Ground Gained In Small British Raid At Ville-Sur-Ancre
British raiders seized Ville-Sur-Ancre in the Autiens area taking the village, 330 prisoners and twenty machine guns with slight Haig casualties. Further northwest at Albert and near Hamel additional prisoners and machine guns were captured as big guns roared in ongoing duels. Reports from the Baltic and Transcaucasia indicate renewed German activity and Ottoman advances along the Tigris. Amsterdam dispatches report fourteen killed and many injured in the Cologne bombing raid by Allied aviators.
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Flanders
Maida Ce
Ville-Sur-Ancre
Autiens
Haig
Albert
Hamel
Petrograd
Gulf of Finland
Bjerko
Russia
Transcaucasia
Persia
Baku
Caspian Sea
Arusselmans
Latile
Moscow
Lake Urmia
Tigris
Amsterdam
Cologne
Major Rail Budget Amid War Effort Reveals Cuts
Washington announces a nearly one billion dollar capital plan for railroads under government operation this year. McAdoo directs 937,961,218 total with 440,071,000 for additions and improvements, 479,686,000 for equipment, and 18,203,000 for track work. The admin shows restraint, cutting 240,247,000 from proposals and delaying many big projects during the war. Air raid on Cologne kills fourteen. forty injured as entente allied planes hit market areas, six Allied aviators involved. Ensign Calvin Crawley, star of St Louis, dies when his seaplane crashes on landing at Hampton Roads air school.
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McAdoo
Washington, D. C
Railroad Administration
McAdan
Railroad
Cologne
Leandon
Entente
Amsterdam
Ensign Crawley
Norfolk
Calvin Crawley
Five Children Die in New Mexico House Fire
In Silver City New Mexico five of Thomas Pinson’s children perished in a blaze that consumed the ranch home five miles east of town. Only Levi age nine survived after briefly leaving the house to fetch water from the well.
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Silver City
N. M
Thomas Pinson
Here
Pinson
Levi
Bank Robbery in Madison Ends with 10000 Escape
Three masked men robbed the city bank in Madison diverting with about 10,000 dollars. Police pursuit ongoing as details remain scarce. Investigators seek witnesses and surveillance footage from the downtown area.
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Madison
Tricity
President Wilson Calls War Duty First in Red Cross Appeal
President Wilson in New York pins duty on winning the war as the Red Cross launches a second $100,000,000 fund. He rejects pacific hopes, vows full support to Russia and France, and urges universal sacrifice with the Red Cross as the world’s moral center. He praises unity, friendship, and the volunteers guiding relief across nations.
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New York
Red Cross
Wilson
United States
Congress
Russia
France
Cleveland H. Dodge
Metropolitan Opera House Chorus
Giulio Setti
Italy
Great Brit
Jenry P. Davison
Rew Cross
Davison
Dodge
Wetera
Congress of the
Aadience
Germany
Avena
Ialian
America
San Francisco
Heart
World News Highlights From 1916 Across Letters and War
Reports from New York corruption probes reveal German plans to arm U.S. ethnic groups to oppose the government. Aviation updates note pilots Baylies and Guerin in combat, plus a German submarine fleet setback. Draft calls total 311,000 since May, while a new "super wheat" claims broad growth potential from Hudson Bay to Patagonia.
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United States
New York State
Juan Norodny
Asiatie Corporation
Baron von Gersdorff
Germany
TW. W
War News From Europe and Americas Across Front Lines
Reports claim Russian naval officers destroyed four American submarines at Bango Finland and seven British subs, Italian Pellegrini led a raid on Pola sinking a Viribus Oriens battleship. News notes deaths of James Gordon Bennett and Chief Grass, plus Wilson tightening farm controls and aviation inquiry.
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Bango
Finland
London
Pellegrini
Pola
Iowa State News Highlights From War Time Iowa
Iowa reports include a late casualty listing Wesley C Wagoner of Waterloo, Liberty loan oversubscription beyond 61 percent, and bids opened for 250000 pairable license plates. State exams for osteopaths and physicians set for June 6 7 8 at the university, and Marshall county highway contracts exceed 57000 with two large bridges planned.
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Wesley C. Wagoner
Waterloo
Iowa
Liberty
Dillion
Marshalltown
Dillon Farmers’ Co
State Automobile Department
State Board of Health
Board of Supervisors
Marshall County
Big Eagle
Charles Bender
Amore
Camp Dodge
Henry Bender
Boone
Cedar Rapida
Marion Cr
Jasper County Council of Defense
Frank Sanderson
Mepaquoketa
Maquoketa
Erwin Atherton
Sanderson
Federal Reserve District
James B. McDougal
Federal Reserve Board
Minnesota
North Dakota
Illinois
War Department
R. N. Holeapla
Anti-Saloon League
Iowa Prohibitory Amendment Association
Mac J. Randall
Randall
Lina
C. C. S. Grand Lodge
Heta
Mississippi River
da. Duque
Joseph Hallehan
Raymond A. Schrowen
Albert T. Hird
August Dohrmann
Portsmouth
Oficer Yackey
Kaisers Bodyguard
Dohermann
Masonic Grand Ladge of
Towa
Ottumwa
Mosona
Grand Lodge
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Shipe
Declaraz
Emough
American Red Cross
Civili Lane
Dam World Democratic Party
World ‘Party
The
Republic
U.S
Teutonic War News
Frank Baylies
New Bedford Mass
Paes
Tiencenant Guerin
Zurich
Erounds
Toul
Burbank
California
Santa Rosa
Cal
Hudson Bay
Patagonia
Twin City Rapid Transit Company
Minneapolis
Minn
Columbia University
Antonio Silvio Resnati
Royal Italian Flying Corps
Washington
Hempstead
Hot Springs
N C
Forta Oglethorpe
McPherson
Gass
Thomas F. Holgate
Northwestern University
Evanston, Il
George Edward
Edward T. Asling
Treasury
Federal Reserve
Shipping Board
Plecea
Pleasant City
John Huey
Howard D. de Weese
Salt Lake City
Warren District
Bisbee
Ariz
Federal Grand Jury
Industrial Workers of the World
Otto Ludtke
Des Moines
Atlantic
Vossische Zeitung
Berlin
Hkaterinoslav
Odessa
Poltava
Don
Tewspiper
James Gordon Bennett
New York Herald
Evening Telegram
Paris
John Grass
Fort Yates
N. D
Chief Grass
Thomas D. Lattery
Coyington
Kentucky
Henry Behrendt
Detroit
Michigan
Post Office
Senate
Hoover
House
Wison
Charles E. Hughes
Gregory
Hughes
Fong
Pangage
Sterling
Hlineis
Gillett
Massachusetts
Argentina
Erogoyen
Butenos Aires
Great Britain
Balfour
House of Commons
Coughlan
Vancouver
British Columbia
Gay
Copenhagen
Tithuania
Courland
Esthonia
Poland
Iowa State
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