American Troops Win On Cantigny Front Capture 200 Prisoners
U S troops attack German positions near Cantigny and Montdidier on May 29 and May 31, taking 200 prisoners, inflicting heavy losses. Pershing reports successful raids near Toul and Woevre with minimal American casualties, while German counter attacks and tanks are noted.
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France
Nesy Montdidier
Canaghy
Washington
Pleardy
Cartigny
Pershing
War Department
Cantigny
Woevre
Toul
No Man's Land
Massachusetts
Montdidier
Germany
Hoste Lessex
Big Army Bill Passed By House In Fast Action
Washington June 1 The largest annual army appropriation in history totaling 12 041 682 plus authority to call up trained and equipped men was passed by the House and sent to the Senate The urgent deficit bill with over 128 million was also acted on and sent to the president The measure aims for an army of 8 000 000 men next year with large allocations to the quartermaster corps ordnance engineers aviation and medical services
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Washington
House
Senate
Army Hill
France
Quartermaster Corps
Ordnance
Engineers
One Express Company for the United States
Washington May 20 One union express company for the United States was created by agreement between Director General McAdoo and the Adams American Wells Fargo and Southern companies. The new private corporation, likely named the Federal Express, will merge transportation with a capital over 30 million dollars. George Taylor of the American will head the enterprise.
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Washington
Union Express Company
United States
General McAdoo
Adams, American
Wells-Fargo and Southern
Federal Express Company
George ©. Taylor
American
Express
Western
Great Northern
Interstate Commerce Commission
Taylor
U S Flyer Fights Multi Aircraft Over Toul Front
Lieutenant Edward Rickenbacher engages multiple Albatross and monoplanes near Toul. He downs one biplane after firing many rounds, then rescues Lieutenant James A Teissner of Brooklyn after his craft is damaged. He then attacks another plane as the remaining German machine drops too low to continue.
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France
Toul
Edward Rickenbacher
James A. Teissner
Brooklyn
N. Y
Rickenbacker
Leutenant
Aother
Rickenbacher
Greeks Win Big Victory on the Macedonian Front
London reports Greek troops supported by French artillery captured strong positions of Sika Di Legen on the Struma front over a 12 kilometer width and two kilometer depth. More than 1,500 Bulgarian and German prisoners were taken, including 83 officers, with substantial war material seized.
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London
Macedonian
Saloniki
Sika di Legen
Struma
Germans Reach the Marne and Soissons Fight
Berlin reports over 46 000 prisoners and 400 guns seized in rapid French battles as Germans reach the Marne and press toward Paris. French counterattacks around Soissons hold lines, refugees pour into Paris, and Cantigny praised US troops for securing and holding the objective amid heavy fighting.
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Berlin
Fere-en-Tardenois
Marne
Grand Rogou
London
Chaampagne
France
Reims
Ony Point
Parig
Amiens
Channel
Paris
Inks
Soigsons
U.S
Cantigny
Oise
Allette
Bierancourt-Epagny
Soissons
Chateau Thierry
Thillois
French Holdouts Berserk Street House Fighting Ends
Allied troops in a besieged town faced fresh German assaults as defenders resisted with bayonets and pistols. The French garrison finally yielded after hours of brutal street fighting, amid incendiary shells and poisonous gas drifting through the smoke filled streets.
W adoo warns rail men not to strike
Washington May 31 Director General McAdoo sent a message to six labor heads in railroad shops outlining the dangers and unpatriotic nature of strikes by machinists boilermakers and others employed by the government during wartime. He noted the Alexandria Virginia shop walkout as a grave misstep and said the government will not be coerced. He also referenced Board of railroad wages and working conditions created May 25 to hear petitions and complaints with three labor and three railroad representatives.
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Washington
McAdoo
Alexandria
United States
Xyallrond Corporation
Congress to Take Summer Recess After Funding Bills
Washington dispatch notes bipartisan leaders agreed on a June 16 recess after appropriation bills, with House to work on the new revenue measure. Passage of the revenue bill is expected between August 2 and 10, then a 60 day recess awaiting Senate action.
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Washington
House Pays
House
Senate
Draft Call Set for June Seeks 280000 Men
Washington reports 280000 men to be drafted in June with calls to report on June 24. Assignment to camps remains undecided as the final net allotment is withheld pending plans.
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Washington
Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules advertised remedy
An old advertisement claims Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules cleanse kidneys and bladder, relieve urinary, stomach, and blood impurities. It presents the product as a 200 year standard household remedy, imported from Holland, with guarantees and money-back promises.
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Haarlem
Loina
Ajl
Holland
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