Leviathan Passes Submarine Attack With Destroyer Help
Eye witness Captain Charles A. Harmon recalls three U-boat torpedo strikes on the Leviathan, the U S transport formerly the Waterland, with two subs blown up by U S destroyers. He notes camouflage, zigzag navigation, and the ship carrying 10 000 soldiers as destroyers joined in.
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Durand
Mich
United States
Charles A. Harmon
Carl A. Harmon
Camp Custer
Harmon
Motor Mechanics
Aviation Corps
France
United States Navy
Aga
Davy Jones
Wall Street Moves Against Rumors In War Era Market
New York reports war reshaping Wall Street as authorities curb rumor spread on the stock and cotton exchanges. Seeks to restrain sensational tales that influenced prices, noting ongoing limits and selective truth in market chatter amid 1917- era volatility.
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New York
Wall Street
Financial District
United States
New York Stock Exchange
New York Cotton Exchange
Stock Exchange
Exchange
Cotton Exchange Governing Board
Kaiser
Sacrifice for War Drives Alaska Boy to Denver
Howard Patten sailed from Alaska with sixty companions to join the signal corps after giving up a promising Anchorage confectionery business earning $10,000 a year. He braved a 121 mile trek across ice and snow and endured long journeys by foot rail and water to reach Denver for enlistment. A separate note mentions Marcus cemetery where Hoffman mourns his two year old son and a grocery clerk struggling on $14 weekly.
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Cole
Howard Patten
Denver
Alaska
Patten
Signal Corps
Anchorage
Boys Learn to Cook Girls as Carpenters
In Cleveland schools manual training and domestic science are cross assigned. Girls study household carpentry while boys learn cooking and groceries. Proficiency in tools shown by girls and boys.
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Cleveland
Girls as sheep herders in Cheyenne Wyoming
In Cheyenne three Campbell County women Lulu Munson Belle Pattison and Grace Keenan take up sheep herding as wartime shortages reduce male labor They earn 50 dollars a month and act as guardians to 2500 sheep each hired by B J Reno They are described as the first feminine sheepherders in the United States
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Wyoming
Lulu Munson
Belle Pattison
Grace Keenan
Campbell County
B. J. Reno
United States
St. Louis man arrested for cashing worthless checks
Frank J. Hoffman, 26, arrested on charges of obtaining money under false pretenses after admitting to cashing five checks totaling $80 to raise funds to buy a lot in St Louis.
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Sen. St. Louis
Frank J. Hoffman
Chickens under weight barred by Georgia Food Administration order
The Georgia branch of the Federal Food Administration issued an order prohibiting the buying or selling of chickens for slaughter weighing less than one and a half pounds on foot.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Federal Food Administration
Americans Break German Counterattack Near Château Thierry
Allied and American forces push west of Château Thierry breaking a German counterattack. US troops seize Vaux and nearby woods, capture prisoners and equipment, as Hamel and other objectives fall to Allied forces on the Marne front.
Iowa News Roundup Highlights War Efforts and Local Events
Arch bishop Keene dies in Dubuque after long illness. Iowa bankers attend convention in Dubuque. No alcohol sales on Davenport excursion boats. Beef rules exclude by products. Milk price inquiries target county admins. Elks convention in Ottumwa draws record crowd with governors speeches. Rioting among Mexican railroad workers in Maine. injuries reported. Plan to establish county TB hospitals advances in Des Moines. W T Harper named head of Iowa milk division. Fourth regiment National Guard organization speeds up. camp Dodge to host Y M C A Chautauqua for soldiers. Child shot dead by 7-year-old sibling in Colfax. Berlin town renamed Lincoln. bank changes name. Davenport agent Fridie convicted of manslaughter. Draft quotas under review for July 22. two special service calls pending. Sioux City manslaughter case possible if suspect joins army. Iowa soldiers earn praise on front. local NFLlike heroism noted. German ministers invited to join patriotic effort under state defense council guidance. No membership fee for German-American Patriotic Association.
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John Joseph Keene
Dubuque
State Bankers’ Convention
Davenport
State Food Administration
Iowa Food Administration
Elka
Ottumwa
W. N. Harding
Warrweather
Does Moines
Max Mayer
Iowa City
Des Moines
W. T. Harper
United States Food Administration
Iowa
Deems
Harper
Town National Guard
A Field Hospital Corps
Camp Dodge
Army Y. M
Midland Chautauqua
Grove
Joao White
Colfax
Berlin
Toléma
Lincoln
Berlin Savings Bank
Lincoln Savings Bank
Charles H. Fridie
Willie Spier
F*ridie
Milwaukee
Loran
Sioux City
Mooseheart
Ill
R. W. Leeper
Leeper
France
Ralph Lancaster
Council Bluffs
Chapultepec
Clinton
Robert Blake
Berkeley
Cal
German-American Patriotic Association
H. J. Metcalf
State Council of National Defense
United States
French Airmen Down 21 German Planes and Fire Balloons
Paris reports increased aerial action with French airmen accounting for 21 German planes down or out of action on Sunday and six captive balloons set on fire. The war office adds June 20 21 German planes were destroyed and six balloons burned, while bombs hit aviation grounds in Picardy and the Roye station with a violent explosion at Villers Carbonnel. Five killed and 14 injured at Mannheim by bombs dropped by armed nuviators.
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Paris
War Office
Ment
Picardy
Roye
Villers-Carbonnel
Mannheim
Germany
Baste
Kaiser's Allies Seek Land Amid Expansion Fears
Berlin reports from Berne indicate Germany fears its allies growth aims. Neuenschner Post cites Turkish expansion as a danger to German interests. The dispatch notes pan-German critics oppose Turkic conquests, and Bulgaria remains a key eastern route for German influence.
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Washington
Germany
State Department
Berne
Switzerland
Neuensehner Post
Bulgaria
Post
Nervous Woman Finds Cure With Lydia Pinkham Remedy
A Christopher Illinois woman details four years of irregularities and nervous weakness. After two doctors failed, she credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring health and regularity. The ad notes Pinkham’s claims and offers advice to seek guidance from Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. Lynn Mass.
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Christopher
Lydia
Pinkham
Mia
Heer
Lydia EE
Remembering General Clarke of Illinois Central Railroad
A nostalgia piece recalls Gen. James C. Clarke longtime president of Illinois Central. The Wall Street Journal notes he was a decisive railroader who helped Chicago become a major interior city. An anecdote recalls a postwar order to remove valets and a door confrontation with a dignified elder named as part of the department of accidental superfluousness.
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James CG. Clarke
Illinois Central
Wall Street Journal
Chicago
Lake Michigan
General Clarke
Gineral
Honuh
Immigration Totals in Brazil 1908 to 1910 Reach 926282
Immigration records show Brazil admitted 926,282 newcomers from 1908 through 1910. The largest groups were Seria 354,820 and Italians 153,950, with Germans 88,578 and Spaniards 190,767 among others.
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Brazil
All In the Expression: Gibbes Comedy Line
A witty quip about Gibbes frames him as a pacifist who calls it a pass a fist. The joke plays on wordplay and double meaning in a light exchange.
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Gibbes
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Atlantic City
Camp Dix
National War Garden Commission
War Department
U.S
Vaux
Baker
Wilson
Marne
Chatteru Thierry
Hill 204
Chateau Thierry
Bois de la ‘Stoche
London
Hamel
Villers-Bretonneaux
Somme
Marshal Haid
Vatre Wood
America
Moulin-Sous- Touvent
Soissons
U. S
William D. Robbens
Tieat John Wilford
Carlisle Rhodes
Terre Mante
Ind
P. Thompson
Honeoye
Falls
N. Y
Waldo’ N. Heinriches
Granville, O
John Mitchell
Manchester
Mass
Heinrichs
House Appropriations Committee
Tatt
Wood
Secretary of War
Denar
Rome
Asiago
Col del Rosso
Gol di Chelo
Monte di Val Bella
Jutiana
Copenhagen
Iowa State
Cerity
Cutter Laboratory
Daisy Fly Killer
Harold Somei
DE Kalb Ave
Brooklyn
Atson EH
Coleman
Atont
Ashington
Bost Services
Radcliffe Capital
Askoville
N.Q
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