Read by light of night bombardments across front
Sergeant Arthur G. Empey, a former American who served with the British, told New York University Alumni Association that intense shelling on the western front is bright enough to read a newspaper in the trench. He noted chaplains conduct services while guns fire, with a Bible and German aircraft as symbols. He said Prussians are the most ferocious fighters, followed by Bavarians and Saxons.
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International News Service
New York
Arthur G. Empey
New York University Alumni Association
Empey
Middletown Day July plans discussed by Athenia Club
Washingtonville heard that Middletown Day will be held in July. Athenia Club members marked its 10th anniversary with patriotic decorations and speeches by Mrs. John Francis Yanger, Mrs. K J Imanishi, and Mrs. Ernest R Adee. Liberty Loan talk by Hradner Cameron contrasted with a missing Japanese flag.
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Washingtonville
Athenia Club
Moffat Library
John Francis Yanger
New York City
Federation of Woman's Clubs
K. J. Imanshi
Ernest R Adee
Goshen
National League For Women’s Service
Jessie Emerson Moffat
Edward Randolph Emerson
William Grant Brown
New York State Federation of Woman's Clubs
Hradner Cameron
First National Bank of
Little Hall
Helen Findlay
Salisbury Mills
Ernest Richenberg
Irving Shaw
Ellsworth Merritt
Clarence Knight
D. W. Young
Monroe
Hamlet Roe
Grevycourt
Robert Hunter
Oxford Depot
Harriet Hunter
Chester
Dolly Booth
Campbell Hall
Frey Tuthill
Louise Tuthill
Helen Tuthill
Irvene Irving
Mirs
William Leonard
Frank Wentink
Rose Acre Farms
George Owen
Edward J. McLaughlin
Tuthill
Estelle Thayer
Theodore Merritt
Newburgh
Wiliam Hemingway
French Scientists to Aid U S in War Effort Middletown Day
In Washington five French scientists joined American researchers under the National Research Council to help develop new means against the Central Powers. The report covers Middletown Day notes, Liberty Loan appeals, and the broad range of women’s wartime relief work, including aid from Corinne Wagner and Mrs. Yanger, plus statements by Mrs. Imanishi and Mrs. Adee on international efforts and local contributions.
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France
Washington
National Research Council
Middletown
Corinne Wagner
Committee On
Cameron
Emerson
Mrs. Moffat
Fanny Nari
Mrs. Yanger
Militia of Mercy
Council For National Defense
Liberty Loan
Imanshi
Japan
Pacific
Mirs
Adee
National League For Women Service
Orange County
League
Goshen
Negro Churchmen Hold Conference at Tarrytown Session
The 96th annual New York Conference of the A. M. E. Zion Church met at Wildey Street church in Tarrytown with Rev Dr J W McCoy as pastor. Bishop J C Caldwell presided aided by Bishop J W Hood. delegates from across the state and nation attended. The opening included lovefeast and Holy Communion as officers were organized and elected.
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New York
A. M. E. Zion
Am.e. Zion
Wildey Street
Tarrytown
J. W. McCoy
Mr. McCay
Bere
J. C. Caldwell
Philadelphia
J. W. Hood
America
John ©. Darcey
Charéension
Dr. Goler
Livingstone College
C. S. Whitted
Ministerial Brotherhood
S. L. Carrothers
Washington, D. C
Flem
W. 0. Carrington
Theological School
Gymnasium Use Approved for Soldiers Reading Room
Webb Horton Memorial Presbyterian Church officers decide to open the church gymnasium this summer as a reading and writing room for the members of the Tist Regiment. The space has been unused in summer and has been favored for bath privileges by the company, with arrangements to be completed soon.
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Webb Horton Memorial Presbyterian Church
Tist
Germans Counterfeit Rare Trench Papers Forsaken War News
London June 16 International News Service reports German armies at the front driving high prices for war papers. British drives have halted publication, shortages push copies to about 300 marks. Printers across the empire reproduce counterfeit war papers nearly indistinguishable from originals, while warnings against buying bogus copies go unheeded as many sell as originals.
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International News Service
London
World War Headlines June 16 A Year Earlier
German counterattack on Dead Man's hill defeated while French repulsed attacks west of hill 304. Rome announces Austrian offensive nearly checked and Italian offensive developed. Two years ago, French captured German trenches near Arras and British advanced 1500 yards at Hooge near Ypres.
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Dead Man’s Hill
Rome
Arras
Hooge
Ypres
Activities of Women’s Clubs Tourists and Others
Regular meeting of the Tourist Club on Liberty Street heard papers on Woman and Home Life in South America and Literature in South America. As-You-Like-It Club met with Mrs Wilcox to review Thrall Hospital work and travel notes from Florida and North Carolina. The MacDowell Music Club closed its season with a final meeting at Mrs McDowell’s home.
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Sirs. V. Ryerson
Liberty Street
Mulberry Street
Afonday
Wilcox
H. K. Simeon
Thrall Hosital
Tamps
Finn
Alition
Southern Pines
North Carolina
Palme Beach
Florida
J. Slauson
Washington
Red Cross
MacDowell Music Club
Miss Helen Cowley and Wickham Avenue Sorority Officers
The article lists season officers for a Wickham Avenue group led by Miss Helen Cowley. Elected were President Miss Lillian Sundstrom, Vice-President Miss Madeleine Dugenerry, Secretary Allss Ebzabith Madden, Treasurer Miss Marjorie Horton.
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Helen Cowley
Wickham Avenue
Lillian Sundstrom
Madeleines Dugenerry
Allss Ebzabith Madden
Marjorie Horton
Glen
der Takuns
San Sella
Neidlinger
Sezuidilla
Mildred Santee
Piderew
Sanderson
Marion Henderson
Hilda Wilkes Moss
M. Genevieve Orden Muss
Roberta Holcomb
the Seallows
Cowen
Votal
Sprine’s
Sulo
Love Lavine
Festival Plans Completed By Idgebury Church
Idgebury reports the annual strawberry and ice cream festival organized by the Methodist Episcopal Church to be held next Tuesday evening in the Parish House. Strawberries, cakes, candy, fruits and other items will be for sale. The Red Cross Auxiliary formed on Tuesday with 18 members, expected to triple soon. Weekly meetings start Tuesday.
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Idgebury
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Red Croes
Newburgh Telegram Forfeit Today In War Press Conditions
The Newburgh Telegram will not be published today after a long run of seven years without interruption. War conditions prompted the decision, contemplated for months by the proprietor J W F Rutenbergie.
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Newburgh
Proprie
J. W. F Rutenbergie
Swiss reporter describes new silent German submarines
Zurich June 16 a Swiss newspaper correspondent who recently visited Kiel says the latest U boat cruisers are about 40, 000 tons, with a range of thousands of miles. At least four have been built and several more will be completed this summer. They carry six inch guns and three torpedo tubes, with speeds of up to twenty knots on the surface and underwater. crew over 140. The subs allegedly use noiseless metals to move silently underwater evading detection and can dive to eighteen miles per hour, carrying twenty to thirty torpedoes.
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International News Service
Zurich
Kiel
Geroar Admiralty
Suiss Correspondert
Eager to Fight Finds He Is Down as a Girl
In Portland a woman points to a tall youth and claims the birth certificate lists him as Eleanor. Deputy City Clerk Myers notes the document shows a female sex, and an affidavit from the physician explains a register error. Kenneth Rowntree, a man, plans to enter an army officer training camp. suspension of the paper’s business noted.
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Portland
Ore
Eleanor
Stanley Myers
Myers
Kenneth Rowntree
Mary D. Sampson
Miers
East
Kenneth
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H. B. Woodward
George A. Swayze
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Archibald Taylor Co. Real Estate and Insurance
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Fabri
University of Paris
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Henri Abraham
A&a
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Mass Ethel Mitchell Plano
Kantey Alles Eizabeth Madden
Princes Hear
Muss Leif Sovder
Elivatech Bogart
Carr
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Red Cross Society
Edward M. Ruttenber
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