War News Battles and Rout Reports Across Fronts
Late dispatches recount American artillery using gas shells against Germans, heavy Allied and German casualties, ship sinkings including the Stoll-Niviset, and numerous naval losses. French forces push in the Rheims area while German offensives threaten a broad front near Cambrai and in Belgium. Western rail damage, Prohibition ratified in South Dakota, labor strikes in Chicago, and casualties aboard an American destroyer are noted amid broader war coverage.
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Stoll-Niviset
Admiralty
Wegadesk
Rheims
French War Office
Workmen's and
Siberian
Irkwerk
Trotzky
Moscow
Fauguissart
Rome
Berlin
Menin
Halluin
Ypres
Champagne
Verdun
Cambrai
Nieuport
Dixmude
Merckem
Marshal Haig
France
Western
Colorado & Southern Railroad
Cheyenn
Wro
South Os Kate
South Dakota
United Garment Workers
Chicago
Fresno
Cal
California Association of County Horticulture Commissioners
Navy Department
Hilliard
Colorado
Careghest
Wer
Baker
Rngland
Frontierside Klondike of Tornea Brims With Trade and Vice
A vivid scene from Haparanda across the Tornea river depicts a frontier boom as smugglers move coffee, rubber, and sugar into Sweden. Russians, Finns, and Englishmen converge in a nightscape of gambling, music, and champagne, with the border laxity postwar fueling profits around the “Gay White Way.”
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tornen
Ituswia
Lapland
Tornea Bay
Circle
Sweden
Russia
Finand
Haparands
Tornea
Haparanda
Haparaoda
Dawson
New Klondike
Ita
Finland
Archangel
Vladivostok
Russin
Heparanda
Plans to Drop Bombs Near Dad's Old Home
Lloyd A Lehrbass a journalism student at the State University told his father he enlisted in the aviation service of the United States Army and planned to fly back to Berlin to drop a bomb near his father’s old home. The father replied God bless you son I’m proud of you. Lehrbass's father was born in Berlin and came to America with his parents at age four.
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Eugene Corfman
University of Denver
Senate
Kentucky
General Assembly
Colorado
Nebraska
George King
Wray
Cole
Denver
Jess Willard
Fred Fulton
Chicago
Minneapolis
Jess Wilard
Twin Cities
Wilson
Irvine L. Lenroot
Wisconsin
United States
James Thompson
la Follette
Delta
Colo
Fred King
J. A. Grant
Harrison
Minn
New York
Wain
Santa Sofia
Madison
Wix
Berlin
Lloyd A. Lehrbasa
The
State University
Be Hind
United States Army
Lehrbass
America
Father, Soldier, and Studio of War Ties in Helena
Helena woman 73 travels from Fairmont to visit her son W Almon Jr. in Helena as he heads for aviation service. Her life spans four wars from Mexican skirmishes to Civil War memories. She supported the Spanish War with funds and time and continues to knit for the war effort while awaiting her son’s departure.
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Vicksburg
Large Feet Get Him Off at Camp Travis
Private Ivey Cleveland of the Twelfth company in the One Hundred and Sixty-fifth Depot Brigade at Camp Travis earns an honorable discharge after difficulty finding shoes to fit his famously large feet. He arrived in No 14 brogans, wore them until they wore out, and officers could not fit him with smaller sizes. Rather than costly custom shoes, he chose discharge.
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San Antonio
Tex
Ivey Cleveland
Camp Travia
Brazos
Camp Travis
Cleveland
Ivey
Machines Spout Shells And Guns In Chicago
Chicago reels in wartime machine feats as lathe bore shells at high speed and planer units of concrete and iron promise mass production. Planers weigh heavy, operate with traveling cranes, and speed up gun and shell creation to meet demand.
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Chicago
Mammoth Plasee
Arizona State News Highlights War to Shapes Arizona
A sweeping Arizona wire story reports on Jerome sewer contract, Douglas cantonment delays, and land office death in Phoenix. It notes Salt River Valley Water Users' Association plans to spend 1 million on Verde River works, yeggman robbery at Hot Springs Junction, and expansive war-related mobilization across Globe, Jerome, and Yuma. It mentions two Douglas boys wounded in France, a cross-country rail line upgrade, and copper and gold mining boosts alongside state health vaccination orders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stern
Union News Service
Jerome
Douglas Cavalry
John J. Birdne
United States Land Office
Phoenix
Salt River
Santa Fe
Prescott
Hot Springs Junction
Salt River Valley
Boy Scouts of
Globe
Pringle Ranch
Wheatfields
Miami
Lienant John L. Sullivan
Neil Bailey
France
United States
Western Union
Ajo
Yuma
H. Morgan
Gadsden
Douglas Boys
Domeck Negri
Tom Negri
Arthur Tobias Degamach
Francis Robinson
England
Italy
Commission of State Institutio
Caritol
Prescott-Jerome
Chamber of Commerce of
Arizona
J. K. McBride
Commission of State Institutions
Whitney
State Board of Health
W. O. Sweek
Public Health
Garman
Tom Reed
United Eastern
Comstock
Virginia City
Consolidated Arizona Smelting Company
Tom Reed Company
Oatman
Nervous Breakdown Reported at Newark Residence
Fragmentary notes describe a nervous breakdown and ongoing mental distress at 476 Sa. 14th St. Newark as the root cause of the subject's concerns and attempts at recovery. No further identifiable individuals or organizations are clearly stated in the readable text.
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Newark
Lost Opportunity and a Humorous Pocket Joke
An ad notes Cuticura ointment for dandruff and itching with prices of 25 cents and 5 cents as a clever pun. A brief comic exchanges shows Henpeck waking from a dream of punching Marie, lamenting missing a perfect blot.
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Henpeck
Marie
Old Man Forgets Chivalry and Mule Talk
An assorted Kansas City Star quip page notes a talk on mule handling with coarse humor about cussing and rewards. A stray caption joke links a hostess to informality, and a pun about Mr. Brown ending in hot water. The tone mirrors rustic humor and brief witticisms.
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Meme Renton
Red Cross
Reuters
Bilbao
Biceria
Holland
Begonia
Ples
Newton D. Baker
Ambassador Page
London
Burdesrat
Federal Council
Norddeutsch Allgemeine Zettune
Bavarian Colonization Society
Munich
Courland
London Daily Mail
Annemasse
Emperor William
Rhenish
Luneville
M. Martoff
Menshevik
Germany
Petrograd
Tetten
Frontier Laxity
Paranda le the Dawson
New
Klondike
Mmendelson
Dad
Monster
Kaiser
Lucien I. Yeomans
Grover Cleveland
Toxtead
J. ¥. Whit
Arizona State News
Mra GH Thompson
Seaterei
B. G. Thompson
Bisbee
ME Pathan
Good Old Brother Wack
Mule
Brother Wack
Bagster
Oman
Kansas City Star
Mr. Brown
Ene
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