Joffre Arrives in Washington to Enthusiastic Welcome
The French War Commission led by General Joffre and ex Premier Viviani arrived in Washington. They were greeted by Secretary Lansing and President Wilson as crowds cheered. The party traveled by train from Paris, with naval escorts and no salutes fired, while Marshal Joffre acknowledged small greetings at each station.
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Washington
French War Commission
Gener! Joffree
Viviani
State
War
Navy Departments
Lansing
Wilson
U. S. States
Joffre
Viviana
Dreyfus
America
Atlantic
State Department
France
Paris
Secret Service
Bread Rations to Hit England as War Food Strain Grows
London reports that bread rations will be introduced soon to ease the food crisis. Observers say bread is essential for the working class while the middle and upper classes can seek substitutes. munitions workers would need bread safeguarded with limits on its use.
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London
England
May draft teams to plow Fort Wayne gardens day
Fort Wayne committee struggles to secure plow teams for Gardens Day relief work. City offers good pay to teams for plowing. none have appeared. A donated large tractor is in use but plots remain idle. draft may be required to move progress.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Germans mass in Brazil feared insurrection grows
Telegraphic reports from Parana confirm that Germans in southern Brazilian states are concentrating in Santa Catarina. Belief grows that a German insurrection in the south is imminent amid growing tensions in Rio de Janeiro.
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Rio de Janeiro
Parana
Santa Catharina
British Drive Turks From Mesopotamian Position
London April 25 The Turks in Mesopotamia have been driven from between Samara and Iztabilat. British forces occupied Samara station and seized sixteen locomotives 224 railway trucks and two barges with munitions. General Maude reports the battle on the Tigris bank continued into Sunday night with severe hand to hand fighting.
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London
Mesopotamia
Samara
Iztabilat
War Office
Maude
Tigris
Woman thrown through windshield in Tipton crash
Mrs. C. E. Brown of Sharpsville and her son William were riding with Mrs. Andrew McNew of Tipton when their car sideswiped a machine driven by Frank Spears north of Tipton. Mrs. Brown was badly bruised and suffered a severe nervous shock.
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Tipton
Ind
C. E. Brown
Sharpsville
William
Andrew McNew
Frank Spears
Here
Brown
Peruvian man ends life over ill health in Denver
Charles Dell aged thirty four a resident of Denver Indiana killed himself citing ill health. He was married and the incident occurred in Peru Indiana on April 25.
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Peru
Ind
Charles Dell
Denver
Indiana
Woman Held for Confidence Game Charge in Muscatine
In Springfield Illinois on April 25 Mrs Annie Mohr also known as Annie Miller aged sixty is detained by local police for Muscatine Iowa authorities who seek her on a fraud charge involving a confidence game.
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Springfield
Annie Mohr
Annie Miller
Muscatine
Markets Report Chicago and Omaha Livestock and Grains
Chicago hogs receipts 15 000 with light to heavy ranges and pigs at 11 25 to 13 25. cattle 4 000 with steers 11 50 to 12 50 and cows 9 00 to 9 65. Cash grains wheat 2 red 2 72, corn 1 50 to 1 51, oats 69 14 to 70 14 cents. Omaha hogs 10 800 with heavy 15 25 to 15 60 and light 14 85 to 15 40. cattle 9 800 steady with native steers 9 60 to 13 00. sheep 9 800 steady with yearlings 12 50 to 14 00 and lambs 15 10 to 16 15.
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Omaha
Senators Debate Conscription in War Time
Washington reports on the American commission selection for the war effort with names like Edou Root Charles R Grane Harper Theodore Roosevelt discussed. The House and Senate debate conscription with speakers denouncing and supporting the draft quoting Jefferson and Roosevelt amid partisan dispute.
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Washington
Issu S
Wilson
Erihu Root
Charles R. Grane
Harper
Chicagoiversity
Theodore Roosevelt
Sneaker Clark
Congress
National Security League
War Department
Harrison
Virginia
Thomas Jefferson
James Monroe
Kaiser Advised to Follow Czar as Pressure Grows
Rome reports the Corriere d'Italia cites Spanish papers claiming German Emperor is urged to abdicate. A Hohenzollern meeting allegedly suggested Nicholas II as a model. The Kaiser allegedly grew pale and muttered “We shall see” before a second family council. Italian circles doubt the tale’s authenticity.
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Rome
Corriere o’Italia
Nicholas
Joffre and Vivian French Delegates to U S War Conference
French delegates Joffre and Vivian arrive to attend the U S war conference to discuss Allied coordination and strategic plans with American leadership. They will participate in sessions at the conference center and meet with officials to align wartime efforts.
War prohibition gains in governors race sentiment
A New York dispatch notes governors of twenty one wet states largely back war prohibition to conserve food materials. Western leaders push hardest, with Nevada governor Soyle openly approving and sending a wired pledge to the president. Others like Wisconsin’s Philipp and New York’s Whitman remain noncommittal or silent on the issue.
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New York
Brumbaugh
Pennsylvania
Washington Lindsay
New Mexico
Congress
Soyle
Nevada
BK. L. Philipp
Wisconsin
Lowden
Washington
Whitman
McCall
Massachusetts
Norse Mission Aims to Coordinate Food and Resources
London April 25 Scandinavian observers expect Herman Lagercrantz former Swedish minister to the United States to visit Washington soon. A Stockholm conference next month may select representatives from Sweden Norway and Denmark to travel to the United States to arrange imports of foodstuffs petroleum and other urgently needed materials.
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London
Washington
Herman Lagercrantz
United States
Stockholm
Sweden
Norway
Denmark
Freighter Sinks U-Boat in Mediterranean Exchange
Captain James Cruddace, master of the British freighter, described a running duel in the Mediterranean where the U-boat was struck three times during a thirty shots apiece exchange, an explosion aboard the submarine followed by its probable destruction.
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New York
Mediterranean
James Cruddace
British Air War Sets Record with Forty German Plan Downed
British Royal Flying Corps claims a new record by destroying forty German aircraft in intense air combat over Arras and the Somme front. Fifteen were seen to crash. twenty-five fell in uncontrolled dives. Meanwhile British ground forces advance on multiple sectors south of the Bapaume Cambrai road with Beaucamp and Villers Plouich taken and over 1,500 prisoners reported.
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Tloneon
Royal Flying Corps
T Nodon
Bapaume-Cambrai
St. Quentin Canal
No Slackers In This Town Inset Enlistment Race
Hammond Indiana cities vie in enlistment rates Auburn leads with high per cent of youths joining for war. Eleven single eligible young men in the town, ten have enlisted and gone to war.
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Hammond
Ind
Indiana
Auburn
U S Diver Mistaken for U Boat Off Nantucket
The submarine sighting off Nantucket was misidentified as a German U-boat. Secretary Redfield told the House Interstate Commerce Committee the craft was an American submersible and a report existed within twenty minutes of the sighting.
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U. S
Washington
Nantucket
Secretary of Commerce
Redfield
House Interstate Commerce Committee
Aeroplane Sinks German Destroyer Near Zeebrugge
London April 25. The admiralty announces British aeroplanes fought a German destroyer off Zeebrugge and belief arises that the German vessel was sunk.
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London
Zeebrugee
Admiralty
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