German Agent Rumor Runs Through Berlin Crisis
Reports from Berlin and Washington describe a tangled case involving accusations that Dr. Meyer-Gerhard was actually Dr. Alfred Meyer, chief of Germany's Army supply division. The German embassy denies the claim, noting the charges arise from a detective agency in Germany’s enemies’ hands and warns such publicity harms peace efforts in the Lusitania dispute.
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London
Anton Meyer-Gerhard
New York
Count von Bernstorfff
von Jagow
Solf
Colonial Office
Meyer-Gerhard
Alfred Meyer
Washington
State Department
Germany
Cedarhurst
S. I
Department of State
Doctor Gerhard
Red Cross
Russians Admit Loss of Towns in Shavli District
The war office confirms German occupation of more villages in Shavli district and areas east of Mariampol. The San River battle in West Galicia is reported as continuing fiercely with fresh Austro German troops entering the fight.
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Petrograd
Shavli
Mariampol
War Office
San
Galicia
Aviator Warneford Dies in France Crash
Paris reports Lieut Reginald A J Warneford the Victoria Cross holder killed when he fell from his aeroplane at Duc France. American correspondent Henry Beacher Needham who was along as a passenger also died in the crash.
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Paris
Reginald A. J. Warneford
Belgium
Duc
France
Henry Beacher Needham
Turkish transports sunk in Golden Horn by British submarine
Nearly five thousand Turkish soldiers died when three transports were sunk in the Golden Horn harbor at Constantinople by a British submarine. A few men were saved and the submarine escaped undamaged.
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Golden Horn
London
Constantinople
Tenedos
Grand Duke Constantin Constantinovitch Dies in Petrograd
Grand Duke Constantin Constantinovitch, president of the Imperial Academy of Sciences and head of military schools, dies in Petrograd of heart disease at fifty seven.
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Petrograd
Constantin Constantinovitch
Imperial Academy of Sciences
Gorgas Awarded Georgetown Doctor of Laws
Washington June 18 Surgeon General William C Gorgas received the honorary degree of doctor of laws from Georgetown University for his work in the Panama Canal Zone.
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Gorgas
Washington
Willam G. Gorgas
Georgetown University
Panama Canal Zone
Berlin reports air raids and casualties in Karlsruhe
Berlin top headquarters released a report noting bombs dropped by enemy airmen on Karlsruhe causing eleven civilian deaths and six injuries. One enemy aircraft was shot down by our forces with all occupants killed, another forced to land near Schirmeck. Further fighting reported near Lievin Arras and Perthes Lesmesnil with heavy losses on both sides.
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Berlin
Karlsruhe
Schirmeck
Lieven
Arras
Moulin Sous Touvent
Champagne
Perthes
Lesmesnil
Mexico Peace Near Critics Hope for Settlement
President Wilson and Manuel Bonilla expressed optimism for an early peaceful settlement in Mexico. Bonilla said a peaceful arrangement is possible and the state department awaited General Cartran za's reply to Villa's telegram proposing talks on permanent peace.
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Washington
Wilson
Manuel Bonilla
General Villa
Mexico
Bonilla
State Department
DECLARES SHE'S NO QUITTER ON ROCHAMBEAU ARRIVAL
Miss Nona McAdoo daughter of the secretary of the treasury arrived on the French liner Rochambeau. She had engaged in Red Cross work in France and vowed she would not quit nursing wounded soldiers, insisting she is not quitting and will return to France as soon as possible.
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New York
Rochambeau
Nona McAdoo
Secretary of the Treasury
France
Miss McAdoo
Steamer Strathnairn Torpedoed in Irish Channel
Word reached London that the Strathnairn, a 4 336 ton steamer, was torpedoed in the Irish Channel with twenty two crew members believed drowned. Dutch fishing boat Broskens blown up by a mine off the Belgian coast. four crew drowned.
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London
Strathnairn
Broskens
890 Pound Woman Dies in Kansas
Mabel Hammond aged twenty six and once hailed as the heaviest woman in Kansas died in Harlan on Thursday from a stomach ailment. She weighed 890 pounds.
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Harlan
Kan
Mabel Hammond
Kansas
Submarine K-3 K-4 K-7 to Join Hawaii Station
Under convoy of armored cruisers Colorado and Maryland submarines K-3 K-4 K-7 and K-8 will leave San Francisco soon for their new station at Honolulu.
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U. S
Honolulu
Washington
Colorado
Maryland
San Francisco
Chicago Ends Great Street Railway Strike Referee Chooses Victory
Chicago ends its great street railway strike as Mayor Thompson is named referee. Motormen and conductors on surface and elevated lines ordered back to work while arbitration plans are finalized. A three man board will include one representative from each side and the mayor as the deciding member. The conferees were kept in the mayor’s office overnight until peace was agreed.
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Chicago
Thompson
Board of Arbitration
Arbitration Board
Henry D. Capitain
James H. Lawley
Willis O. Nance
John A. Richert
W. J. Healy
W. D. Mahon
Edward McMorrow
William Quinlan
John J. Bruce
William Taber
William S. McClenathan
Maurice Lynch
L. D. Bland
Traction
Henry A. Blair
Leonard A. Busby
Britten I. Budd
Aldermaniec Committee
Capt Storen Found Guilty of Conspiracy to Burglarize Maxwell St
Capt James O Dea Storen and Detective Sergeant Michael Weissbaum were found guilty by a jury of conspiracy to commit burglary in Judge Dever's court. Sergeant Frederick Roth was acquitted. Storen fined 1000 dollars and Weissbaum sentenced to three years in Joliet penitentiary. Nathan Steinberg Isadore Wexler and others testified they paid protection money to police for burglaries in Maxwell street precinct.
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Chicago
James O'Dea Storen
Michael Weissbaum
Maxwell
Isadore Wexler
Maxwell Street
U fourteen submarine sunk by British say German admiralty
Berlin reports confirmation from the German admiralty that the German submarine U-14 was sunk by British forces. The June 17 dispatch in Amsterdam notes A. J. Balfour’s earlier claim as now verified.
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Berlin
Amsterdam
A. J. Balfour
House of Commons
Admiralty
Bridge collapse in Cleveland kills up to six workers
A section of a steel work on a new high level bridge over the Cuyahoga river collapsed in Cleveland on Thursday. Reports say from two to six men were killed and six to twenty injured. Rescue and investigation actions followed as emergency crews responded to the scene.
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Cleveland
Cuyahoga River
Girl's Threat Cut Found Dead in Cincinnati Yard
The body of eleven year old Elizabeth Nolte was found wrapped in a sheet, lying in the rear yard of her home. The throat had been cut and she had been previously mistreated.
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Cincinnati
Elizabeth Nolte
Marines Ready to Steam to Esperanza Rescue Mission
Six hundred sailors and Marines are ordered to San Diego to move toward Esperanza Sonora to protect about one hundred Americans as Yaqui Indians again threaten settlers. Rear Admiral Howard leads the expeditionary force from the Colorado with Raleigh and Buffalo watching Guaymas.
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Howard
San Diego
Washington
San Diegd
Esperanza
Hostetter
Hermosillo
Esperanza Valley
Tabari Bay
United States
Galveston
Tex
Villa
Monterey
Carranza
British trawler Argyll sunk by submarine
In the North sea the British trawler Argyll was sunk by a German submarine and her crew of seven drowned. Other notes report Bishop Alpheus W Wilson confined by asthma in Baltimore and John E Redmond suffering stomaine poisoning, with Thaw sanity trial set and Penn's largest class graduation.
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Hull
England
North Sea
Baltimore
Alpheus W.wilson
Methodist Episcopal Church South
London
John E. Redmond
New York
Harry K. Thaw
Hendrick
Supreme Court
Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania
Ambassadors Talks Circling Kaiser in Mediation Move
Washington reports that Ambassador Gerard is to meet Kaiser Wilhelm before Germany replies to the United States on submarine warfare and English food restrictions. Officials call the potential audience among the day’s most important developments and note Berlin’s earlier belief that the U.S. would not mediate.
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Washington
Gerard
Kaiser Wilhelm
Germany
Berlin
United States
England
Illinois law upheld forcing railroads to furnish cars
Illinois Supreme Court on Monday declared constitutional a state law requiring railroads to supply cars within a reasonable time after shippers offer property for transport. Mulberry Mill Coal Co of Freeburg, Illinois, won $716.92 against Illinois Central Railway in Illinois courts, a ruling affirmed by the state supreme court.
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Supreme Court
Washinggton
Mulberry Mill Coal Company
Freeburg
Illinois
Illinois Central Railway
Supreme Court of
Mlinois
Pair Crushed Under Auto in Logansport
In Logansport Indiana on June 19 Mr and Mrs Fred Lorke were found unconscious after their car rolled over pinning them to the ground. They are reported dying in a local hospital.
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Logansport
Ind
Fred Lorke
British Warship Agamemnon Aground Near Imbros
A Turkish aviator reports sighting a British warship of the Agamemnon type aground in Kafala bay Imbros Island. The deck is almost completely submerged.
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Amsterdam
Kafala Bay
Island
Imbros
Parole System Saves Millions as Indiana Shows Progress
Indiana parole records reveal 26 percent of paroled inmates violated conditions since 1897, with 9 034 released and total parole earnings reaching 2 530 199 40 while average per capita savings ranged from 6 65 to 64 87. Apple show commission forms Lafayette office and plans November exhibit in Indianapolis to boost exhibit quality and grow participation.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Board of State Charities
Reformatory
Jeffersonville
Woman's
Woman’s Prison
Women's
State Prison
Woman's Prison
Indiana Dental College graduates vow to serve as war dentists
Seventy seniors of the Indiana Dental College gained diplomas at the thirty sixth annual commencement in Indianapolis. Superintendent H R Raper noted unofficial calls from New York for dentists to join European hospital work amid trench injuries. Dean Frederick R Henshaw and trustee president Dr John N Hurty conferred the doctor of dental surgery degrees, with Rev Frank S C Wicks delivering the invocation.
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Indiana Dental College
K. of P
Indianapolis
H. R. Raper
New York
Europe
Raper
Frank S. C. Wicks
H. E. Barnard
Pensions and new corporations in Indiana notices
Pensions of 12 dollars granted to Louise K. Lippold Attica Ann E. McMeans Brimfield Eunice Robertson Braz il Nettie Caton Lag range Sarah A. Connett Evansville Elmira Fowler Tedford Mary A. Gillespie Oxford Falise M Hubbard Indianapolis Nancy E Hudson Boonville Permelia Lamb Bartlettsville Ann McGee Indianapolis. Notice filed of dissolution of New System Laundry Fort Wayne Ind. H A Crossland Co Inc Indianapolis 1000 To deal in wholesale groceries Harvey A Crossland C M Estes L M Rappaport. H G Woolworth Co Fort Wayne 10000 To deal in retail merchandise H G Woolworth N Woolworth and H C Underwood. The Indiana Club of Terre Haute To operate a social club EF Laker C Rav and G Ades.
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Louise K. Lippold
Attica
Ann E. McMeans
Brimfield
Eunice
New System Laundry
Fort Waszne
Ind
H. A. Crossland & Co., Inc
Indianapolis
Harvey A. Crossland
C. M. Estes
L. M. Rappaport
H. G. Woolworth Company
Fort Wayne
H. G. Woolworth
N. Woolworth
Governor appoints Clay W Metsker to state tuberculosis hospital post
Governor Ralston announces Clay W Metsker Democratic editor of Plymouth to serve as trustee of the State Tuberculosis hospital at Rockville replacing Dr O V Schuman of Columbia City. Metsker has led Plymouth journalism since 1857, served in 1901 in the Indiana legislature, led editorial groups, and spoke on Democratic campaigns including a 1904 keynote address. He is a 1891 DePauw graduate and has long backed anti tuberculosis efforts.
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Ralston
Clay W. Metsker
Plymouth
Rockville
O. V. Schuman
Columbia City
Metsker
Plymouth Democrat
Northern Indiana Editorial Association
Indiana Democratic Editorial Association
DePauw University
State Grain Dealers Meet in Indiana Address
President H. H. Dean of Bluffton urged delegates at the midsummer Indiana Grain Dealers association meeting in Indianapolis to avoid futures trades unless closed out the same day. He noted prices are about thirty cents lower than last year as grain crops suffer from the Hessian fly, with state crop losses estimated at 20 to 33 percent, and southern areas potentially 50 percent.
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Indiana Grain Dealers’ Association
Indianapolis
H. H. Dean
Bluffton
Indiana
C. B. Riley
Oil Inspectors Given Demand For New Efficiency Standard
State oil inspector J. O. Behymer sent letters to 58 deputies ordering adherence to a new efficiency standard amid complaints of carelessness. Reports alleged some inspectors filed results without performing actual tests on oil and gasoline.
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J. O. Behymer
Chicago teen disrobes on Monon train en route to Louisville
Hammond reports Pansy Fowler a seventeen year old girl from Chicago created a disturbance on a Monon flyer en route to Louisville by undressing while singing hymns and fighting the crew. Physicians say she had been drugged and placed aboard the train. she was taken to Louisville on her guard.
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Hammond
Pansy Fowler
Chicago
Louisville
Monon
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