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A Roumanian mission to the United States arrives including Count Vassile Stoica Rev F Metza and Bassile Licaci. American medical staff take over British field hospitals freeing English personnel for front duty. Pershing runs war plans like a 20th century corporation. Liberty loan surpasses 3 billion dollars. Repatriation of 50,000 American troops abroad under Entente banners discussed. A German sub is rammed and sunk by an American destroyer. Draft operation to begin after July 1 with July-August drawings. Two American destroyers bring 80 survivors from torpedoed ships to an Irish port. Wilson proclaims June 23-30 recruiting week for the regular army. An American ambulance unit arrives in France. Vice Admiral Lima assumes allied naval command in Irish waters. Three men sentenced for rare law violations in New York. Rockefeller Foundation donates 5 million to Red Cross. Chicago Mayor impeachment questions raised by aldermen Kennedy and council.
European War Updates From Copenhagen and Front Lines
Central News reports the Norwegian steamship Cederic sunk with the captain and 12 crew missing. German leaflets south of Smorgon claim troop transfers to the western front. Boris A. Bakhmeteff urges Russia’s war end and victory for lasting peace. Canadian forces seize German trenches near Reservoir Hill as Entente closes on Lens. British losses include 27 ships over 1,600 tons and five smaller vessels.
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Cederic
London
Copenhagen
Foreign Office
Smorgon
Reservoir Hill
Lens Leas
GM makes 250000 war fund subscription for Red Cross
The General Motors board in New York pledged 250000 to the Red Cross war fund based on 10 per employee for 25000 workers. The Ludicek family was found dead at Ludicek farm near Toledo. Joe Buresh, a son in law, reported the scene. Houston urged housewives to aid food conservation by preserving fruits and vegetables. Liberty bonds traded in San Francisco at 106 with a 6 premium in a private sale. Sheriff May and City Marshal Leker were shot and killed at Nashville station by H C Rice. Rice was wounded and expected to die.
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General Motors Company
New York
Red Cross War Fund
Ladicek
Joseph Ladicek
James
Albert
Helen
Ludicek Farm
Toledo
Joe Buresh
Ludicek
Houston
Washington
National Food Conservation Movement
J. K. May
Marsha August Leker
Louisville & Nashville
Nashville
H. C. Rice
Rice
Washington lawmakers race to fix wartime prices and ships
President Denman of the Emergency Fleet Corporation seeks a uniform steel price while the government contemplates commandeering steel plants and shipyards. The war effort sees aircraft funding, taxation shifts, and Hoover accusing food speculators of siphoning 50 million a month as Congress weighs controls.
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Federal Trade Commission
Washington
Denman
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Goethals
Cape
Congress
Herbert C. Hoover
Mobilization Report Highlights Savings and Preparedness
Washington reports the Council of National Defense has mobilized national resources for the war effort. Major achievements include 262000 miles of rail ready for defense, copper procurement saving about 10000000, a 27000 plant inventory, and coordinated government purchases.
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Francis 8. Peabody
Council of National Defense
Washington
Federal Trade Commission
Defense Council
Sinn Feiners raid Cork offices and hoist flag at courthouse
Sinn Fein activists smashed windows at recruiting offices in Cork and used a fire escape to raise the Republican flag on the courthouse flagstaff. They also smashed the scales of Justice above the court house and carried out other acts of violence. Line Sinn Fein group condemns the national convention as a government ploy to undermine Ireland’s sovereignty claim.
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Sinn
Break In Reservoir In Utah Causes Flood Threat
The Price River Irrigation Company dam in Fairview Utah cracked releasing a 50 foot wide break. Five feet of water poured over the dam crest threatening surrounding communities as four towns face possible evacuation while farmers seek higher ground.
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Utah
Fairview
Price River Irrigation Company
German Council Orders Full Grain Requisition For Harvest
Berlin dispatch reports the German Federal Council decreeing full requisition of bread grains and crops including barley oats peas beans buckwheat and millet for the Imperial Grain Bureau to control and distribute in the coming harvest year.
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Amsterdam
Two Soldiers Killed in Auto Crash Near Annapolis
Two Baltimore men, members of the Coast Artillery of the Maryland National Guard, were killed when their automobile overturned on the way to Annapolis.
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Baltimore
Coast Arciilery
Maryland National Guard
Annapolis
Brothers of former King Constantine to leave Greece
A reliable source reports that the brothers of former King Constantine will depart Greek territory. The move follows political upheaval and ongoing unrest in the region.
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Athens
Constantine Goon
Ragusa Described as Finished City on a Narrow Peninsula
A Kansas City Journal writer compares Ragusa to American towns noting it appears finished and mature. The Dalmatian city sits on a narrow peninsula, enclosed by a wall and towers, with white and gray streets and irregular checkerwork of roots and spires, implying it cannot grow further.
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Ragusa
Kansas City Journal
Raguna
Dalmatia
Comb donated for French orphans tribute at New York drive
A tortoise shell comb once owned by the wife of Marechal Bertrand who aided Napoleon at St Helena was donated to the New York Committee of the Fatherless Children of France. Proceeds fund foster homes for 5 000 French orphans in honor of Marshal Joffre after his visit. Miss Lusaie Leland received the item by express from Major 8 Taylor who kept Napoleon souvenirs.
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Marechal Bertrand
Napoleon
St. Helena
New York
France
Marshal Joffre
Lusaie Leland
Express
Major 8. Taylor
Origin of Loving Cup in Scottish Banquets
The loving cup inspired its origin in turbulent times when neighbors might attack each other. Margaret Atheling, wife of Malcolm III, ordered a shared cup of wine passed after the grace to calm Scots. A rite of rising and bowing to the guest on the right survives, with the host holding the cup cover as others drank to assure neighbors’ peaceful intent.
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Margaret Atheling
Malcolm of
Cincinnati Markets Flour Hay and Grain Prices
Market report for Cincinnati showing price ranges for flour winter patents and other flour types, corn and ear varieties, hay grades, wheat, eggs and poultry, live stock including cattle show prices by grade, hogs with packer and butcher quotes, and calves and sows price ranges.
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Cincinnati
Bild'n Support. A German prayer stirs readers in Indianapolis
Booth Tarkington comments on a newspaper account of the Kaiser's prayer to the old German God for more U-boat attacks. A bartender and Bill discuss his wife’s hard work as the scene shifts to a New York street setting with garbled text.
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Booth Tarkington
Indianapolis
Bill
County to abandon oyster shell paving in St Johns
The St Johns county commissioners announce their intent to abandon oyster shell as a paving material for country roads. They claim that spending over forty years on oyster shell would have paved every major highway in the county with brick.
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St. John’s County
Florida
Freezone claims to remove all corns painlessly
A Cincinnati authority says corns of any kind can be lifted with the fingers after applying a few drops of Freezone. An inexpensive bottle is available at drug stores and will dry instantly without irritating surrounding skin, with a wholesaler offering to supply if your druggist lacks stock.
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Adv
Horrore of War Impact on Chorus Men Questioned
A friend phones with a remark about another great horror of war. He warns the draft will take all of our chorus men, sparking anxiety over the loss to the group.
Notable Quips on Bravery and Domestic Life
A fragment reflects on gender roles with Mrs Siebrowsky and Jan, contrasting household labor with bold talk back to the cook. The text satirically questions ideas of courage among housewives and the social expectation to display resilience in domestic spaces.
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Wilson
William 8. Lima
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Rockefeller Foundation
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Liberty
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White House
Lucy Burns
Katherine Morey
Boston
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