Germans may attack Pershing and his army
London reports speculate that German forces hope to strike Pershing and the American army. Pershing reportedly traveled to France secretly, while bombs over London kill and wound hundreds. Medical officers describe incendiary shells and high altitude raids causing deep wounds and burns. Public anger grows with calls for reprisal and stronger air defenses.
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Woman Leaps To Death After Manslaughter Verdict
In Steudenville June 1 0 Mrs Anna Petosky aged about 40 was found guilty of manslaughter in the killing of John Beem a deputy in Jefferson county jail. After the verdict she cried I am not guilty and then leaped from a third‑floor courthouse window, dying within a half hour at Gill hospital.
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Hiecrofe
Beer
Mrex Yetosky
Labor Leader Sees Great Changes From War Hour
Mrs. Raymond Robins of Chicago, president of the National Women's Trade Union League, told the Kansas City convention that no new social order will surely emerge from the war upheaval. She said this hour is democracy and labor’s greatest era as women finally obtain equal rights and join fields, factories, and homes supporting soldiers and nations.
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England
STRENGTH And How To Gain It From Nervous Exhaustion
An old health advice item promotes vitality by treating nerves with bite phosphate tablets. It claims nervous exhaustion causes weakness and that organic phosphate boosts strength, improving general health and nerve energy when taken with meals.
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Mort Dregeists
Germans Naturalized By Court's Decision
SAN FRANCISCO June 14 A superior court ruling grants German aliens who filed declarations of intention before the war full naturalization certificates making them citizens. The decision overrides wartime restrictions that barred alien enemies from naturalization. The case of Altrud Hertz longtime director of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and former Met Opera house conductor in New York shaped the ruling.
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Superior Court
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San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
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New York
One Person To Live Off Eleven Acres
A stark geographic calculation poses that 1.6 billion people must be fed from 23 million square miles of tillable land, meaning each person would rely on roughly 11 acres. The text urges action to avoid famine, citing Belgium as an example of widespread deprivation and European hardship.
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Europe
Submarine Disabled by Shots In Engine
CADIZ Spain June 14 The Spanish torpedo boat No 6 discovered the German submarine U-32 disabled by gunshots striking her engines The sub was towed into Cadiz stripped of wireless apparatus preventing communication with the central powers officials later visited The submarine is about 450 tons with a crew of 20 and is armed with two torpedo tubes and rapid-fire guns
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Spain
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Cadz
Renalra
Tadar Palda
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Unspangd Calm Exemp From War Service Reflected In Registration
A fragment shows a discussion where Dia asks about an unspangd calm exemption from war service when he registered. Mendy confirms, saying he told officers that if he were drafted, no one would do his weekly washings.
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Mendy
Send Woman To Jail For 5 Years For Theft
Mrs Alice Curtis wife of Clarence Curtis was sentenced to five years in the Wyandotte county penitentiary after pleading guilty to grand larceny in the Wyandotte county district court. She admitted the couple rented a Kansas side room and posed as customers to obtain change for a $20 bill then kept the money. Curtis remains jailed awaiting trial on a murder charge.
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Aliee Curtis
Clarence Curtin
Kansas
Frank PB. Hutchings
Wyandotte
Curtis
Wyandotter County Jnit
Railroads Move More Coal Despite War Board Claim
Washington June 24 the railroad war board said April coal movement by the five principal roads rose from 659 1837 to 909 982 car loads. The board cited transportation shortages as the principal reason for coal price highs while noting March shipments were 8 per cent higher than March 1916.
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Washington
Railroad War Board
Pittsburg Coal Producers’ Association
Headache Relief Promised by Quick Powder Remedy
An old time advertisement touts a dime powder package from Dr James Headache that supposedly clears headaches neuralgia and pain within moments after taking four powders. It urges immediate purchase and claims dramatic relief with no suffering.
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Dr. James
New U S Supply Vessel Described by Paris Visitor
In Paris a Journal correspondent describes aboard the first American ship of a new type arriving at a French port. The vessel, designated as "J," is part of a squadron sent far from its base to remain supplied with food, coal and repair materials. It did not sail alone, accompanied by a new craft built to chase submarines, and carried thousands of tons of wheat flour and other miscellaneous cargo.
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Mountain of medical supplies loaded from the quay
A vast shipment of medical supplies and surgical dressings is being unloaded from a ship. A large electric crane on the deck operates to move the cargo onto trains lined up beside the quay, enabling rapid transport to awaiting destinations.
Ohio Aliens Barred Mourn For Beer
In Lakewood Ohio a bridge crossing the Rocky River to Rocky River Town limits is closed to aliens. A German colony in nearby Hocky River laments the dry town’s restrictions. Locals report walls of anguish as residents adapt to new beer access limits.
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Lakewood
Lunai
Rocky River Bridge
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