World War News Roundup From Allied Fronts
State department reports failure to reach a prisoner exchange with Germany citing contact issues. Loy Bishop John N McCormick of the Western Michigan Episcopal diocese gassed in France. Bonar Law says Austria’s drive aims to exhaust Allied reserves before American troops arrive. Thirty-second division now fighting on Alsace. Submarine activity prompts a coastwise seamen wage bonus. Texas National Guard cavalry to serve on Mexican border. German losses at East Flanders and sinking of Santa Anna noted. Czecho-Slovak forces in Siberia seize towns and form provisional government. British raid at Zeebrugge pins many German ships. Reports of attacks on American hospital Tubitz and consulates. Kiev revolt expanding with 40000 armed peasants. Russian offensive on Voronesh front noted.
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John N. McCormick
Western Michigan Episcopal
France
Grand Rapids
Mich
War Department
Thirty-second Division
National Guard
Alsace
Thirty-second
Michigan
Wisconsin
War and labor news mix with early 20th century unrest
Censored Stockholm messages report recent peace protests in Berlin Hamburg and Cologne with workmen killed and many arrests amid bread ration riots in Vienna. Other items note AFL president Gompers reelected, a deadly plane crash near Memphis, indictments over government contracts and Navy meat rejections.
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Stockholm
Berlin
Hamburg
Cologne
London Morning Post
Indiana Prisons to Realign Men to Class One
Indiana local draft boards are ordered to reclassify men on deferred status into class one to meet national standards. Maj. Robert C. Baltzell reports some boards score as low as 10 percent in class one, urging a coordinated “class one week” across 14 boards.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Indina
Robert C. Baltzell
National Army
Washington
Diana
Bunitzell
Danville
Food Administrative Department
State Council of Defense
Northwest
Washington, D
G. I. Christie
Department of Agriculture
Department
War Labor Policies Board
Franklin
Johnson County Council of Defense
Princeton
Gibson County Agricultural Agent
Petersburg
Pike County
Bement Oil Company
James Way
Wildcat
Selby
Franaville
August Kramer
State Free Employment Bureau
Posey County
Goodrich
M. K E. Foley
Tudlana
Herbert Hoover
South Bend
B. H. Hasetmeier
Richmond
Cuticura Remedies Advertise Soothing Hand Care
An old advertisement promotes Cuticura for sore hands. Soak hands in hot Cuticura Soap suds, dry, rub in Cuticura Ointment, and remove excess with tissue. Free samples offered from Cuticura Dept. X Boston. Soap 25 cents, Ointment 25 and 50 cents by mail or at druggists.
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Dept. X
Boston
Reflections From Notables On Courage And Duty
A collection of quotations from Ezra Pound John Galsworthy General Foch Clarence Rex Rudyard Kipling Billy Sunday Lloyd George and yy O Donnell. The notes touch on courage danger of prose and the need for action. Also mentions a New York Independent item on gas engines losing horsepower with altitude and a Danish scientist’s insulation material made from fish offal.
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Ezra Pound
John Galsworthy
General Foch
Clarence Rex
Rudyard Kipling
Germany
Billy Sunday
Christ
Cross of Cavalry
Lloyd George
O'Donnell
America
New York Independent
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U.S
Teutonic War News
State Department
Loy
Andrew Bonar Law
Exchequer
House of Commons
London
American Coast Shipping Board
National Guard Cavalry
Texas
C. (. Williams
Ordnance
A. D. Smith
Minneapolis
Joseph Rose
Barrowfield
Fort Worth
Tex
Floyd BH. Davies F
Galesburg
Davies
East Flanders
Belgium
Telegraaf
Erizarta
Malta
Paris
Siberia
Samuranosto
Nikolaaevsk
Omsk
Petrograd
London Express
Wien
Braherzog Ferdinand
Delbomne
Spedha
Central Newa
Rome
Bruges Canal
Zeebrugge
Thomas J. McNamara
Tubitz
Persia
Teheran
Kiev
Moscow
Exchange Telegraph Company
Poltava
Tchernigov
Russia
Russan
Vienna
Amsterdam
Hofburg
Imperial Palace
Measage Adda
Volcan
Warschalowski
Zurich
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
St. Paul
Minn
Lieut
N. W. Heller
Sergt. Dugene Chapman
Parkfield
Memphis
Tenn
Camp Shelby
Miss
Department of Justice
Philadelphia
John Fleming
John T. Cavanaugh
Eugene Sullivan
Joseph Kohn
Wilson & Co
Chicago
Cape. G
Williams
Navy
New York
Federal Trade Commission
Wilson
Senate Committee On Military Affairs
United States
Treasury
Bulgaria
Turkey
House
Kelly
Pennsylvania
Foreign Affairs Committee
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Newcomb Carlton
Western Union Telegraph Company
National War Labor Board
Telegraph Company
Ndiana
St. Louis
Charles W. Fairbanks
Illinois
Greene County
W. D. Fairbanks
Indiana Sunday School Association
Congress
E. H. Masemeter
Association
Marion
Camp Logan
Houston
Lawrenceburg
Edward L. Schwing
Harrison Township
Schwing
Cry
Carl J. Fletcher
Knox County Operators’ Association
Jeffersonville
Scott County
Scottsburg
Greensburg
Clay Township
Decatur County
Decatur County Council of Defense
Greenaburg
Sthma
Porncibie
Northrop & Lyman Co.,Inc
Buffalo,w.y
Mr. Cumrox
Fotuel
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