Canadians Break Through Near Lens In World War I Action
Canadian troops enter La Coulotte near Lens as British forces tighten around the mining center. Germans withdraw along a line near one and a quarter miles, with craters created at Avion crossroads and attacks repelled on the Aisne front.
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Berlin
Aisne
Lens
Paris
la Coulotte
Mericourt
Avion
Hurtebise
Crown Prince
Rupprecht
Belgium
France
Neton
Fosse 3
Souchez
Reservoir Hill
Prohibition and Food Bill Changes Stir Public Debate
Reports note Livingstone Farrand insists on liquor access and liquor interests claim vast economic impact with hundreds of thousands dependent on alcohol. The food bill saw broadened scope excluding farmers products and removing controls on what people may eat. Davenport murder case evolves as Esidhan Quinteros confesses while three witnesses name Joe Ortsid.
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Mr. Hoover
Food Administration
St. Davenport
Steve Perez
Dettendorf
Esidhan Quinteros
Perez
Joe Ortsid
Curb to bogus solicitors in Illinois
Springfield June 27 Governor Lowden signed the state council of defense bill giving it absolute control over fund raising for soldiers or war sufferers. No group or individual may gather contributions without a license from the council and permits can be revoked. Violations carry a $1000 fine.
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Springfield
Lowden
State Council of Defense
Sunday closing law reviewed by Supreme Court
Chicago saloonkeepers petition the Supreme Court seeking review of a state court ruling upholding the Sunday closing law. The main ground cited is unconstitutionality.
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Supreme Court
Washington
Chicago
Forty Slackers Arrested In Draft Conspiracy Case
Dallas officials report that forty of fifty men indicted for conspiring against the draft law have been arrested.
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Dallas
Tex
Prohibition Subcommittee Bans Whisky and beer in war plan
Washington June 27 The senate agriculture subcommittee agreed to a prohibition style change in the war food control bill banning distilled spirits manufacture and authorizing the President to seize spirits in bond for redistillation. It also would forbid imports and raise potential revenue. 222 million gallons are in bond. The President would pay owners if prices differ. The plan faces opposition from personal liberty and revenue advocates.
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Washington
Senate Agriculture
Gore
Plot to Wreck Camp Thwarted at Fort Snelling
Nine ty sticks of dynamite were found buried near the First Minnesota camp after a guard spotted a man crawling on hands and knees. The thwarted attack was discovered Monday night at Fort Snelling Minnesota.
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Fort Snelling
Minn
Minnesota
Clarke Joins Marines From Detroit Enlistment
Famous Cleveland Naps catcher Nig Clarke has enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in Detroit. He will undergo a minor operation before final acceptance.
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Chicago
Clarke
Cleveland Naps
United States Marines
Detroit
Missing Gary child spurs broad search and concern
Six year old Mary Bojuloski, famed as the most beautiful child in Gary, is missing after leaving home Friday. Hundreds, including boy scouts and local residents, comb dunes and swamps while police investigate a report of a man seen with her at six that evening.
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Hammond
Mary Bojuloski
Gary
Indiana women seek supreme court review of suffrage for delegates
Indiana women plan to take their fight to the Supreme Court after Judge W. W. Thornton of Marion county's Superior Court upheld most of the 1917 constitutional convention law but barred women from voting for delegates.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Indiana
Supreme Court
W. W. Thornton
Superior Court
Marion County
Henry W. Bennett
Fear of Draft Believed To Cause Gallena Man’s Suicide
George Koster twenty eight a resident of Galena Illinois ended his life by own action amid fears of being drafted for army service. Local authorities report the suicide occurred at his home. No further details are provided.
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Galena, Ill
George Koster
Seismograph records quake near Chile distance 4000 miles
Rev. F L Odenbach of St Ignatius College reports a severe quake recorded on his observatory seismograph in Cleveland. The sequence began at 1 08, 1 16, 1 36 and 3 25 with an estimated distance of 4000 to 5000 miles suggesting Chile as the origin.
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Cleveland
F. L. Odenbach
St. Ignatius College
German Village Smeared with Red Paint Noted
June 27 report from Quincy Illinois describes early anti German sentiment after saloon The German Village had its sign smeared with red paint as owners discovered the act upon opening.
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Disfavor
Quincey
Raoul Lafbery Wallingford Aviator Hero of French War
Raoul Lafbery of Wallingford Connecticut earned recognition as a heroic aviator in the French air war. He flew missions for France and became noted for bravery and skill in aerial combat.
Illinois crops: wheat poor potato outlook good
Illinois crop report notes cold wet weather delays corn with condition at eighty percent of normal on June 20, five points below last year. Winter wheat at sixty percent and spring wheat at ninety five percent. oats good. Irish potato area up twenty percent with promising yield.
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Springfield
Ill
Illinois
State Board of Agriculture
Police Chief and officials convicted in 1914 election case
A federal grand jury found guilty Indianapolis police Chief Samuel Perrott Police Captain Roy Pope Sergeants Wayland and Morton Hulse Herman Adam city sealer and Detective Lee Stringer of conspiracy to corrupt the 1914 election. The case alleges a terror campaign to suppress black voters for the Republican ticket. Dennis Bush testified and named Mayor Joseph E Bell as handling a slush fund.
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Indianapolis
Samuel Perrott
Roy Pope
Wayland
Morton Hulse
Herman Adam
Lee Stringer
Dennis Bush
Joseph E. Bell
First Woman Charged With Treason in Cincinnati Plot
Miss Lotta Burker identified as the woman in a daft plot against the United States. She was the first woman tried on such a charge, with about 18,000 armed men involved in the case.
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Cincinnati
Cinem
Lotta Burker
Greece in War Soon Predicted as Venizelos Backed
A Times dispatch says Venizelos, commissioned to form a cabinet, plans to urge Greece to join the Allies. He aims to explain Greece’s interests with the Entente and mobilize public support, potentially three months to raise Greece’s entire force. Paris reports Venizelos arrived and will seek parliamentary approval.
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Reuter
Athens
M. Venizelos
Paris
Havas
Eleutherios Venizelos
Alexander
Greece
London
The
Times
Venizelos
Girl Cause of Tragedy. Paris, Til. June 27.
Leon Cortes a Mexican shot and killed Lee Stear son of a wealthy farmer near Dana and foreman of the Pennsylvania Coal company at Jacksonville DL in a quarrel over a girl. Stear died instantly and Mrs Simpson sister of Stear's sweetheart was wounded as the bullet pierced his heart.
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Paris
Til
Leon Cortes
Lee Stear
Dana
Pennsylvania Coal Company
Jacksonville
Stear
Two Boys Drowned In Iowa River Tragedy
Iowa City report says Thomas Dillon eighteen and Gerald Lahay sixteen were swept beyond their depth and drowned in the English river. A third youth was rescued.
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Iowa City
Thomas Dillon
Gerald Lahay
English River
Petro Monopoly Proposed by Peru Government
Lima June 27 The government will submit to Congress a bill creating a petroleum monopoly.
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Petro Monopoly
Peru
Lima
Congress
Venizelos to Form Cabinet in Greece
Ex Premier Venizelos has been asked by King Alexander to form a new ministry after the Zaimis cabinet reportedly resigned following talks with Senator Jonnart, the Entente representative.
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Athens
Venizelos
Greece
Alexander
Zaimis
Jonnart
Entente
Dozen Suffragists Arrested Before White House Banner Protest
Washington June 26 more than a dozen suffragists were arrested as they marched in front of the white house lined up against the fence and unfurled suffrage banners a crowd of hundreds watched the arrests but there were no disorders Germany Fines Roumania 50 million dollars imposed on Roumania for 250 francs per article in Jassy June 26 colonists
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Washington
White House
Germany
Roumania
Jassy
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