Germans Held At All Points In German Drive
June 1. French forces held everywhere on the northern side of the Flanders salient. Nearly two hundred prisoners were taken as the German drive gained ground in the one day fighting. The French counterattacked along the front from Cerigny to the Meuse and made progress at several points. A violent German attack near Chateau Thierry was repelled by the French.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aight
Flanders
Preoch
War Office
Ceregg
Mere
Bothe
Chateau Thierry
Woman walks 15 miles to buy Liberty Bonds
A woman from New Millport walked fifteen miles to purchase Liberty Bonds, spending about $1,100. She carried $100 in cash and faced a long trek during wartime shortages, highlighting individual efforts to support the bond drive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clease
Charles FL Sloppy
New Millport
Lendram Ber
Dinden
Libery Bunda
MMH
Navy too safe, wife seeks army husband in court
In Mifflinburg Pa on June 3 court heard Mrs John Beudtheon claim her husband should join the army after saying the Navy is too safe. She argued for altered support terms and noted his preference for military service over civilian life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mitsburgh
Amy
Navy
John Beudtheon
Metin
Mountaineers Produce Buried Coin for Bonds
In Jonson County Tennessee readers report a tale of local Mountaineers who dug up and invested in Liberty Bonds. Golf and silver currency were recovered from fireplace corners and tree trunks, some dating back over fifty years. The third coin in the hoard shows the town’s involvement, with many contributing to the bond drive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jonson
Dune
Juan
Sight Restored After 3 Years of Blindness
In Pulton Missouri Jung 1 Chutes 1 Brown, a farmer, recovers from a successful operation that has given back his sight after three years of blindness. His first night of vision was marked by a parade of troops at Crete Camp Funston in Kansas, which lit his window.
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Pulton
Jung
Brown
Itynin
Can Aula
Sion
Crete
Camp Funston
Kan
Eternal triangle on ostrich farm snares emu
In San Francisco on June 3 a quirky police report blames emus for perpetuating the eternal triangle. Sergeant McGee notes the birds incite jealousy as Evangeline the Widow courts Don Juan while the two male birds Peyche and Helen vie for attention.
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Eternal Triangle
Ostrich Farm
San Francisco
Cal
McGee
Bark Police
Ita Ali
Don Juan
Evangeline
Ann
Thieh
Evangeline Avun
Ben Juan
Peyche
Helen
Educated Girls Sought To Herd Goats In France
A misreaded United Nations era notice describes a plan by a unit named the goat airh to herd goats in France under Suitt erd University. Miss Eg bert pina aims to deploy multiple girls to Pranke as goat helpers while the group requires no college degree.
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France
Lis Angeles
Juan 1
Horathy
James Uebert
Fragmented Names From A Rushed Registry Page
A garbled OCR list shows numerous personal names and places such as Mayer PTE Deep Creek Reed's Station North Forks and Oakland. The fragment reads like a register of individuals with varied spellings and scattered locales including Ogden and Salt Lake. The text lacks a coherent event or narrative.
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Mayer Pte
Bird
Deep Creek
Madison
Hero
Reber
Prank
Reed's
Eke
Aponish
Masel
Hatph Smith
di Morgan
Puscarons
Hinker
Effie Dhue
Hes
Byers
Lanois
AO Hittel Cheenges
Boe Batts
Juby Watles
Ridyston
Sut Latees
Mo Terry
Reno
Wateun
Salt
Lakes
G. Nichols
Oakland
Roy Swick
Burelas
M. Tew Thome
Penn
Varsona
Ogden
Supreme Court strikes down federal child labor law
Washington June 3 The United States Supreme Court declared the federal child labor law of 1916 unconstitutional and invalid. It held the act forbidding interstate shipments of goods produced by child labor to be beyond Congress authority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Swat the Yellow Dog Plea in Cleveland Pamphlet Campaign
A Cleveland pamphlet drive denounces a yellow dog character coined in a rumor mill as the source of a alleged German propagandist campaign. The effort, organized by a local advertising club, seeks to spread counter rumors across the United States and Canada. The “yellow dog” is described as a person who circulates German propaganda, whether knowingly or not.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Hisaister
Wanda
Germany fires submarine war near New Jersey coast
New York reports multiple submarine attacks off the New Jersey coast near Barnegat. As many as fifteen ships sunk or damaged include schooners Edward M. Cole Jacob Hesiod and Willey. The Bristol rescued crews and a passenger liner Carolina sent an SOS after being attacked. more vessels, including Hattie Dunn and Samuel W Hathaway, were sunk as Atlantic shipping fears grow.
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New York City
Associated Press
Nantucket
Edward MH. Cole
New York Harbor
Germany
France
Maritum
Geran Admiralty
America
Bermuda
Atlante
Washington
Ily
New Jersey
Navy Department
Edward TL Cole
Jacob
Hesiod
Iabelli
Willey
Key Department
Uristol
New York
Cole
Barnegat
Bristol
Dristel
Barengat
Grecian
Haskell
Newcomb
S Umarine
Porto Rico
Carolina
Hattie Dunn
Samuel W. Hathaway
United States
Atlantic Coast
Atlantic
Red Man Seeks Food Conservation Leadership
A Nebraskan Sioux leader asks the federal Food Administrator and Washington officials to appoint a food matron for the Omaha Indian tribe. The plea seeks guidance on wheat usage and nutrition on the reservation while tribal members support the war effort at home and abroad.
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Umatia
Neb
Dune
Washington
Toover
Iran
Bam
Five Tons of Dandelions Gathered by City Cleanup
Hutchinson Kansas June 3 Five tons of dandelions were removed from city lawns and parks in a two weeks cleanup drive by the cleanup committee. The effort cost about 60 dollars with Eugene Smith delivering 60 pounds and Galen Finch contributing 485 pounds.
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Hutchinson, Kan
Hutchinson
Cleareup Committee
Eugene Smith
Galen Finch
U Boat Victim to Get Even in British Navy Meet
Pittsburgh June 3 Prank Wilson a victim of German submarines while serving in the British merchant marine leaves here for Canale to enter the English navy to seek vengeance.
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Pittsburgh
Wilson
Canale
Profiteering Landlords to Be Brought to Time
Cleveland Ohio June 3 The city council voted unanimously to curb landlords charging excessive rents amid a surge of war workers. With housing scarce rents rose to twice those a year ago. Council deemed the practice unjustified wartime profiteering and urged immediate rent regulation and study of countermeasures.
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Cleveland, Ohie
Town Talk Highlights From Local Day’s Doings
Mrs Ben Arnold and daughter return from Salt Lake City with reports of a trip. Mrs Alice Woodgate back from Reno for her daughter Ferns wedding to Herbert Sproule. James Byers of the Presby terian church and justice of the peace in Lamoille on business. Zee Lutts visits town from Ruby Valley driving Friend Maynes Stutz Bumpster. Roy Merrithen to Portland to meet brother Don awaiting orders for France. Louis Rascal faces federal grand jury for alleged seditious remarks about U S and the war. Clarence Phillips fined and warned after a chase on a train ends with a slip. District Attorney Carville retires from Eureka amid Mantor trial acquittal. Fifteen local men called for June 15 service, with carpentry and mechanical duties. training in Reno before front lines.
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James Byers
Presbyterian Church
Justice of the Reana
Lamoille
Zee E. E. Lutts
Ruby Valley
Mr. Lutts
Mayne
Sherif
Reno
Taxicab Drivers Knit But They Are Women
In Cleveland Ohio on June 3 a growing number of day drivers are women. The scene shows female drivers calmly purling in their taxis as a cultural shift unfolds amid headlines of gender change in the city’s taxi ranks.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Cleveland Teachers Face Loyalty Hearings
A number of Cleveland school teachers, including about thirty, are suspected of lacking full loyalty to the United States. They may be summoned before Superintendent Spaulding and the board for examination if charges justify action after investigation.
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Cleveland
Spaulding
State Politics as Seen by Boyd Moore
Boyd Moore analyzes Utah state politics, noting quiescence in candidacy announcements and expected splashy bids. Former Governor Tasker Oddie may disclose ambitions for governor or senator, with Ed Roberts and A Grant Miller as rivals, while Will Kearney and Jake Fulmer loom for a Comeback bid. Personal platforms are hazy, primaries emphasize individual tactics, and Governor Boyle is seen as an expected nominee but has not issued a manifesto yet.
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Tasker L. Oddie
Washington
Ed Roberts
A. Grant Miller
Will Kearney
Jake” Fulmer
Boyle
Hay
Strike in Textile Mills Shuts New Bedford Factories
New Bedford Mass June 3 The textile mills employing about thirty five thousand workers have shut down following a general strike called by the textile council. A third of the mill workers were on government contracts.
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New Bedford
Mass
Associated Press
Textile Council
Knitting at Prayer Meetings In Markham Church
Fifty women at Markham Memorial Church in St Louis Missouri adopted knitting during weekly prayer meetings. The plan is meeting with success and attendance is rising each week.
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ST. Louis
Markham Memorial Church
Heroine Is Beneficiary in Soldier's Will
Bellaire Ohio June 3 Wilbur Day local soldier named Elizabeth Workman beneficiary after she saved her little sister from a train disaster. Workman recently lost both legs while dashing before a train.
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Bellaire
Ohio
Wilbur Day
Searold
Elizabeth Workman
Arbitration ends wage scale dispute in governor’s office
Ben Luce resumed duties in federal court in the capital and campaigned while Pacemakers carry the load. A Virginia City labor rights pledge followed his declarations. The wage scale disagreement on the Comstock was settled the same day in Governor Boyle’s office after talks with Commissioner Wade of the conciliation bureau.
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Ben Luce
Virginia City
Comstock
Boyle
Wade
Bureau of Conciliation
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ARMY
Hunt
Yellow Dog
Olle
City of Columbus
RED Man
Paramount Picture CO
Mary Garden
Ben Arnold
Salt Lake City
Alice Woodgate
Fern
Herbert Sproule
Roy Merrithen
Portland
Don
Roy
Louis Rascal
Booker
Federal Grand Jury
Rascal
Kaiser
Uncle Sam
Clarence Phillips
Justice Court
Clarence
Judge Doughty
Phillips
Carville
Eureka
Eva Plummer
That
Childs Mantor
Mantor
Tobar
Boyd Moore
Nevada
KNIT
Schillings
Hershey
Welch
Sunkist
Sunset Grocery Company
Prigeb Telephone
Fifth Street
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