War through Western Front highlights and global actions
British ships losses reported include eighteen big vessels sunk. British airmen drop bombs on Zeebrugge Ostend and Bruges. Russians resume fight in Mesopotamia and defeat the Turks. Germany seeks an island near the United States for submarine passage. Kaiser and Von Hindenburg claim British French offensive ended. Italians seize three Albanian villages extending lines to new positions. May casualties total 112,233.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zeebrugge
Ostend
Bruges
Mesopotamia
Germany
United States
Pase
Kaiser
von Hindenburg
Albania
Braz
Brazil
Arras
Cherisy
Foreign. War updates and political shifts abroad
The U S commission led by Root is safe in Russia. Baron Devonport resigns as British food controller due to ill health. Dr Joel E Goldwaite and party reach England for hospital duty. Papal relations with Luxembourg restored. M Thomas arrives in Jassy amid enthusiastic reception. British offensive near the Couhcez river stalls as Germans resist gains. War bonuses and wage increases total about 110 million dollars for British unions since wartime began. Archbishop Canterbury issues crop prayers urging merchant ship protection for grain imports. Dr Hunt reports an unusually mild Greenland winter. Several Chinese provinces declare independence and threaten to march on Pekin to dissolve parliament. Dem Bussche-Haddenhausen reiterates Germany’s wish to ease Americans’ exit. Grand Duke Nicholas’s arrest over royalist riots noted. German admiralty promises safe passage to neutrals in English ports from July 1 with signs and route rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joel E. Goldwaite
England
Luxemburg
Leo XIII
M. Thomas
Jassy
Romania
Couhcez River
Archbishop of
Canterbury
Hunt
MacMillan Crackerland
Greenland
Anhui
Chi-Li
Hu- Pe
Che-Kiang
Fo-Kien
Ho-Nan
Pekin
Germany
Baron von Dem Bussche- Haddenhausen
Grand Duke
Nicholas
Tiflis
Petrograd
Reuter
Berlin
Liberty loan bids and civic appeals across the nation
William J. Bryan subscribed 1000 to the Liberty loan. Omaha building and loan associations took a million dollar subscription. Mrs. Adolphus Busch, widow of the St Louis brewer, bought 500000 in Liberty loan bonds. Tornadoes killed 395 and injured 1536 in ten days with twenty six deaths in four states on June 1. Twenty five indicted for alleged egg market cornering in Chicago. Men cannot go to prison to escape military duty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William J. Bryan
Liberty Loan
Chicago
Building and Loan Associations of
Omaha
Adolphus Busch
St. Louis
Government Advances Funds and Orders Shipments for War Effort
The government moves to France with $100 million and awards contracts for 3.45 million pairs of army and navy shoes via the national defense council. A $1 billion bond issue is likely to be added to the house war tax bill. The Senate approves the administration food bill for $11.101 million for an immediate food resources investigation. Italy requests 1 million tons of US coal monthly to sustain munitions output. Hoover reports European grain needs from the next harvest will exceed 1 million bushels. Cantalope acreage up 15 percent. crop condition May 20 at 85 percent of normal, acreage 46,500.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
Italy
Francesco Saverio Nitti
Italian War Mission
Herbert C. Hoover
United States
Department of Agriculture
Veteran King Conn wins Kentucky Handicaps in Louisville
Montreal merchant Wilfred Viau bought Omar Khyyam, Kentucky Derby winner, at a New York auction for 26000 dollars. The body of Australian boxer Les Darcy, who died after joining the US Army aviation corps, arrived in San Francisco from Memphis. Hank Gowdy of Boston will serve as a private in the Ohio National Guard. Ted Johnson wins Rocky Mountain marathon in Denver in 1 hour 4 minutes 41 seconds from Littleton to Denver. Fred Duncan takes second and Harold B. Rhea third.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
King Conn
Louisville
Wilfred Viau
Montreal
Omar Khyyam
New York
Les Darcy
United States Army Aviation Corps
Memphis
San Francisco
Hank Gowdy
Boston Brave
Ohio National Guard
J. C. Speaks
Ted Johnson
Salt Lake
Rocky Mountain
Denver
Littleton
Fred Duncan
Harold B. Rhea
World and National Briefs Highlight War, Politics, Weather
Over ten million registered Tuesday. Plainest of styles in men's and women's clothing will be adopted by American manufacturers to conserve wool. Maxim Gorky reports a Bulgarian minister tried to lure him into clandestine peace talks. Oklahoma wheat production projected at 25 to 30 million bushels. Knight Starr Jordan, son of pacifist Dr. David Starr Jordan, joins naval reserve at 29, resident of Provo Utah. Thousands of lambs die in northeastern Utah due to cold, loss near 100000 dollars. War army training revisions reduce September call to 500000 across sixteen cantonments. John Philip Sousa named provisional lieutenant in coast defense reserve. War news boosts newspaper circulations per audit bureau in Chicago. Van Haynes, black man accused of murder, hanged after mob removal from Columbia Mississippi jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maxim Gorky
D. Rizov
Berlin
Oklahoma
State Board of Agriculture
Knight Starr Jordan
David Starr Jordan
Naval Officers’ Reserve Corps
Jordan
Provo
Utah
Thomas Redmond
State Livestock Commission
War Department
John Phillip Sousa
United States Navy
Naval Coast Defense Reserve
War News
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Chicago
van Haynes
Columbia
Miss
Late Market Quotations for Cattle Hogs and Sheep
Cattle prices shown for pulpfed steers and cows with ranges from 6.00 to 14.25. Hogs and sheep priced with various grades. feed prices per ton and grain items listed for Nebraska and Colorado regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thatsa
Weas
eceGhacsiaceie
Gholgo Ie
Ccsececceis
Ofan
Nebraska Upland
Colo
Nebr
South Park, Choice
Guanison Valley
I.s.cs.ess
Pscdee
Vascat A Cistare Cues
Vade Ware Vidhe Teore
Chicago
Flint Hides and Pelts Price List
A historical price list notes values for dry hides and pelts including Flint hides bulls stags and culls, salt hides, horsehides, wool pelts, shearlings, buckskin and calf varieties, green salted pelts for lambs sheep calves and Kip, and glue hides with per pound rates and weight thresholds. Prices show per pound or per item with varied quality grades and curing statuses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sisinesieeiers
Wieielasie
Cnet
Prices for Metals and Grains Across Markets
Market notes from New York, St Louis and Chicago show spot and future quotes for lead copper tin and bar silver. London bar silver and Boulder tungsten concentrates listed with unit prices. Chicago grain bids include wheat corn oats barley and flax futures. Minneapolis cash prices for wheat corn oats rye and flax also provided alongside live stock quotes for hogs cattle and sheep.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
St. Louis
London
Boulder
Chicago
Minneapolis
Cripple Creek Mining Output Tops One Million Dollars
May production in the Cripple Creek district reaches 80,863 tons with gross value of $1,074,945 and an average $13.30 per ton. Portland Gold Mining Company mills processed 32,825 tons at just over a $2 grade, yielding over $68,000 in bullion value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cripple Creek
Portland Gold Mining Company
Ore Boom Continues At Salome District Mines
The Cobrita shaft in Salome reaches 200 feet depth as a station is cut. A mill will be built on Carmelita to process 6000 tons of ore on dumps. A car of high grade ore arrives at Wen den for smelting. West drift at Glory Hole No 2 advances with a large milling ore body opened.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cobrita
Salome
Carmelita
Wenden
Critic
Glory Hole
Colorado mining activity and labor concerns surface across several districts
The Running Lode at Black Hawk will resume. Gold Foil near Lake City to be worked this summer. Mary Murphy at St. Elmo pushed with forty underground workers. Mountain Top near Ouray yields $205 a ton. Summit Copper at Redmountain employs eighteen. Carey lease ore at Cripple Creek assays sixty ounces. J C Simmons hires ten on vanadium between Bear Creek and Brook Station. Palace Lode Cripple Creek plans a new plant. Labor shortage worries conscription impact. Interior classifies mineral lands in Colorado Utah Wyoming for oil shale. Ouray starts handling dumps at American Nettie gold belt. 25,000 Colorado coal miners get about 20 percent raise since May 1. Silverton notes Kittimac ships high grade ore and concentrates after recent mill shutdown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Black Hawk
Carson Trail
Lake City
Mary Murphy
St. Elmo
Mountain Top
Ouray
Summit Copper Mining and Milling Company
Redmountain
Carey
Jerry Johnson
Cripple Creek
J. C. Simmons
Bear Creek
Brook Station
Palace Lode Mining Company
Colorado
Utah
Wyoming
Department of the Interior
Gold Belt
Silverton
Mining and corporate activity across New Mexico field notes
The Conejo Copper Company filed incorporation papers with 100000 capital. The Rinconda Copper Company of Tularosa filed incorporation papers with 850000 capital. Rich silver ore was found on the Christmas claim near Watercarton in Lincoln county, a four foot thick vein at eighty five feet depth. Mexico mining men bought eight miles north of Fairview in the Apache district from Capt. J. A. Winram, staffing eight laborers and a steam hoist. Toltec Oil Company, based in Santa Fé, plans new drilling after abandoning a well north of Roswell at over 2500 feet, with operations in Santa Fé Torrance Chaves and other counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln County
Watercarton
Mexico
J. A. Winram
Apache District
Fairview
Black Range
Sierra County
Toltec Oil Company
Santa Fé
Torrance
Chaves
Roswell
Oil drilling expands around Glenrock and new refinery land
The Young Oil Company is incorporated in Wyoming. One hundred acres near the Northwestern railway west of Glenrock are purchased for a refinery site. The Glenrock Debeque Oil & Gas Company moves a new rig to operate on the east half of section 28 township 33 north range 75 west.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young Oil Company
Wyoming
Northwestern Railway
Glenrock
Glenrock Debeque Oil & Gas Company
Section
Township
Range
German Line Broken Slavs Resume Offense Near Kovel
Russian scouts breached four rows of wire entanglements before German positions at Kovel and dispersed guard lines. In the Carpathians, they penetrated German wire near Pnevi, drove Germans from trenches, and captured a machine gun. British recapured posts near Cherisy and repelled raids near La Bassee and Neuve Chapelle as artillery fired across the Western Front. Rome reports Italian defense held against Austrian assault on San Marco slopes with Austrians pushed back where penetrations occurred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Dover
Folkestone
England
Moulin de Laffaux
Hill 304
Ypres
Belgium
Berlin
Petrograd
Kovel
Carpathian Mountains
Pnevi
War Office
Cherisy
la Bassee
Neuve Chappelle
France
Vimy
Rome
San Marco
Gorizia
Vertolbizza
Prohibitive War Tax Aims to Halt Whisky Distilling
Washington report states wartime prohibition moves closer as the Senate finance committee sketches a war revenue bill. It would tax molasses syrups and substitutes at five dollars per wine gallon and grain and edible products at twenty dollars per bushel, while beer brewing remains allowed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
Senate Committee
Copper Miners Return to Work in Jerome Arizona
Jerome Arizona reports that more than two thirds of the 1,500 striking copper miners have returned to work, signaling a partial settlement or shift in labor actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerome, Ariz
Man Who Insulted Flag Threatened
Durango Colorado June 5 Telephone messages from Farmington New Mexico report that George Lawrence a Socialist and several associates face mob violence threats for alleged remarks about American and French flags. Lawrence is said to favor tearing down flags and replacing them with a red revolution banner as cowboys and sheepmen from San Juan County gather for a celebration of registration day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Durango
Colo
Farmington
N. M
George Lawrence
Lawrence
San Juan County
Million Men To Be Selected For New Army
Washington reports plans by the War Department to choose from 900000 to 1500000 men from about 10000000 expected to register for the new army. Provost Marshal General Crowder disclosed this to the Senate military affairs committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Department
Crowder
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Kidnappers Demand $10,000 for Baby in Missouri
Springfield police report J Holland Keet received a second ransom letter demanding $10,000 for Lloyd Keet, the 14 month old infant. The note threatens mutilation or fatal harm if demands are not met.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
J. Holland Keet
Lloyd Keet
Ite
Mrs Russell Sage Tops Liberty Bond Subscriptions
Mrs Russell Sage subscribes $1,200,000 to the Liberty Loan, bringing her total purchases to $2,000,000. The news notes her prominent role in the Liberty Bond drive in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Russell Sage
Liberty Loan
Four Weeks in Hospital in Cleveland Woman Recommends Remedy
Mrs. W. C. Brown of Cleveland Ohio describes four weeks in a hospital with severe lower abdominal pain and fainting. After starting Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she reports marked improvement and urges others to try the remedy before returning home from hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Brown
Lydia E. Pinkham
Cleveland
Ohio
W. C. Brown
12Th St
Certainly Not
A clipped exchange features a flirtatious remark about a widow and a retort about a hypothetical widow status, hinting at social tension and romantic wit. The dialogue captures a moment of humor and gendered commentary in a vintage tone.
Freckles Tender Hearted and Potatoes Eye Cutting Quote
A fragment quotes a character describing Freckles as tender hearted and unwilling to plant potatoes if it means cutting out their eyes. The remark notes a girl who flings herself at a man to attract attention and suggests difficulty in achieving a hit.
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Home and Abroad
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Unionews Service
U. S
Root
Russia
Baron Devonport
Western
Army
Navy
National Defense Council
SPORT
Pet. Des
Western Newspaper Union News Service
Carload
F.O.B
Eges
F. Eoenver
TS Shearmngss
Cis.sc
Cve
Duluth
Minn
Arizona
New Mexico
Conejo Copper Company
Rinconda Copper Company of
Tularosa
Otero County
Teutons
Union News Service
Daisy Fly Killer
Harold Somers
DE Kalb Ave
Brooklyn
IMM Ibeem
eCity
Union Depot
THE
Elastic Paint & Mfg. CO
15Th Street
Denver Photo Materials Co
Eastman Kodak Co
16Th Street
Quaker Tires
Quaker
Hendrie & Bolthoff Mfg. & Supply Co
Denver, Colorado
Victor Records
Knightcampbell Music CO
Kewanee
Paw
Dept. W.N. U
Bae
Jos
Schwartz
16Th & Curtis
Cole
Tre-O Chemical CO
Empire Bidg
Wabash
Wichita
Watson E.coleman
Washington,d.c
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