Casualty List Issued With 130 Names From Washington
June 11 report lists 130 names for casualties in action and related statuses. 26 killed in action, 3 died of accident, 7 died of disease, 48 wounded severely, 43 wounded with undetermined degree. Officers named include Lieutenant Edward Hines Jr., Lieutenant Edmund Corby, and James Lawrence. Captain John T. Contello previously reported severely wounded now listed as slightly wounded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Army
Edward Hines, Jr
Chicaoga
Edmund Corby
New York
James Lawrence
Atlanta
Georgia
John T.contello
Binghamton, N
Threshing Prices Fixed By Kansas Threshers
Eastern Kansas threshermen adopt a price scale for threshing with a 20 to 25 percent rise over last year. Wheat ten cents a bushel and oats six cents are considered fair, due to higher costs for repairs labor and oil. A county threshing committee will organize to map outfits, reduce waste and speed repairs, with Shawnee tallying 45 outfits. The drive aligns with Hoover figures on grain waste and saved bushels. The piece also notes a Kansas health campaign against vice in Kansas City led by Dr Crumbine and Captain Knowlton, planning a state quarantine and a broader vice survey beginning mid June.
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Topeka
Kans
Kansas
Se Ieee
Shawnee County
D. W. Mulvane
A.D. Folker
R. J. Catlett
Shawnee
National Food
Hoover
Kanes
S. J. Crumbine
State Board of Health
Kansas City
Kansas State
C. Bine
War Department
Millard Knowlton
Kansas Health Board
Rumbine
J. M. Guild
Kansas City Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce
Crumhine
Missouri
Metropolis
Army
Crumbine
Knowlton
Admiral Benson Leads America's Fight on U Boats
Admiral Benson directs the U S Navy and air forces against German submarines off the Atlantic coast. The chief of naval operations oversees the anti submarine campaign, coordinating actions against U boats as U S forces push to protect convoys and sea lanes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Admiral Benson
America
United States Navy
William
Atlantic
City Water Department Faces Readjusted Books
Auditors told city commissioners the water department records are in poor shape after two weeks of review. They blame former engineer Herbert Dunmire for leaving unclear accounts and note no trial balances to show city gains or losses. New superintendent L. A. Quigley arrives from Sedalia to oversee water purification and softening with a firm plan for material controls.
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City Water Department
Gorge L. Kreeck
Walter Thiel
Kreeck
Old Water Company
Herbert Dunmire
Dunmire
Quigley
Lawrence City
Water Department
Fragmentary Bowling and Poetic Lines From Daily Thought Note
A garbled OCR fragment mentions bowling pins by Reatz, Henry, Riling, and Bryant, plus a banker unloading Maxwells yesterday and a quoted line about Clarence being poetical and feeling like an immigrant entering a new ground. It also contains stray phrases about great powers and contempt.
Pershing orders best song director sent to tune spirits abroad
Washington received a cable from General Pershing calling for the best song director available. Stanley Hawkins of Com Dix was requisitioned and is en route to tune up the Spirits of the boys Over There. Hawkins, famed for the marching hymn Freedom, For All, Forever, considers it the American Marseillaise.
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Washington
General Pershing
Stanley Hawkins
Comp Dix
Hawkins
C Hilliam
Ignoring Casualties With the German Army in France
German forces press forward to seize territory before Allied stabilization. Divisions reportedly advance heedlessly, under heavy Allied fire from batteries and machine guns. Some attacking units are withdrawn due to heavy casualties and replaced by fresh formations.
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France
Associated Press
Draft orders call Islands to furnish 17,000 registrants
Provost Marshal General Crowder ordered Ben Washington to mobilize 17,000 draft registrants from Porto Rico and Hawaii. Porto Rico must send 12,466 men to Camp Las Casas on June 20 and July 1. Hawaii 4,336 to Fort Armstrong in Honolulu on July. Louisiana suffrage bill advances. lower house passes it and sends to Senate where leaders predict passage.
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Ask
Ben
Louisiana
Baton Rouge
Senate
Trath
Are fed best American troops get better nourishment
The American Medical Association heard Dr John R Marlin state that American soldiers are the best fed fighting men in the world based on diet analysis. He cited the American ration at 4632 calories versus British 3822 Canadian 2551 and Italian 2551, attributing much energy to the food supplied.
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Chicago
Ill
America
American Medical Association
John R. Marlin
War Department
Marlin
U S Army Officer Claims U Boat Sunk Off British Port
A German submarine was reportedly attacked and sunk by a British liner off a British port a week earlier. An American army officer aboard the ship said a single shot from close range struck the sub. Two accompanying destroyers dropped depth charges after the engagement. the liner carried 176 passengers.
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U. S. Army
Sagie
Atlantic
Kansas Wheat Fields Yield Heavier Than Expected
Wellington Kansas June 11 wheat harvest under way in southern Kansas with perfect weather and bright labor prospects due to state and federal employment programs. Milling men say yields will surpass either state or federal estimates. Growth of Tower of London noted as royal palace beginning with the White Tower, started by William II in 1098, expanded by later kings, church added by Edward VI, rebuilt in 1628, expanded through Charles II era, and completed in 1850.
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Kansas
Wellington
Kans
Tower of London
White Tower
William
William Rufus
Edward VI
Charles II
Liberty and Freedom as Philosophical Ideals
A reflective musing on liberty describing it as slow and costly, not cheap, with Emersonian insight that true freedom is the achievement and perfection of humanity through effort and virtue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emerson
Equalizing: Property Returns for Wakarusa Township
Douglas County Board of Equalization reopens on June 15 1918 to hear complaints on 1915 real and personal property assessments in Wakarusa township. Notices urge interested residents to govern themselves accordingly. Also real estate and small ads offer bottom farm at a bargain 120 acres near Lawrence 100 acres in wheat and cats with half crop payoff, and repairs business for sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence Daily’ Journal-World
Wakarusa Township
Lawrence Kansas
State Tax Commission
Douglas
Lawrence
Wilson & Clawson
St. Telephone
C. BE. Rutter
Gale—Collie Pups
J. BE. Markley
HIAWATHA TONIGHT MUSICAL PLAY BY Haskell INDIANS
Haskell Institute students present the annual musical Hiawatha tonight in the chapel with real Indian costumes and settings. A preliminary wand drill by Haskell girls precedes the performance. Tomorrow features the commencement address by H J Waters of the Kansas City Weekly Star at 2 o'clock, followed by a cadet drill for a prize later that evening.
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Haskell Indians
Haskell Institute
Haskell Chapel
Haskell
H. J. Waters
Kansas City Weekly Star
Waters
Kansas State Agricultural College
Aday
Clearfield and Eudora residents gather for local events
CLEARFIELD residents join in Weekend activities as Leon Roche visits Eudora Saturday. Ellen and Marguerite Melville spend Sunday with Susie and Rosa Brecheisen. Neighborhoods send attendees to a Clearfield Literary Society play in Eudora Friday. Several callers visit Albert Brecheisen Saturday. Family visits and household caregiving appear in weekend local notices.
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Mae Meeder
Gertrude Brecheisen_ Sunda
William Selzer
Helen “Selzer
Eudora
Mary Ehler
Baby
Mike’ Heitz
Clifford Breitiannt
Willie Dwyer
George West
Okie City
Susie
Rosa Brecheisen
Nannie Meeder
Kansas City
Elfrieda Selzer
Clearfield ‘School
Ima Selzer
William Brecheisen
Abert Brecheisen
Leon Roche
Ellen
Marguerite Melville
Clearfield Literary Society
Frances West
George Meeder
Albert Brecheisen
Gideon Breithaupt
Robert Kramer
Emily Haudman
Roy Breithaupt
R. George Sehrenk
Charley Steffen
Mike Heitzman
Iowa
Henry Decker
Soris
Lawrence
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CLYDE
Arrow Cluett
Peabody & Co.,inc
Palm Beach
McNish
Diogenes
Mother Gray Co
le Roy
N.Y
P Barber & Son
Sommera
Lawrence Iron, Works
Ingurés Accu
Lawrence Iron
Admiral W
Bison
Peases
Babe Ruth
Ray Caldwell
Yanks
Babe
Seybold
Athletics
Sinashes
Babe Wil
Giory Cravath
Philadelphia
Cleland
Kennedy Plumbing Co
Graeber
Reatz
Henry
Riling
Bryant
Charles P
Clarence
Daily Thought
Fox Meré
Extarfield
Pershing
Geo.c.brune
Be . G. L. Harbour
Cherries
A. G. Landis
Kansas City Testing Laboratory
Burkie
National Food CO
The
Journal-World
United States
Hiawatha
Mass
Clearfield
Deveney
ONEY
Awrence Building & Loan
Masa, St
D. Coen Burn
Dr. H. Reding
Klein
F. W. Barteldes
Ional Banksi
Directo
GEO
W. Ellene
Cashier
T. Wetzel
Aspt. Cashier
W. A
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