War reporting roundup from Western Newspaper Union news service
British naval losses rise as eighteen ships sunk. Air raids over Zeebrugge Ostend and Bruges. Russians resume fighting in Mesopotamia and defeat Turks. German advances near Arras push British back then retaken. BritishMay casualties total 112,233 officers and men. Berlin reports growing German discontent with submarine warfare. May air losses total 713 planes. Dover Folkestone raid kills 76 and injures 174. British capture 3,412 Germans and a large gun. April prisoners exceed 19,000 and 257 guns.
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Zeebrugge
Ostend
Bruges
Mesopotamia
Albania
Braz
Brazil
Arras
Cherisy
London
Dover
Folkestone
England
Moulin de Laffaux
Hill 304
Ypres
Belgium
Berlin
Foreign items and war updates in December era dispatches
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. Luxemberg relations with the papacy restored. M Thomas arrives at Jassy Romania amid enthusiasm. British offensive south of the Couhcez river stalls as German resistance stiffens. War bonuses and higher wages total about 110 million dollars since the war began. Canterbury primed crops prayer issued. Merchants seek protection for grain imports from distant lands. Dr Hunt reports Northern Greenland expedition mild winter. Several Chinese provinces declare independence and threaten Pekin intervention. Germany reiterates exit facilitation for Americans leaving via safe routes. Grand Duke Nicholas arrested amid royalist riots at Tiflis. German admiralty promises safe passage for neutrals in English ports on July 1 with marked routes.
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 figures and military duty notes
William J. Bryan subscribed $1,000 to Liberty loan. Building and loan associations of Omaha take million dollar subscription. Mrs. Adolphus Busch bought $500,000 in Liberty loan bonds. Tornadoes killed 395 and injured 1,536 in ten days with twenty six deaths in four states on June 1. Twenty five indicted for alleged efforts to corner the Chicago egg market. Men cannot evade military duty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William J. Bryan
Liberty Loan
Chicago
Building and Loan Associations of
Omaha
Adolphus Busch
St. Louis
Government funds and military contracts amid wartime measures
Government advances 100 million to France and awards contracts for 3.45 million army and navy shoes. A 1 billion bond issue may pass the house finance panel and a food bill funds 11.101 million for immediate resource investigation. Italy relies on 1 million tons monthly of US coal. European grain needs from next harvest exceed 1 million bushels. Cantaloupe acreage up 15 percent. crop condition 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
Kentucky handi cap winner King Conn tops Louisville race
Wilfred Viau Montreal merchant bought Omar Khyyam, Kentucky derby victor, at New York auction for 26000 dollars. The body of Australian boxer Les Darcy, who died after army enlistment, arrived in San Francisco from Memphis. Hank Gowdy of the Boston Braves will serve as a private in the Ohio National Guard. Ted Johnson of Salt Lake won the Rocky Mountain marathon in Denver with a 1 hour 4 minute 41 second time from Littleton to Denver. Fred Duncan was 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
Ten Million Registered Tuesday Drove War and Weather News
Reports note over ten million registered on Tuesday. A plan to ease wool use by American manufacturers surfaces amid wartime shortages. Gorky exposes Rizov’s Berlin bid for a separate peace talks. Oklahoma wheat output forecast at 25 to 30 million bushels. Knight Starr Jordan applies for naval reserve corps. Northeastern Utah sees lamb losses from cold, totaling about 100000. War army training revisions reduce expected cantonments to sixteen. Sousa commissioned in navy reserve. Industry notes credit wartime paper sales. A mob hangs Van Haynes in Mississippi after his murder accusation.
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 Quotation Summary for Cattle Hogs and Grains
Late market quotations list prices for cattle including steers cows and calves with pulp fed and market grades, hogs at good and fair quality levels, and sheep with ewes and lambs. Hay prices per ton cover Nebraska upland and South Park regions, while grain notes oats corn chop sacks and bran prices.
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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
Dry Hides and Pelts Prices From Flint Trade List
A catalog-style listing shows prices for dry hides, wool pelts, and green salted pelts at Flint. Includes figures for bull and stag hides, lamb and sheep pelts, calf and kip, buckskin items, and glue hides, with per pound rates and weight-based adjustments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
TS Shearmngss
Cis.sc
Cve
Sisinesieeiers
Wieielasie
Cnet
Metals and Grain Prices Across Markets
Prices for metals and grains listed for New York St Louis Chicago Minneapolis and Duluth. Copper tin bar silver tungsten concentrates crude ores and lead are shown with spot and contract terms plus Chicago grain and live stock quotes and flax prices at Duluth.
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New York
St. Louis
London
Boulder
Cripple Creek May Output Tops One Million Dollars
The Cripple Creek district produced 80 863 tons in May with gross value of 1 074 945 dollars and an average of 13 30 per ton. Portland Gold Mining mills processed at least 32 825 tons at just over a 2 00 grade, total bullion value over 68 000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cripple Creek
Portland Gold Mining Company
Ore activity heats up at Salome district sites
The Cobrita shaft in Salome reaches 200 feet as a station is cut. A mill will be erected on the Carmelita property to process 6000 tons of ore on dumps. Another car of high grade copper gold ore worth over $6000 sits on the A and C railroad platform at Wenden, bound for the smelter. West drift work advances in the No 2 tunnel at Glory Hole with a large milling ore body opened.
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Cobrita
Salome
Carmelita
Wenden
Critic
Glory Hole
Mining activity expands across Colorado and nearby fields
The Running Lode mine at Black Hawk will resume operations and the Gold Foil mine near Lake City will be worked this summer. Mary Murphy mine at St. Elmo pushes forward with forty underground workers. Mountain Top ore near Ouray averages 205 dollars a ton this year. Summit Copper at Redmountain has eighteen at work. Carey lease on Jerry Johnson Cripple Creek shows sixty ounce assays. J C Simmons employs ten on vanadium near Bear Creek and Brook Station. Palace Lode at Cripple Creek plans a new plant. Labor shortage alarms miners as conscription looms. Interior classifies large mineral lands for oil shale in Colorado Utah Wyoming. Ouray reports season start for handling dumps north of the city. Over 25,000 Colorado coal miners get about 20 percent pay raise from May 1. Silverton notes Kitamag shipper of high grade ore and concentrates after earlier mill shut.
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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
Local mining firms file incorporation papers and oil venture halts
The Conejo Copper Company and The Rinconda Copper Company filed incorporation papers with capitals of 100000 and 850000 respectively. Rich silver ore was found on the Christmas claim near Watercarton in Lincoln county. Mexicans have acquired the Mail Line mine in the Apache district eight miles north of Fairview. A Toltec Oil Company well north of Roswell is abandoned after reaching 2500 feet and a new well will be drilled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rinconda Copper Company of
Tularosa
Otero County
Lincoln County
Watercarton
Mexico
J. A. Winram
Apache District
Fairview
Black Range
Sierra County
Toltec Oil Company
Santa Fé
Torrance
Chaves
Roswell
Oil firms push ahead around Glenrock Wyoming
Drilling for oil progresses on all sides of Glenrock with activity from the newly formed Young Oil Company in Wyoming. A refinery site has been prepared on 100 acres west of Glenrock along the Northwestern railway. 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 Breaks Slavs Resume Offensive Near Kovel
Russian scouts breached four rows of wire entanglements before German positions near Kovel and dispersed guards. In the Carpathians they penetrated near Pnevi, drove Germans from trenches, and captured a machine gun. The British retook posts near Cherysy and repulsed raids near La Bassée and Neuve Chapelle.
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Petrograd
Kovel
Carpathian Mountains
Pnevi
War Office
London
Cherisy
la Bassee
Neuve Chappelle
France
Vimy
Ypres
Rome
San Marco
Gorizia
Vertolbizza
Prohibitive Whisky Tax Nearing War Time Prohibition
Washington reports war time prohibition advances as the Senate finance committee adopts a provision to suspend whisky distilling by taxing grain and syrups used in liquor production. The plan targets molasses syrups and grain with new taxes, while beer brewing remains allowed. The measure aims to curb use of foodstuffs in alcohol during the war.
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 resumed work after a prolonged stoppage. The move ends a labor standstill affecting local mills and related operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerome, Ariz
Man Threatened Over Flag Remarks in Durango Incident
In Durango Colorado on June 5 George Lawrence a Socialist and associates faced mob threats for alleged insulting remarks about the American and French flags. Messages from Farmington New Mexico noted demands to tear down flags and replace them with a red revolution banner as cowboys and sheepmen gathered for a San Juan county registration day celebration.
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Durango
Colo
Farmington
N. M
George Lawrence
Lawrence
San Juan County
Plans To Select Up To 1.5 Million For New Army
Washington reports War Department plans to pick 900000 to 1500000 men from about 10000000 registering today for the new army. Provost Marshal General Crowder outlined details to the Senate military affairs committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Department
Crowder
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Kidnappers Demand $10,000 in Springfield Case
Springfield, Missouri. J Holland Keet reports a second ransom note from Lloyd Keet abductors demanding $10,000. The letter includes threats to mutilate and kill the infant if payment is not made.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
J. Holland Keet
Lloyd Keet
Ite
Mrs. Sage Tops Liberty Bond Purchases in New York
Mrs. Russell Sage subscribed 1.2 million dollars to the Liberty Loan, bringing her total Liberty Bond subscriptions to 2 million dollars in New York notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Russell Sage
Liberty Loan
Four Weeks in Hospital Healings in Cleveland Woman Finds Cure
Mrs W C Brown of Cleveland Ohio describes four weeks in hospital with severe lower abdominal pain and fainting. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with rapid relief, advising others to try it before leaving the drug store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Brown
Lydia E. Pinkham
Cleveland
Ohio
W. C. Brown
12Th St
Noted Quip Sparks Newspaper Banter
A light exchange features a widow remark and a witty retort about being widowed. The banter hints at social pretenses and humor in a local setting.
Freckles Tender Hearted Girl Seeks Potatoes and Potent Hits
A fragment reflects Freckles described as tender hearted who cannot plant potatoes if she must cut out their eyes. The text notes it is hard for the girl who throws herself at a man's head to make a hit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tre-O Chemical CO
Empire Bidg
Denver
Cole
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F. Eoenver
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Duluth
Minn
Arizona
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Teutons
Union News Service
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Harold Somers
DE Kalb Ave
Brooklyn
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Union Depot
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Denver Photo Materials Co
Eastman Kodak Co
16Th Street
Quaker Tires
Quaker
Hendrie & Bolthoff Mfg. & Supply Co
Denver, Colorado
Victor Records
Knightcampbell Music CO
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