Germans Held Back as Allied Forces Dig In Across Somme Front
Report from Weetmn Newspaper Unknowa Service describes German resistance slowing, with British and French troops holding the line north of the Somme and recapturing several villages including Feuchy east of Arras. Allied forces also take prisoners and seize machine guns while preparations and maneuvers suggest ongoing major action on multiple fronts.
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Weetmn
Somme
Moreuil
Arras
Feuchy
Quneamy
Morevl
Lassigny
von Hindenburg
Luce
Avre
War Office
Paris
Asiagu
National meat policy set for wartime control
President Wilson appoints a five member commission to determine a national policy for meat production sale and distribution during the war. The group includes Hoover’s food administration, the secretaries of labor and sericulture and the chairs of the federal trade commission and the United States tab? board to represent producers consumers and economic thought. They may pursue price fixing and possible federal operation of large packing houses.
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Washington, D. C
Wilson
Hoover
War council funds rest camps for troops in Britain
The American Red Cross has appropriated 45776 dollars to build rest camps and hospitals for U S troops passing through British territory. The facilities will mirror those erected behind American lines in France. An update notes similar construction aims for service workers and evacuation.
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Washington, D. C
War Council
The
American Red Cross
France
World Events In Short Form From Wartime Briefs
A compact digest notes German plans and American concerns on the Western Front plus Allied strategic moves. It cites raids near Taul and Toul, death and injury tolls, and German warnings to American property. Also covers U.S. military leadership decisions, labor actions, ship launches, espionage arrests, and aviation accidents.
Death of Senator Isaac Stephenson at Marinette Wis
Former United States Senator Isaac Stephenson dies in Marinette Wisconsin at age eighty nine after a week of illness due to age infirmities. He served six years in the Senate and was among the nation’s wealthiest lumbermen with extensive holdings in Michigan.
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United States
Isaac Stephenson
Marinette
Wis
Stephenson
Two American engineers held for ransom in China event
Reported captivity of two American engineers in northern Hoonn China with a ransom demand of 70 rifles. London issues a statement from the British foreign office on entente premiers and ministers. Kerensky safe in Christiania with Takonhoff named vice minister of war. Explosions in La Courneuve kill 50. Japanese mission welcomed in Washington for a tour of munitions plants.
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Hoonn
Chin
Shani
Peking
London
Entente
Germany
Alexander Kerensky
Christiania
Tokyo
Takhontoff
Kerensky
Washington
Crowell
Iowa State News War Reports From France To Iowa
A long Iowa page reports on WWI events including an American sergeant Wellmann from Cambridge Massachusetts who shot down two German machines over French trenches, and Caroline Martin of Rockville Centre New York killed in a Paris hospital hit by a German bomb. Also notes Japan’s possible Siberian intervention with Allied support and Swedish trawlers captured by German subs. Domestic items include School Teachers’ convention at Sioux City, measles deaths, war garden flags, births, deaths, and local public notices about highway patrols and equipment in Marshall County.
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United States
New York
Department of Justice
France
Wellmann
Cambridge
Mais
Wing
Caroline Martin
Rockville Center
L. 1
Paris
Eee
C. Liddie
Waterloo
Fremont County
Charles Walters
Camp Dodge
Sioux City
Northwestern Iowa Teachers’ Association
Ear P. Nelson
U. S
Manley
J. N. Nelson
War Department
Fort Dodge
Storm Lake
Charles Tyeen
Charles Willam
Charlotte Winifred
Camp Pike
Ark
Guilford H. Summer
State Board of Health
Iowa
Earnest Stafford
Clear Lake
Rainbow Division
Stafford
National Guard
Fair Grounds
Des Moines
Irvington
Kossuth
Dolph Roney
John Frank
Algona
Frank Gchwitz
Islinoie Central
John Call
New York Regiment
Memories Hall
Shelby County
Shelby
Logan
Clayton
Dubuque
Herman Felhafer
John Saidel
Lawa
Jacob Zahn
McGregor
Marshall County
British Unbroken as Huns Slaughtered in Somme Push
British forces hold firm amid heavy fighting on the Somme as German losses mount to around 250,000 by week’s end. German divisions, estimated at 52 on the front, failed to gain lasting ground despite overwhelming numbers.
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London
France
Somme
Cambrai
Bette
Buttecourt
Noguell
Croiselles
Fontainelles
Cherissy
Henin-sur- Cojeu
Henin Bili
Teutons
Henin Hill
Uatl
St. Leger
Vaux
Vraucourt
Vaulx
Mary
Crosselles
Though 70 Old Soldier Enrolls to Build Ships
Knoxville Tenn James W Sitzler seventy of the National Soldiers home at Johnson City Tenn has volunteered to serve his country by building a grant fleet of ships He applied I wish to make application for work as a ship painter having worked at and learned my trade Although I am seventy years old I am able to do a day s work as well as any young man being a general all round work man He was enrolled
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Knoxville
Tenn
James W. Sitzler
National Soldiers’ Home
Johnson City
Mortality rates in war study challenge grim losses
Pittsburgh statistician Edward A Woods reports that scientific medical care lowers war mortality below past great conflicts. He notes over 90 percent of treated soldiers return to the front and compares a twenty year old in the trenches with a sixty year old in civilian life. In Santa Monica officials approve garbage disposal contract at 18.90 per ton, up from 1.60.
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Pittaburgh
Edward A. Woods
Mr. Woods
Santa Monica
Precious Freedom and Cost of War
Editorial by Eugene P. Lyle Jr. argues for funding World War I through Liberty bonds rather than immediate taxation. It asserts freedom has a high price, urges lending to the government to aid future generations, and warns that failure to support bonds would invite harsher German aggression.
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Eugene P. Lyle, JR
The
Vigilantes
Belgium
France
Italy
England
Russia
America
Valniy
Amnure
Indoana
Bam
Uwocle
Bama
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Western Front
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Carney’s Meadows Slips
Foundation Ship-building Company
Newark
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Baltimore
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Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
National Civb Federation
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Boston
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Plyer Ellis B. Watts
Portland
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Iowa State News
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