Congress Takes Short Vacation With Few Members Left
As Congress ends its early 1917 session in Washington many senators depart for summer break while a minority remain for essential sessions. The body notes major wartime measures enacted including railroads under government control and broader powers for the president, plus draft extensions and Liberty bond funding. The session also approved a national prohibition amendment and a woman suffrage measure awaits action. President Wilson addressed Congress five times in joint sessions this term.
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Washington
House
Austria-Hungary
Congress
War Finance Corporation
Senate
Wilson
Austria
Ways and Means Committee
Bastile Day Parade Honors American Forces in Paris
Paris celebrated Bastile Day with a monster parade through the streets. American troops from the First and Second divisions took part, including units that helped at Cantigny and Chateau Thierry. President Poincare and General Pershing reviewed the procession as French auxiliaries joined the display.
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Paris
United States Army
Cantigny
Chateau Thierry
Fraoce
Poincare
General Pershing
Czecho-Slovaks Aid Allies Report From Ogden
Mrs Laurie Perels Chex and her husband Anthony W Chex state that Czecho-Slovaks who control Vladivostok back the Allies and plan to reach France to aid the war. They say about 15,000 troops may travel to Prague via the United States en route to the front.
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Ogden
Utah
Vladivostok
Ore Gorious
France
Austen
Germany
Preagce
Daly
United States
Laurie Perels Chex
Anthony W. Chex
New York
M.C, A
Important Statements From Vienna July 1 on Austrian Policy
A Vienna note dated July 1 reports that the government will handle important state matters and foreign policy. The message references upcoming sessions of the Austrian and Hungarian parliaments and cites a telegram from the Austrian capital.
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Amenterditi-Tt Wie
Vienna
Veto Clears Way After Wheat Price Plan Is Rejected
The president vetoed the 28 million dollar annual agricultural bill over a minimum wheat price of 2.40 a bushel. He argued farmers need no price stimulation to serve the nation during the crisis and noted bumper crops have eased global food fears. He warned the fixed price would raise flour costs and burden consumers by 387 million dollars this year.
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Washington
Congress
Farmers of America
Germany
Canada
Ford pledges mass eagle fleet to drive U boats from seas
Detroit business leader Henry Ford vows to mobilize a fleet of aircraft fashioned as eagle submar ine chasers to rid the seas of U boats. He promises the nation will spare no effort in producing a large number of these killers to achieve the objective.
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Detroit
Mich
Henry Ford
Coast League Ball Ends
Pacific Coast Baseball league directors vote to suspend operations until the war ends after scheduling final games on Sunday July 14. Exemption boards in two cities have ruled players must work or fight, depleting professional ranks.
Brig. Gen Robert E Noble assigns 16000 new army doctors
Brig. Gen. Robert E. Noble, chief of the personnel division of the army medical department, has passed on the qualifications of and assigned to duty all the 16,000 physicians who have joined the ranks as medical officers. He also directs hospitals on the Atlantica side.
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Robert E. Noble
Army Medical Department
Atlantica
Plan to Establish Sugar Equalization Board
Washington reports President Wilson created the sugar equalization board on July 11 to stabilize consumer prices amid a potential shortage. Hoover will chair with George Rolph as president. the board includes Taussig Woolley Zaborski Whitmarsh Glasgow and will authorize up to 5 million dollars to acquire beet sugar production and other high cost sugar for resale at a common price.
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Washington
Wilson
Sugar Equalization Board
Hoover
Mr. Hoover
George Rolph
Food Administration
United States
International Sugar Commission
F. W. Taussig
The
Tariff Commission
Clarence Woolley
War Trade Board
George Zabriskie
Theodore Whitmarsh
William T. Glasgow
German Peace Desires Stir Reichstag Debate
London reports Chancellor von Hertling opened the reichstag debate on the general political situation. He discussed Kullemann’s retirement, government foreign policy, and eastern economic issues while reaffirming support for a peace note based on a pacific spirit but warning against endless war. He criticized enemy speeches and Wilson Balfour remarks as fueling anger. President Wilson sanctioned allied aid to Russia and US troops may join Siberian operations as an economic mission sails soon.
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von Hertling
London
Reichstag
Richard von Kullemann
Pope Benedict
Wilson
Mr. Balfour
Russia
Washington
United States
Siberia
Assassination of German Ambassador Sparks Berlin Measures
Riled by Count von Mirbachs killing in Moscow Germany braces for a harsh response. London reports Emperor William ordered negotiations halted and bolstered guard at the Bolshevik embassy amid anti Russian demonstrations fears. Russian dispatches hint Moscow unrest suppressed with deadly force.
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London
William
Count von Mirbach
Russia
von Kuelmann
Berlin
Moscow
Austria Nearing Collapse Observers See Balkan Front Solidify
Political and military observers warn Austria may crumble as Albanian and Balkan reports show Entente forces forging a single front. Rumors of collapse intensify amid the military movements and diplomatic signals from Rome and Vienna.
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Rome
Austria
Albania
Balkans
White Guards Occupy Yaroslav Amid Russian Front Movements
White guards seize Yaroslav a town 174 miles northeast of Moscow and disrupt the Moscow Vologda link. Bolshevik forces are directed toward Yaroslav as the flare of conflict widens in the region.
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Vologda
Russia
Yaroslav
Moscow
The Naming of America and Publicity's Power
The piece recounts Amerigo Vespucci's voyages and the misattribution of discovery leading to the name America. It notes Columbus and John Cabot preceded him, yet Waldseemüller's atlas popularized the term, with St Die's university meeting misplacing the honor and print spreading the error.
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New World
America
Amerigo Vespucci
Florentine
Seville
Spain
Medicis
Columbus
Vespucci
University of St. Die
Lorraine
West Indies
Martin Waldseemuller
John Cabot
St. Die
North
South America
Pol the Hawaiian national dish gains modern production
Pol, the Hawaiian national dish made from taro bulbs, has shifted from primitive prep to sanitary factory production. Five plants in Hilo now process large daily quantities for U S markets including New York. Hospitals use pol for weak stomach patients and war demand could expand its use beyond Hawaii.
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Hawaii Ia
Ewtervision
Hilo
United States
New York City
John Harvard Emerges From Obscurity In History
The London Graphic traces John Harvard from myth to a real figure in American history. Once described as the Melchizedek of New England and "without father, without mother," he remained largely unknown. A reward for five lines of definite information went unclaimed as investigators clarified his true background and place in history.
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John Harvard
London Graphic
New England
America
Colton Reflects on Virtue Amid Plea for Consolation
A fragment from Colton evokes daily thought on virtue and consolation amid private distress. The voice hints at moral reflection directed at readers seeking steadiness in adversity.
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