Guernsey County Sends 178 to Camp Sherman
An immense crowd bids farewell as 178 Guernsey County men, the largest quota yet, depart for Camp Sherman. Attorney Fred L. Rosemond hails the group’s role, while Misses Ritter Fordyce and Potter hand out red white and blue Guernsey County Qutoa badges.
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Fred L. Rosemond
Guernsey County
Camp Sherman
Common Pleas Court Room
Cambridge
Mary Ritter
Katherine Fordyce
Lucile Potter
Guernsey
Attacks Develop With Great Fury For Forty Miles
American forces report occupation of a German trench sector with heavy enemy losses and prisoners. Haig notes German offensives along a forty mile Aisne to Rheims front and gains near Dicke busche Lake as fighting continues. The British divisions hold positions against the sustained German drive in Flanders.
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London
Aisne
Flanders
Haig
Forty Mile
Soissons
Rheims
Dickebusche Lake
More Men Will Leave Saturday for Columbus Barracks
Nineteen Guernsey county men will depart Cambridge on Saturday to report to the Columbus barracks under orders issued to the local draft board late Monday afternoon. The quota with alternates is listed, headed by Robert Burns of Senecaville. Also named are Wesley Hudson Conrad Buffalo Sanford R Johnston Canton Vern Wall Burt Cambridge R D 6 Joseph William Neeland Cambridge R D 6 and Carl McHenry Byesville.
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Guernsey County
Cambridge
Columbus Barracks
Robert Burns
Berwick Hotel
Senecaville
Wesley Hudson Conrad
Buffalo
Sanford R, Johnston
Canton
Vern Wall Burt
Actress Anna Held Hopeful Despite Illness
New York on May 28 reports actress Anna Held declares she will not die until France is liberated and the Hun threat ends. Her physician says her incurable disease will likely shorten her life, making the statement a bold political and personal vow.
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New York
France
Rhine
Anna Held
Pitt Construction Co Sues Cambridge for 17290.81
The Pitt Construction Co of Pennsylvania files suit in U S court against the city of Cambridge seeking 17290.81 for alleged breach of contract over a water works project awarded August 25 1915. The action claims the city failed to fulfill terms of the contract.
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Pitt Construction Co
Columbis
United States
Pennsylvania
City of
Cambridge
Woman Uninjured After Stinson Biplane Crash
In Binghamton on May 28 Katherine Stinson’s Chicago to New York mail plane turned over twice during takeoff. She escaped unhurt and said she would press on to New York once repairs are finished.
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Binghamton, N. Y
Katherine Stinson
Miss Stinson
New York
Call to large draft after June 5 to boost army
Washington reports the provost marshal general plans a sizeable draft just after June 5 following the June 5 registration for twenty one year old men. The move aims to rapidly grow the army as class 1 men near exhaustion by year end.
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Washington
America
Allied reserves arrive on Soissonne front in action
Washington dispatch reports Allied reserves reach the Soissonne front and enter action between Locre and Loos. Germans gained territory early today but counterattacks restored the line, according to cables to the British attaché.
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Washington
Soissone
Locre
Loos
British French counter attack near Ypres regains lost ground
British and French forces counter-attack southwest of Ypres and retake most ground lost yesterday as gas shelling intensifies. German assault created pockets of heavy vapor while French regain territory east of Dickebusch Lake, reducing the wedge advanced in the initial rush.
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William P. Simms
United Press
France
Ypres
Dickebusch Lake
Two Woods
Peasants Rise in Ukraine Amid Widespread Uprising
Reports from Moscow on May 24 describe a peasant uprising across Ukraine with arson of crops forests and machinery. Poltava district especially hard. Columbus on May 28 notes Ohio bans Sunday movies after Supreme Court denial of Stauden appeal from Medina County conviction for showing a picture on Sunday in Wadsworth.
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Moscow
Ukraine
Poltava
Columbus
Ohio
Supreme Court
William Stauden
Medina County
Wadsworth
Lightning strikes nitro glycerine mill in New Jersey
Lightning damaged the Repanno Chemical plant nitro glycerine mill in Grabstown New Jersey near Wilmington Delaware. Three tons of explosive were in the building when the blast tore a crater through the plant. No injuries were reported though several buildings were destroyed. Total loss is about 75000 dollars.
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Wilmington
Del
Repanno Chemical Plant
Dupont
Grabbstown
N. J
Casualty List From Washington Reports 38 Names
General Pershing lists 38 casualties with seven killed in action and eighteen wounded severely. Missing in action include Lieutenant Walter B. Schafer of Ottumwa Iowa. Major Raoul Lufbery is named among those killed in action.
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Washington
Pershing
War Department
Raoul Lufberry
Walter B. Schafer
Ottmawa
Garfield appoints White to labor policy board
Washington May 28 fuel administrator Garfield announces John H White as the fuel administration representative on the labor policy board headed by Felix Frankfurter.
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Washington
Garfield
John H. White
The
Fuel Administration
Labor Policy Board
Felix Rankfurter
Spain Struck by Influenza Plague in Madrid
A serious epidemic sweeps Spain with about 40 percent of the population affected. The illness mirrors influenza, with King Alfonso and several ministers ill and alarm running high. Businesses shut and the war ministry suspends maneuvers amid the outbreak.
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Madrid
Spain
Alfonso
Finance
British and Canadian recruiting missions urge immediate war enlistment
Washington reports that on May 8 the British and Canadian recruiting missions labeled the current moment as the supreme crisis of the war and appealed to all subjects in the realm to join the colors at once.
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Washington
State of siege reported in Austria-Hungary provinces
Rome reports worsening situation in Bohemia and Slavonic areas of Austria-Hungary with Austrian advices saying a state of siege has been declared in several provinces.
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Rome
Bohemia
Austria-Hungary
Welcome Wilson to Their Ranks
Wealth con scriptionists in Congress welcomed President Wilson to their ranks as he urged funding through war profits incomes and luxuries while opposition grew to the forty sixty financial policy Kitchin as Ways and Means chair faces restraint on shaping the bill.
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Washington
Congress
Wilson
Representative Kitchin
House
Ways and Means Committee
General Wood to Take Case to President Wilson
Washington May 28 Major General Leonard Wood will carry his fight for service abroad directly to President Wilson. Wood planned to see the President at 6 tonight after returning from France where his physical examination passed. He has been assigned to command the western department.
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Washington
Leonard Wood
Wilson
White House
Wood
France
Western Department
Day for Meditation Proclaimed by Cambridge G A R Post
Cambridge Post 343 G A R calls observance of the day set aside for dead war heroes with a solemn time of prayer and meditation. Citizens urged to meet at the First United Presbyterian Church at 2 o clock Thursday for reflection during national crisis.
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United States
Cambridge Post
Grand Army Post
Cambridge
Guernsey County
First United Presbyterian Church
Orlando Goes to Front as Premier Reported"
Rome reports Premier Orlando has gone to the front today amid ongoing military developments. The move signals heightened political and strategic activity during the conflict.
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Rome
Orlando
British and American Forces Hold Front as German Drive Intensifies
London reports show heavy British losses and extremely severe German casualties amid fierce fighting since March 21. Pershing’s communique confirms American troops in heavy action in Picardy with counterattacks breaching German lines. Washington debates Allied readiness as the German assault along a six mile front from Loere to Voormezeele renews east of the Aisne.
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London
Ing
Picardy
United States
Washington
Flanders
Loere
Voormezeele
Americans Repel Three Boches Raids Near Cantigny
American forces in Picardy report repulsing three large German raids between Montaine Sous Montdidier and Cantigny. A first attack at 6 15, then two at 7 20, all driven back with heavy losses. Americans counter attacked, briefly occupying further trenches before withdrawing to original lines. One prisoner was rescued when guards were overwhelmed, then retaken.
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United Press
Picardy
Montaine-Sous - Montdidier
Cantigny
Montaine-Sous- Montdidier
Ene
Fontaine- Sous-Montidier
Bocies Line
Page Kieht
France removes Nivelle role echoing von Hindenburg plan
United Press war expert J. W. T. Mason notes German gains across the Aisne while French risk in 1917 explains why Paris would accept territory loss for fewer casualties. He compares von Hindenburg and Nivelle strategies and warns of a costly stalemate on the southern front.
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J. W. T. Mason
United Press War
New York
Aisne
von Hindenburg
Foch
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