Building associations plan to aid Liberty loan drive
Hamilton County League of Building Associations adopts a resolution urging each member to invest 5 percent of assets in Liberty 3% bonds. With 250 associations and $38 million valuation, this could yield $1.8 million for the Liberty loan. The plan seeks national adoption and swift action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas L. Pogue
Liberty Bonds
Hamilton County League of Building Associations
Liberty Loan
Liberty Loan Publicity Committee
Toorm
Pogue, Hoffheimer & Pogue
League
Herman Cellarius
National League Association
Pogue
Hamilton County League
Charles Weidner, Jr
State Department of Building and Loan Associations of
Ohio
Building Association
United States
Building and Loan Association
Hamilton County
Ohio State League of Building and Loan Associations
United States League of Building and Loan Associations
National League
H. Vorjohan
J. C. Joelink
G. W. Meier
H. F. Cellarius
H. S. Rosen
Intensive potato raising method from New Yorker
An intensive potato growing system uses six by eight foot pens six feet high. Timber frames create pens with six inch dirt layers and thirty five seed potatoes per layer. Planted from the ground up so sprouts exit outward. Originated in Western mining camps with reports of thirty five bushels per pen.
Women in Navy May Adopt Blue Skirt Uniform
The Navy Department faces a decision on a standardized uniform for women clerks stenographers and telephone operators. A likely outfit features a blue skirt a white tailored waist a roll collar similar to middie blouses a blue straw sailor hat and a navy neckerchief worn as a sailor bow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy
German Spies Active as U S War Efforts Continue
Washington May 25 Four days before the American destroyer flotilla reached abroad Berlin knew its likely port and mines were laid at Queenstown. Rear Admiral Sims reported to the Navy Department that German spies still operate in the United States and can relay war secrets to Berlin. The department said public notice would stress secrecy and vigilance, with arrests ongoing and swift punishment for convicted spies.
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Washington
Berlin
Queenstown
America
Navy Department
Sims
London
Russia Faces Loss of Sway Over Wide Caucasus Region
London May 25 War Minister Kerensky warned that Russia risks losing influence in the Caucasus and Armenia as turmoil spreads in Asia Minor. Anarchistic actions surge in central and southern Russia with peasant uprisings, property seizures, and government looting across Bessarabia and Serbia. Martial law and military authority confront rising disorder amid widespread confiscations and riots.
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Kerensky
Helsingfors
Asia Minor
Russia
Armenia
Caucasus
Serbia
Bessarabia
Oklahoma land sales crew nabbed on fraud charges in Kansas
A group of eight men posing as land salesmen arrived in a Kansas town with a special advertising car to hawk Oklahoma oil land claimed to be United States Government land. William Torphy and John Gavagan were arrested on warrants for obtaining money under false pretenses after charging a $135 retaining fee to buyers. Police say they collected about $8,100 in commissions from sixty purchasers. other Tulsa men J. B. Bain and Herbert Almond were later arrested with cash and a $250 draft seized at headquarters.
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William Torphy
Bedford
Ind
John Gavagan
Alpena
Mich
Walnut Street
Pettebaum
Johnson
Louis Grear
West Seventh Street
Oklahoma
United States
Inspector Griswold
United
J. B. Bain
Tulsa
Okla
Herbert Almond
Bain
Almond
Tornado Toll Reported Across Harvey and Sedgwick Counties
Wichita Kansas reports thirty lives lost in Harvey and Sedgwick counties as a tornado sweeps the area. Rescue teams scramble to reach affected towns as storms continue to threaten the region.
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Wichita
Kan
Harvey
Sedgewick
Weather overview and May 25 1917 Cincinnati records
The weather section reports showers for Ohio Tennessee Kentucky and Indiana with cooler air Sunday and warmer Saturday. It lists temperatures for multiple stations including Montreal Jacksonville Pittsburgh Denver Detroit Chicago and San Francisco with daily highs and notable precipitation. Cincinnati’s May 25 1917 record ends at 7 p.m. along with a comparison to the prior three years showing highs 67 and 63 and a light rainfall amount.
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Ohio
Tennessee
Kentucky
Indiana
West Virginia
Montreal
Jacksonville
Rapid City
Pittsburgh
Denver
Chattanooga
Phoenix
Detroit
Spokane
Chicago
CiWalla Walla
St. Louis
Cincinnati
S&s N.W
Pershing Urges Red Cross Drive to Stir Public War Mood
General Pershing warned business leaders in Washington that public apathy jeopardizes the war effort. He urged a nationwide Red Cross campaign to make Americans feel the war’s seriousness and to support soldiers’ widows and orphans, saying the United States must stay in the conflict and shoulder the burden.
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The
Commercial Tribune
Washington
Taft
General Pershing
France
Texas
Red Cross
United States
Baby buffalo arrives at zoo as gender remains unknown
A calf sized baby buffalo was registered at the Zoo on Friday with both mother and newborn reported in good health. Zoo staff say the mother appears jealous and researchers have not yet determined the calf’s sex amid the mystery of the new arrival.
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Zoo
Two Million Workers Appeal to President over Beer Privilege
Washington May 25 Two million American workmen appealed to President Wilson to oppose legislative moves that would strip workers of the right to a glass of beer during or after the war. The petition urged the president to stand against any action depriving laborers of beverage liberty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Wilson
Japan Accumulates Gold Through U S Certificates
Treasury officials in Washington report Japan is sending agents to the United States to collect gold certificates and ship actual gold to Tokyo. Since January San Francisco shipments totaled 35 million dollars, reflecting a shift in exchange and trade balances. The purpose of the move remains undetermined by officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treasury Department
United States
San Francisco
Japan
Daniels' Son Enlists in Marine Corps
Josephus Daniels Jr., son of the Secretary of the Navy, enlisted today as a private in the Marine Corps in Washington. He was ordered to report to Philadelphia for preliminary training and will face the same basic training as other recruits from across the country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Josephus Daniels, Jr
Secretary of the Navy
Marine Corps
Philadelphia
Banker Dawes to be commissioned in Seventh Regiment
Charles G. Dawes Chicago banker and former Comptroller of the Currency will be commissioned Lieutenant Colonel of the Seventh Regiment United States Reserve Engineers. He will depart for Atlanta Georgia where the regiment is being organized.
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Chicago
Charles G. Dawes
United States Reserve Engineers
Dawes
Atlanta
All Expatriated Americans Barred From Pershing Army
Washington May 25 Americans fighting with British and French forces in France will not join Pershing’s U S troops. War Department says Pershing’s men will not be supplemented by Americans and more U S troops will be sent to French soil after training. Between 30 000 and 40 000 Americans in French forces have renounced U S citizenship, many serving under foreign oath, with equipment and rations not provided in Pershing’s plan.
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Washington
France
United States
Jack Pershing
Stars and Stripes
War Department
Pershing
Great Britain
Altho
Foreign Legion
Flying Corps
General Goethals seeks steel and wood for 1000 ships
General Goethals told a New York conference of steel and iron manufacturers that he must have both steel and wood to build 1000 ships in eighteen months. He urged cooperation from steel makers and related industries and requested legislation to prioritize such ship production for the war effort.
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New York
Goethals
General Goethals
Farrell
United States Steel Corporation
Lloyd George
Riots and food unrest sweep Bessarabia and Russia
Public groups struggle against rising anarchy in Bessarabia as Kishinev peasants drive cattle onto grain fields. Food shortages worsen in the region while Pskov grants free agricultural land amid confiscations. Local governments issue Pedkraaldolia to curb spreading disorder.
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Bessarabia
Kishinev
Russia
Pskov
Nix on surrendering provinces to France Berlin says
Berlin Vorwaerts quotes the socialist paper saying Germany will not accept Ribot terms in the French Chamber. The dispatch reports the paper predicting the war could last three more years and notes Ribot demands Alsace Lorraine restoration plus indemnity and guarantees.
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Nix
France
Berlin Vorwaerts
Amsterdam
Premier Ribot
Chamber of Deputies
Germany
Vorwaerts
Berlin
Ribot
Alsace
Lorraine
Coffee Grounds Put To War Use In Germany
A traveler reports Hamburg's food ministry has ordered restaurants hotels and private homes to save coffee grounds. The collected grounds will be turned into fodder, while sunflowers are being grown to supply seeds for fats.
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Germany
Hamburg
Food Ministry
Germans to Hold First National Socialist Convention
Amsterdam May 25 German socialists plan a national convention on August 12 in Berlin. officials announce this would be the first convention of its kind held in Germany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amsterdam
Berlin
Germany
Make-Up of an Army and Other Sunday Features
A column highlights the Make-Up of an Army with questions answered about squad to regiment structures and officer commands. It also previews wealth protection methods by Uncle Sam, church features on Union M E Church Covington, sermons on Arthur Schopenhauer, Bible quiz, and the Diary of a Well-Dressed Girl.
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Uncle Sam
Union M. E. Church of
Covington
Winifred Black
Lucrezia Bori
Sylvia Gerard
Japan and Britain jointly target submarines in Atlantic and Indian Oceans
Tokyo May 25 The Admiralty reports Japanese squadrons are operating in the South Atlantic and Mediterranean against enemy U boats. Admiral Oguri and Admiral Sato commands sent forces to Indian and Mediterranean waters to pursue submarines, reflecting intensified entente naval cooperation.
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Tokyo
The
Admiralty
South Atlantic Ocean
Mediterranean Sea
Orient
Imperial Navy
Indian Ocean
Oguri
Indian Waters
Japan
Great Britain
Sato
Mediteranean
Yamaji
Pacific
Japanese naval aid reported in Mediterranean and Atlantic
A Paris dispatch dated May 18 reports Japanese gunboats arrived at Marseilles to help combat German submarines and safeguard French merchant ships. It also notes Japanese flight craft in the Mediterranean and prior reports of Japanese warships operating against German raiders in the Southern Atlantic.
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Paris
Marseilles
House of Commons
Atlantic
Germans Plot in Argentina to Sway U S Opinions
Washington reports German influences are at work in Argentina to sow friction with the United States. Officials say German efforts target press criticism of the State Department over the Argentina wheat embargo. The State Department asked Ambassador Stimson to report facts and use any agencies, including consular service, to verify information.
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Washington
United States
State Department
Department
Stimson
Mrs Anthony Drexel Granted Divorce
Special Cable reports Mrs. Anthony Drexel was granted a decree of divorce from Anthony Drexel in London on grounds of cruelty and misconduct. The case had been pending for some time.
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the Commercial Tribune
London
Anthony Drexel
Food speculation banned in Britain as price control sought
London May 25. The Ministry of Food will prohibit all food speculation immediately. Meats and other foods may be included. only those in distribution will deal in food. Britain awaits possible US export price controls and talks of an international board for Allied nations.
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London
Ministry of Food
Ennedy Jones
Food Economy
Associated Press
Great Britain
America
England
United States
Congress
France
Belgian Relief Head Named From Chamber of Deputies
Rotterdam May 25. Jan Kheer reports Charles Ruys de Beerendroech, a 3a member of the Chamber of Deputies, selected to head the Belgian Relief Commission succeeding Herbert Hoover.
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Rotterdam
Jan Kheer
Charles Ruys de Beerendroech
Chamber of Deputies
Herbert Hoover
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