Huns Prepare to Open Big Drive with Active Guns
London reports German bombardments north of Serre and Kemmel as a possible new drive. British and French forces recapture Grivesnes and Cantigny areas, with Americans shelling and advancing in Picardy. Italians seize Monte Corno and take prisoners in Arsa valley. Ostend harbor blocked by British raid. major losses reported for German and American forces in multiple sectors.
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London
Serre
Arras
Xhemmel
Flanders
Kemmel
Amiens
Teutons
Hindenburg
France
Wield Marshal von Hindenburg
Western Front
Daily Express
von Mackensen
Express
la’ Clyttée-Voormezeele
la Clytte-Voormezeele
Field Marshal
Haig
Flanders Front
War Office
Ancre
Albert
Loos
Voormezeele
Paris
Orvillers-Sorel
Picardy
Mailly-Raineval
Verdun
Luneville
Ancerviller
Monte Corno
Arsa
Trent
Roverto
Grivesnes
Somme
Grivesnes Park
Montdidier
Park
Cantigny
Picardy Sattle
Fontaine- Sous-Montididier
Courtemuanche
Mesnil-St. Georges
Ostend
Admiralty
Berlin
Bois de L’alval
Gramicourt
Alval
Fframicourt
Baker
Ottawa
Washington
Foch
Pershing
War Department
U. S
Wage increases approved for 1.9 million railroad workers
A railroad wage commission report to Director General McAdoo says 1,939,399 employees will receive pay raises from 1 to 43 percent, totaling about 300 million dollars. Some union leaders seek higher adjustments while others accept the plan.
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Washington, D. C
Railroad
McAdoo
Indiana farming, rail, and war prep fill Hoosier pages
Wheat and corn campaigns surge across Jay and other counties as Indiana farms boost sowing 30 percent over prior year. Valparaiso hosts 1000 soldiers June 1 with dormitories filled. Rail, interurban, and telephone services expand while local officials alert for food production and medical staff shortages.
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Valparaiso University
National Army
Jay County
William Scanlon
Clarkshill
Scanlon Farm
Frankfort- Indianapolis
Pennsylvania Railroad
Union Traction Company
Anderson
Home Telephone Company of
Wabash
Bell Telephone Company
Bell Office
Home Office
Harry Gibson
Madison
Tracy E. Hart
Boston
Seymour
First National Bank
Oren O. Swails
Wiley High School
Terre Haute
Germany
Indianapolis
Board of Public Safety
Charles W. Jewett
George W. Coffin
Alexandria
Malone
Benjamin Bosse
Evansville
Indiana
National War Garden Commission
South Bend
Thirteenth
Congressional District
Culver Military Academy
Culver
Hammond
Chicago
Klotz
Henry Harrison Ragan
Lowell Tribune
Lincoln
Secret Service
Lowell
Joseph Spillmeyer
Jasper Novelty Manufacturing Works
Heart Balm Bride Weds Old Suitor in Ireland
New York report says Miss Honora May O'Brien, once granted heart balm by John B. Manning, secretly wed in Ireland to John Daly, a Skibbereen farmer and childhood playmate. Manning, 83, faced opposition from his first wife’s six children and an attempted consent, leading to a $100,000 settlement after a $1 million suit.
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New York
Honora May O’brien
Colleen
Skibbereen
John B. Manning
New York City
Ireland
John Daly
America
Miss O'Brien
Manning
Wall Street
Miss O’brien
Menning
Cardinal Farley
Belgium Receives Over Three Billion Tons Of Food Relief
The Belgian civil population has received 3 008 322 tons of foodstuffs via the relief commission from November 1 1914 to October 1 1917. The Belgian government through Informations Belges credits the United States for saving Belgians from famine. Sinkings by U boats limited importations.
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Relief Commission
Paris
Commission For Relief
Belgium
United States of America
Informations Belges
Havre
Reds Murder Ross General in Copenhagen Report
Copenhagen dispatch reports General Rennen kampff, a Russian commander in the Japanese and present wars, murdered by Bolsheviki. The claim appears in a late May note from the seat of conflict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reds
Ross
Copenhagen
Gen. Rennenkampff
Scale of Rates of Increases in Pay Awarded to Railroad Workers
The document lists wage scale increases for railroad workers as set by the Wage Commission across bands from low monthly rates to high figures. It presents present and new rates in a long tabular format with numerous ranges and figures for different wage brackets.
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McAdoo
Franklin K. Lane
Secretary of the Interior
Charles C. McChord
J. Harry Covington
William R. Willcox
Europe
The
Wage Commission
Inventions Span From Porcelain Pyrometer to Knots
A list of new devices includes a porcelain pyrometer tube factory idea in progress a one handed knot tying device for twine a nose for bread wheat flour standards in Italy a glow luminous plant juice phosphorescent in tropics and Norway government runs agricultural stations an electric fan driven mosquito deterrent in Baghdad a shaving brush combined with a rubber lather applicator a boxing dummy linked to a recorder to log blow position and force.
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Pennsylvania
Italy
Government of
Norway
Bagdad
Man Seeks Wife Lost After Ten Minutes Marriage
A. H. Keach of Norway New York claims he married a banker’s daughter in 1871 near Urbana and then lost his bride within ten minutes. He describes her as seventeen then and asks the county attorney to locate her, saying they met on a train while he was bound for New York. He has not seen her since and recalls little more.
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Worthington
Knights Templars
Evansville
Bartholomew County
Danville
Board of Education
Valparaiso University
Lake County Council
Lincoln Highway
Schererville
Madison County Council of Defense
Madison County
Bartholomew
Union Township
L. P. Fess
James Linton
Terre Haute
Northern Indiana Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
Middlebury
Studebaker Corporation
South Bend
Bicknell
Wells County
Army
Louis Severin
Fred Metts
F. M. Dickason
C. H. Mead
J. L. Redding
Erskin Sommers
Craigville
Vincennes
Camp Zachary Taylor
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Lawrence County
Fort Wayne
State Supreme Court
Potter Palmer
Florida
Madison
H. H.honore
Ohio River
Baptist Church
Eureka
Spencer County
Masonic Lodge
Baptists
Mildred Bailey
Duke’s Hospital
Peru
Rich Valley
Wabash
Rich Valley United Brethren Church
Harry E. Barnard
Indiana
Henry Ford
Detroit
Charles A. Pratt
Valpariso
Chicago
France
Daly
A. H. Keach
Norway
N. Y
Keach
Tolono
Here
New York
Urbana
Til
Man on Bigamy Defense Says He Fell For Pretty Unwed Women
Sydney Lee Shellgrave testified in general sessions at Shell Grove that he married four times and possibly more, explaining his motive as pity for pretty girls living alone. He said a hair restorer business prevented him from resisting their charms.
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New York
Sydney Lee Shellgrave
Shellgrove
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Block
Petain
Indiana University
Tower Manufacturing Company
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