War department renames regiments to unify titles
June 28 Washington War Department adopts a system to rename all army regiments by number and service branch only. Regular regiments keep names like First Infantry and First Cavalry while National Guard regiments add numbers after the regulars and new draft units take subsequent numbers to streamline records. In Congress the food bill fight centers on prohibition as the Senate Agriculture committee's version would bar all alcohol production while allowing presidential exemptions for wines.
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Washington
Regulars
National Guard
National Army
War Department
Congress
Senate Agriculture Committee
Senate
Lodge
National Guard Regiments Allowed State Names in Parens
A government plan allows National Guard and national army regiments to append the state of origin in parentheses after their names. Secretary Baker approved the plan on recommendation of Adjutant General McCain and Major General.
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National Guard
National Army
Baker
McCain
Coal price cuts agreed by operators and government
Washington June 28 sweeping reductions in the price of bituminous coal at all mines east of the Mississippi River range from one to five dollars a ton to the public with a further cut of 50 percent to the government were agreed on today at conferences between the operators and government officials. The new prices become effective July 1.
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Washington
Mississippi River
Four Hundred Operators Back Lane Call for Fair Prices
Four hundred operators gathered yesterday at Secretary Lane's urging and pledged to supply their product at reasonable prices. Committees from each field represented them in the final conferences after earlier agreements.
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Lane
Senators Johnson Kellogg Back War Measure Support
Senators Johnson of California and Kellogg of Minnesota delivered prepared speeches on the general features of the bill promising support as a war measure.
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Johnson
California
Kellogg
Minnesota
Russian elections called for Sept. 30
Petrograd June 28 The provisional government has issued a decree fixing Sept. 30 for elections to the constituent assembly. Oct. 13 has been set for the first meeting of the assembly.
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Petrograd
F Gray Co Ad Promises $9.90 Mens Blue Serge Suits
The F Gray Company advertises blue serge suits at 9.90 with all sizes available including regulars and stouts. Also notes handsome worsteds and fancy Scotches and that every $15 suit is $9.90. Store at Washington and Hanover Streets, open evenings 9 p.m.
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Gray Co
Washington
Hanover Streets
Palm Beach
F. Gray Co
Wash. & Hanover Sts
Washington and Hanover Sts
Gray
Washington and
Advt
Plans for American army mobilization revealed
Reports from Major-General Pershing on the France expedition remained incomplete as of tonight with the War Department silent. The delay may be due to Pershing not personally visiting the American encampment until today as divisions were prepared day and night.
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Washington
Pershing
France
War Department
Nurse Varney Alibi Placed Before Brookline Murder
Police declare Miss Harriet Varney of West Upton had an advance alibi and quit a hospital job a day after the murder of Mrs. George H. Keyes. Keyes’ tip led to Varney’s arrest as officers pursue a forged farewell note and a revolver linked to the crime. Witnesses place Varney in the Keyes home at the crime hour.
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Slayer
Miss Varney
Keyes
Providence
Harriet Varney
West Upton
George H. Keyes
Brookline
Today’s anniversaries and Casement note
Today marks 8S Peter and Pauls Day with a memorial of a year since Sir Roger Casement was sentenced to hang for treason. The piece notes the anniversary and the historic verdict.
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Roger Casement
Fair and showery forecast for New England region
Boston and vicinity expect Friday fair with afternoon or night showers and local storms. Saturday should stay generally fair with little temperature change and light winds. Washington forecast notes New England showers and thunderstorms Friday, then Saturday fair.
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OLD Colony Trust CO
Court Street
Boston
New England Red Cross War Fund
Ford Building
Tel
Haymarket
Washington
New England
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