Queen Victoria of Sweden Escapes in Karlsruhe Raid
In a Karlsruhe raid by French aircraft the Dowager Duchess of Baden and the children of Prince Maximilian von Baden narrowly escaped serious harm. A bomb struck the duchess suite and a Swedish lady in waiting was wounded. German sources claim raids targeted military sites with occasional retaliation.
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Washington Post
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Sayville
Long Islandy
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Kaiser
Ates
Tmodechild
Multiple Obituaries From Washington D C Death Notices
Notices report deaths on June 19 20 1915 1918 and 1919 in Washington D C with funeral details for Imima P Ball Marion Richards Palloott Michal Henderson Nannie Miller Driscoll Augustus Oppen and others. Services listed at Glenwood Mount Olivet St Pauls and local chapels with interment private or at specific cemeteries.
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Hall
Ninth Street
Iemima
Washington
Glenwood
Mount Olivet
Mitler
Nannie Miller
Svibll Andvril Miller
Mollie Frazier
Octavia Morgan
Collins Morgan
Mount Pluggant
Benedot
Driscoll
St Pauls Catholic Church
Augustus
Amelia Oppeneran
Mra
J.coh
Leyvand
Kings City
al Myre
David Melnich
Oppen - Prothers
Ontario
Ciesie
Mores Street
Pats
Woo Tastet
Seaton M
Siece
Harriet Tastet
First Street
Andrew
Isabel Ment
Order of
Real Cn
Milham H Sardo & Co
Infern
Glenwood Cemetery
Typhus Epidemic in Serbia Wipes 30 Percent of Population
A letter from Emily Simmonds, a Roosevelt Hospital graduate nurse in Valjevo, describes harrowing typhus conditions. Mortality runs about 30 percent as Red Cross units treat wounded, battle fatigue, and sanitation struggles amid scarce soap and beds.
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New York
Serbia
Red Cross
William K. Draper
American Red Cross
East Twenty-second Street
Misa Emily Simmonds
Roosevelt Hospital
Valjevo
Serbian advances in Albania reach Durazzo amid wider operations
Athens dispatch reports Serbian troops occupying Durazzo Albania with Essad Pasha fleeing to Italy. Serbian war office says vast territories in Albania are now under Serbian control as the campaign continues. Pari s interview quotes Pachitch saying Italy and Serbia need each other and Italy's entry could hasten peace with Austria near collapse.
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Albania
Essad
Italy
London
Durazzo
Tssad Pasha
Scutar
Serbian War Office
Turkey
Essad Pasha
Serbia
Paris
Pachitch
Glornale d'Itala
Pachitch Ife
Austria
Sunday Wedding at Harpers Ferry
Special to The Washington Fest reports the June 20 wedding at Harpers Ferry West Virginia of Stanley E H Virts and Miss Mazzle H Longerbeam at the Methodist Protestant parsonage. Virts hails from Brunswick Maryland and Longerbeam is local.
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Harpers Ferry
W. Va
Stanley EH
Mazzle H Longerbeam
Ware
Methodiat Protestant Parsonsge Hare
F. J. Nicholson
Myr Virts
Brunswick, Md
Longerbeam
Advertising club delegates gather in Chicago for eleventh convention
Chicago welcomed thousands of Associated Advertising Clubs delegates for the eleventh annual conven tion. They filled hotel lobbies and churches, with 43 members delivering sermons on honesty in advertising. A mass meeting in the Auditorium Theater featured William Wood head of San Francisco as president and Joseph Davies as chair of the Federal trade commission.
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Chicago
Associated Advertising Cluba
Iike
William Woodhead
San Francisco
Organization
Josephn Davies
Fadotat Trade Commission
McGordon Sets New Altitude Record Above Hempstead
Stephen McGordon of Chicago with passengers Arthur Heinrich and R. F. Mitchell reach 6496 feet on Hempstead plains aboard a military tractor aircraft. The craft, 100 horsepower, nine cylinders, air cooled, weighs 429 pounds with crew, built to U S government specs and can ascend 4000 feet in ten minutes.
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McGordon
Hempstead
Log Island
Hempstead Plains
Stephen McGordon
Chicago
Arthur Heinrich
R. F. Mitchell
United States
Hungary Seizes Grain Under War Monopoly Plan
Hungarian government moves to sequestrate the new harvest cereal crops except maize. A war grain monopoly with 4 million dollars capital will regulate exports and army supplies. Embargo lasts until August 1916. Farmers may reserve 40 pounds per person per month for home use and private consumers 22 pounds.
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London
Reuter
Zurich Baye
Drug Victims Fill Jails In Toledo
In Toledo Ohio drug victims fill jails as officials led by Revenue Collector Frank B Niles seek to establish a segregated farm near the city for treatment. The county and city fairs are crowded with addicts following a broad crusade. Many victims are young women.
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Toledo
Ohio
United States Revenue
Frank B. Niles
MUNITION MEN SHIFTED IN CONNECTICUT INSPECTORS FLOWS
More than 100 British army inspectors in Connecticut munition plants are displaced in 48 hours as new staff arrives in Waterbury Hartford New Haven Detroit Worcester and Lynn. Maj. Laurie trains replacements while authorities cite orders from the British war office and deny any rejection of munitions.
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Waterbury
Detroit
Worcester
Mest Lynn
England
Washington Post
Bridgeport
Conn
Connecticut
Scovill Manufacturing Company
Mich
Hast
SAY TURKS FIGHT WELL
Wounded Australians in England describe Turkish troops as first class fighters. A committee of Australiana residents in England plans to aid the injured from the Dardanelles campaign now in English hospitals and sanitariums. They note high overall wounds but many minor injuries due to rifle and shrapnel fire and the dry climate aiding recovery.
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England
London
Dardanelles
Belgium
France
Italy signs accord to tie down Teutons with 1,000,000 army
Lugano Switzerland June 2 Information from Italian sources says Italy agreed with allies on offensive scope to force Austria and Germany into a large struggle. It claims Italian operations will require opponents to deploy and sustain a vast army of up to one million troops.
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Teuton
Lugano
Switzerland
Italan
Italy
Austria
Germany
Governor Brumbaugh vetoes full crew repeal bill
Governor Brumbaugh in Harrisburg announced a veto of the bill designed to repeal Pennsylvania full crew law. He cited railroad lobby influence and pressure from interest groups after lawmakers passed the measure amid lobbying and complaints from supporters of the oil states.
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Harrisburg
Brumbaugh
Pennsylvania
Plea for more shells reports huge losses in times
A Washington Post cable from London notes Earl Stanhope speaking in the House of Lords. He claims the French system is costly in ammunition while Britain pays in lives. He cites 119000 British casualties in seven weeks and urges faster shell production. Lord St Albans and Lord St Davids criticize Lloyd George and the government while MPs pass the munitions bill amid discontent.
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Lloyd George
Lord St. Davids
Washington Post
London
Earl Stanhope
House of Lords
House of Commons
Lord Stalbridge
Ministry of Munitions
Hig
Manchester
Dogs Recover Wounded Men in French Front Line
Paris reports a new use for police dogs as war dogs. Twenty dogs patrol Vosges trenches at night seeking wounded French soldiers. Each dog carries a brandy scent bottle and a light on the collar. Upon finding a wounded man the rope system pulls him back to the French trenches. The dogs work quietly and have not attracted enemy attention.
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Paris
Vosges
Tranches
Food Plenty in Germany Says Berlin Professor
Professor Ballod of the University of Berlin told war committee delegates in Berlin that Germany's food shortage was only about 2 percent and that the attempt to starve Germany had failed. He warned that excessive optimism could lead to waste and that if the war lasts another year Germany must practice strict economies.
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London
Berlin
Grand Central Staff
Ballod
University of Berlin
Times
Germany
Bold bid for U.S. guns rejected in wartime intrigue
The Sun reports an alleged bid to buy 955,000 Krag-Jorgensen rifles from the U.S. government was rejected. A supposed $1.2 million campaign contribution tied to the offer is described as audacious, with officials and the White House denying or declining to confirm details while inquiries continue.
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Washington Pont
New York
the Sun
United States
Sun
Washington
Atemanté
Wilson
Ita
Blader An Americ
Win Two Day Battle Across Isonzo Front
The enemy was decimated and driven back at the bayonet. More than 160 prisoners were taken, including 4 officers, and 4% of rifles, munitions, and one machine gun captured. Our bases remained firm despite the casualties, with significant gains reported on the Isonzo. Plava heights saw tenacious infantry action supported by artillery.
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Isonzo
Plava
St Johns College Grants Two Free Scholarships
St John’s College announces two competitive scholarships for boys aged 11 to 15 in Washington and nearby Virginia and Maryland suburbs. Applicants must read write spell and cipher well. Examinations occur at the college 1125 Vermont avenue on Tuesday and Wednesday at 9 a.m. The scholarships stem from a generous friend of the college.
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St John’s College
Washington
Virginia
Maryland
Vermont Avenue
King Constantine of Greece Not Poisoned despite Illness
Berlin expert Dr. Friedrich Kraus said King Constantine suffered from a natural illness, initially influenza-like symptoms that developed into pleurisy with purulent pleural discharge. A rib incision and drainage followed a failed rib resection, yet heart displacement and weakness persisted though recovery was possible with careful care. the king later smoked, fever subsided, and kidney and intestinal irritation appeared but improved.
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Amsterdam
Friedrich Kraus
Berlin
Greece
Voassische . Zeitung
Constantine
Krang
Hiselberg
Vienna
Kraus
Eiselberg
Former Congressman William Cowherd Dies in Pasadena
Pasadena California June 20 Former Representative William Cowherd of Missouri died here tonight from anemia after an illness of six months. He came to California last January from Kansas City Mo. He was 55 years old.
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Pasadena
Cal
William 8. Cowherd
Missouri
California
Kansas City
600000 Men Hit Lembergs Front In Great War Push
The article reports 600000 troops facing Lemberg as Russia struggles to send aid and munitions. It notes acute ammo shortages in England with Sunday papers calling Galicia Russia’s supreme emergency. Dispatches describe Austro German forces maneuvering near Grodek and Lemberg, while Russians redeploy forces in the Tanewine area.
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France
Russia
England
London
Galicia
Lemberg
Reuter
Petrograd
Grodek
Tanewine
Ward
Hana Ruska
Germany abandons Taube aircraft in favor of improved biplanes
London reports quote a German flight captain stating the Taube pattern has been discarded as unstable for military uses. Germany now builds exclusively improved biplanes, acknowledging French superiority in field aeronautics.
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London
Germany
The
Times
Field
Aeronautica
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