British Trenches Teaped With Dead At Ypres Front
British and Canadian forces suffered heavy losses at Ypres as German artillery battered entrenched positions. Verdun fronts saw French repulses near Fort Vaux and Damloup while French and German forces trade heavy bombardments.
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London
Times
Ypres
Lnes
Fort Vaux
Damloup
Verdun
War Office
Fort
Vaux
Vaux and
Berlin
Meuse
Fumin Ridge
Goethal May Resign Confers With War Secretary Baker
Washington June 7 official word awaited on resignation of Major General George W Goethals governor of the Panama Canal zone after two talks with Secretary of War Baker Baker would not say whether Goethals had resigned He had submitted a resignation prior to the 1915 slides but withdrew it. Also reports urging aerial preparedness for the Republican convention and state lodge meeting news from Pennsylvania and Carlisle tobacconist Hartzell death by suicide at his shop in Carlisle.
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Canal Zone
Baker
Washington
George W. Goethals
Panama Canal Zone
Goethals
War Department
Russians and Austrians Clash in Far East Front
Reports from Petrograd say Austro Hungarian forces have captured 430 officers and 25,000 men along with seventeen cannon and five machine guns in a new offensive. Russian forces on the southern front are met by approximately 300,000 to 659,000 opponents as a 250 mile line from Pripet to the Romanian border holds. In Vienna a violent battle rages on a 200 mile stretch with waves of Russian infantry seen, General Brusiloff believed in command and employing mass attacks to break hostile lines.
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Petrograd
Pripet
Amsterdam
Vienna
Brussiloff
Carpathians
Seven Rebels Slain as U S Marines Repel Dominican Attack
Rear Admiral Caperton reports 200 rebels attacked the Monte Christi camp in Santo Domingo. Seven rebels were killed, American casualties few or none. Marines and Haitian gendarmes killed rebel leaders Metellus and Codio. nine rebels died near Fond Verrettes as pursuit continued.
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U. S
Washington
Caperton
San Domingo
Navy Department
Monte Christi
Santo Domingo
Metellus
Codio
Fondaverretes
State Department
Cor
Nered
Robertson to Succeed Kitchener as Chief of Imperial Staff
London dispatch notes that Sir William Robertson is widely seen as the likely successor to Earl Kitchener. Robertson has already assumed war secretary duties and held audiences with King George to report on British front activities in which Canadian forces have distinguished themselves.
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Kitchener
Imperial Staff
London
Jane
Robertson
William’ Robertson
Earl Kitchener
King George
NO MORE PEACE TALK CHANCELLOR SAYS FUTILE
Berlin June 7. A great Reichstag speech by Chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg declared further peace suggestions from Germany would be futile and evil. He urged national perseverance until victory and denounced England. The ovation was huge with nearly all parties applauding except Conservatives and Socialists who left with Liebknecht. He called for unity across political lines during the war.
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Berlin
Reichstag
von Bethmann Hollweg
Germany
England
Lieb Knecht
Elk Slaughter in Cedar Creek Basin Near Gardiner
Helena Mont June 7 The slaughter of more than 250 elk in the Cedar Creek basin east and north of Gardiner within twenty days was reported by State Game Warden de Hart and forest rangers after completing an investigation of game law violations. Yearlings toothless were among those shot, their carcasses found in heaps. Montevideo Uruguay June 7 The Uruguayan government will despatch the small steamship Instituto pesca to the rescue of the Shackleton expedition. The steamship will leave Thursday. one
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Helena
Mont
Cedar Creek Basin
Gardiner, Mont
de Hart
Forest Rangers
Montevide
Uruguay
Instituto Pesca
Von Hindenburg Takes Command In Galicia Front
Amsterdam report says Field Marshal von Hindenburg is placed in command of Austro German forces opposing the Russian advance in Galicia. In Shanghai Premier Okuma of Japan is reported to have been agemated.
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Okuma
Shanghai
Japan
Miracle the 162 Pound Baby Elephant At Circus
A traveling Sells Floto Circus feature shows Frederick hosting Miracle the baby elephant on June 2. The infant weighs 162 pounds and is born April 15 in Denver. Parents Giant Snyder and Princess Alice savor their third calf after two prior losses.
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Sells-Flote Circus
Frederick
America
Denver
Miracle
Giant Snyder
Princess Alice
Amer
Eastern Hemisphere
Hitle Miracle
Tragic Domestic Killing Ends with Suicide in Brilliant
Steubenville Ohio June 7 James Mc Neal 28 a electrician shot and killed his wife Anna 24 at their home in Brilliant He then turned the weapon on himself firing one bullet into his head A ten year old son witnessed the shooting the result of a quarrel over a boarder in the house McNeal had attempted to kill his wife three months ago At the hospital he refused to speak and cried I want to die.
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Steubenville
James Mc. Neal
Anna
Brilliant
McNeal
Bandits rob gambling game at Prospect Social club
Cleveland June 7 three bandits raided a gambling game at the Prospect Social club in downtown Cleveland, holding up and robbing about forty visitors of money estimated between 1000 and 5000 dollars, then escaping. The Independent Order of Good Templars began in New York in 1851.
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Siu
Cleveland
Prospect
The
Independent Order of Good Templars
New York
Throat Cut in Fight Over Forty Nine Cents at Wharf
Bridgeton Md laborer Freary Johnson of Crisfield is hospitalized with a throat wound after an oyster boat crew dispute over forty cents at the Maurice River shipping wharves. The assailant fled the scene.
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Bridgeton
Fleary Johnson
Crisfield, Md
Bridgeton Hospital
Maurice River
Explosion at Wayne powder works kills man in New Jersey
An explosion at the Dupont powder company works in Wayne New Jersey on June 7 killed one man and injured several others. Heavily damaged buildings and a surrounding area were blocked off as investigators sought the cause and assessed damage to the site and workers.
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Wayne, N. J
Wayne Works
Dupont
Arkansas Tornado Fatalities Reach Eighty In Arkansas
A tornado in Arkansas has killed at least eighty people and injured about one hundred with property damage around 1.5 million dollars, according to reports reaching here. The item notes that alligators do not reach full size until about a century.
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Arkansas
Thrnado
Memphis
Tenn
Leas
Soup Substitutes for an American Dinner Trend
A fragmented 1920s style discussion on replacing soup at the start of dinner with appetizing alternatives. It lists entrees and bite sized starters such as baked beans, Rice a la Creole, macaroni with cheese, croquettes, deviled seafood, eggs in many forms, hash, and cheese enhanced sauces served on toast or short bread. The text emphasizes new American fashion where soup is omitted and appetites are whetted by varied tidbits and light entrees.
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Hakan
Uae
Canapea
Boston
Japanese Loss In Battle for Queen Mary Forces
Tokio June 7 Lieutenant Commander Chosuke Shimomura, naval observer on the Dritleh cruiser Queen Mary, was lost with the ship during last week’s Jutland engagement. A stray fragment of text appears in this report. A separate item from Federamburg Maryland reports Clara Andrews, ten, badly burned when a fire touched her face in a house incident. doctors fear loss of the left eye.
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Tokio
Chosuke Shimomura
Jutland
Vette Ey
Federamburg
Clara Andrews
Wehard Andrews
Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Ad From Clarksburg Woman
A testimonial from Mrs Harold M of Clarksburg West Virginia praising Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for curing illness and restoring strength after adolescence and during pregnancy She credits the product with relief from backache nervousness uterine and ovarian issues and general weakness The letter invites readers to seek confidential advice from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Massachusetts
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Clarksburg
Lydia E. Pinkham
Harold M. Satu
Water Street
W. Va
Roofing Papers and Paints Advertised Prices
An advertisement listing roofing materials and paints with prices: Rubber roofing 108 square feet per roll, 2 ply at 1.26, various roof paints by gallon or ton, color options Venetian Red Barn, and White Leads. Claims of long wear, better coverage for machine-mixed paint, and guaranteed durability.
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Wallon Lhouse
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Party War Office
Goethal
Aero Club of America
Pennsylvania Eagles
McKeesport
Order of Bogies of Pennsylvania
Carlisle Tobacconist
Carlisle
Walter Hartzell
Chile
Hartrell
Teutons
Robetson
Prince Albert
Jimmy
United
St.ment
Harold Smith
Rochester
Shipley
Gettysburg
Fox
Charles L. H. Fox
North Market ST
R. Frederick
Jacobson Bros
N. Market ST
Arlington Hotel
Frederick, Md
the Ebert Hardware CO
Larry
Omalk Anak
Kyunte
Columbus Knott
Dennett @ Kasi
Picture Framing A. Specialty
Fredericn
Sos
F. A. Greenlaw
Patrick G. Frederick
Woodward & Manshower
Armory
H. D. Baumgardner
Sampten
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