German air ace recalls victory over French fleet in WWI skies
Berlin correspondent in Kaiser’s aviation corps describes a dramatic air battle near A. in which five French planes attacked. The German crew, flying dual deckers, damaged two enemy aircraft, downed a second and forced a chaotic retreat while raiding two railroad stations. One German plane was forced down but the mission overall was successful.
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Berlin
Kaiser’s
France
Iike
Berlin War Wounded Fill Streets and Hotels
Reports describe Berlin crowded with maimed soldiers and wounded civilians in hospitals, streets, and at social events. Officers at the Adlon display injuries yet some cheerfulness persists despite the sorrow in women’s eyes.
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Berlin
Hotel Adlon
Ferdinand Pinney Earle Setstle in Altenhurst with Miss Herman
The man known for his affinity from dictionary pages now lives with his brother in Altenhurst New Jersey. His latest soulmate is Miss Charlotte Herman.
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Altenhurst, N. J
Charlotte Herman
Gold coins found after shrapnel hits soldier in Paris
Three gold pieces were extracted from the akm of Private Bolssey in Paris. A piece of shrapnel pierced the pocket of another soldier ahead of Bolssey, lodging in Boissey’s leg and leaving him penniless before the wound.
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Paris
Bolssey
Boissey
Retired telegraph operator John Carnahan born in Bramarck
John M. Carnahan, long time telegraph operator, retires after more than fifty years of service. In 1876 he sent the first world account of the Custer massacre from Bismarck and kept the dispatches flowing for 80 000 words across two shifts. His career spans early telegraph expansion and frontier reporting.
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John M. Carnahan
Missoula
Mont
Custer
Western Union
Bramarck
North Dakota
Carnahan
Northern Pacific
Bismarck
N. D
Carmahan
Little Big Horn
Fort Abraham Lincoln
Seventh Cavalry
Lincoln
Bilamarck
Reno
Telegraph Office
Department of War
Washington
New York Herald
Chicago Inter Ocean
St. Paul Pioneer
Bullet that turns inside flesh wounds two Germans
A British surgeon reports the German bullet that enters flesh turns and exits rearward causing a wound in two German soldiers. The unusual projectile is described as causing backward passage through tissue.
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Dumdane
Memorial Day change rejected and bills advance
Indiana legislature actions include rejection of moving Memorial Day to the first Sunday in June by the Senate and a House vote on a city public works board seats bill. A broad abolitionist effort advances several departments, while a state prohibition bill is introduced in both chambers. Other measures address workmen compensation, anti nepotism, free lunch bans, and liquor statutes. Budgetary notes show inheritance tax revenue up over prior quarters and county variance in reports.
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Indianapolis
Senate
Board of Public Works
Department of Statistics
Department of Forestry
State Apiary Department
State Entomologist Bureau
Krau
Indiana
Lutz
Davis
Lake County
van Auken
Stephen R. Fleming
Fleming
House
General Assembly
William P. Kray
Elkhart
Board of County Commissioners
Neal
House Committee On State Medicine and Health
Jones
Committees On Elections
John Wjudkins
Library Commission of Indians
Indiana Population Estimate Shows Growth to 2 794 261
Indiana’s mid April 1916 population estimate reaches 2 794 261, up from 2 700 876 in 1910, a 93 375 rise or 3.46 percent over five years. The method follows U S Census Bureau practice with monthly increments and April 15 as the reference date ahead of the 1920 census.
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Indiana
United States Census Bureau
William J. Harris
Bureau of the Census
Belgium
Canada
Denmark
England
France
Germany
Holland
Hungary
Treland
Italy
Roumania
Russia
Scotland
Switzerland
Turkey
Forsee
Wales
Japan
Inmierney
Schoo
Annie Dill sues Interstate Public Service for damages
Columbus report Annie Dill files a $10,000 suit for personal injuries claiming spinal damage from an incident aboard an Interstate Public Service street car. Dublin case Raymond Oswald, 20, believed mentally unbalanced, shoots himself at his uncle’s home in nearby Dublin.
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Columbus
Annie Dill
Interstate Public Service Company
Dublin
Raymond Oswald
Wreé Geroth
Cascarets Offer Gentle Liver and Bowel Relief
A print ad touts Cascarets as a 10 cent box remedy to cleanse the stomach and regulate bowels. It claims to remove sour foods, excess bile, and toxins while you sleep, preventing headaches and indigestion. Millions use Cascarets occasionally to avoid constipation and related symptoms.
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Ady
Elaborate Greek word for a dish of all dinities hash
A Companion subscriber mocks claims of Greek superiority by citing a Ledger lexicon long word meaning a dish of all kinds of dainties and calling it a verbose way to say hash. The Wit is aimed at Teutonic wordcraft and classical language pretensions.
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Liddell & Scott
Colonel Johnson’s Alfalfa Gold Mine in Gregory County
Profile of Colonel Johnson in Gregory County South Dakota who built a vast alfalfa operation from a Wisconsin start thirty years ago. The piece highlights his thousand acre alfalfa field the seed history and his prominence as a farmer leader amid a broader note on Salter Seed Co catalog offerings and a humorous romance fragment.
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Gregory County
South Dakota
Colonel Johnson
Wisconsin
Altaira
Minnesota
Sakzer
Potat
Henry Schroeder
Red Hiver
Salter
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Keleer
Ferdinand Pinney Earle
Guster
Bill
Hele
State Board of Tax Commissioners
Albert B. Humke
Marios County
Crawford
Stowa
Steuben
Noble
Blarke
Food and Drug Department
H. EB. Barnard
Food and Drug
News OF the
Peach A. Salter Seed Co
la Croess
Wis
Collee Floss
Jane
Bobby
Wuling
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