Verdu n Front Repulses German Breakthrough Attempt
London reports German attempts to breach French lines west of Hill 304 and near Deadman's Hill repulsed. Heavy artillery rages in Champagne. Germans briefly entered a British trench near Somme and Maricourt but were driven out. Russians announce repulse of Turkish attack east of Erezian, Armenia. Turkish offensive near Mamakhatun checked. German offensive in Obt Africa yielded no results.
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Associated Press
London
Hill 304
Deadman's Hill
Paris
Champagne
Somme
Maricourt
Petrograd
Riga-Dvinsk
von Hindenburg
Erezingan
Armenia
Mamakhatun
Obt
Africa
Conference yields closer U S and Carranza military cooperation
Washington reports indicate the Scott-Obregon talks ended in apparent deadlock but brought tighter collaboration between American and Carranza forces in Mexico. No written protocol was created to avoid harming Mexican opinion, while talks on a formal agreement resume next week between Lansing and the Mexican ambassador, with railroad access cited as a likely US objective.
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Associated Press
Washington
War Department
Carranza
Mexico
Obregon
Lansing
United States
Professor Williams Joins Brenau College as German Chair
Professor Williams, who taught modern foreign languages at Athens High School for two years, has accepted the chair of German in Brenau College Conservatory and will also travel for the college in summer. Athens regrets to lose him.
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Williams
Athens High School
Brenau College Conservatory
Athens
Night Voyage and the Rhinoceros Horn Fragment
The excerpt blends Wilfrid Wilson Gibson's Night with vivid maritime imagery of a voyage to Italy and a stormy night as dawn is promised. A separate fragment notes that the rhinoceros horn is not attached to the skull but grows from the skin.
Dash After Bandits Halted Aiding Reinforcements
Major Langhorne with two troops of the Fourteenth cavalry halted his dash after Glenn Springs and Boquilla bandits fifty miles south of the border. He awaits Col. Sibley with three more troops before attacking the bandits said to number 500 entrenched fifty miles farther south. Sibley plans to leave a detachment at Boquilla and move to Langhorne’s aid, seeking additional troops from Gen. Funston.
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Associated Press
Marthen
Texas
Langhorne
Fourteenth Cavalry
Glenn Springs
Boquilla
Col. Sibley
Fourteenth
Sibley
Funston
Torreon
Mex
Army size set at 631000 with guard 425000
Washington May 13 A standing army of 206000 in war time backed by a federalized national guard reserve of 425000 men was agreed by house and senate conference on the army bill to yield a peace strength of 631000. The accord requires minimum enlisted strength within five years and not below 160000 at any time. It also provides a $20000000 government nitrate plant and training camps for volunteer citizens with government paid expenses.
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Associated Press
Washington
National Guard
House
Senate
Plans to Extend the Fight on the Great White Plague
Washington May 13 Plans for extension of the anti tuberculosis campaign among the working men and women of the country were outlined by Dr Charles J Hatfield executive secretary of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis in an address before the Sociological Section of the association here today Dr Hatfield said local tuberculosis relief associations have formed four main types with employer and union support and appeals to the community for sanatoria plus many general benefit groups in shops and stores and the work of international unions such as the Typographical Printing Pressmen Photo Engravers and Cigarmakers
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Columbus
N. M
New Mexican
Villa
Chichihua
Hachita
New Mexico
New Mexican National Guard
Washington, D. C
Charles J. Hatfield
National Association For the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis
Hatfield
Dr. Cameron
Piedmont
D. C
Lincoln
Cameron
Atlanta
Col
Lynch
Flora
Gus
Give
Dixon
Ku Klux
Comparatively Small Amount Is Missing From Washington Bank
Washington May 13 The bank's expert accountants found the total shortage from defalcation by W Shelton Gresham was 6800 79. Investigators said he took 5200 in a suitcase to Augusta and a further amount under 2000 in small items over about eighteen months.
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Washington Bank
Washington
Washington Loan & Banking Company
W. Shelton Gresham
Gresham
Augusta
Georgia Student Sets 270 Mile Motorcycle Run Record
H C Robson of Wilmington, a University of Georgia student, rode a 270 mile Atlantic to Asheville run on an Indian motorcycle via Athens. The Federal Motorcycle Association recorded a nine hour nineteen minute trip with seven hours twenty six minutes of actual riding. Robson has completed thirty six long trips in the past year and once descended Stone Mountain on his machine without incident.
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H. C. Robson
Wilmington
N. C
University of Georgia
Atlanta
Asheville
Athens
Federal Motorcycle Association
Stone Mountain
Developing the South's Resources and Diversification
The South moves toward industrial independence by diversifying production beyond cotton. New Orleans meetings of the Southern Agricultural Association and Southern Industrial Council unite leading financiers and manufacturers from states below the Mason Dixon line to address southern needs and home consumption.
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United States
New Orleans
Southern Agricultural Association
Southern Industrial Council Shoul
Republic
Mason and Dixon
South
Return Engagement The Birth of a Nation May 22
Announcement of the return engagement of The Birth of a Nation draws heavy demand from local and out of town patrons after a sold out previous showing. Box office at Colonial theater opens 9 am Thursday the 18th to handle the crowd, with performances beginning the evening of May 22. The two act drama portrays Reconstruction and features dramatic Civil War scenes, battles, Lincoln’s assassination, and Ku Klux episodes, prompting strong audience reactions and extensive regional interest.
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Athens
Colonial Theater
Dr. Griffith
Thomas Dixon
Robert E. Lee
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Washington Military Hospital
Elsie Stoneman
Stonemans
South
Col
Cameron
Washington
Congress
Ford
President Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
Inner garment mystery vexes wife in odd note
Vague fragment hints at a sartorial object worn inside the Yest pocket. The wife, initially convinced of a discovery, grows dismayed as the item’s purpose remains unclear and unhelpful.
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Verdun
Prof. Williams
Brenau College
Will
Gainesville School For Girls
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Italy
Pedro Cedillo
Vera Cruz
Ciudad Delmarz
Georgia
Lee
South Carolina
Stoneman
Cal Lynch
Elsie
Old South
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