinly
Bligny
U S Warns Germany Over Rintelen Prisoner Exchange
The United States cautions Berlin against reprisals for the Rintelen case, noting possible swift action against Americans in Germany. Secretary Lansing rejects any prisoner exchange while war department data show Americans jailed in Germany and Germans interned in the United States.
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War Department
Germany
Franz Rintelen
United States
New York
THREE SOLDIER HUSBANDS FOR THIS BRITISH WOMAN
London June 8 Lady Michael Wardell daughter of Sir Daniel Cooper a London May Day bride has lost two husbands and married a third during the war She first wed Viscount Northland who died in 1915 and left a will hoping she would remarry She then married Captain Geoffry Mills who was killed last year and her third husband is a British officer still serving in the Royal Navy or Army contexts remain.
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London
Michael Wardell
Daniel Cooper
Viscount Northland
Geoffry Mills
Sim i
The
Royal H
American Patrol Advances In Luneville Sector
An American patrol of thirty men penetrated to the enemy third line in the Luneville sector early this morning and clashed with about 200 Germans using grenades bayonets and bullets. The exchange reflects ongoing combat activities on the Western Front.
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France
Luneville
Conspirator from Oklahoma City Sentenced to Twenty Years
Orville C. Enfield of Ellis County, a Socialist candidate for Congress against James V. McClintic in the seventh district, was found guilty by a federal court jury of conspiring to obstruct the selective service law. He received a twenty year sentence in Leavenworth Federal Prison from Judge Jno H. Cotteral.
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Associated Press
Oklahoma City
Orville C. Enfield
Ellis County
Jas. V. McClintic
Seventh Congressional District
Leavenworth
Kansas
Jno. H. Cotteral
Buay
Americans wipe out 1000 Germans at Cheain-Thierry bridge
An American machine gun battalion reportedly killed about 1000 German troops while holding a bridge at Cheain Thierry during recent fighting. American casualties were one killed and a few wounded. Meanwhile French forces reportedly wiped out 300 Germans on the Marne left bank.
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Associated Press
France
Cheain-Thierry
Marne
Germans wound American aviator
Goldengate Washington June 8 Lieutenant Douglass Campbell the first American ace has been slightly wounded according to a cablegram received by his father Professor W W Campbell of Lick Observatory Mount Hamilton California Professor Campbell is here to study todays solar eclipse.
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Associated Press
Goldengate
Wash
Douglass Campbell
W. W. Campbell
Lick Observatory
Mount Hamilton
California
Campbell
Ravia
Bolsheviki The Ruin of Russia
Vladimir Bourtseff, a former Russian revolutionary now in Stockholm, declares Bolshevism threatens Russia and the world. He urges a democratic government led by figures like Korniloff or Milyukoff and says Bolsheviks deserve suppression, noting their German-backed rise to power.
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Stockholm
Associated Press
Russia
Vladimir Bourtseff
Finland
Bourtseff
Dagens Nyheter
Constitutional Democrats
Korniloff
Milyukoff
Paris
Germany
Siberia
Poincare
France
Petrograd
St. Peter and St. Paul
Helsingfors
Sweden
Pershing Directed Fight in Persor Washington News
General Pershing personally directed recent fighting at Cantingay where American troops drove out the Germans and took 200 prisoners. A village was captured May 28 and attempts to recapture have failed. Cullins Jr of the Naval Academy ranked 51st in his class of 700 during the summer cruise.
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Associated Press
Washington
General Pershing
Cantingay
Senate Military Committee
War Department
T. O. Cullins, JR
Annapolis
United States Naval Academy
S. O
Home Talent Cantata Queen Esther Scores Great Success
The cantata Queen Esther presented Friday evening by local musicians at the normal school drew high praise as a major home talent triumph. Proceeds from ticket sales filled the auditorium as a Red Cross fundraiser with Miss Pearl Curry directing and the Cruz orchestra providing music.
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Ada
Miss Pearl Curry
Cruz Orchestra
The
Red Cross
Henryetta Unrest Died Down After Indian Draft Clash
In Henryetta Oklahoma fear of a mixed Indian and negro uprising eased as home guards, led by Lieut. Ray Wise, reported the dispersal of malcontents over draft and flour card discontent. No serious trouble occurred. reports of white farmers’ deaths could not be confirmed. A Creek woman Ellen Perryman is said to have influenced Indians after returning from Washington. Sixty-five Snake band men in draft age were called, but only fifteen reported. Perryman reportedly aims to form a secret society to block enlistment.
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Associated Press
Henryetta
Okla
Old Hickory
Henryetta Company of Home Guards
Ray Wise
Ellen Perryman
Council Hill
Washington
United States
Philip Enos
Snake Band of
Perryman
Oklahoma Man Webb Finley Among Casualties
Ottawa Ontario June 8 The casualty list includes C Webb Finley of Oklahoma. Finley was gassed.
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Ottawa
Ont
C. Webb
Finley
Oklahoma
Webb
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