Yankees Take Cantigny and Hold Cantigny Town
American forces capture the town of Cantigny in France and hold it against German counterattacks. Reports detail heavy fighting across Picardy with American units aiding French and British commands as Allied reserves arrive to bolster the front.
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Attac
Picardy
Teutons
Washington
Pershing
Flanders
Soissons
Cantigny
Germany
Berlin
France
Cant
Paris
Forest of Pinion
Rheims
Champaigne-Weeve
Meuse
Chambrette
Foch
French War Office
Vesle
Aisne Canal
Echo de Paris
Aisne
War Office
Veselly
Premier Clemenceau
M. Clemenceau
Ailette
Marne
Thillois
London
Ypres
Locre
Vogtmeezeele
Amiens
Dickebusch
Villiers-Bretonneaux
Albert
Festubert
Clarance
Draft bill raises voluntary army age to fifty five
Washington reports Secretary Baker sent to Congress a bill to raise the voluntary enlistment age from 40 to 55. Enlisted men over 40 would serve in non combatant roles. The dispatch also covers Western Front fighting and Allied reactions in France and Belgium with German advances and Allied counter moves.
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Washington
Baker
Congress
War Fund Drive On Now at Iditarod Chapter
Telegram correction clarifies that no subscriptions will be retained by the local chapter and that all funds are restricted to relief and front-line aid. The chapter notes past credits, commits to applying remittances to the drive, and reports $4,368.75 on hand for April 1, 1918, to be remitted with the first mail.
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Red Cross of
Seattle
United States
Russian War News Summary From May Dispatches
Reports from Moscow and Washington describe massive Russian prisoner of war losses in Germany and Austria with many invalids and tuberculosis cases. Ukrainian peasants resist German food requisition, and Italian and Serbian POWs allegedly inoculated as atrocity. A German division mutiny near Dvinsk leads to executions and imprisonments. June draft calls 280000 men. American units poised for action in France.
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Moscow
Germany
Austria
Ukraine
Washington
Corfu
Serbia
Dvinsk
State Department
Washington News
France
War tolls reported with daily casualty counts
U.S. war tolls are listed with daily totals. May 25 shows 23 casualties including 8 killed or died of wounds and 12 wounded. May 30 reports 21 killed or died of wounds and 23 wounded, with additional figures from Washington on May 24 noting 44 casualties.
Mrs Al Stuhr Convalesces After Otter Creek Scalding
Mrs. Al Stuhr, badly scalded on Otter creek last week, was taken to Behla hospital last Saturday for treatment and is now convalescing.
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al Stuhr
Otter Creek
Behla Hospital
Louisiana Rejects Federal Prohibition Amendment
Baton Rouge reports Louisiana votes wet marking the first state to refuse ratification of the federal prohibition amendment. The May 25 note positions Louisiana as a counterpoint to the national reform effort.
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Baton Rouge, la
Louisiana
La Follette Laughs Last in St Paul Speech Misquote
The Associated Press apologizes for misquoting Senator Robert M. LaFollette in his St Paul address amid disloyalty and sedition charges. A Rome report notes Premier Orlando left for the Italian front. Michigan faces a mosquito and gnat problem, with supplies from J W Farrell.
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New York
Associated Press
Robert M. LaFollette
St. Paul
Wisconsin
Rome
Orlando
Fatherless Babes of France appeal for local support
Citizens of Flat urged to sponsor fatherless children of France at 36.50 dollars per year through Mrs. Peck. Call or visit Peck's store for details. Several children have already been taken in by local families.
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Fiat
France
Peck
Flat
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Hungary
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Laibach Grats
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Amsterdam
Rotterdam
Russia
Western Front
America
John
LA Follette
Senator la Follette
Michigan
J. W. Farrell
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