American Troops cited for bravery in France and Italy
Reports from Washington Paris and Rome praise U S forces in World War I. Major Theodore Roosevelt Jr receives a valor citation for Cantigny duty despite gas exposure. The Rainbow Division earns French praise after 100 days on the Lorraine front. Italian HQ notes American pilots disrupted Piave-crossing forces from Gandela to San Dona Di Piave.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Teddy, JR
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Theodore Roosevelt
Cantigny
France
Lorraine
Piave
Raffalo Garenel
Milen’ Repolo
Gandela
San Dona di Piave
Torrington Court Session Moves With Judge Mentser
Judge Mentser and court staff traveled to Torrington where district court will be held at Lask and Douglas. It is expected Judge Mentser will be out of the city all week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Torrington
Judes
William
Mentser
Paul Wilcox
William C. Kinkead
Lask and
Douglas
Mentzer
New Merchandise Firm Incorporates In Can Amassing $10000
The John Triphey Company of Can incorporated today for 10000 dollars to carry on general wholesale merchandise business. It has 1900 shares of stock with par value 290 dollars each. Incorporators and directors are D. W. John and Angelica Tripeny.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW Merchandise Rirm
John Triphey
Woman's committee mails petition for Children's Year initiative
The Woman's committee of the State Council of Dafenge mails a petition for the Children's Year campaign. The program begins in Abril and will run for one year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman's Committee
State Council of
Dafenge
100 BOYS OFF TO CAMP TOMORROW FOR LEWIS DUTY
A list shows 100 men to report at 10 AM tomorrow at the courthouse, heading to Camp Lewis American Lake Washington. The roster includes names from local boards and reserves with several en training from other boards, detailing a long-roll call and assignments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp Lewis
American Lake
Wash
Joe Jamies Nerred
George Peter Area
Harry Lee Houston
Stanley Weasley Simpson
David Berich
Ralph W. W.hawley
Kenneth F. Riley
Franklin K. Hemphill
Pag Grande
Theros Boores
Niles Eikjer
Morris Gartner
Earl
Elroy Johnson
Ray Mitchell
George Huff
Samuel Harrison Callwell
August P. F. Lehman
Francisco Triolo
Fred ©. Freudenthal
Isaae N. Watson
Lawrence Houston Kellar
Everett Delegaye
George F. Storey
John Robert Emmett Storey
Ignasio Milatco
Harry John McClure
Carl M. Bilings
James W. Miller
Ralph J. Platner
John Hurley
Emerice Loren Woods
Cadville Yates
Richard Robert Champion
William Virgil Crawford
Matthew Gerard
Abraham Wolf Idelman
Jay Beall
William Moran
Robert S. Powers
Guy W. Osborn
Charles Henry Nichola
Roy L. Redding
Dan Burney
Martin Edwin Linstrom
Clyde R. Randolph
Dwight W. Fisher
James Seals
Glen 1D. Snavely
Almon L. Lesbaugh
Walter Clyde Babb
David F. Stalker
Frances M Jones
Fred Robertson
Ronald Wynton Brown
Eugene Stanley Moore
Thomas ©. Larson
Roy Anthony McFesley
Homer V. Lucas
Samuel J. Brown
George Bichenford Lake
John C. McCaffery
Creston K. Finch
Rewhard Franc Karlstrom
Ralph Wonser
F. G. McDinnis
Louis Morandin
Lloyd Arthur Duncan
George ©. Sain
Jacob Schoel
John N. Smith
Charles E Anderson
Eugene Peters
Thomas Daniel Myers
Albert Carlson
Alvin Rufus Keeger
Charles Francis Smith
Ray T. DeWitt
Joe Ross
Herbert Bannon
John Jacob Munn
Virgil Luke Dempsey
Henry A. Gould
Crutch Munroe Moore
Walter George Moffatt
Harry Maurice Cole
Louis Johnson
George Henry Cole
Milon
Bertin Hill
Fred Shaffer
Antonio Numex
Joseph E. Edwards
Leonard L. Hart
Edward Wm. Land
Clarence H. Bastian
Theodore H. Anderson
Theodore Anderson
Chris 3. Sawyer
Rous S. Nelson
Clarence Mason
Edward H. Schuake
Laramie County
Alfred Marcuseen
Portland
Party B. Shelly
Freedom
Neb
Jamon A.read
Joplin
Joe R. Florence
Mora
X. M
Italian Doctor Slain in Office By Countryman
Dr. F Digocomo was found dead in his home in Kemmerer Wyoming with a revolver and knife used. Peter Natanla, held in jail, was charged with the murder after a rapid pursuit by a posse at Opal. Digocomo had been convicted of manslaughter in an April case and was on bond pending appeal. He also ran a newspaper in Rock Springs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kemmerer
Wyo
F. Digocomo
Peter Natala
Dr. Digocomo
Naotann
Denver
Colo
Opal
Digocomo
Green River
William Inglese
Diamondville
Supreme Court
Wyoming
Rock Springs
Ships to Deliver First Million Tons of New Vessels This Month
The Shipping Board expects the first million tons of new ships under contract to be delivered by month’s end. Last week deliveries totaled five steel vessels weighing 87 430 tons, bringing 1918’s grand total to 924 200 deadweight tons. In Moscow on June 21 a Bolshevik official was shot in the street. In Amsterdam on June 24 a Vienna dispatch reports Premier von Seydier to discuss Austrian cabinet resignation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Shipping Board
Amsterdam
Hoperor
Charles
Gaye & Vienna
Iia
Mearning
von Seydier
Laramie County Draft Prepares 60 Men for Fort Logan
Laramie County officials announce a 60 man call July 5 to join a 1000 man draft entraining for Fort Logan Colorado starting July 6 for four days. The local board reports 83 men in class one plus agricultural holdovers, as quotas for neighboring counties are listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laramie County
Fort Logan
Colo
Ray K. Olde
Albany
Big Horn
Campbell
Carbon
Converse
Crook
Fremont
Goshen
Hot Springs
Johnson
Lincoln
Natrona
Niobrara
Park
Platio
Sheridan
Sweetwater
Washakie
Wes
Class of 1918 May Be Numbered This Week
Washington reports that the selection day for draft numbers is near as the Army draft prepares to assign order numbers to the 1918 class. Officials indicate the exact date may be fixed Wednesday or Thursday this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
Christensen Boys Safe in Europe After War Service
Parents confirm Axel and Valdimer Christensen have arrived safely in Europe. The brothers served actively in the Plaine Dairy area before the war and joined a Mounted Hospital Corps as the call for troops came. They were previously stationed in Texas before being redeployed overseas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Axel
Valdimer Christensen
al ‘Ng
Plaine
Texas
Railroad Blameless in Death of Woman
The coroner's jury ruled Mrs. Emma C. Cox of Omaha died after opening a vestibule door on a Pullman or through train No 1 near Corpleth, Cheyenne, and either fell or walked along the curb to the track. No blame was found on any train crew. Judge W H Edwardes served as acting coroner while Clyde Barly was on vacation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. B. Dinneen
W. L LeBaron
C. A Guiling
Emma C. Cox
Omaha
Colon Pacific
Corpleth
Cheyenne
Edwarde
Clyde Barly
Austro-Hungarian Losses Reported on Piave Front
NOME June 24 The war office says Austro-Hungarian forces suffered extremely heavy losses in the Piave conflict with Italy. Italians drove the enemy from the entire river bank except one point and they crossed the Piave only under Italian artillery and heavy fire. Austrian dead filled the battlefield.
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Nome
Piave
War Office
Kumbera
Washington
Sunda
Montello
Cell Della Macconna
Nerzesa
Maierda
Sardona
Young
Senate approves multi billion dollar appropriation bill
The Senate today cleared a large appropriation measure valued at about two and a half trillion dollars after an hour and twenty minute debate. Conference action is expected to follow in 2008.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Cat barred to stop would be Marine recruit
In Providence a Marine Corps recruiting clerk refused a Fall River youth M J McDonough permission to bring his large cat to the Paris Island training camp. He hugged the animal claiming it would guard him against rats in the trenches. The clerk stood firm and McDonough left without the cat.
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Providence
R. L
5. Pearlin
U. S. Marine Corps
Paris Island
M. J. McDonough
Fail River
Marine Corps
Fall River
McDonough
Kur
Tommy
Aaid Peariie
Fos Ruitiog
Congress wrestles with two amendments this week
Washington June 4 Congress focuses on woman suffrage and prohibition emergency measures as the calendar tightens. A vote on the federal constitution amendment is expected today, with a two thirds majority required for adoption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
boUre Ways and Meme
Boure
Governor Moux and officials inspect state hospital in Sheridan
Governor Frank J. Moux with State Auditor Forsyth and State Treasurer Gates visit Sheridan to inspect the state hospital and review operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank J. Moux
R & Forsyth
H. B. Gates
Sheridan
Austrian Strikes Demand Peace Talks in Vienna
A Vienna strike wave seeks general peace talks with enemy nations. Workers’ representatives press for government acceptance and envoy invitations to negotiate. The report, via The Times Hague correspondent, notes government officials and foreign minister Baron Burian are involved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Vienna
Ita Capitor
the Times
Hague
Baron Burian
Speck McGinley Chases Fritz in War Report from Cheyenne
Word arrived for Mrs J McGinley of a safe arrival overseas of her son Sergeant William P McGinley of Company B Engineers. Sergeant McGinley known as Speck was popular in Cheyenne and at the Union Pacific where he was employed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. &. McGinley
Willian P. McGinley
Sergeant McKinsey
Cheyenne
Union Pacific
Mexicans May Aid Labor Difficulties
The Department of Labor issued a ruling allowing Mexicans to be brought into the United States for railway and maintenance work ranch and agricultural tasks and lignite mining. State Labor Commissioner F E Taylor announced the information and urged interested parties to contact the state office for details on procedures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Labor
F E. P. Taylor
Prohibition Advocates See Wyoming Dry Vote Near
Crabbe, after a Wyoming tour, predicts a dry victory if a vote occurred today. He says sentiment is crystallizing in favor of prohibition with leaders and business men backing the dry campaign. More than 3,000 copies of the American issue are being mailed weekly to Wyoming households.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wyoming
Yhe Crabbe
Anti Saloon League
Crabbe
Wade
Een
Italians Crush Austrian Drive at Piave Front
The Italian forces halt the Austrian offensive along the Piave. Italian troops hold and repel several bridges operations, win massive prisoner captures, and gain morale as the Austrians retreat. Reports from Washington and London describe heavy losses, destroyed bridges, and Austrian corpses in the flooded river.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agan
Venetian Pinine
Italians Retake Former Positions Across Piave Line
Italian forces push to reoccupy historic trenches along the Piave west of the main channel. Recalled detachments from Capo Sile report artillery and aerial action along the river, while Paris reports a brief German air raid over Bilany repulsed with losses. Allied forces continue operations to press the enemy across the front.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dince
Capo Sile
Th Point
Austrians Retreat On Piave Front At Night
June 1 report describes Austrian forces executing a nighttime withdrawal along the Piave front. Italian advance forces entered positions after the chaotic retreat leaving behind artillery and gear abandoned by the retreating troops.
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R-Jr
Prcardy
Wherry
Atlantic Ocean
Chateau-Thierry
Paris
Ludendorf
Amiens
Abbeville
Montdidier Sal
War Department
Voges
Gritchland! Useray
Moscow
M. Volaidaraky
Press
Promient Bolshevic
Petro
Christensen
Europe
George E. Rice
Thermopolis Boy
Chanute Aviation Field
Rantoul, Il
Railroad
Associated Pressey
M. Paul
Lokal Anziger
Food Department
Hung
Germany
August Muller
Copenhagen
Muller
Zurich
Munich
Vienna Zeitung
M’ginley
Trip
Bligny
Milan
Daily Mail
Asiago
Monte Grappa
Bilany
Ivalaan
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