Artillery Duel Under Way as Italians Press At Goritz
Italian forces contest Austrian entrenchments along a long hill line from Pod-Bory to Monte Fortine south of Goritz while seeking northern outflanks. Cadorna reports the artillery duel proceeding satisfactorily as fierce infantry fighting continues north of Tolmino and in the Monte Nero area with 300 prisoners taken.
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Rome
Goritz
Isongo
Pod- Bory
Monte Fortine
Tsom#o
Cadorna
Tolmino
Isonzo
Monte Nero
Carnie
Monte Groce
Italy
Prinli
Carnic
Gorltz
Val d'Tnferno
Malborghetto
Franzenfeste
Tyrol
Monfalcone
Trieste
Taranto
Adriatic
Rheims Under Fire French Troops Gain Near Arras
Paris dispatch reports French gains by forces in the sector north of Arras and in the Vosges as fighting intensifies with bombardment and armored action across northern fronts.
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Arras
Vosges
Paris
Austro German Forces Push East in Galicia
London dispatches report Austro-German units advancing slowly toward Lemberg in Galicia despite stubborn Russian resistance. New forces have joined Von Mackensen’s army and are in heavy fighting around Sienawa, Joelny, and along the San river right bank. Russians retreated after three days of advance, pulling back to the Lubazowka and Wysenia tributaries.
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London
von Linsingen
Dniester
Lemberg
Galicia
Petrograd
von Mackensen
Preaent
Sienawa
Oelny
San
Lubazowka
Wysenia
Bryan begins series on causes of war in brief statement
Washington June 17 William J Bryan issued the first in a planned series of statements on The Causeless War. The brief note focuses on the horrors of war and invites little controversy. He will travel to Miami soon then return within a week or ten days as visitors crowd his home in Washington.
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Bryan
Washington
William J. Biryan
Miami
Hero and Heroine Rescued After Premature Explosion
Hastings June 17 Frederick DeHelleville film actor and Miss Betty Marshall leading woman for a local company narrowly escaped death when 200 pounds of dynamite exploded beneath a derelict launch planed for a river scene in The Trade Secret. The craft Thomas Wallace blew apart, the couple were hurled into the Hudson and the camera launch capsized. Marshall suffered arm burns and DeHelleville sustained a head wound but both returned home after treatment.
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Hastings, N
Frederick DeHelleville
Betty Marshall
Ol Company
Hudson River
Soa Pictures
Acon
Thomas Wal
Wainwright Torpedo Boat Destroyer Launched at Camden
The United States Navy’s largest torpedo boat destroyer, the Wainwright, was launched at the New York Ship Building Company yard in Camden New Jersey. Sponsor Misa Evelyn Wainwright Turpin of Jamestown Rhode Island assisted. The ship carries four 4 inch guns and four twin 21 inch torpedo tubes, powered by twin screws with geared turbines and oil-fired boilers. Accommodations cover 100 crew including five officers, eight petty officers, and eighty-seven enlisted men. The vessel honors Richard Wainwright and Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright with detailed biographical notes.
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Wainwright
United States Navy
Camden
N. J
United States
New York Shipbuilding Company
Misa Evelyn Wainwright Turpin
Jamestown
R. I
Richard Wainwright
Charleston
Mass
New Orleans
Hartford
Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright
U. S. Navy
New York
Galveston
Tex
U. S
Harriet Lane
Porter
Jackson and
J. Philip
Vicksburg
Galveston Harbor
Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, Jr
Ensign
U. 8
Navy
Mohican
United States Naval Academy
San Blase
Mexico
Dairy and Food Division to Have Less Efficiency
Columbus June 17 In his view 8 B Strode member of the state agriculture commission and chief of the dairy and food division argues the Saat legislature cut the department’s budget for analyses and adulterated rods from 8000 to 4500 though a 5000 appropriation was set under the board of health This reallocation reduces overall efficiency by narrowing control over food adulteration.
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Columbus
B. Strode
State Agriculture Commission
Dairy and Food Division
Saat
Assembly
Dairy and Food Department
Board of Health
Theu
Strode
Hastings Named Chief Clerk in State Highway Dept
Columbus June 17 H L Hastings of Caldwell Noble county was appointed to succeed J H Tilton of Columbus as chief clerk in the state highway department Hastings assumed his new duties immediately after being appointed.
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Columbus
H. L. Hastings
Caldwell
Noble County
J. H. Tilton
State Highway Department
Mr. Hastings
Memorial for President McKinsey at Cedar Point
The National Convention of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics met at Cedar Point. Officers were elected and a memorial for President McKinsey of Niles, Ohio, was approved, marking the birthplace event.
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Sandusky
Junor Order of
Hi Pew
Cedar Point
McKinsey
Niles
Hoskins to resign from civil service commission
Columbus June 17 two of the civil service commissioners Samuel A Hoskins chairman and Dr Charles L Brown Democrats are ready to step out leaving Charles H Bryon Bull Moose still belligerent Hoskins will notify the governor of his resignation taking effect in thirty days He will join a law firm and Brown may be asked to renew on the board until replaced by the Gow commission British submarine torpedoed London The British steamer bound from Avangal with coal was torpedoed and many crew drowned ten Chiraties were saved and these have been accded Milford Haven
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Columbus
Civil Service Commissioners
Samuel A. Hoskins
Charles L. Brown
Charles H. Bry- Bon
Hoskins
Brown
Gow Commission
Secretary of Peace Proposed by Dr Jefferson at Graduates
Dr Charles Edward Jefferson of the Broadway Tabernacle New York delivers the annual address to the graduates at OSA and urges a department of peace. He questions why the government should not have a secretary of peace to cultivate and maintain international goodwill and diplomacy with neighbors.
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Columbus
Charles Edward Jefferson
Broadway Tabernacle
New York
Department of Peace
Frederick Is Freed In Contempt Case Ruling
Cleveland reports the appellate court reversed the decision of Common Pleas Judge Neft and freed School Superintendent M H Frederick from jail for contempt linked to alleged noncompliance with a court order restricting teacher union activity in appointment decisions. Three persons bitten by dogs. seven dogs killed locally.
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Cleveland
Appestate
Common Pleas
Neft
M. H. Frederick
Nef
Frederick
Peace League Aims Outlined by Taft at Philadelphia
At Independence Hall on June 17 William H Taft former president outlined a League of Peace to prevent wars by providing practical methods to settle quarrels or suspend them until passions cool The conference included leaders from Harvard Oscar Straus Hamilton Holt and others who discussed forming a league of great powers with a dispute resolution system and collective defense for breaches of league obligations.
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Philadelphia
William H
National Provisional Committee
Taft
President Lowell
Harvard University
Oscar S. Straus
Hague Court
Hamilton Holt
New York
Juz George Gray
Delaware
Apeak
League
League i
United States to Protect Americans in Yaqui Trouble
Washington reports the navy will move to Tobari Bay near Guaymas with 200 marines and 800 bluejackets to protect American colonists menaced by Yaqui Indians. Admiral Howard leads the Pacific fleet and may push inland twenty miles if needed without awaiting alliance talks.
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United States
Mexico
Washington
Jime
Howard
Paciic
Tobari Bay
Guaymas
Admiral Howard
Armistice talks fail as Carranza presses Mexico advance
The Villa Zapata faction offers peace plans through the United States but Carranza rejects them and signals to renew military campaigns. A convention in Mexico City proposed a provisional government and popular elections supervised by victors, but Carranza demands unconditional surrender of Mexico City and rejects U S mediated terms. A delegation met in Mexico City to push for armistice, but no agreement emerged.
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United States
Mexico City
Washington
Mexico
Villa-Zap
Carranza
Francigen Lagos Chazaro
Iayerate Moe
Gearleys
Victuui See Dow
Carrumba
Silman
Tom
Pablo Gamzales
Carranga
Zwar
Tier Present Ix
Kent Strikebreakers Terrorize Town Areas
Seven strikebreakers bound for Chicago were turned back at Sterling and entered Kent without stopping. Engines were changed a mile west of town. The men terrorized firehouse attendants and wrecked property at several points.
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Kent
Chicago
Sterling
Rris
Drowned in Seketer River Flood Claims Homer Swart
In Portsmouth Ohio during a June flood the Seketer river surged and swept Homer Swart, twenty years old, from a bridge. His body was carried downstream and not recovered.
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Portsmouth
Seketer
Homer Swart
Oridge
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Ine
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Ta Fgausoe
Rheims
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Evelyn Wainwright Turpin
DAIRY
N'Kinley Menorial
Uindirn
Avangel
Wise
Peace League
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Villa
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