Americans Smash Forward Southwest of Metz In World War I
A chaotic dispatch reports Allied forces advancing near Metz with French activity in the Aisne while Balkans fighting continues. A separate item notes a deadly Missouri train wreck near Marshfield and Mansfield with many soldiers killed or injured. A woman titled as a man, masquerading to live with her husband overseas, is arrested at a Pennsylvania station.
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Springfield
Mansfield
Minnesota
Colorado
Missouri
Pershing
Rodgers
Pennsylvania
Sam Johnson
British Capture Holnon Near St Quentin in New Offensive
British forces seized Holnon village about 2½ miles northwest of St. Quentin and launched a further assault northwest of the town as Americans push toward Metz and Pagny Sur Moselle. British advances also rolled south of the La Bassee canal amid renewed action on the Flanders front and a Balkan campaign gain in the Monastir region.
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Frank Charlton
International News Service
Metz
Aisne
Balkan
St. Quentin
Holnon
Vendieres
Moselle
Pagny-Sur-Moselle
Pagny Sur Moselle
Chemin Des Dames
Flanders
la Bassee Canal
Moeuvres
Balkans
Cambrai
Monastir
London
War Office
St. Quentin-Amiens
Picardy
Gouzan
Names Davis Ambassador To England
John W. Davis solicitor general and current ambassador designate to succeed Walter Hines Page as ambassador to Great Britain announced by Secretary of State Lansing. Davis is in Switzerland attending the Berne conference on care maintenance and treatment of prisoners of war of Germany and the United States.
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Washington
John W. Davis
United States
Walter Hines Page
Great Britain
Lansing
Grippe Cases Surge At Camp Devens Hospital
Camp Devens Massachusetts reports about 6000 cases of grippe or Spanish influenza at the base hospital. Men are arriving so fast attendants are overworked. Army surgeons say new cases are in slight form and there is nothing to fear.
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International News Service
Camp Devens
Ayre
Mass
John Early Leper Reported Arriving at Brother’s Tryon Home
John Early the leper who escaped a Washington hospital is said to have reached his brother’s home in Tryon North Carolina during the night. Authorities keep him under surveillance amid threats to resist recapture and return to Washington.
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Ashevile
N. C
John Early
Washington, D. C
Tryon
Early
Washington
Trial of Gravil Korzal Ends in Manslaughter Verdict
After a six hour delay the jury found Gravil Korzal guilty of manslaughter in the Sacco murder case. Testifying, Korzal claimed bandits on a Struthers trip induced him to ride along, with Galie firing first. The trial saw partial juror selection as DA Muse and Clyde V. Ailey represented the commonwealth.
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Gravil Korzal
Louis Sacco
Emery
Korzal
Struthers
Mat Galie
Edenburg
Jedenburg
Galie
Galic
Maryek Zorko
Steve Moryek
Tuscarar
Steve
Moryek
Boza Draskovitch
Gravis Korzal
Sacco
William J. Moffatt
H. A. Wilkison
George Muse
Clyde V. Ailey
Commonwealth
Yankees Is Shattered On Moselle Front In Lorraine
German infantry attacked the American line on the Moselle near Metz but were repelled by heavy American artillery and machine guns. Reinforcements were scattered as eight German planes were shot down and American aviators joined air combat. German leaflets urged desertion to the enemy.
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Henry G. Wales
Internatonal News Service
Lorraine
Moselle
Metz
Chambley
Hunger and Disorder Across Russia As Germans Move Assets
An International News Service dispatch from Irkutsk reports rampant hunger and disorder in Russia with no sign of abating. The German Bolshevik treaty shift is blamed on failed alliances, and German forces begin stripping Baltic provinces as a prelude to abandoning the region while Lenin’s recovery is deemed assured.
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Wshington
Russia
State Department
Harris
Irkutsk
Moscow
Baltic
Lenine
Swanson Sues for Auto Collision Damages
Gunner Swanson and his father sue Charles B. Hunt for 25000 damages for injuries to Gunner 10 while a pupil at Highland school after boarding a car on Highland avenue. Gunner had both legs fractured when Hunt's auto struck him near Edgewood avenue with no warning given.
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Gunner Swanson
John ‘Swanson
Clyde Gibson
Charles B. Hunt
Gunner
Highland Avenue
Highland School
North Highland
Edgewood Avenue
Hunt
Draft Board Orders Questionnaires to Registrants
The county draft board ordered mailing questionnaires this morning to all registrants aged 19 to 36 who have not yet received them. The forms target those who recently registered.
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County Draft Board
Hungarian Regiments In Mutiny Shot by German Fire
Budapest mutinies by two Hungarian regiments were followed by their being shot down by German machine guns after capture on the western front. The report cites a Hungarian officer captured by American forces and dated from London.
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London
Budapest
Allies May Take Action In China
A Pekin dispatch reports growing Allied demand to intervene in China to restore order. The Chinese civil war has stalemated, and the country is overrun by soldiers and brigands with business at a standstill.
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International News Service
London
China
Pekin
Peace Plea Answer In Army Gains
Paris reports major Allied gains on the Woevre plain and in the Balkans as a strong reply to the Austro German peace drive. General Mangin secured a footing on the right shoulder of the Chemin Des Dames. Macedonian progress gives dominance over Bulgarian positions while Tierna river fire supports allied lines.
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International News Service
Paris
Woevre
Metz
Soissons
Balkans
Mangin
Chemin Des Dames
Aisne
Macedonia
Tiernha River
Eleven Die In Newark Button Factory Fire
An investigation began in Newark to assign responsibility for a fire at the American Button Co. plant that killed 11 people, nine women, one girl, and one man. Mayor Charles P. Gillem urged the grand jury and prosecutor to act and ordered inspections of other factory buildings.
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International News Service
Newark
N. J
American Button Co
Charles P. Gillem
Local girl charged after dollar theft claim in city store
Lottie Shields 15, described as colored, was accused of taking a dollar at Brown & Hamilton. She claimed she lived on South Mill Street rather than 1115 Moravia Street.
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Lottie Shields
Brown & Hamilton
South Mill Street
Moravia Street
House Burns Down Near Croton Today
A seven room house belonging to Tony De Etterre at 128 Carlsbad Place near Croton burned to the ground after 9 am. Fire crews responded from box 338 and, despite distance from hydrants, prevented spread to nearby homes. Contents not insured and nearly all lost.
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Tony de Etterre
Carlsbad Place
Croton
Typhoid Strikes Two More Residents in City
Health department reports two new typhoid cases, James Hammond of 9 West Moody Avenue and Carmine Ritchie of 612 Canyon Street. A child at the Kattalla Home, 614 Forrest Street, also diagnosed with scarlet fever.
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City Health Department
James Hammond
West
Moody Avenue
Carmine Ritchie
Canyon Street
Kattalla
Forrest Street
Vandieres Captured as American Artillery Breaks German Lines
American forces storm Vandieres on the Moselle south of Metz and advance to a line north of the village. A crack division takes 90 guns and 3,200 prisoners after silencing German batteries and repelling a counterattack. German units, including the Fourteenth Storm Battalion, suffer heavy losses with vast quantities of arms and ammunition captured.
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Newton C. Parke
International News Service
Lorraine
Vandieres
Moselle
Metz
Pagny-Sur-Moselle
Bois de Rappe
Pagny
St. Benoit
Haumont
Leideprey
Marimbois Farm
Hanmont
Four Burned to Death at Youngstown
Four persons died when an overheated electric iron ignited a table fire in a Youngstown Ohio residence. Victims include Mrs. Samuel Rosenbelt, her father in law Max Rosenbalt, and her two children Jerome aged five and Sherley aged three. The house was nearly consumed. Relatives of Elmer L. Shafer, formerly of North Mulberry Street, report his safe arrival overseas.
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International News Service
Youngstown, CO
Samuel Rosenbelt
Max Rosenbalt
Jerome
Sherley
Elmer L. Shafer
North Mulberry Street
Two On Lorraine Front McCormick Brothers Serve in France
John H. and Thomas G. McCormick of Slippery Rock appear on the family service flag. They joined Butler County's second contingent, trained as buglers at Camp Sherman and Camp Pike, then served at Camp Merritt before sailing to France. In the Lorraine front they volunteered for immediate machine gun service and operate a heavy gun as a pair.
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J. F. McCormick
Slippery Rock
John H
Thomas G. McCormick
France
Butler County
Camp Sherman
Camp Pike
Arkansas
Camp Merritt
New Jersey
Lorraine
Death Notices and Ages for Gardner Graham Webber Fischetti Warnock
Death notices list Mrs. Andrew W. Gardner age 49 of 1204 South Jefferson Street. Frances Graham age 70 of Hickery Township. Charles Webber age 12 of Perry Township. Orlando Fischetti age 14 months of Ellwood City. John Warnock of Washington Iowa. Mrs. D R Peterson age 45 of 713 Brooklyn Avenue.
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Andrew W. Gardner
South Jefferson Street
Frances Graham
Hickery
Charles Webber
Perry Township
Orlando Fischetti
Ellwood City
John Warnock
Washington
Iowa
D. R. Peterson
Brooklyn Avenue
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