Allied gains on Meville front as allied lines tighten
War Office dispatch reports 30 prisoners and six machine guns captured northwest of Meville in the Flanders salient. Allied positions are described as daily improving with French and British actions extending two miles between Kemmel and Mont Rouge and Scherpenberg as German counter moves falter.
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Melville
London
Meville
Flanders
War Office
Lye
Kemmel
Mont Rouge
Scherpenberg
Somme
Arras
Reims
Champagne
Bethime
Shirt Offered to Newborn by Brave Soldier During Refugee Crisis
A young American officer at Boligos Italy gave his shirt to a newborn held by a frightened refugee mother. The infant was wrapped in the officer’s shirt after the mother, exhausted and undernourished, delivered on a train carrying exhausted civilians. The Red Cross cared for mother and child afterward.
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Ballin
Agnitate
Btorys Ap Ital
Ted Croes
Boligos
Pemon
Allan
Tralian
Game Wardens to Itemize Expenses for Duties
In a legal advisory, the attorney general states deputies and game wardens must render itemized accounts of their expenses. The county commissioner cannot approve more than twenty five dollars per month for such expenses.
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Anewer Lo
Co W. Grosser
Heh
Tech
Avcoranes
Lew
Capenes
Draft Registration Aims to Secure Three-Quarters Million by June Fifth
Washington May 21 Crowder general counsel estimates about three quarters of a million men will be registered for MOY by June fifth as youths reaching twenty one are recorded. He notes exemptions may reduce the number further.
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Wasshington
Materal General
Crowder
Mare Thal Crowder
American Aces Score Two More Aerial Victories in France
Lieutenant Douglas Campbell claimed a second aerial victory in the Toul sector as he downed a German biplane. Captain David Peterson of Honesdale Pa added his third win since May 15, forcing another German plane to crash after a 30 shot tail pursuit. Paris reports note two enemy planes were brought down by American aviators and a French flyer shot down one enemy aircraft near Lunéville with two German crew captured.
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France
Associated Press
Douglas Campbell
Toul
Germany
Leutenant
Plivey
David Peterson
Hones- Pa
Lnes
Peterson
Paris
Tluneville
Lufberg
Denver Boy Invents Device to Destroy German Submarines
A twenty year old Denver youth, Russell Heron Smith, develops a submarine destroyer adopted by the navy. The device uses wires suspended from sunken buoys that do not hinder surface vessels. contact damages submarines. Smith is the son of retired Army Captain Russell J. Smith and has now entered the navy.
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Denver
Colo
Navy Department
Washington, D.C
Russell Heron Smith
Navy
Russell J. Smith
Young Smith
Young Cops to Patrol Public Meetings in St Louis
St Louis May 21 Chief Young issues orders that only young and neat looking patrolmen are to be assigned to public functions especially crowded meetings. He argues appearance does not reflect on the city's reputation but expects orderly presentation from officers.
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ST. Louis
Young
Vienna Gas Works Employees Feed on Each Other
London dispatch reports a Daily Mall correspondent from Andemasse near the Swiss border describing famine near Vienna. He cites two Austrian gas works prisoners allegedly murdered by fellow workers and parts of their bodies eaten, as evidence of extreme hunger and breakdown of order.
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Vienna Gas Works
Germany
France
London
Entente
Austria
Daily Mall
Andemasse
Swiss
Dra
Vienna
Red Cross funds eyed from hotel coatrooms plan
Cleveland May 21 A new method to raise funds for the Red Cross and other war causes suggests placing Red Cross girls in charge of coat checking rooms at hotels and similar spots. Supporters say the plan would avoid annoyance and attract generous contributions. feasibility is not yet decided.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Red Cross
Three Give Lives For Us Over There Washington
The casualty list released today includes fourteen sailors killed in action. Twelve wounded seriously and two missing, with other injuries from accidents and disease. The report notes the front is in Europe and lists Venus as a unit reference.
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Washington
Forteene
Agen
Over There Fourth Of July Idea For Elko Celebration
A local idea proposes an Independence Day carnival in Elko with all public concession receipts donated to Red Cross or U S War Fund. The plan calls for a three day event with races and ice cream booths, turning profits to war charities, and aims to create a unique nationwide example.
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Independent
War Times
Bosh
Red Cross
United States
Wart Fund
Red Cr
Red Cross Fund
Ellie
Carter
Bega
Elko
General March and General Hiles Nominated for Rank
May 21 in Washington the president sent to the senate the nominations of Major General March acting chief of staff in France to be full general and General Hiles to be general by Brevet.
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Washington
March
France
Hiles
Senate
Railroad President Removed by McAdoo
Washington May 21. W Huntington of New York City was removed by Director General McAdoo as president of the Virginian Railway for disobedience of the railroad administration orders on maintenance and improvement. J Yoning of Norfolk was appointed to supervise.
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Washington
W. Nuntington
New York City
McAdoo
The
Virginian Railway
Railroad Administration
J. Yoning
Norfolk
Submarine danger reduces war risk insurance rate
Washington May 21 The danger from submarines line decreased prompting the Bureau of War Risk Insurance to recommend lowering the insurance rate for merchant vessel crews in the war zone from two dollars and cents per thousand to one dollar fifty cents per thousand.
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War Risk Bureau
Washington
Bureau of War Risk Insurance
Snappy Stories and Highballs Lead to Divorce Court
In St Louis on April 21 Ernest Jackson Cole sues for divorce claiming his wife drank in public and tempted men with off color anecdotes. He says she rode downstairs on escorts bicycle, frequented Sunset Club, and insisted that men tell stories she would jot in a notebook to prevent forgetting them.
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ST. Louis
Apell
Diveres
Ernest Jackson
Cole
Caston
Camp Grant
Rackford
Man with wrong phone left disgust at Mike in Belleville
A garbled account from Belleville May 21 reports a man angered by a mislinked telephone number tied to a hospital. The text mentions Huey Roosevelt and a Theodore Roosevelt reference, with scattered details about calls and a person named Miller Wicks, but the passage is unclear and fragmented.
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Mike
Belleville
Huey
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt Hospital
Ind
Tate
Miler Wicks
Piet
Abbentown
Veterans of Vimy Ridge Meet in Windy City
In Chicago on May 21, Captain H Parke of the Drith eh army and Sergeant R A Potter of Tipton Iowa reunited at a Canadian recruiting mission after eleven months of bitter fighting. Potter, home from Canada, spotted Parke’s name on a door and recalled their Somme days amid No Man's Land and Meuse Ridge action. Parke earned the military cross for gallantry with the Twentieth Battalion.
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Chicago
H. Parke
Dritheh
R. A. Potter
Tipton
Towa
Potter
Canada
Hr. Parke
Parke
Somme
No Man's Land
Meesines Ridge
Long Tall Cairo Brown Forces Kaiser to Lower Arm
A fragmentary report describes Long Tall Cairo Brown defeating Kaiser with a decisive move. The text references soldiers, front lines, and a rising antiwar mood spreading among troops.
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Cairo
Kaiser
Mount Holyoke Girls To Do Own Gardening
Mount Holyoke College plans self sufficiency in vegetables for the year. Student farmers target 2000 bushels of potatoes and 5000 cans each of corn beans and tomatoes. Girls gardeners plant plots to meet this demand.
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Mount Holyoke
South Hadley
Mase
Mount Holyoke College
Brothers Face Death Over Bodies in Raft Evasion Case
In a wartime draft case, two brothers refuse exposure of bodies and prefer death to being discovered evading the draft. They challenge the claims of a medical examiner and a United States Commissioner as they seek to avoid conscription.
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Pvutstergel
United States
Unclear OCR text about grocers and penalties in Uniontown
Fragmentary report from Uniontown Pennsylvania about penalties and a local event. Readable names or specifics are missing due to damage.
German Irish plot to raise uprising in Ireland exposed
U S agents uncovered a scheme between German and Sinn Fein Irish leaders in the United States to fund and arm an uprising in Ireland. The plan aimed to reach channel ports after the French drive, with blockade runners and submarines suspected. The disclosure praises the Secret Service for foiling the plot and aiding Allied efforts.
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Washington
Ireland
United States
Trish
Sinn Fein
Channel
France
Great Britain
United States Secret Service
Presbyterian Churches of the North Push Union of Evangelical Bodies
Columbus Ohio May 21 The General Assembly of the Presbyterian churches of the north adopted resolutions urging an organic union of all evangelical churches in the United States. The action is described as the most important religious step taken by any denomination in years.
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Presbyterian General Assembly
Columbus
Osio
United States
General Assembly
Presbyterian Churches of the North
Actio
Man admits cashing bad checks to bury son in cemetery
Prank J. Trottman, 26, arrested in St Louis on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. He says he cashed five worthless checks totaling 80 dollars to raise funds to buy a lot in St Marina Cemetery for his son John Hoffa, age two, claiming he could not meet expenses on his grocery clerk salary.
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ST. Louis
J.trottman
St Marena Cemetery
John
Hoffa
Side-Door Pullman Passengers Decreasing
Albany May 21 Uncle Sam is severe on tramps. Railroad officials report a noticeable drop in travel by the floating element of the population the bo who prefers rods to cushions has faded.
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Albany
N. Y
Sam
Policeman Invests 10000 in Liberty Bonds in St Louis
Patrick Egan a longtime city police officer has invested his life savings of 10000 in Liberty Bonds. He now has 400 left with 200 saved for his funeral and 200 to invest in bonds.
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ST. Louis
Patrick Egan
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