Enlistments Break Records as War News Surges
Washington reports 2,367 new army enlistments in a single day, bringing total since April 1 to 2,686. Berlin claims Dirigo sunk by a German submarine with crew losses. The Brazilian Senate approves alliance to defend republics. Wilson prepares public outline of war aims amid Arlington memorial remarks. The schooner Margaret B. Rouss reports sinking and theft near the French Italian coast. President Wilson frames U.S. role as action nears, invoking providence and service to mankind.
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Washington
Margaret B. Rouss
Fred L. Foot
France
Wilson
Arlington Cemetery
America
Washington Revenue Proposals Expand Car Tax And War Taxes
The senate finance committee in Washington pushes a graduated car tax on private vehicles and details new war tax measures. Proposals include 2 cent per pound coffee tax, 5 cent tea tax, sugar at half a cent, cacao at 3 cents, and removal of a prior oil tax with new excises on silver tea coffee and beacon. A food bill amendment targets hoarding and censorship sections, while enforcement and registration efforts expand nationwide.
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Senate Finance Committee
Washington
Ness
Senate
Fragmented War News From Multiple U S Localities
The report catalogues Liberty loan subscriptions topping 1.45 billion dollars. A torpedo strike near Mineral Point Missouri kills seven and injures 22 or more. An aviation instructor dies in Buffalo New York from a hydroplane crash while a Buffalo resident is injured. A New York harbor closure is attributed to naval yard officials acting alone. A dynamite explosion in Cleveland Ohio demolishes a frame building injuring 13. Marble Hill Missouri reports 26 dead and over 100 injured from a tornado. An inventor in Navy service unveils an aerial bomb. John Clarke Black, former bank president, dies in Chicago after six weeks illness. born July 3, 1887 in Middlebury Vermont.
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John Clarke Black
Continental and Commercial National Bank
Chicago
Mr. Black
Tie
Middleburg
Carranza executes officer after Juarez parade
Maj. Elaterio Soto of the Carranza army, accused of furnishing ammunition to Villa forces, was paraded through Juarez and shot by a Carranza firing squad in a cemetery. Carranza troops move to strike the Villistas who seized Ojinaga opposite Presidio Texas in a surprise thrust.
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Juarez
Mex
Elaterio Soto
Carranza
Villa
Villista
Ojinaga
Presidio
Tex
Emperor Charles Opens Reichstag and Appoints Andrassy Premier
A Vienna reichstag opening speech by Emperor Charles lauds past ruler Francis Joseph and pledges resolve. Hungary's premier Julius Andrassy is appointed per Budapest telegram. Brazil’s chamber approves a measure revoking neutrality in the Germany US war by 186 to 3, while Petrograd strikes threaten large factories.
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Charles
Vienna
Francis Joseph
Zurich
Switzerland
Budapest
Julius Andrassy
Hungary
Brazil
Germany
United States
European War Updates From Kronstadt to Verdun Fronts
Kronstadt vote passes 210 to 40 as workers and soldiers assume control of the fortress guarding Petrograd. Paris says Capt George Guynemer has five more German planes to his credit, bringing his total to 43. British raids east of Richebourg L Avoue claim two German planes down and six out of control. French troops seize a German post north of Vacherauville. Russian Black Sea sailors land at Chivi destroy a Turkish post and grain store, burn two large sailing craft, and seize two vessels at Trebizond.
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Kronstadt
Petrograd
Baltic Sea
Paris
George Guynemer
London War Office
Richebourg-L’avoue
Vacherauville
Verdun
Chivi
Samsun
Trehtzond
Carry On and Invest in Liberty Bonds for War Effort
The piece urges citizens to buy liberty bonds as a vital war effort. It emphasizes that every dollar supports soldiers, sustains clothing and supplies, and protects currency value. It frames government bonds as safe, frugal investments aiding Allied victory and civilization.
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America
Dailey Named Indiana Defense Council Member and Secretary
Indianapolis Gov Goodrich appoints Frank C Dailey of Indianapolis to the Indiana council of defense and as secretary, succeeding Frank Wampler who resigns due to business duties including Fort Benjamin Harrison communications. The council expands to 19 members, with headquarters at the statehouse under Will Hays.
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Indianapolis
Frank C. Dailey
Goodrich
Indiana Council of Defense
Frank Wampler
Fort Benjamin Flarrison
State Defense Council
Dailey
Indiana
Mrr Wampler
Wampler
Counci
State Council of Defense
Statehouse
Will H. Hays
Marion County
Teading
Millersville
Fort Benjamin Harrison
State House
Council of Defense
Isaac D. Strauss
Ligonier
William J. Freeman
Terre Haute
A. E. Reynolds
Crawfordsville
County Council of Defense
State Councils
County Defense Council
State Council
Hays
Herbert C. Hoover
United States
Hoover
James Edward Rogers
War Department Commission
War Recreation Committee
Merchants Bank
Rogers
State medical defense committee formed in Indiana
A conference of Indianapolis and Indiana physicians at the University Club organized a state committee of medical defense. Dr Joseph Ro Eastman was elected chairman and Dr Charles F. Combs secretary. County chairmen will be named after state appointments. Maj. Jefferson R. Kean advised on the merger of prior Red Cross and medical preparedness groups.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
University Club
Jefferson R. Kean
National Red Cross
State Red Cross Committee of Physicians
State Committee On
Joseph Ro Eastman
American Physicians’ Expedition
Austria
Charles Fl. Combs
Terre Haute
State Committee of Medical Defense
John H. Oliver
State Medical Association
Charles FE. Barnett
Port Warne
Edmund DP. Clark
S&s. A Clark
South Bend
Willis PD
George PF. Keiper
Lafayette
Carleton BL McCullough
Kelvinapatlis
George P. Pfaff
Miles F. Porter
Fort Wayne
S. M. Rice
Edwin Walker
Evansville
George M. Wells
United States Army
J. N. Hurry
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Conservation Association of Indiana Forms To Aid Food Depots
A new body named the Conservation Association of Indiana unites fire insurance underwriters and grain companies to assist the state council of defense. It aims to mobilize company inspection forces to audit food depositories and curb fire hazards near those sites. The executive committee includes W. H. Riker as chairman and members C. A. McOtter, W. P. Ray, B. J. Gilmore, John Hellekson, A. F E. Webb, H. C. Upham and R. G. McCullough.
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The
Conservation Association of
Indiana
State Council of Defense
W. H. Riker
C. A. McOtter
Park rules set for Turkey Run and McCormick's Creek Canyon
Indiana state park commissioners adopted visitor and camper regulations for Turkey Run and McCormick's Creek Canyon state parks. The rules require public cooperation to preserve park beauty, banning shooting hunting and picking flowers or ferns and prohibiting certain parking practices to protect the areas.
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Turkey Run
McCormick’s Creek Canyon
State Park Commissioners
President's peace demands drawn for Russia mission
The American mission to Russia led by Elihu Root reaches a Russian port aboard a vessel whose safe passage was announced by Secretary Daniels. Root and colleagues will go to Petrograd as Russia faces internal chaos and royalist plots while the United States clarifies its war aims in a message drafted by President Wilson.
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Washington
Russia
Lihu Root
Daniels
Root
Petrograd
Mr. Root
United States
State Department
Wilson
America
U S Firm Wins Contract For French Aviation Field
An American firm secured a contract to build a two-squadron aviation field in France for American airmen. The Aircraft Production Board of the National Defense Council said materials would be shipped from the United States to duplicate the existing training fields, with final training in French battle planes under French instructors before frontline deployment.
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Washington
France
Aircraft Production Board
The
National Defense Council
Steamer Kroonland Narrow Escape in English Channel
Two German submarines fired four torpedoes at the American Line steamer Kroonland on its last outward voyage from New York. Two hits produced glancing blows that did not explode as the liner neared the British coast. An American aboard, recently in England, heard the account from an officer on the ship.
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Kroonland
New York
England
Russian war detains Lt. Rabenek for desertion
A Reuter dispatch from Riga reports Lieutenant Rabenek of the One Hundred and Eighty-second Saxon Regiment was detained after surrendering peace proposals to Russian lines. German planes demanded his return before June 5 and threatened avengement if not. Russians say he is a deserter and has been sent into interior Russia.
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London
Reuter
Riga
Rabenek
Russia
Galicia appoints new minister after governor general resigns
Michael Bobrzynski resigns as Governor General of Galicia. Chevalier Vos Seydler is named Minister of Agriculture in the official announcement from Vienna.
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Galicia
Vienna
Michael Bobrzynski
Chevalier Vos. Seydler
Kronstadt to be boycotted by Provisional Government
Petrograd reports Kronstadt will be morally boycotted outlawed and cut off from the empire unless it withdraws its defiance. Minister Pereveizeff told the Associated Press he negotiated with local extremists and narrowly escaped lynching over the release of an innocent officer imprisoned by the rebels.
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Kronstadt
Petrograd
Associated Press
Pereveizeff
War News From The Front and Homefront Developments
Strikes in Petrogrid factories paralyze production with 120 plants affected and 13 percent injured. A U S gunboat intercepted the Pacific wail steamer San Juan rescuing F W Fay son of a San Francisco merchant in Germany. Navy aviation claims five more German planes down. Sousa enlists at Great Lakes to conduct the training station band. British shipping losses rise with 18 vessels sunk and weekly totals up. German Lutheran minister Lehnert arrested at St Paul for anti conscription agitation.
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Petrogrid
Cleveland
D.C
United States
San Juan
F. W. Fay
San Francisco
Germany
Washington
Wilson
Congress
Religious Society of Friends
New York
Charles B. Kohl
Oconomowoc
Wis
Schaeffel
Kohl
Paris
George Guynemer
John Phillip Sousa
Naval
Great Lakes
Chicago
Juarez
Mex
Elaterio Soto
Carranza Army
Villa
Carranza
London
New York Harbor
New York Navy Yard
C. L. Lehnert
St. Paul, Minn
Lehnert
Minneapolis
Liberty Loan Committee
Liberty Loan
Exoneration of Guards in Mongolia Gun Accident
The naval armed guard and its commander are absolved of responsibility for the gun practice accident that killed two Red Cross nurses aboard the Mongolia. The navy department report calls for replacing brass powder cups with wood or fiber substitutes to prevent a repeat of the incident.
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Washington
Naval Armed Guard
Mongolia
Red Cross
Navy Department
Leonard Knocks Out Welsh For Lightweight Title
Benny Leonard knocked out Freddie Welsh in the fourth round to win the world lightweight championship in New York on May 20.
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New York
Benny Leonard
Freddie Welsh
Market Prices for Flour to Hogs in Regional News
The listing shows current prices for flour, corn, hay, oats, wheat, butter, eggs, live poultry, and live stock. Items include Flour Winter patents at 13.50, No 2 white corn at 1.64, Hay No 1 timothy 18.50, Oats No 2 white 0.65, Wheat No 2 red 2.74, Butter extras 0.44, Eggs prime firsts 0.35, Broilers 43 45c, Cattle shippers 9.50 12.50, Hogs selected heavies 15.85 15.90, among others.
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Teutonic War News
John Ray
Mite
Brazelian Senate
Francis
Gregory Oat Washington
House of Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
Wall Street
Mineral Point
Fred W. Zimmer
Buffalo
N. Y
Seymour EL. Knox
Eveland
Marble Hill
Zalina
Bollinger County
Lester BP. Bartow
Traly
Rome
Strickland Gillilan
Defense Council
State War Board
Council
Comstock
Repubiican
Daniel W. Comstock
Republican State Committee
Hotel Severin
James P. Goodrich
District Committee
Committee of Medical Defense
A Conservation Association
Uncle Sam
Western Newspaper
Union News Service
Coffin
Dayton, D
Wright Bros
U. S. Naval Guard
Leonard
Cincinnati
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