State items of note from Minnesota readers week
The Great Northern subscribed five million dollars to the Liberty loan. Notable deaths include Lieutenant P A Brannan of Elk River killed in France, J C Munroe of St. Cloud, James O'Brien of Winona, and Dr. Burnside Foster of St. Paul. Killed by lightning near Cherry Grove was Herman Mensing. Bernadette Gallagher of Winona died drinking poison fogged as medicine. Other items: improvements in Minneapolis realty circles, draft news from Carlton county, flag-raising in Gateway park, and University of Minnesota commencement with 832 diplomas.
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Great Northern Railway
Liberty Loan
P. A. Brannan
Elk River
France
Edward F. Wallace
Great Northern Railroad
Hopkins Junction
J. C. Munroe
State Masons
St. Cloud
James O'Brien
Winona
Herman Oshman
Rosemount
Burna
Frances Buell Olson
St. Paul
Superior Lodge
Chicago
Minneapolis
Bloomquist
Minnesota
Frederick ©. Stevens
Interstate Commerce Commission
Carlton County
Rev. V. Arvid “Hagstrom
The
Swedish Baptist Church
Alexandria
Daughters of the American Revolution
Gateway Park
Burnquist
W. J. Bryan
Prohibition State’committee
Burnside Foster
Nick Litona
Virginia
T. A. Champion
Ivanhoe
Frank O'Connor
Mountain Lake
John F. Calderwood
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company and Annidl
Minneapolis Street Railway Company
University of Minnesota
Fort Snelling
Donald Grant
Northwest
Faribault
St. Paul Humane Society
Ramsey
Hennepin
St. Louis
Frank E. Nemec
Roy Rasmussen
Ralph Rasmussen
Rochester
Granger
Olmsted
Minnesota Public Safety Commission
Agnes Mlynczak
Frances Mlynczak
Michael Stolpa
Ludwig Stoltman
Mississippi River
Harry P. Peterson
Duluth
Nels Nelson
Peterson
Washington
Leroy Guinn
Eden Valley
Guinn
Brassard
State Normal Schools
State Normal School Board
el Torrance
Frank J. McCool
Joe Redenbaugh
Alice McQuillan Dunn
Burnqvist
W. J. Murphy
Minnesota Field Artillery
Second
William C. Rutherford
New Field Hospital Corps
Des Moines
National Army
Thomas H. Barry
Twin Cities
Secretary of War
Nelson Will Not Seek Re-election To Senate Post
Minnesota Senator Knute Nelson ends four six year terms and will not run again. Republicans explore successors Clarence B. Miller Sydney Anderson Elias Steenerson and Pred B. Snyder. Also notes political moves, a Minneap olis film theater syndicate, a murder conviction, a fatal river drowning, and draft totals below government estimates.
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Knute Nelson
Congress
Minnesota
Clarence B. Miller
Sydney Anderson
Elias Steenerson
Pred B. Snyder
Minneapolis
Allied Move Tactics Highlight Balkan Front Shifts
London reports a strategic Turkish and Balkan shift as British withdraw eastern positions east of the Struma, Bulgarians occupy vacated towns, and Entente reconnoitering along the Vardar central sector. Russian forces show rising aggressiveness in Volhynia and Galicia with Baltic naval activity provoking German air raids. In Arras, British counterattacks press a new line after a fall back near Monchy Le Preux.
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London
Greece
Constantine
Struma
Vardar
Balkans
Serbia
Sarrail
Volhynia
Galicia
Brussiloff
Baltic
Berlin
Arras
Monchy le Preux
Russia to Continue Fight Opposed to Separate Peace
Petrograd reports a stirring council proclamation by the workmen and soldiers delegates opposing any separate peace with the central powers. The document appeals to rally around revolution, defend freedom, and notes a wireless message from Prince Leopold of Bavaria offering peace talks. Kerensky orders circulation to troops and nationwide distribution.
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Petrograd
Council of Workmen's and
Russia
Leopold
Bavaria
Kerensky
British Fall Back On Struma Front In Major Retrenchment
Sofia reports a general retirement of British forces along the Struma front with troops returning to the bridgehead on the river's left bank. Units occupy Ormanli Barakli Juma Kumli Keu pri Prosenik Kalendra Begukmah Galmah and Kakarasha as artillery fire remains light elsewhere. London notes two killed and sixteen injured in a Saturday air raid in which a Zeppelin was shot down.
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London
Zeppelp
German Socialists Propose Peace Terms at Stockholm
Stockholm June 19 German Socialists outline peace proposals to the Stockholm conference. They seek peace without annexation plus frontier adjustments, an international arbitration court, restricted armaments with fixed training periods, prohibition on arming merchant ships, international control of key canals, defined contraband excluding food and clothing, uninterrupted combatant postal lines, no postwar commercial war, parliamentary diplomacy, and neutral participation in regulating international matters.
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Stockholm
Distillery Raid Triggers Townwide Drunken Rampage in Petrograd
Dispatches report in Petrograd on June 19 that a drunken orgy ended after 5000 townspeople attacked a distillery finding 5000 gallons of liquor. A city spree followed with hundreds in the streets and a fire started by a man who threw a match on liquor soaked ground. a tank exploded, causing deaths and injuries.
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Petrograd
Dolgobuje
Germany Says American Troops Likely Late in 1918
Berlin press conference remarks claim U S troop arrivals will be noteworthy only in 1918 due to transport and supply difficulties. German General Staff lecturer argues American force should be treated as negligible in general reckonings. Copenhagen report notes widespread articles echoing the view.
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Copenhagen
Berlin
Hat factories to quit in Danbury strike over wage basis
Hat factories in Danbury will suspend operations following a dispute with the hatters union over the wage scale for the current year. The action, announced by the hat manufacturers association executive committee, delays work pending a decision on whether pay should be tied to finished product selling price.
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Danbury
Conn
Hat Manufacturers’ Association
Hatters’ Union
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