German-American plotting alleged arms support to WWI opponents
Testimony at a New York attorney general inquiry cites Ivan Norodny of the Russian-American Asiatic Corporation saying Baron von Gersdorff claimed German societies in the United States would be armed from Germany to join IWW and Socialists against the government. A Paris dispatch notes aviator Frank Baylies downed his eighth enemy plane and Lt. Guerin, a French ace with 23 victories, is wounded. A German U-boat squadron of a new large type failed to return from a cruise per Zurich sources. An American plane crashed behind the lines in Toul sector, killing two. Two draft calls totaling 51,600 men go out, raising total summoned since May 1 to 311,000. calls run May 20–24 and May 29–June 7.
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United States
New York State
Ivan Norodny
Frank Baylies
New Bedford
Mass
Paris
Guerin
British offer to hear belligerent proposals in straight manner
Foreign Secretary Balfour said in the House of Commons Britain would listen to proposals from any accredited representative of a belligerent country if presented plainly. Coughlan's Vancouver shipyard burned, with up to two million in losses and one firefighter dead. Meanwhile emperors at German HQ reportedly named Lithuania Courland Bathonia and Poland. Duval of Bonnet Rouge condemned by court martial. Moscow fights erupt as Bolsheviks clash with anarchists.
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Great Britain
Balfour
House of Commons
Coughlan
Vancouver
B. C
British Columbia
M. Duval
Bonnet Rouge
Paris
France
Death notices for James Gordon Bennett and Chief Grass
James Gordon Bennett proprietor of the New York Herald Evening Telegram and Paris edition died at his villa in southern France. John Grass chief of all the Sioux Indians died at Forty Yates N D aged seventy nine.
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James Gordon Bennett
New York Herald
The
Evening Telegram
Paris
France
John Grass
Yates, N. D
Chief Grass
Domestic A wheat with 14 percent gluten discovered in California
Burbank unveiled a new super wheat after 11 years of work in Santa Rosa. It could be grown from Hudson Bay to Patagonia, expanding potential cultivation.
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Burbank
California
Santa Rosa
Cal
Hudson Bay
Patagonia
Wilson picks appointments and broad wartime controls
President Wilson fills Eastern Kentucky and Michigan posts with Thomas DL and Henry Behrendt while asserting federal power under the national defense act to regulate farm equipment imports and distribution. The Senate passes pay increases for clerks and rural carriers, and Hoover seeks 7 million dollars for county food offices.
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Wilson
Thomas DL
Lottery
Covington
United States
Eastern District
Kentucky
Henry Behrendt
Detroit
Michigan
Engagement announced for Mrs Tabor Martin to Clay-ton Platt Jr
Secretary McAdoo and Mrs McAdoo announce the engagement of their daughter Mrs Tabor Martin to Clay ton Platt Jr of Philadelphia. 8,000 Chicago teamsters and truck drivers return to work after a strike ends under new sabotage law. Neville Island near Pittsburgh chosen as site for a great government ordnance plant to be built and operated inland.
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McAdoo
Tabor Martin
Clayton Platt, Jr
Philadelphia
Ice
Chicago
Neville Island
Ohio River
Pittsburgh
The
War Department
Great Government Ordnance Plant
Interior
European War Updates From Various Fronts
British and Italian wartime reports claim British and American submarines were destroyed near Hango Finland while Italian commander Pellegrini and three men torpedoed the Austro Hungarian battleship Viribus Unitis at Pola. German and Russian dispatches tout battlefield gains and setbacks across Europe with claims of heavy losses and ongoing operations in Mesopotamia and the Don region.
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Hango
Finland
London
Pellegrini
Italianavy
Pola
Explosive Plant Disaster Kills Fifty-Six at Oakdale Plant
Fifty-six workers are dead and 31 missing after a massive explosion at the Aetna Chemical Company explosive plant in Oakdale, near Pittsburgh. Ninety-four injured, police and federal agents cordon the scene as investigators piece together the catastrophe and grim wreckage.
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Western
Union News Service
Pittsburg
Penn
Aetna Chemical Company
Oakdale
Samuel C. Jamison
State Constabulary
Greensburg
Department of Justice
Aetna Chemical Co
Bread Ration Exhausted in Petrograd
The Russian food situation worsens as Petrograd bread rations fall to a total exhaustion from one eighth of a pound weekly. Moscow fares slightly better with a quarter pound bread ration and scarce sugar while other foods remain scarce and costly.
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Moscow
Petrograd
Russia
Pershing Reports Repulse of German Raids and Air Battle
General Pershing’s communique details American repulse of several German raids. It also notes a dramatic air duel in which Lieutenant Eddie Rickenbacker forced a German fighter down and returned to his lines with his aircraft badly damaged.
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Pershing
Washington
Eddie Rickenbacher
Rickenbacher
Minstrel Billy Manning's Detroit Hard Times and a Clever Escape
The piece recounts Billy Manning a famed minstrel falling on hard times in Detroit and seeking aid at the Russell house. With no money left he borrows a plan from Billy Emerson to get drinks by having Emerson rap for him while Manning pretends to have a cane.
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Billy Manning
Mark
George Thatcher
William Sweatnam
George P. Goodale
Detroit Free Press
Manning
Detroit
San Francisco
Russell House
Broadway
San Franciscos
Republic
Billy Emerson
Bill
Mind and Heart in Unity for Wise Living
The piece argues that mind and heart should work together not in opposition, combining knowledge with kindness. It warns against highmindedness and praises a noble life grounded in common humanity, noting that true glory comes from goodness and love that outlives earthly graves.
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Earth
Paper Cups Used as Plant Pot Vessels In Nashville
A Nashville drug store donated all paper sanitary cups from its soda fountain to local truck gardeners. The cups are used as individual pots to start seedling tomatoes eggplants cabbage melons and other crops. Seedlings grow indoors then are set out in the cups to prevent transplant shock and accelerate bearing.
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Nashville
Tenn
Cincinnati Markets Flour Hay and Grain Prices
Market list for Cincinnati covering flour including patent grades, rye flour, North western blended. hay No 1 timothy and no 1 clover. oats various grades. corn white and yellow ears and mixed ears. butter eggs and poultry with price ranges. live poultry including broilers fryers fowls roosters. live stock cattle steer heifers cows canners stockers calves hogs with price tiers. sheep prices.
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Cincinnati
Northwestern
Lydia E. Pinkham Vegetable Compound Credited
Mrs. Fitzgerald of West Philadelphia reports relief from nervous prostration and serious symptoms after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad invites other women to try the remedy and suggests writing to L. E. Pinkham Medicine Co. for guidance.
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Ydis E. Pinkham
Lydia
Frank Fitzgerald
N. 41St Street
West Philadelphia
Language barrier humor from Honolulu steel firm
The New York Commercial notes a U S steel firm boasts a "complete foreign department" to translate any tongue. A Honolulu firm ripped out that line and sent a native Hawaiian letter writer to reply in the local language. No word returned as to whether the letter was translated or read.
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Eastern Steel Company
New York
Honolulu
Hawaiian Islands
Islands
American Steel Concern
Toper envies acorns for staying in cups until dropping
An old toper muses that acorns remain in their cups until they fall, envying their steady, contained fate. The remark casts a humorous eye on temperance and restraint.
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Toper
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Teutonic War News
Zurich
Toul
Aay
Copenhagen
Lithuania
Courland
Bathonia
Poland
Twin City: Rapid Transit Company
Minneapolis
Mian
Columbia University
Howard D. de Weene
Salt Lake City
Schodack Landing
N.Y
Greman
Post Office
Senate
Hoover
House Appropriations Committee
Senate Committee On Military Affairs
Otto Ludtke
Des Moines
Vorsische Zeitung
Berlin
Ekaterinoslav
Odessa
Poltava
Don
English Channel
England
Copenhagen Politiken
Reichstag
Germany
Kisput
Mesopotamia
London War Office
Geigel
Cologne
L. Frothaniy
Steel Concern
Sudan
Oma
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