Tornado Toll Rises Across Midwest and South
Western Newspaper Union reports tornadoes destroying homes and farms across Indiana Illinois Kansas Kentucky Tennessee Arkansas and Alabama. More than 150 killed and 1000 injured with Mattoon Charleston Andale Hebron Kouts and Dyer counties among the hardest hit. Property losses reach millions including farm equipment and city buildings.
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Western
Union News Service
Chicago
Kansas
Ilinois
Indiana
Tennessee
Arkansas
Kentucky
Illinois
Mattoon
Ill
Charleston
Andale
Kan
Dublin
Dyersburg
Tenn
Dyer County
Blytheville
Ark
Hebron
Kouts
Hoover to enlist housewives for food administration
Hoover announces enlistment of housewives into the food administration to aid conservation at home. Women will join through state food councils and civic groups and sign a pledge to follow specific guidance to eat wisely and avoid waste.
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Washington, D. C
Food Administration
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
Women’s National Defense Council
Two Women Reported Shot On Swiss Frontier Case
Geneva via Paris reports two women Madame Pfeister and her daughter aged 29 were executed at Muehlhausen after being charged with spying. They had admitted smuggling letters from Alsatian families to relatives in Switzerland as a friendly act with no political aim. The mother watched her daughter shot before her own execution.
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Geneva
Paris
la Suisse
Edith Cavell
Brussells
Madame Pfeister
Switzerland
Muehlhausen
Appeal for Peace Marking Evangelical Church Anniversary
London reports a peace appeal issued on the four hundredth anniversary of the Evangelical church. Leading church dignitaries from Sweden, Switzerland, Norway, Holland, and Denmark participated, urging harmony and reconciliation across nations.
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London
Evangelical Church
Sweden
Switzerland
Norw Holland
Denmark
World War I News In Brief From Washington And London
Henry Reuterdahl joins naval reserves in New York. Secretaries announce a destroyer flotilla sails for Europe and that mines hinder harbor entrances. Three Americans likely dead in Cunard Feltria sinking. Women urged to make June 5 registration heroic. Submarine destruction climbs. 28 U boats reportedly captured or destroyed last week. War time prohibition discussed. Pershing plans and talks with Wilson revealed. Balfour notes U S efforts. Italy sees 2000 Americans offering service. Pershing troops to eat American rations in France. engineers and Marines to follow. New U S engineers arrive in London. second hospital unit reaches Great Britain.
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Wilson
Pershing
France
White House
Washington
Tornado Devastates Kansas Towns. Villa Relative Detained
A tornado ripped through Sedgwick and Harvey counties in Kansas, killing thirty people and injuring over fifty while destroying Andale. Wipolito Villa, Francisco Villa’s brother, was captured in El Paso on arrival from San Antonio, amid reports of a new Mexican expedition. In Duluth, residents saw ice trapped vessels and unusual spring scenery near the harbor as green grass and budding trees appeared behind the ice.
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Sedgwick
Harvey
Kansas
Andale
Wipolito Villa
Francisco Villa
el Paso
Tex
San Antonio
Mexico
Duluth
Minn
Marrying Des Moines veteran, 72, weds 60-year-old near Ankeny
In Des Moines at the Savery hotel Uncle Jimmy Lewis a longtime courthouse ground keeper and his bride Mrs Eliza Brown age 60 were joined. The ceremony drew six children from both families and highlighted a large blended family with numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren.
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Jimmy” Lewis
Des Moines
Eliza Brown
Ankeny
Savery
Jimmy
Lewis
Newton
Pauline van Gundy
Slater
Stars and Stripes
U.S. A
Iowa Proclamation Calls June 5 1917 Registration Day
Governor Harding urges Iowans to observe Registration Day as a solemn patriotic consecration. The proclamation sets 7 am to 9 pm for registrations on June 5 1917, for males 21 to 30, with exemptions for active service and certain reserve personnel. Des Moines, May 30 1917.
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Harding
Des Moines
Iowa
Des Moines Reg Day Sparks National Guard Recruiting Drive
On June 5 registration day in Iowa cities the National Guard aims to woo recruits to full war strength. Officers will interview registrants at booths while patrols post placards and guardsmen circulate in uniform. Street meetings and mayoral-backed efforts accompany the effort to enlist more men.
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Leroy Brammer
Des Moines
Carnival
Dexter
Brammer
Dallas County
Itv
Perry
A. Borup
John Carmody
Perry National Bank
Borup
Grimes
H. J. Taylor
Taylor
Ames
Ft Snelling
Polk County
George van Evera
Lyn
George J Kelly
Logan
Kelly
Kirkman Consolidated School
Fort Des Moines
Marion
Army
Navy
Milwaukee Railroad Company
North McGregor
Truro
Harding
Marvin Davidson
Honolulu
Iowa
Herbert Seal
Commercial Department
Western Normal School
Shenandoah
Vera Seal
Waukon
St Louis
Jefferson
Greene County
War Department
National Guard
Milwaukee Company
Mississippi
William G McAdoo
the Treasury
Middle West
Fonda
Iowa City
Bedford
Secretary of War
Adjutant General
LeMars Red Cross aims to grow Plymouth county members
LeMars Red Cross reports 120 members in LeMars without solicitation and launches a county wide drive to reach 1000 members in Plymouth County.
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LeMars
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Ciarm Toll Heavy
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Alabama
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U. S
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Germany
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Feltria
Corfield
America
National Defense Council
Council
Womin
Navy Department
United States
England
Arthur James Balfour
Balfour
National Press Club
Rome
Italy
General Pershing
Regiments of Engineers
Regiment of Marines
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Parsons
American Hospital Corps
Great Britain
Iowa State News
Commonwealth
Jackson County
Des Moines Railroad
T. W Fatherson
Chicago Great Western
E. Stoup
Great Western
Ben Weit
Jefferson Barracks
Mc Dee Wells
Roy Flarington
Seattle
Earl
Wheeler
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Rapid City
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Marine Corps
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Officers Reserve Corps
W. L. Harding
W S Allen
Secretary of State
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