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Wheat crop outlook ties to allied famine risk
A confident forecast suggests a bumper wheat crop with winter wheat possibly exceeding 600 million bushels and spring wheat over 300 million. Total potential production could reach 900 million to 1 billion, easing shortages abroad, but calls for strict wheat conservation to help Allied nations and avoid fueling German aims.
Nurses to Enter Red Cross War Service From Shenango Valley
Dozens of graduates from Shenango Valley Training School for Nurses plan to join the Red Cross war service. Eight to ten have already entered active service, following earlier graduates, as the city’s nurses prepare to serve during the nation's time of need.
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Shenango Valley
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Editorial on women's suffrage and absurd imperial appetites
The piece urges United States Senators to embrace women's voting rights after a period spotlight on civic duty. It mocks German leaders, imagines cannibalistic daring, and parodies wartime propaganda while debating morality and leadership.
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United States
Red Cross
Where to Go Tonight Moving Pictures
Dome star Mabel Normand leads The Floor Below while The Secret Drop features Nixon and Harry Carey. Louise Klaum stars in An Alien Enemy and Viola Dana headlines Breakers Ahead with The Bull's Eye also showing.
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Mabel Normand
Nixon
Harry Carey
Louise Klaum
Viola Dana
One Year Ago In The War Front and Ports Report
British gains reported south of the Souchez river on the Arras front. The American liner Kroonland was torpedoed twice but the hits failed to explode. Elihu Root led the American commission to Russia and John F. Stevens led the railroad commission, both arriving safely at Russian ports.
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Arras
Kroonland
American Commission
Russia
Elihu Root
American Railroad Commission
John F. Stevens
Burglar Makes Himself At Home In Nighttime Raid
A humorous verse recounts a bold burglar who ransacks a home at midnight without alarm. The poem notes the narrator's amused reactions as personal items and even a parrot are carried off amid playful gibes. Other brief items comment on war news and local happenings with detached editorial sting.
No Title Yet From War Time Ruminations
A stream of aphorisms and observations on social behavior politics and wartime measures. The piece references soldiers furloughs army membership warnings car production and Fourth of July festivities while noting government control of fireworks and a plea for restraint in public displays.
Robert Edeson marks 50th birthday in stage career recap
Robert Edeson, turning 50 today, has long been a popular American stage actor. Born in New Orleans, he trained with August Daly Effie Eilsler and Louis Aldrich, joined Empire Theatre stock, starred with Maude Adams for Charles Frohman, appeared in The Little Minister and Arizona, and later found fame in Soldiers of Fortune Rawsons Folly and Strongheart.
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Mr. Edeson
New Orleans
George R. Edeson
Empire Theatre
New York
Edeson
Daly
Effie Eilsler
Louis Aldrich
Maud
Early American muskets and gunpowder milestones
The article notes that roughly 500 muskets were likely made by Hugh Orr in Bridgewater for Massachusetts Bay around 1748. It recalls New York premiums during the Revolution for powder mills and cites Massachusetts 1639 orders granting land to Edward Rawson to advance powder production, including saltpeter imports.
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Hugh Orr
Bridgewater
Massachusetts Bay
Congress
New York
General Court of
Massachusetts
Edward Rawson
Today’s War Era Observances and Commencements Across the Nation
The 1403rd day of the Great War marks many events. Jefferson Davis’s 110th birth anniversary is observed in the South. The Merrimac sinking anniversaries and the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company’s 280th in Boston are noted. Pa coal week drive and training camps at Plattsburg, Fort Sheridan and the Presidio are announced along with commencements at KU and Converse College and a Moose convention in Peoria.
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Jefferson Davis
South
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company
America
Boston
War Department
Plattsburg, N. Y
Ft. Sheridan
Ill
Presidio
San Francisco
Anniversaries of 1780 to 1916 mark leaders and events
The record lists notable anniversaries: Gen Clinton’s 1780 proclamation of South Carolina to England, Jefferson Davis birth in 1808, King Frederick VIII of Denmark 1843, Fenian defeat in 1866, Bissell bishopric in 1868, Waldersee’s 1901 Boxer troubles departure, Taft hosting a German squadron in 1912, Przemysl recaptured in 1915, and Salonika siege in 1916 with Greek bureaux takeover.
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Clinton
South Carolina
England
Jefferson Davis
Confederate States of America
Christian County
New Orleans
Frederick VIII
Denmark
Copenhagen
Hamburg
Canada
United States
William R. A. Bissell
Vermont
Count von Waldersee
Peking
Germany
Taft
Hampton Roads
Przemysl
Salonika
Of Interest To Women Tales Of Women And War
English women become skilled in making guns and gun carriages with precise breech work and screw cutting. The Prince of Wales visit to Rome sparks rumors he may wed Princess Yolanda. Miss Gertrude Gerald leads a new information bureau in Maine. Gary Indiana women boycott slackers echo Revolutionary era female pledge in Mecklenburg.
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Rome
Yolanda
Adjutant-General of
Maine
Gertrude Gerald
Adjutant General’s Department
Gary
Ind
South Carolina
Mecklenburg
Stray Dogs to be Killed in Warren War Garden Issue
Warren Ohio Sheriff McBride orders all stray dogs killed due to depredations on city war gardens, license status notwithstanding.
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McBride
Rooms for Rent Notice to Eagles Club
Person seeks rooms for rent for June 2 8 4 and 65 days and asks to notify Eagles club at Bell phone 1197 Union 936 Adv 25213.
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Eagles Club
Bell
Union
Heeter Not Sent Into Draft Army
Elmer E. Heeter of Canton narrowly avoided induction as war needs required his industrial work. The local draft board instead inducted M. E. Lacey of Pittsburg into military service under the same local board.
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Heeter
Elmer E. Heeter
Canton
United States Army
M. E. Lacey
Pittsburg
Massachusetts Kurse Advocates Vinol For Strength
Greenfield Massachusetts nurse recounts recovery from grippe after using Vinol. She credits beef and cod liver peptones iron manganese peptonates and glycero phosphates as the tonic ingredients. Mrs F M Locke endorses Vinol and Clutton Drug Co. and urges others to try it.
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Mass
Vinci
F. M. Locke
Vinol
Clutton Drug Co
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