Plan to build 4,000,000 ton merchant fleet described
General Goethals outlines a program for rapid ship production under the Emergency Fleet Corporation. He details contracts for 848 wood ships and 77 steel ships, plus two government owned plants to produce 400 fabricated steel ships, totaling about 4% million tons and $275 million, with potential further funding from Congress.
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Goethals
Denman
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Congress
Naval Architect of the Corporation
Congressional Committee
President orders 687000 for draft
Secretary Baker announces that under the May 13 1917 act the President orders 687000 men raised by draft. The total is to strength regular army National Guard and creates the national army. Quotas are apportioned to states territories and the District of Columbia for distribution. The Governor and DC commissioners must apportion the quotas accordingly.
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Congress
National Guard
Regular Army
National Army
United States
Baker
District of Columbia
Buildings workers get salary boost
At a Boston meeting of Bricklayers Masons and Plasterers Union 3 it was announced the Builders' association agreed to raise wages from 70 to 75 cents per hour effective Aug 1 affecting about 2000 men.
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Boston Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers’ Union 3
Employers’ Association In the Building Trades
Last Pop Concert Tonight at Symphony Hall
The season ends with the sixtieth Pop concert, conducted by Jacchia who has brought a varied program. Highlights include works by Strauss, Puccini, Wagner, and Chabrier, with soloists Theodorowicz, Cella, Marshall, and Nagel assisting as pianist.
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Symphony Hall
Jacchia
Ponchbielli Cave
Magia
Schubert-Wilhelm
Theodorowicz
Cella
Marshall
Strauss
Teoncavallo
Puccini
Michatelis
Chabrier
Katinka
Vollstedt
Tannhauser
Wagner
Rudolf Nagel
North Shore to Welcome Elks on Mass Convention Trip
Chelsea Lynn Salem Beverly Gloucester and other North Shore towns join Boston to bid farewell as the Elks prepare a north shore automobile tour starting from Copley Square at 10 this morning, the final event of the record Boston convention.
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Chelsea
Lynn
Salem
Beverly
Gloucester
Boston
Elks
North Shore
Copley Square
Elks Convention Ends Boston Tour Across New England
Thousands of Elks break camp in Boston after a week long convention with Textile Day celebrations in Lowell and Lawrence. Special trains and motor caravans take members to vivid tours of major mills and routes to Beverly along Revere Beach boulevard for a noon stop.
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Boston
Union
Lowell
Lawrence
EM. Davis
Somerville
Revere Beach Boulevard
Beverly
Elks Lodge Luncheon Sets Stage For North Shore Tour
The Gloucester lodge of Elks plans a luncheon at Stage Fort Park for the Dorchester Bay settlers landing in 1023. Stops will be made at Elmks lodge homes in Salem Lynn and Chelsea with refreshments. District Deputy William L. Healy chairs the North Shore committee guiding the trip amid a grand lodge exodus during the Boston programme.
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Gloucester
Grand Lodge
Elks Gift Mayor Platinum Watch After Toasts
The Boston lodge of Elks presented Mayor Curley with a $1000 platinum watch and chain set with diamonds and pearls after the 11 o'clock toast at the Somerset street Elks home. Dr. Joseph Santosuosso, exalted ruler, delivered the presentation speech.
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Curley
Boston Lodge of Elks
Elks
Somerset Street
Joseph Santosuosso
Eleven grain ships clear Atlantic port for Europe
Eleven neutral steamers loaded with grain and cargo, barred from export by President Wilson's embargo, cleared from an Atlantic port for European ports without British letters of assurance. They will attempt to run the Allied blockade.
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Atlantic
Wilson
Berlin Deadlock Persists as Kaiser Consults Hindenburg
Reports indicate continued political stalemate in Berlin over Junkerism reforms. The Kaiser may press von Hindenburg to coerce opposition while Bethmann-Hollweg’s fate hinges on war credit votes and potential reform concessions. Vienna notes Hungary’s crisis and Austria's push for peace terms to satisfy entente allies.
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von Hindenburg
von Bethmann- Hollweg
Berlin
Vienna
Hungary
Austria-Hungary
Hungarian leader calls for peace talks in German crisis
Count Michael Karolyi in the House of Deputies says Germany seeks peace but must negotiate. He notes Czernin states readiness for peace without annexations and demands democratization of each country as a prerequisite. Baron Julius Beck adds that policy should pursue honorable peace protecting Hungary's frontiers and independence.
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Amsterdam
Michael Karolyi
Hungarian Independent Party
House of Deputies
Budapest
Germany
Czernin
Baron Julius Beck
Hungary
Wolf's My Clothier Shoe Bargain Card
Bargain card from Wolf's Shoe Department advertises men’s white canvas tennis oxfords and outing tennis shoes priced at 79 cents to 1.50. Items listed include sizes six to eleven with value claims and legal stamps offered at the Hanover and Portland streets store.
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Wolf's
My Clothier
Hanover
Portland Streets
Esterhazy affirms alliance with Germany amid war stance
Count Moritz Esterhazy, premier, replies to Baron Beck asserting the new Hungarian government will continue the framework with Germany and Austria. He calls the alliance with Germany “brilliantly tested,” says the war is defensive, seeks an acceptable peace for all belligerents, and places responsibility for the war on the enemy.
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Moritz Esterhazy
Baron Beck
Germany
Hungary
Austria
Esterhazy
Governor Seeks Relief Over Alien Refugees
Governor Lindsay telegraphed state and federal authorities about internees from the I W W banks and urged relief from state charges for confinement and feeding. He labeled the refugees a national problem and awaited responses from the State War Department and President Wilson.
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Lindsay
State and War Departments
Wilson
Arizona
Deportation of Bisbee workers to Columbus stirs tensions
General Superintendent F B King of the El Paso and Southwestern says Walter Douglas ordered transport of men to Columbus to place them under military care. Troops kept order while deported Bisbeans, some with money, appealed to officials. no violence reported. Bisbee attorney W B Cleary led the party and urged patience.
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F. B. King
el Paso & Southwestern
Douglas
Walter Douglas
Columbus
Phelps-Dodge Corporation
King
Bisbee
W. 3B. Cleary
Othes
President Wilson Warns Arizona Over Citizen Actions
President Wilson urges Governor Campbell to enforce order as the War Department sends officers to Arizona. He cautions against citizens taking the law into their own hands and warns of grave risks and responsibility for setting such precedents.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Campbell
Wilson
Secretary of War
Parker
Arizona
Woodrow Wilson
Armed guards escort I W W group back home
Two hundred fifty armed guards who escorted the Industrial Workers of the World and their sympathizers from Bisbee returned to Douglas on the West-bound El Paso and Southwestern train. They reported leaving their charges at Herman in New Mexico.
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Douglas
Ariz
Industrial Workers of the World
Bisbee
el Paso and Southwestern
Hermanas
N. M
Government moves to intern German affiliated I. W. W.
United States District Attorney Clay Allen announced the government will intern German affiliated or influenced members of the Industrial Workers of the World. Investigation found a large German element among IWW members and urged relentless action to keep workers stable and out of jail during wartime.
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Seattle
Wash
United States
Clay Allen
Allen
Mr. Allen
Gregory
Poisoner Amy E Archer Gilligan Found Guilty Of Murder
Hartford Conn July 13 Amy E Archer Gilligan was found guilty of first degree murder in the poisoning of Franklin R Andrews at Wind sor home for the elderly. Judge Gardiner Green set execution for November 6 by hanging the state method of execution.
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Hartford
Conn
Amy E. Archer Gilligan
Franklin R. Andrews
Windsor
Gardiner Green
Gilligan on trial in deadly poison scheme at Archer Home
The indictment alleges Mrs. Gilligan caused four inmate deaths at Archer Home by poison and that up to 40 inmates died under strange circumstances over years. The motive centered on life contracts for about $1000 each. The jury returned verdicts amid emotional scenes as her counsel moved to set aside the verdicts.
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Benedict M. Holden
Holden
Gilligan
Franklin R. Andrews
Michael Gilligan
Andrews
Baxter Named Head of Massachusetts Information Bureau
Charles S. Baxter former Medford mayor and adviser to Governor McCall was chosen to lead the new state information bureau. He will serve without pay as the bureau tracks every Massachusetts man enlisting or drafted into the military services.
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Charles 8. Baxter
Medford
McCall
Baxter
Massachusetts
Army
Navy
National Guard
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