Way World Wags Told In Tabloids Happenings At National Capital
Brief bulletins summarize wartime and domestic events including a 10 percent freight-rate increase filed with the Public Service Commission, Montana forest fires spreading, cotton prices down 20 to 30 percent, a rain benefit to crops in South Dakota, and Allied advances as Germany prepares a new offensive. Also notes a Hempstead aviation field test speed of 150 mph and 112 vessels launched on July 4 totaling 474,464 tons.
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General March
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West Front
Hempstead
Merchant Marines
War Bulletins Report Tralians Advancing in Alps and Balkans
Tralians cleared the Piave delta and advanced in the mountains then attacked Albania with French in Macedonia. They pressed Austrians on Vogusa, forcing withdrawals and taking 1000 prisoners. Pershing notes destructive American artillery as German HQ lines link via a dog messenger. Prisoners describe hunger and crop shortages in the Dual Monarchy. Entente seeks decisive action in Russia. Finland may enter war. Tralians also pierced Austrian lines at Forte di Salton in the Gelino Valley.
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Macedonia
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Marne
Pershing
Allied War Council
Versailles
Foch
Russhi
Wilson
Washington
Finland
Geleino
Forte di Salton
Prohibition and War Economy Shaped by Emergency Agriculture
Emergency agriculture provisions curb beer and wine manufacture after November. Officials reveal Cleveland Abbe Jr was dismissed for pro German sympathies. Senate railings halt hearings on a telegraph and telephone bid. Roosevelt seeks return of 40000 Nobel fund for soldier families. Wire control bill advances with war time limit. Profiteering reported by treasury outlines extreme margins for dealers and contractors.
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Monthly Weather Review
Interstate Commerce Committee
Senate
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Pennsylvania
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House
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War Secretary Backs Abolition of War Council
War Secretary Baker announces the War Council is abolished and its duties turned over to assistant Secretaries of War General Marek and General Goethals. Alien property valued in millions to be sold at public auctions. French and American forces use rifle grenades and balloons to spread war material and tear down German lines. General Marek reports 251,000 U.S. soldiers on the front with more enlisting toward the second million. Pershing notes the defeat of a German counterattack near Vaux and a raiding party of 25 Americans kill 20 Hung. Berlin paper Vorwaerts supports early peace terms. Paris papers praise President Wilsons Mount Vernon speech as a rallying program for the Allies.
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Ines
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France
Vaux
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Wilson
Mount Vernon
Rumely Arrested for Perjury Over Mail Purchase
Dr Edward A Rumely publisher of the New York Evening Mail was arrested on a federal warrant charging perjury for concealing from the alien property custodian his purchase of the Mail with German funded money A government contract for Motel Nassau Long Beach was signed A US base hospital for 2200 patients was completed at Pax Hills Staten Island with work begun last February Also Americans traveling in Canada will need no passports and Maj John Purroy Mitchel was killed in an aircraft crash at Gerstner Field Louisiana A coal rationing plan for winter homes was announced by the national fuel administration.
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Edward A. Rumely
Mail and Express Company
New York Evening Mail
Nassau
Long Beach
United States
Pax Hills
Staten Island
Canada
John Purroy Mitchel
New York
United States Aviation Service
Gerstner Wield
Lake Charles
National Fuel Administration
Grand Circuit Opens in Cleveland with At Game of Chance Victory
The opening Grand Circuit meet in Cleveland saw At Game of Chance win the Edwards 3000 racing stake. Several minor leagues halted baseball under current conditions with the Western and Texas leagues latest to quit. The Reds hover near last place as Matty’s squad slips from pennant contention. A Perry Roberts of Stevens Institute clears six feet in the running broad jump at the New York Games. Amateur reinsmen head to New York for the first major trot event since 1904. William Tilden II wins the national clay court tennis title in Chicago. The work or fight ruling places Dallas pitcher Sam Lewis in a productive occupation or Class 1, amid domestic duties.
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Qoninha
Incinad Reds
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A. Perry Roberts
Stevens Institute
New York
Boston
William T. Tilden
Philadelphia
Chicago
Dallas
Sam Lewis
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German Rules Cut Week Lengths In August
Brest Litovsk and Bolshevik betrayals blamed in Russia and Switzerland by Berlin papers. An epidemic of Spanish grip hits Switzerland as famine looms for fifty million in Russia within 30 days unless relief arrives from the United States and allies. A guard surrounds M Joffe’s Berlin house amid unrest after Count von Mirbach’s assassination and the Socialist revolutionaries seize Moscow telegraph offices.
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Germany
Berliner Tarteblatt
Switzerland
Russia
Brest-Litovsk
United States
M. Joffe
Berlin
Count von Mirbach
Moscow
Social Ievolutionaries
Hundred Vessels Launched As War Unity Drives Fourth of July
President Wilson proclaims no compromise with the foe as over a hundred ships launch across the nation in a record shipbuilding effort. Secretary Baker outlines wartime strength and French front presence while Russia's turmoil complicates the war outlook. The Fourth of July celebrates allied resolve with huge production gains and ongoing military actions in Europe and Russia.
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Baker
Russia
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