U S Destroyers Rescue Two Crews and Eighty Survivors
Two American destroyers returned to base in British waters with eighty survivors from torpedoed British ships. Admiral Sims and naval officers praised the rescue as U boats were active in the Atlantic. Separate cables report sinking of the British steamer Elle and the Warren liner Bay State. the Dutch steamer Bemdjik also sunk with grain for the Holland government.
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Atlantic
Sims
United States
Boston
Elle
Leyland Line
Pierce
Manchester
England
Bay State
Liverpool
Bemdjik
Rotterdam
Holland Governent
Firat Rts
U Boats High Mark
London reports the weekly British losses from torpedoed ships reaching a record level with three months of data showing waves in U boat activity. Naval experts note improved submarine countermeasures while more boats reportedly escape.
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London
Boosting Good Roads Moves in Smith County Kansas Banquet
In Smith Center Kansas on June 19 the community Pikes Peak Ocean to Ocean Highway banquet, under the Ladies of the Division, drew near unanimous support for starting permanent roads in Smith County. A. C. Coolidge led the meeting instructing a committee to consult with officials and landowners and circulate petitions for a trial piece of the 965 day in the year road. Kansas Good Roads Association president J. Frank Smith, Kansas highway publicity chief Walter B. Montgomery, and Wathena editor CG. W. Ryan spoke as guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smith County
Smith Center
Kans
Pikes Peak Ocean
Ladies of the
Divic Ie
A. C. Coolidge
J. Frank Smith
Kansas Good Roads Association
Walter B. Montgomery
Kansas Division of the Highway
CG. W. Ryan
Wathena
Record of 1916 High School Graduates Largest Class
The high school records show 210% pupils have graduated since the first class in 1875. The class of 1916, with 120 graduates, was the largest. London police receive extra shoe repair allowance of 12 cents weekly, totaling 24 cents.
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London
Lectured on Food Values at High School Assembly
Miss Tena Miller delivered a talk on Food and Food Value at a high school afternoon lecture before the summer canning drive. About thirty women and girls attended the meeting. The day also included county commissioners meeting as a board of equalization. E. W. Foster traveled to Kansas City this morning.
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Tena Miller
County Commissioners
Board of Equalization
Commissioners
Rumors of Spanish King’s Dethronement Stir War Censorship
Conflicting rumors claim Spain dethroned King Alphonso or joined the war against Kaiserism, but censorship blocks any definitive information about a pivotal move since the United States entered the war.
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Span
Alphonso
United States
Former King Constantine Reaches Switzerland Amid German Ties
Dispatches describe Constantine arriving in Lugano as German officials greet him, with a telegram from the Kaiser handed to the exiled monarch. Reports note Berlin hopes Constantine will visit Germany and that Ferdinand of Bulgaria may back Venizelos in Greece, amid Balkan tensions and potential war moves. Separate items report on Geneva meetings with Swiss officials and German diplomats awaiting Constantine's plans, while a water works project in Lawrence grapples with a scarcity of labor and teams, delaying pipe laying and city contracts.
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Geneva
Paris
Balkan
Ferdinand
Bulgaria
Constantine
Venizelos
Greece
Lugana
Switzerland
Orcers
Princess von Below
von Muhrlberg
Vatican
Germany
New City
Dunmire
O. K
State Utilities Commission
Water, Advisory Board
City Commission
Belgians Volunteer To Work For Germany
Copenhagen reports a German industrial bureau in Brussels to recruit Belgian labor for German war industries and Belgian women for farm work. The official note calls the recruitment voluntary but gives no conditions.
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Germany
Copenhagen
London
Brussels
Firemen Relief Fund distributed in Kansas towns
Topeka June 20. Carey J Wilson, state insurance commissioner, supervised annual relief fund distribution funded by life insurance tax. Lawrence receives 1165.50 and Baldwin 119.11, with Kansas City Kansas totaling 7091.45 and Gas City 14.43. funds pay hospital, sick and death benefits to on duty firemen.
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Lawrence
Baldwin
Topeka
Carey J Wilson
Kansas
Harel
Kansas City
Kan
Gas City
Death of Mrs Duffee Early Douglas County settler dies at 82
Mrs Margaret Duffee an early settler of Douglas County died at her Lawrence area home seven miles from the city. The funeral will be from the home at 1 30 pm Friday with burial in Oak Hill cemetery. She was 82 and survived by son Lloyd Duffee the county engineer. She came to Douglas County in 1855 and had lived at the home of death.
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Maragret Duffee
Douglas County
Lawrence
Oak Hill
Duffee
Lloyd Duffee
Army Cantonments Contracts Awarded to Major Firms
Washington reports two large contracts for national army cantonments. George A. Fuller Company wins Fort Riley Kansas. Stone Webster wins Fort Sam Houston Texas. Projects require 60,000 to 80,000 workers with extensive wiring nails cement and shower bath materials. Sanitation and plumbing details show thorough readiness.
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Washington
National Army
Fort Riley
Kansas
Geo. A. Fuller Company
New York
Fort Sam Houston
Texas
San Antonio
Stone & Webster
Boston
Tornado Stricken Clinton Seeks Red Cross Aid
Clinton seeks Red Cross support after a cyclone devastated the town causing multiple deaths injuries and widespread property damage. Local drive coordinators report strong public response and plan district meetings with church schools and clubs aligned to raise seventy-five and more thousand dollars for relief.
Lawrence Library Receives Two Notable Gifts
The Lawrence city library gains a Catholic Encyclopedia set donated by the local church and a photograph titled The Windmill in Operation. The Windmill image by Mrs Dora Renn Bryant from the University Library recalls its 1863 to 1864 construction by Swedish workers, its Putch style, and related materials now housed in the University museum.
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Lawrence City
Dora Renn Bryant
University Library
Quantrill
Chicago
France
University Museum
United States
Zeppelin Airship Trip to America Feasible Soon
A German technical writer argues regular Zeppelins to America could be feasible in the near future with moderate airship size increases for four day voyages. The piece appears written with peaceful voyages in mind.
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Copenhagen
London
America
Quality of the Raw Material lecture at Fraser Hall
Harvard professor T N Carver argues that society’s needs trump individual interests and urges readers to adapt to social welfare. He claims race and heredity shape progress, condemns degeneration, and warns that war harms selective forces by taking the best before they have children.
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T. N. Carver
Harvard
Fraser Hall
God
Carver
Prohibition Speaker Hobson to Speak in Lawrence Friday
Lawrence residents invited to attend an 8 pm address by Richmond P. Hobson at Bowersock Theater. Hobson, famed prohibition leader and former congressman from Alabama, speaks on alcohol's harms in The Great Destroyer. Organizers from the Ministerial Alliance arranged the visit. program details await finalization.
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Lawrence
Bowersock
Theater — Ministerial Alliance
Richmond P. Holson
Bowersock Theater
Richard Pearson Hobson
Congress
Hobson
Santiago Harbor
Alabama
Prin
United States
Seventy at Institute Draws Teachers to Lectures
The Douglas County professional teachers institute reports enrollment near seventy today. Teachers show strong interest in lectures presented by C. Nowlin who lectured at Burlington yesterday, delivering three talks before the institute there.
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Douglas County
Nowlin
Burlington Westerlay
State sold much twine from Leavenworth prison
Kansas farmers received about 3,000,000 pounds of binding twine produced by the state prison at Leavenworth, sold at 1 28 cents, worth over 350000, under Warden J K Codding. The plant operated at full capacity and plans to begin shipping more after July as demand remains strong for binding twine. Franklin Children's Day exercises will be held at the Franklin school next Sunday evening at half past six.
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Washington
Congress
Federal Trade Commission
Great Britain
France
Germany
Leavenworth
Kan
Kansas
J. K. Codding
Warden Codding
Franklin
Franklin School
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U.S
Sina
Rnto
Spanish Kingdom
King Alphonso XIII
Queen Victoria
Spain
Kaiser
Firemen's Relief Fund
FT. Riley Cantonment
Mulvane
Sedgwick
Sumner
Aeale T. W. Pond
T. FE
Kansas Weather Report
Lsccesseeeres
Trade Commission
Clinton
RED Cross
Committee
Sam W.halderman
Journal-World
Henderson S. Martin
Ruth Anderson
Kansas City Star
Post Office Department
Ralph Spoits
Henry Asher
High Prairies Methodist Church
Clears’ Field
Hopewell
Plet Grove Church
Dunkards
FL H. Olney
Hannah Mitchell
Weybright School
Evan A. Edwards
Miss Mitchell
Harold L. Butler
Pleasant Valley
Huddleston
Sadie Dorsey
M. A. Gorrill
Midland
U. B. Chapel
Lecompion
W. Blackmar
Harmony School
C. H. Talbot
Sybil Martin
Hesner
T. Sudler
E. A. Bleck
Geo. O. Foster
Florence Hale
R. A. Kent
Estelle Northrup
Marguerite Emery
Eudora
H. B. Sparks
Kansas State Retailers Association
Sparks
H. L. Winey
Bloomington
George Washington
B.A. Thompson
Grenola
Belgium
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