Vilna Evacuation Ordered as Russian Retreat Deepens
Petrograd reports the evacuation of Vilna, a key railway hub near Kovno and Grodno, with libraries and museums moving treasures. The move signals a deeper Russian withdrawal into interior rail corridors as German forces press toward Brest-Litovsk and Lomza fortress falls.
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Petrograd
Vilna
Russian War Office
Wilna
Kovno
Warsaw
Russia
Grodno
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Riga
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Russian Courland
War Office
Saya
Ice Cream and Meat Market Ad From Baumgardner’s
The American lady favors Rothen aefer’s Ice Cream for its famed deliciousness. Visit after shopping for a refreshing chair and superb prep. Baumgardner’s advertises sanitary meat like Beet pork veal and lamb and Barbara Fritchle hams. They sell Bologna Frankfurts hogshead cheese and ham Bologna and now fresh salt water fish. They buy cattle hogs lambs pigeons and chickens and offer high cash prices. Phone 342 and 732. Old newspapers for sale at the News Office.
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Barbara Fritchle
Atlantic Ocean
Kaiser Replies to the Pope Rome Peace Proposals
Rome reports the German Kaiser has replied to the pope's peace proposals and the answer will be published in the Osservatore Romano. In Italy Dernburg arrives in Turin to begin propaganda work, demoralizing noxious reports from a news agency state.
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Vatican
Osservetore Romano
Dernburg
Italy
Tandon
Apr
Despaca
Turin
Mary
Bernhard Derr- Bure
Italians Repel Austrian Attack on Front Near Gorz
Geneva reports from Laibach that 89 00 Austrian troops with heavy artillery attacked Italians outside Gorz. After four hours of fighting the Austrians retreated, leaving 2000 dead. Italians gained a strategic point by linking Romane and Doberdo south of Gradisca. Austrian losses in wounded exceed 85 000. General Cadorna plans no large offensive until forces are settled in new positions.
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Tribune
Laibach
Austria
Gorz
Bsttlefeld
Romane
Doberdo
Gradisca
Udine
Cadoroa
Allies Gain New Gallipoli Foothold Near Karatchall
Allied forces report a new landing on the Gallipoli Peninsula near Karatchall on the Gulf of Saros. In London, officials say Entente troops gained about 200 yards on a 300 yard front east of the Krithia road and notes of another landing and progress at Chanwk Bahr. A Parisian invents a motor capstan and spring buffer to tow heavy trailers behind cars.
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Karatchall
Constantinople
Gallipoli
Gulf of Saros
Turkish War Office
London
Dardanelles
Krithia Road
Chanwk Bahr
Warships Sail for Vera Cruz in unsettled times
The battleship Louisiana and the New Hampshire sailed toward Vera Cruz with orders to be ready to depart at a moment's notice. As anti foreign demonstrations and incendiary rhetoric rise in Vera Cruz, Commander McNamee requests a squadron to guard Americans. The move follows pan American talks and Carranza’s tensions with Brazil, signaling broader regional strains.
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Batttleship
Louisiana
Vera Cruz
Mexico
Washington
New Hampshire
McNamee
Orcer
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R. 1
Battleghy
New Hampaus
Connecticut
Harlan Waters
Gail
Gulf
Vera
General Carransa
Iis
Carranza
United States
Mexican Bandit Is Killed In Border Attack Near Mercedes
U S cavalrymen near Mercedes repelled a raid by Mexican raiders. One Mexican killed, none of the troopers hurt. Six troopers on border patrol. four raiders captured. Armed townspeople from Mercedes and nearby towns pursued the raiders toward Ur.
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Brownsville
Tex
United States
Mercedes
Smallpox Scares Harrieberg and Harrisburg Pa
Smallpox fears sweep Harrieberg and Harrisburg after Charles Ludwic of Shippack, a dairyman, is found with the disease. He frequented a hotel popular with Philadelphia auto parties as state authorities warn of widespread contagion. In Shenandoah, Charles Arnavage, 31, a former policeman and councilman, was killed by a premature dynamite blast at Indian Rider Coal mine, leaving a widow and four children.
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Harrisburg
Charles Ludwic
Shippack
Philadelphia
Shenandoah
Charles Arnavage
Indian Rider
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