Roosevelt Named Adseah in Indiana Address
President William Lowe Bryan bestowed a new Indian name Adseah on Colonel Theodore Roosevelt during the Indianapolis commencement as orator. Roosevelt urged Americanism and warned against Sinn Fein and anti-American actions, calling for internment or burial of those aiding Germany. He spoke in Martinsville en route to Bloomington and praised Germans who become true Americans.
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Tribune
Indianapolis
William Lowe Bryan
Indiana
Theodore Roosevelt
Adseah
Colonel Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Sinn
Germany
Bloomington
Martinsville
Wayne W. Schmidt
Montdidier
Schmidt W Tenor
University of Indiana
Inoscvel
Salvation Army targets $2,372,000 war fund
Evangeline Booth announced a volunteer call as 29 workers were sent to war service at Salvation Army HQ on West Fourteenth Street. She urged doubling women workers in France from 100 to 200 and noted 90,000 in the organization serving the Allies in various roles. Colonel McIntyre reported New York drive reached $460,000. national total $1,000,000 with overall result $2,172,000 and about $100,000 still pending.
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Evangeline Booth
Salvation Army
West Fourteenth Street
France
Miss Booth
William A. McIntyre
New York
Death In Bronx Leads To Arrest Of Son Charles Letsch
Charles Letsch a night watchman and alleged drug addict was arrested on a felonious assault charge linked to his father Jacob Letsch's death at 518 Westchester Avenue The Bronx Tuesday night Police say the son administered heroin to ease pain but autopsy found no heroin and doctors cited pneumonia and bronchopneumonia as the cause.
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Charles Letsch
Jacob
Westchester Avenue
The
Bronx
Six Men in Jury Box End First Day of O Leary Trial
Federal District Court began the O Leary espionage case with jury selection. Judge Augustus N. Hand presides as nine of twelve jurors were questioned and six tentatively accepted amid protests from the defense and government. Mrs. O Leary and family watched closely as several potential jurors faced questions about Sinn Féin ties and wartime loyalties.
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John J. O'Leary
Sinn Fein
Jeremiah O'Leary
Federal District Court
Augustus N
United States
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W. I. Rothwell
Candifr Cobb
Moston
Thomas H. Folder
Talesmen
Tause
Alexia Br, Blanchard
Broadway
Barnes
Barnea
Blanchard
Bull
Sinn Féin
America
O'Learys
Supreme Court
Daniel F. Gohalan
Church of St. Francis de Sales
Friends of Irish Freedom
Ancient
Order of Mibernians
Anderson
West 147Th Street
Bronx
Talesman
Joseph Jordan
Raymond Minor
France
Jefferson Blumenthal
West 1A1st Street
James Austrian
St. Nicholas Terrace
Fordham Ambulance Unit Praised for Rescue at Compiégne
Fordham University ambulance men headed by Lieutenant Martin S. Owens again gain praise for gallantry near Compiégne. Owens crawled into a wrecked dugout to rescue the body of Charles T. Dolan killed, and four others wounded. The unit had rested when a shell destroyed the dugout. Previously, in Picardy, several members won the Croix de Guerre.
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Fordham University Ambulance
Martin S. Owens
Owens
Charles T. Dolan
James Gordon
New York
Harry Mathis
Madisonville
Ohio
Charles S. Meyer
Cleveland
Compiégne
Beds provided for military men in city
The New York War Camp Community Service obtains use of a State Guard armory as an emergency shelter for soldiers for the weekend. By Saturday about 1,000 beds will be available. Director Rowland Hayes notes prior overflow of about 600 asked for lodging, with potential weekly growth handled as it appears.
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New York War Camp
State Guard
New York
Rowland Hayes
R. R
Montreal
Canada
Wallach Brothers
Broadway
Twenty-ninth Street
Hart Schaffner and Marx
Ash
New York City
Fort Hancock
Mr. B
Travers
Wallach’s
Loeb
New York Tribune
Bureau of Investigations
Brooklyn restaurateur Files Personal Bankruptcy Petition
Frank Weiss, owner of a Willoughby Street restaurant long tied to Brooklyn politics, filed for bankruptcy yesterday. Debts total $99,332 with assets listed at $250, citing high food and drink costs as the cause.
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Frank Weiss
Willoughby Street
Brooklyn
Japan to Define Her Stand Toward Russia
London June 12. Amid recent conferences Japan plans to issue a declaration outlining its attitude toward Russia. A Tokio cable from Chin Ja Kai journalists to the Times Telegraph states most Japanese doubt Germany and Japan will ally after the war. The association confirms the nation remains pledged to the Allied front and to fight until German militarism is crushed.
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London
Japan
Russia
Exchange Velograph Company
Germany
Tokio
Yi Daily Telegraph
Chin Ja Kai
Board of Trade Upholds Paying Of War Bonuses
The New York Board of Trade and Transportation executive committee denounces anti-bonus provisions in naval appropriations and urges Congress to support Senate amendments. It attacks walking delegates, calls for labor reform, and warns of treasonous disregard for national peril to maintain wartime unity and output. It notes Senate revisions and appeals to both organized and unorganized labor to back the reform.
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New York Board of Trade and Transportation
Broadway
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Stian
Minotto Loses Appeal in Court of Appeals
In Chicago on June 12 the appeal of Count James Minotto, son-in-law of Louis F. Swift, from the decision folding hit to be an enemy alien, was denied in the United States Court of Appeals. Minotto is interned on a Presidential warrant at Fort Oglet horpe, Ga.
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James Minotto
Court of Appeals
Chicago
United States Court of Appeals
Minotto
Louis F. Swift
Packer
British on Italian Front Destroy 21 Enemy Aircraft
War Office report states British air forces on the Italian front destroyed twenty one enemy airplanes. Yonkers board votes unanimously to bar German instruction in public schools, with President Charleson presenting the resolution.
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London
War Office
Yonkers
N. Y
Board of Education
Yonkura
Charleson
Weather forecast notes cooler mid-Atlantic and unsettled East
The Washington weather report notes a southward barometer drop along the Atlantic coast with no storm center located. Thunder showers spread through the lower Midwest and New England, with notably cooler temperatures in rainfall areas but unseasonably high warmth across the plains and upper Mississippi Valley. Cooler conditions expected in New England tomorrow with lingering warmth elsewhere.
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St Lawrences Valley
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Platnall
Lower Jaw
New England
Middle Atlantic
Minour
Mocky Mountains
Half Hour Row Between Judge and Lawyer in Russellite Sedition Trial
In Federal Court Brooklyn a hostile exchange between Judge Harland J. Mowe and defense counsel Frederick W. Sparks interrupted Russellites sedition proceedings for about 30 minutes. The judge condemned Sparks as unlawful and arrogant and warned of contempt powers while Sparks pressed questions. The cross examination then shifted to ministers, with Clayton J. Woodworth denouncing war critics and likening recruiting ministers to bulls leading cattle to slaughter.
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Harland J. Mowe
Frederick W. Sparks
Russellites
Federal Court
Brooklyn
Ene
Sparks
George H. Fisher
Mr. Sparks
Iks
Howe
Howes
John Haynes Holmes
New York
Clayton J. Woodworth
Woodworth
Germans Fear Door to U S Is Closed Forever
Washington dispatch reports German agitation over German interests in the United States after wartime actions. American papers warn of a near collapse of German life in America, with schools closing, German associations shrinking, and ships and assets seized for war materiel.
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U. S
the Tribune
Washington
Germany
United States
National
Komische Volkszeitung
Wilson
America
Geman
Kélniache Volkszeitung
Hamburg-American
Norddeutsche Lloyd Lines
Federal raid seizes books at Robins Dry Dock offices
United States Marshal Power and DOJ agents raided Robins Dry Dock and Repair Company at Beard Street Erie Resin and seized the books of Tebo Yacht Basin Company. Warrants by U S Commissioner McGoldrick, books turned to U S Attorney France. Grand jury probes both firms.
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Robins Dry Dock Co
United States Marshal Power
Brooklyn
Department of Justice
Naval Intel- Agence Bureau
Robins Dry Dock and Repair Company
Beard Street
Erie Resin
Tobo Yacht Basin Company
William ‘Todd
United States
McGoldrick
France
Grand Jury
Utica Soldier Under Fire Haunts Publicity and Fraud Adverts
A 1917 Utica Observer feature exposes dubious patent medicine ads by Mayr's Wonderful Stomach Remedy and related sensational copy. It details an instruction sheet urging deceptive headlines and flags publishers for profit. A New York showroom incident shows fair dealing amid sharp sales pressure and a Tribune investigator’s cautious note.
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Utica Observer
George H. Mayr
Utica
Fim
San Francisco
New Orleans
New York World
New York
Liberty Bonds
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