Indiana Republicans Unite Behind War Victory Platform
Indiana Republicans meet in state convention endorsing Hayes backed "win the war" agenda. The platform urges unity, war effort support, and postwar plans free of petty partisan politics. Major New accuses the administration of political manipulation while Kent Wilson blasts the Democratic Party and President.
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Mapolis
Jed
Hayes
Fas
Republic
Nations Committee
Harry S. New
Creel
Mimand
Kent Wilson
Indiana
Senat
White House
Andrew Jackson
System to centralize war contracts gains scope
A War Industries Board plan announced May 29 aims to standardize contracts and purchases to reduce wasted effort and maximize results. Cleveland’s C tis led the adoption, with a proven local success cited and a subsequent rollout to major cities including Boston Philadelphia Baltimore Cincinnati Atlanta St Louis Chicago Detroit Milwaukee Seattle San Francisco.
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War Istries Board
War Industries Board
C. Tis
Cleveland
Boston
Mass
Bridgeport
Conn
York City
Philadelphia
Curtail Senators Talk Gains Attention In Senate
Washington May 29 Talkative wibers of the Senate press for limits on debate to one hour per senator and twenty minutes per amendment. A resolution by the Senate committee aims to curb filibustering during wartime, with passage possible if the measure is brought up again. Last year the rule would have blocked a filibuster. now it faces renewed votes as war tensions persist.
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Washington
Senate
Senates Committee
Bonar Law
Ndon
Bonary
Mongland Press Bureau
America
Prince Faces Dynastic Defeat Foretold By Daily Sketch
The Daily Sketch portrays the crown prince facing a dynastic defeat described as disastrous as Verdun. It argues forces advancing toward Rheims and Soissons will soon be halted in a pivotal moment.
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Verdun
Sketch Today
Rheims
Soissons
Sub Treasury Report York May 29
York reports a sub treasury cash report dated May 29 showing $143,000 from banks on the cash net gain of $1,272,000. The figures reflect banking flows and net gains for the period.
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Treasury
York
Death attempt at Camp Devens details two cases
Private Joseph Lawrence of the 18th company 151st depot brigade attempted death by his own action in the barracks cutting his throat and wrists. He is in critical condition at the base hospital after arriving in the draft from South Hero Vermont. Also Captain Charles A. King sustained a slight brain concussion after being thrown from a horse at the cantonment. Two thousand draftees, mainly from Maine, were expected to arrive by nightfall as Still River prepared for an artillery barrage and officers studied a simulated attack with photographs of kite-carrying troops.
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Camp Devens
Mass
Joseph Lawrence
151St Depot Brigade
Lawrence
South Hero
Charles A. King
Maine
Still River
Wool Buying Rules Regulate Mills in War Era
War Industries Board issued wool buying regulations to cut costs. Mills in wool growing districts with government contracts may buy only from growers within 50 miles and cannot buy from local dealers. The changes save commissions and freight, and mills must resell only to the government and buy from growers or the government after completing an application questionnaire.
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War Industries Board
Washington
Dealers’ Commission
Atlantic Seaboard
Germans Offense Resumed, No Surprise to A E Headquarters
With American troops in France the German offensive was expected, three weeks earlier as Hindenburg prepared for late May or early June. Reports indicated an assault would come on the first favorable weather day, and the attack began as warned. American artillery pounded through the night and aviators located gas projectors at Launeville, quickly silenced by shelling. In Parkersburg Iowa, a wreck on the Illinois Central killed Engineer Alderman and fatally injured two mail clerks when a trestle collapsed after a cloudburst, with no passengers hurt.
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N. C. Parke
France
Hindenburg
War Office
Launeville Front
Parkersburg
Alderman
Chicago-Omaha
Illinois “Central
Roumanian Chief of Staff Quits
Roumanian Chief of Staff quits as General Iliesco announces resignation in Paris. The move reshapes military leadership amid ongoing political tensions and strategic debates within the Romanian defense establishment.
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Roumanian
Paris
Iliesco
Clearing Nateee Statoreant and Treasury Balances
A fragment reports clearing figures with unclear names and large balances including $2,416,678 and $61,922,102, plus $649,930. The text is garbled but indicates treasury amounts and ongoing accounting figures without full context or attribution.
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Nateee Statoreant
Treasury
Bic
Suffrage Meeting in Hartford Today
A Hartford suffrage conference of the National Women's party for the New England states gathered with delegates from Maine Massachusetts New Hampshire Vermont Rhode Island and Connecticut. Speakers included Miss Alice Paul Florence Bayard Hilles and M Toscan Bennett as they discussed plans to win federal suffrage support from New England senators and predicted the amendment's passage.
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Hartford
National Women’s Party
New England
Massachusetts
Maine
Robert Treat Whitehouse
Auto
Connecticut
United States
W. D. Ascough
Whitehouse
New Hampshire
Sallie Hovey
Vermont
Anna Batchelder
Katherine Ware Smith
Rhode Island
Mildred Glines
Colt
Gerry
H. O. Havemeyer
Thomas N. Hepburn
Lucy Burns
New York
M. Toscan Bennett
Florence Bayard Hilles
Bethlehem Steel Works
Wilson
Alice Paul
Raids Target Savin Rock Concessionists Over Draft Status
New Haven authorities and Department of Justice agents swept Savin Rock in a raid last night. About 50 people were taken from the Rock and New Haven, then brought to an armory for questioning on registration certificates. Reticence persisted on names and case outcomes.
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New Haven
Savin Rock
Department of Justice
The
Rock
Aluminum Base Price Set At 33 Cents A Pound
The War Industries Board announced a new maximum base price for aluminum at 33 cents per pound for US producing plants handling 50 tons and up to ingots of 98 to 99 percent. The price takes effect June 1 and runs through September 1.
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Washington
United States
The
War Industries Board
Kaisers troops cross Vesle on a bridge of corpses
Paris May 29 dispatch from the Aisne front reports the Kaiser's soldiers crossed the Vesle river on a bridge of corpses after a furious battle around Fismes. The Germans now face the allied reserve armies in the zone.
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Paris
Vesle
Fismes
Aisne
Germans Using Bigger Guns Bombarding Paris
Paris reports reveal German bombardment uses larger calibre shells and more powerful explosives after examining shell fragments from Monday and Tuesday. The observation comes as the city endures intensified fire.
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Paris
Take Your Medicine Regularly This Spring Hood's Sarsaparilla
Hood's Sarsaparilla promises broad health benefits including relief from rheumatism improved appetite and a brighter complexion. The ad touts iron content and energizing effects claiming worn-out people gain ambition and strength after taking the remedy.
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Hood
Revenue bill talks open as Ways and Means meets
Washington May 29 The house ways and means committee begins its first conference on the new revenue bill urged by President Wilson hearing proposals for higher income and excess profits taxes. Fordney predicts some increases while Hull cautions that inflation may require heavier burdens. Discussions hinge on treasury analysis of the first war revenue law and scrutiny of cost plus contracts and railroad rate practices, with Baruch and McAdoo cited as having insider insight into wartime finance methods.
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Washington
House
Ways End Means Committee
Wilson
Republican Committee
Fordney
Michigan
Republi
Believ Hand
Cordell Hull
Treasury Department
United States Railroad Administration
Bernard M. Baruch
War Industries Board
William G. McAdoo
Ten Die In Columbia Hospital Fire Tragedy
A hospital for the insane ward in Columbia South Carolina burned early today killing ten patients and leaving six missing. Forty five patients were in the ward. two were badly burned during rescue and three were slightly injured. The fire is thought to have started in electric wiring and the ward housing varied aged patients complicated the evacuation.
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Columbia
S. C
Democratic State Convention Schedule Placed for Hartford
Democratic State Chairman David E. Fitzgerald announced the state convention for nominating the governor and other officers will be held in ad ao hall in Hartford on May 29. The dates given are June 26 and June 27. The note also mentions Maryland with under three thousand women's organizations affiliated with the head women’s national council of lic ense.
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Hartford
David E. Fitzgerald
Hartford Post
Ad Ao Hall
Happenings in This Vicinity 25 Years Ago May 1808
It reports Thom as Sheehan being kicked by a horse on the ferryboat Brownstone. E Frank Bodwell resigns as Schuyler Electric inspector and is given a Masonic ring. George E Edwards & Co opens a new 5 and 10 cent store on Main Street. Mansfield Guards prepare Memorial Day escorts. Moses & Backus buy H P Buell drug store in Colchester.
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Thomas Sheehan
Brownstone
E. Frank Bodwell
Schuyler Electric
E. Waller
Church Street
Paul W. Krajewski
Man Russell
South Church
Connecticut
David C. Tyler
Crescent Beach
George E. Edwards & Co
Main Street
Brewer's
Aye O’brien
E. H. Sothern
Lyman D. Mills
H. H. White
Lincoln Street
Sweet
Mansfield Post
Middle Haddam
Maromas
Briggs
William Jamieson
New Haven
Mansfield Guards
Moses & Backus
H. P. Buell
Colchester
German Pastor Arrested in Espionage Case in Bristol
Rev Theodore Buessel pastor of a German Lutheran church in Bristol was arrested by federal agents on a charge of violating the espionage act. He was brought to Hartford and jailed, with a hearing set before United States Commissioner Carroll. Buessel, a Hanover native about 36, came to the United States in 1909, served briefly as a missionary in Southern India, and then returned to Bristol.
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Bristol
Hartford
Theodore Buessel
United States
Carroll
Hanover
Germany
India
Czechs Fight Germans in Laibach and Gratz Streets
Reports from Laibach and Gratz describe lively street fighting between Czechs and Germans with many German deaths. Laibach, capital of Carniola on the Mur, and Gratz, capital of Styria about 35 miles northeast of Trieste, are noted. Trieste has been breadless for eight days and Vienna’s potato ration is down to one pound weekly.
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Zurich
Laibach
Gratz
Carniola
Mur
Styria
Trieste
Vienna
Four Hundred Germans Killed in British Air Raid
London May 29 Four hundred German soldiers were killed and 300 injured in a British air raid on Douai on May 18, according to a story told by a captured German soldier printed in the Chronicle today.
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London
Douai
Chronicle Today
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National Women’s Party OF New England
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Maryland
Ead Women’s National Council of License
Peterson
Peterson's
Middletown
R. J. Atwell
Arthur B. Jenkins
Solletter
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Aetna
A. E. Holmes
A. P. French
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Ice Depot
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