Cincinnati Home Guards plan organized civil military force
Colonel Charles F. Hake, head of the Cincinnati War Council, announces a Home Guards plan to aid authorities in enforcing civil and military laws. Companies and a cavalry troop will form in police districts, each unit with a 59-member minimum, uniform khaki, and armament. Company E will comprise John Shillito’s store employees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles F. Hake
Cincinnati War Council
Home Guards of
Cincinnati
Home Guard Service
John Shillito
Company E
Puchta
Friedlander
Copelaw
Director of Public Safety
United States Army
R. B. Blume
Milton Lee Campbell
William R. Collins
Madisonville
Ward Avenue
Charles FE. Brachman
F. M. McCord
R. W. Gardner
Montgomery Road
Kennedy Heights
Pleasant Ridge
Silverton
Frank Mills
Chamber of Commerce
A. Clifford Shinkle
W. CC. Culkins
John
Ads barred for grain alcohol under Reed amendment
The Post Office Department ruled grain alcohol advertisements and solicitations for orders to dry territory are barred from the mails under the Reed amendment. Denatured alcohol ads are not barred as denatured alcohol is not considered intoxicating.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Weather summary for Ohio to West Coast and Cincinnati May 31 1917
Weather outlook shows fair conditions in Ohio Tennessee and Kentucky with showers possible in Indiana and West Virginia. Temperatures range from the mid 60s to mid 80s across cities including Montreal Jacksonville Chicago St Louis Memphis Omaha and Denver with light rainfall in some locations. Cincinnati records May 31 1917 show clear conditions at 7 am and 7 pm with a high of 81 and a low of 60 and total precipitation 0.02 inches.
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Ohio
Tennessee
Kentucky
Indiana
West Virginia
Montreal
Jacksonville
Pittsburg
Nashville
Chicago
St. Louis
Memphis
Omaha
Ok Shan Sa
San L. City
Denver
Phoenix
Seattle
Portland
San Francisco
Winnipes
Ihamloops
Plan Section for Negroes Plan Section for Negroes
The Industrial Department of the Chamber of Commerce with Mrs A Q Elzner Miss Annette Mann and Mrs Simon Kuhn of the Woman's City Club canvasses real estate men across a district bounded by John Stone George streets and the railroads to establish a Negro housing section excluding whites. Prominent colored teachers study wage scales and motives behind a large influx of 2500 additional black arrivals to the city as labor agents spread tales of earnings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Chamber of Commerce
A. Q. Elzner
Annette Mann
Simon Kuhn
Woman's City Club
John Street
Stone Street
George Street
Woman’s Club
Austrians Evidence in Retreat as War Spreads
Across multiple fronts Allied and Italian advances press Austrian forces. In Udine and on the Carso, Italians fight hand to hand with Austrians near San Giovanni, with Gabriele D Annunzio inspiring troops. Albania reports Italian occupation of Cerevoda Velisest Osoja and Cafa as the Macedonian front shifts westward. The Times notes Austrian manpower strain and appeals for German aid to defend Trieste while Russian and Mesopotamian fronts show no major change.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carso
Gabriele D’annunzio
Albania
Cerevoda
Velisest
Osoja
Cafa
Aviona
Adriatic
Armenia
War Office
London
Daily Mail
The
Hague
Berlin
Frankfurt Gazette
Austria-Hungary
Germany
the Times
Laibach
Trieste
Censorship Fight Fails In Congress War Measure
The administration’s bid for a war censorship of newspapers failed in the House by 184 to 144 and likely ends for now. Senate opposition already exists and conferees will report back, with the espionage bill to proceed without the censorship section.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
House
Senate
Banker's Frenzied Bid to Reclaim Stolen Child
Springfield Missouri reports a wealthy banker J H Keet traveling Green County to meet kidnapers. He plans to pay $6,000 for his 14 month old son Lloyd, who was abducted last night while his parents were at a dance. A lynching is rumored if the kidnappers are caught. Bloodhounds trailed the route but only found a driveway hint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
J. H. Keet
Green County
Lloyd
Wife of Dr Meade Files Divorce Suit in Cincinnati
Mrs. Fannie Belle Meade sues Dr. Stephen J. D. Meade for divorce and alimony in Cincinnati. She seeks custody of their four year old Stephen J. Meade and accuses him of neglecting their child, denying affection, and forcing life in two Grand Hotel rooms while he practices medicine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fannie Belle Meade
Stephen J. D. Meade
Grand Hotel
New York City
Mulins
Altho Dr. Meade
Sheas
Tor
Altho
Florida
Cincinnati
Sheavers
Meade
Miami
Fla
Propagandist Charge Sways National Conference Sessions
At Long Beach the National Conference on the Foreign Relations of the United States debated a propagandist charge against Paxton Hibben amid calls for a fresh statement of Entente war aims. Theodore Ion alleged Hibben was paid by Greece. Hibben denied the accusation as an executive committee reviewed evidence including a letter from S. X. Constantinids. V. K. Wellington Koo then spoke on New China and world relations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
National Conference On the Foreign Relations of the
United States
Long
Paxton Hibben
Greece
Constantine
Venizelos
Theodore Ion
George Washington University
Hibben
F. R. Seager
Columbia University
Samuel McCune Lindsay
Ion
S. X. Constantinids
Washington
Constantinids
Lindsay
Vv. K. Wellington Koo
China
Solons Fear Food Bill Is Too Drastic
Washington May 31. Senate adopts an amendment making hoarding storage or destruction of food fuel or other necessities a felony to curb supplies and prices. Violations carry six months to three years in prison, with exemptions for farmers storing their own crops. Debate over fisheries use and production boost measures continues as final votes loom. Hoover urged support from cattle growers and chamber of commerce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Fall
Federal Trade Commission
Poindexter
Secretary of Commerce
Fletcher
Redfield
Wadsworth
Pittman
Southwestern Cattle Growing
Herbert C. Hoover
Food Administration
Mr. Hoover
Isaac Pryor
San Antonio
Wholesale Grocers’ Association
Hoover
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Chamber
Serbian waif Bogaljub rescued from battlefields
Miss Elizabeth Shelly a Red Cross nurse found the four year old Serbian boy Shaptchi ariun near Nish after Bulgarian Austrian raids. She brought him to New York naming him Bogaljub meaning Gods love. He vows to become an American.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Shelly
Red Cross
Nish
Red Cross opens Paris hospital honored by Poincare
Paris May 31 President Poincare and Mme Poincare opened the Red Cross Hospital of Paris organized by Dr Joseph A Blake with 380 beds and a staff of five assistants and fifty nurses. Blake received the Legion of Honor. The facility already treats about 100 wounded soldiers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Poincare
Mme. Poincare
Red Cross Hospital of
Joseph A. Blake
Red Cross
Kinckve
Legion of Honor
Blake
France
William G. Sharp
Sharp
Robert W. Bliss
Bliss
Red Cross Hospital
Wallace C. Sabine
Harvard
Fleischmann Names Committees To Boost Red Cross Week
A Wilson proclamation designates Red Cross Week ending June 25 1917. Fleischmann forms Cincinnati district committees to promote the drive with a Publicity Committee chaired by Charles J. Christie and an Executive Committee led by L A Ault and W S Rowe. Meeting dates are set for Friday in the Chamber of Commerce Building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fleischmann
Red Cross
Wilson
Julius Fleischmann
Cincinnati
The
American Red Cross
United States
Woodrow Wilson
Fijeischmann
Red Cross Organization
Cincinnati District
Charles J. Christie
W. A. Draper
W. C. Culkins
James Albert Green
Joseph Garretson
H. M. Potter
Ben
L. A. Ault
W. S. Rowe
Richard P. Ernst
Stuart Stuphin
Maurice J. Freiberg
R. K. LeBlond
Frederick A. Geier
Lawrence Maxwell
W. C. Procter
Chamber of Commerce
Italian Message Shows Confidence of Ultimate Victory
The Prince of Udine, head of the Italian War Mission, told the U.S. Senate that Italy welcomes America's entry into the war as moral justification for the Allied cause. He urged destroying the prestige of a perverted German science and philosophy, and affirmed Italy's desire for safe borders while pledging aid to the free development of other nations. Europe is said to have been drawn into war by a small oligarchy, sacrificing harmless nations with art and industry.
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Washington
Prince of
Udine
Senate
Victor Emmanuel
United States
Phi
Italy
Europe
Twister Still Busy in Missouri Section
A Missouri tornado chaos report lists several deaths and injuries across Bollinger, Washington, and nearby counties. At least three killed near Zalma and a seven member family drowned when their home hit Castor River.
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Twister
Missouri
Zalma
Cape Girardeau
Spain abolishes press censorship in Madrid dispatch move
The Spanish Government has decided to abolish press censorship with all newspaper dispatches sent on the sole responsibility of the correspondent, announced from Madrid via Paris on May 31.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madrid
Paris
New State Bank Opens in Gwynn Building
Cincinnati gains a new financial institution, the Washington Bank and Savings Company, to open around August 1 on the ground floor of the Gwynne Building at Sixth and Main. It will have $100,000 capital, with Dr. George C. Kolb heading the bank and leases and contracts for safes, vaults, and fixtures already signed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New State Bank
Gwynn Building
Cincinnati
Gwynne
Sixth and Main Streets
The
Washington Bank and Savings Company
George C. Kolb
New Financial Institution
Daniels Denounces Slurs on Navy Commanders Loyalty
Secretary Daniels denounces circulating reports questioning loyalty of officers of German descent. He condemns the suggestion that Rear Admiral Winterhalter could succeed Admiral Mayo and denies plans to replace Mayo, calling such stories treasonous and contemptible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sec
Daniels
Washington
Navy
Winterhalter
Mayo
Atlantic
Murdered Man Found Near Akron Ohio
The body of a man about 26 was found tied in a sheet under stones on an abandoned farm southeast of Akron. He had been beaten, stabbed in the back, and a towel forced down his throat. He likely died ten days to two weeks earlier. no identifying items or pockets were recovered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Akron
McAdoo Revises Visit and Unity Meeting Date in Cincinnati
Secretary of the Treasury William G. McAdoo informs Cincinnati officials of a schedule shift arriving Monday June 11 and departing that night after a Liberty Loan speech. A Hamilton County building associations mass meeting at Central Turner Hall will discuss bond subscriptions with noted speakers and county delegates present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sec’y McAdoo
Cincinnati
Secretary of the Treasury
William G. McAdoo
A. Clifford Shinkle
Chamber of *Commerce
Cincinati
McAdoo
Charles Cloggett
Liberty ‘Loan
Building Association
Hamilton County
Central
Turner
Walnut Street
Charles Weidner, Jr
Hamilton County League of Building Associations
The
Hamilton County League
Liberty Loan Executive Committee
Chamber of Commerce
Thomas L. Pogue
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Robert Bonner
Napoleon
Bonner
San Giovanni
National
Beach
Bogaljub Shaptchiadiun
AMERICAN RED _ CROSS
Paris Hospital
Columbus
Columbus, CO
Bolin
Johnson
Ammon A. Hennacy
Hunter Street
Harry E. Townsley
Morrill Avenue
Cecil W. Bailey
Schiller Street
Old Walnestro
East Columbus
John Lewis Hammond
Marietta
Coal Run
Washington County
Townsley
Hennacy
Ohio State University
Wisconsin University
Madison
Wis
Milwaukee
Bailey
Parkersburg
W. Va
Wellsville
Cox
Hubert J. Turney
John Shibley
Cleveland
Losophy
Bollinger County
Castor River
Salem
Minerak Point
Dongola
Advance
Diehlstadt
Cairo
Ill
Illinois
Spain
Eac
Gordon Reis
Champaign
Darke
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