Fighting Parson Opens Million Dollar Red Cross Drive
Rev. Dr. John Kelman known as the Fighting Parson electrified a Music Hall audience with firsthand wartime experiences from two years in the trenches. He spoke for over two hours advocating a $1,000,000 Cincinnati Red Cross fund drive. The rally featured flags, uniforms, and patriotic music as Kelman described Belgian atrocities and the cost of war toward world peace.
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John Kelman
No Man's Land
Kelman
Red Cross War Council
Cincinnati
American Red Cross
Germany
France
Frank Nelson
America
Cincinnati War Fund Drive Silent No More
Publicity Committee chair Charles J. Christie urged a 9:00 AM Monday start for the metropolitan Cincinnati Red Cross war fund drive. Mayor Puchta ordered all city fire bells rung at 9 AM to announce the five minute noise burst and kickoff.
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Charles J. Christie
Metro
Politan
Weather summary for Ohio to Indiana and Tennessee valleys
Fair and warmer in Ohio Indiana Monday and Tuesday with possible local thundershowers Tennessee Kentucky and West Virginia expect fair weather Monday and Tuesday. Readings show diverse stations with high 86 near Saint Louis and 76 in Cincinnati for June 17 1917.
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Ohio
Indiana
Tennessee
Kentucky
West Virginia
Montreal
Sah Ie. Cy
Jacksonville
Denver Werta
Pittsburg
Odseattie
Chattanooga
Mttle
Ae San Freee
Chicago
Ates
Winnipeg
Esi Shane
Kamloops
Cincinnati
San Franco
Peer Neeetrenee
Duma backs immediate Russian offensive and peace talks
The Duma votes in secret to authorize an immediate Russian offensive in alliance with the Entente, while rejecting a separate peace with Germany. It also endorses ministers’ plans to publish Grimm's expulsion details and notes German peace hints via a Swiss telegram.
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Petrograd
Duma
Germany
Russia
London
Councils of Workmen and Soldiers
Robert Grimm
Grimm
N. C. Tcherdse
Petrograd Council of Workmen's and
M. Tseretelli
M. Skobeleff
Socialist Internationale
A. Hoffman
Federal Council
Altho
Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
von Bethmann-Hollweg
Dictator Chang Hsun Emerges in China Crisis
Peking June 17 General Chang Hsun is now dictator with Li Yuan Hung reduced to a figurehead. Insurgents plan a Tien Tsin convention to form a provisional government. Chang aims to secure Manchu restoration while pushing for a war declaration against Germany. Southern Canton leaders claim Parliament was dissolved under pressure and vow to defend constitutional rights.
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Chang W Hsun
Russia
Germany
Canton
Americans in Paris Barracks Share French Rations and Customs
Yankee troops stationed at the Pepiniere Barracks in Paris experience multilingual cohabitation with Russians Serbians Belgians Rumanians Canadians Australians and New Zealanders. They follow French military rations with wine continental breakfast and meals served in courses while civilians face meat and sugar restrictions. Reveille is at six breakfast seven inspections eight duties and taps at ten.
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Paris
France
Pershing
Pepiniere
Place St. Augustin
British Flyers Arrive in New York to Aid U S Recruiting
Captain Geoffrey Harper Ponnell of New York City and Lieutenant Alan Miller Thomas of Rapahannock Virginia, Royal Flying Corps officers, visit New York to bolster British recruiting in the United States. Ponnell reportedly downed Captain Bolke, a noted German ace, near Bapaume in August 1916.
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Geoffrey Harper Ponnell
New York City
Alan Miller Thomas
Rappahannock
Royal Flying Corps
New York
United
States
Bonnell
Bolke
Bapaume
Zeppelin Destroyed by Anti Aircraft Fire in British Raid
Copenhagen dispatch reports a Zeppelin observed near Cimbrishamn Sweden, damaged by a violent cannonade. London confirms two killed and sixteen injured in last night’s air raid as a Zeppelin was brought down by anti aircraft guns and a Royal Flying Corps pilot.
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London
Kentish
West Anglia
Royal Flying Corps
Boy Locked in Box Car May Die in Hunger
Seven year old Stephen Urban is trapped inside a box car on the Wheeling and Lake Erie line near Cleveland. Two peers reported the jail like game but could not open the door. Search efforts involve railroad officials and police as fear grows for exposure and starvation.
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Cleveland
Wheeling & Lake Erie
Stephen Urban
Stephen
Thomas Urban
First Woman Minister In Petrograd Takes Post
In Petrograd Countess Sophie Panin 45 appeared in a workman's blouse and leather skirt to assume the role of Assistant Minister of Social Tutelage. The department handles charitable and social institutions and child care, marking a notable milestone in government.
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Petrograd
Sophie Panin
Department of State
France Sinks A French Vessel Near Coast In War Report
Paris reports a French naval craft was sunk near the coast by a submarine. The dispatch notes Spain’s crisis with Catalonia seeking independence, looming strikes, high living costs, coal shortages, and submarine warfare affecting exports, while the new ministry faces an acute external threat.
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Paris
Spain
Petit Parisien
Catalonia
Barcelona
Bay of Bistay
Thieves Nab Schnieder’s Red Dogs At Providence Street
Thieves broke into Isadore Schneider’s sausage factory at 1634 Providence street during the early hours Sunday and stole 100 yards of wieffer wursts and frankfurters from an ice box. Patrolmen Parker and Given found three men with a cache of wieners in a York street lumber yard. Arrested: Charles Burton 36 William Henringhouse 28 John Grinkmeyer 25. They deny the theft and are held for investigation.
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Isadore
Schneider
Providence Street
Parker
Fifth District
York Street
Charles Burton
William Hen
Ringhouse
John Grink
Meyer
Knights of the Road
the Wieners
Elkus Eager to Aid In General Townshend Case
Abram I. Elkus former American Ambassador at Constantinople sails to London for talks with British authorities about General Townshend captured by Turkish forces at Kut el Amara. He will meet French and British officials after Paris visit and then inspect army units in the field.
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Paris
Abram I. Elkus
Constantinople
London
Townshend
Kut-el-Amara
Elkus
Medals for Wounded President Attends Ceremony
In Paris on June 17 American Ambassador William G. Sharp visited the Ecosse hospital and, with Belgian Danish and Portuguese ministers and French officers present, distributed military medals and war crosses to wounded servicemen.
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Paris
William G. Sharp
the Ecosse
French Admit A Light Gain By The Enemy
The French War Office reports a German assault north of Monument after a bombardment in Hurtebise. The attack was repelled with the Germans holding a small breach in our advanced line. Artillery fights continued near Cerny and Braye-en-Laonnois with heavy shelling of Rheims injuring civilians.
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Rheims
Teutons
London
French War Office
Hurtebise
Monument
Cerny
Braye-en-Laonnois
Gouzeaucourt
Ypres-Comines Canal
Steamship Mississippi Sunk by German Submarine
The Mississippi a 6677 ton French freight steamer bound New Orleans Havre was torpedoed and sunk about 145 miles from Brest with one life lost. Forty seven survivors were rescued by a British vessel and landed at Fayal Azores. The ship’s owner is the General Trans Atlantic Steamship Company of Havre and the loss was reported by Associated Press.
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Mississippi
New Orleans
Havre
Associated Press
New York
Brest
France
Fayal
General Trans-Atlantic Steamship Company
Marine
Berlin
English Channel
Germany
United States
Hoover asks American women to join national food conservation army
President Wilson backs Herbert Hoover plan to enroll housewives from July 1 to July 15 through the Council of National Defense and state defense councils. Women will gain membership in the food administration to help conserve food, reduce waste, and support allies and home needs during the war.
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Hoover
Washington
Herbert C. Hoover
The
Food Administration
Council of National Defense
Wilson
Congress
United States
Guidin
Chicago Branch Office to Study Inventions Against Submarines
The Naval Consulting Board set up a branch at 120 West Adams Street Chicago to receive and evaluate submarine destruction ideas from inventors west of Pittsburgh. Prof. J. W. Richards of Lehigh University joins Capt. William Strother Smith in guiding the navy’s evaluation of promising designs.
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Washington
Naval Consulting Board
West Adams Street
Chicago
Pittsburg
Pr. J. W. Richards
Lehigh University
William Strother Smith
Naval
Navy
Submarines Routed Off Spanish Coast By French Ships
Two French steamers report they were attacked by large German submarines outside the declared blockade zone near the Spanish coast. The French ships engaged the submarines and forced them to withdraw, with one vessel coming from the Mediterranean and the other from the Atlantic.
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Paris
Gibraltar
Mediterranean
Atlantic
Germany
Business Conventions During War Backed by Wilson
President Wilson supports using all means to stimulate business during the war in a letter to E P W Ritter of the Merchants and Manufacturers Exchange of New York City. He says commercial conventions should not be omitted and urges continuation of methods that speed up business processes.
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Washington
Wilson
E. P. W. Ritter
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