Government Sets Anthracite Prices and Wholesale Limits
President Wilson and Dr. H A Garfield fixed anthracite prices for producers and jobbers, aiming to control coal costs. Next steps include retail price regulation and distribution rules once the FTC plan is complete. Railroad mine coal prices vary by grade, with potential small increases for some producers and screening charges on water shipments.
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Washington
Wilson
H. A. Garfield
Williams College
Federal Trade Commission
The
Trade Commission
Lykens Valley
Atlantic
Ports
Buffalo
Disarm 600 Negro Battalion in Houston Race Riots
Six hundred soldiers of the Twenty fourth negro infantry battalion were disarmed after Houston race riots. They were marched to parade grounds, rifles and ammo loaded onto trucks, then taken to a storehouse. The troops were en trained to Columbus New Mexico by order of Maj Gen James Paulse. District Attorney John Crocker filed murder charges against thirty four rioters. eight of the 126 rioters remain at large.
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Houston
New Mexico
Texas
Twenty-fourth Negro Infantry
Nineteenth Infantry
Coast Artillery
Columbus
N. M
James Paulse
John Crocker
Germans Regain Belgian Loss In World War I Action
British forces retreat from Ypres Menin road positions after German Friday assault. Canadians and British push back near Lens as French seize Hill 804 at Verdun, altering German watch over French advance. Cadorna pursues Austrians along the long front, while Russians retreat to the Aa river. Wilson may address Congress on peace as US extends Russia credit by 100 million dollars.
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London
Ypres-Menin
Lens
Verdun
Cadorna
Lonso Front
Berlin
Petrograd
Germany
Riga
Field Marshal Haig
Poland
Gulf of Riga
Rome
Isonzo
Italian War Department
Belgium
Kemmern
Dvina
Pershing
France
Paris
Petain
Senate Finance Bill Boosts War Income Tax Provisions
Senator Lewis accused the rich of perks and perjury costing the nation $200,000,000 while the Senate rejected the proposed war income tax bands from $60,000 to $500,000. The finance committee's revised rates were replaced by Lenroot drafted House provisions, raising taxes on higher incomes from 12 to 37.5 percent across several brackets.
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Union News Service
Washington
Senate of the United States
Finance Committee
Treasury
la Follette
Smoot
Utah
Lewis
Ilinois
Gerry
Senate
House
Representative Lenroot
Wisconsin
Senate Finance Committee
Lenroot
Riot claims twelve lives at Camp Logan Houston
In Houston Texas twelve white men including civilians police officers and national guardsmen were killed and more than twenty others wounded in a riot involving negro soldiers from the Twenty fourth United States Infantry The unrest occurred around Camp Logan as Texas soldiers arrived from Galveston to patrol the negro district and martial law was declared by Governor Ferguson A coast artillery battery was dispatched to the scene to restore order
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Houston
Texas
Twenty-fourth United States Infantry
Camp Logan
Illinois National Guard
Galveston
Draft Unemployed for Farm Work in Kansas City
The article discusses unemployed laborers being drafted for farm work in Kansas City amid a conference on wheat expansion. It notes proposals to import Mexican labor, improve labor conditions, and regulate seed wheat supply to boost Middle Western wheat acreage. Representatives report labor shortages due to the draft while Secretary Houston leads the Department of Agriculture event.
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Kansas City
Middle Western
Houston
Department of Agriculture
President fixes tentative coal prices for major districts
President Wilson issues an executive order setting a tentative coal price scale across most producing districts under the Lever act. Prices are listed by state and grade with mine run at 2.45 in Colorado and 2.70 for prepared sizes statewide, amid plans for a future coal administrator to oversee fuel supplies. Various states show distinct price points, and the move follows disputes over earlier voluntary rates.
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Wilson
United States
Washington
Lane
Federal Trade Commission
Coal Production Committee
Francis 8. Peabody
Colorado
Harry A. Garfield
Williams College
Wyoming
Utah
Texas
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Missour
Pennsylvania
Maryland
West
Alabama
Cahaba
Black Creek
Tennessee
Kentucky
Jellico
Pratt
Board named to save breeding stock for future aims
A new board to save breeding stock for the future and set stock-growing conditions was named. Members include J M Carey J C Underwood J B Kendrick J M Wilson of Wyoming Henry G Boyce C M O'Donnell L F Verkams Dwight B Heard of Arizona A B de Recquels and John McBain of Colorado Victor Culbertson of New Mexico.
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Washington
J. M. Carey
J. C. Underwood
J. B. Kendrick
J. M. Wilson
Wyoming
Henry G.boyce
C M. O'Donnell
L. F. Verkams
Dwight B. Heard
Arizona
A. 2B. de Recquels
John McBain
Colorado
Victor Culbertson
New Mexico
Germany rejects Argentine demands over torpedoed ship
Berlin official statement says Germany does not concede compensation or pledge to spare Argentine vessels in future torpedoings. Possible amicable settlement not ruled out, according to Zurich and Berlin.
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Germany
Argentina
Zurich
Berlin
Kansas Bank Robbers Loot Walton Bank Safe
In Newton Kansas robbers blew the safe of the State Bank of Walton a few miles east of here and escaped with 3000 dollars in cash according to local reports. Names and exact escape details were not disclosed.
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Kansas
Newton
Kan
State Bank of
Walton
Here
Garfield Named Coal Dictator
President Wilson issued an executive order fixing anthracite coal prices at the mine and curbing profit margins of robbers. He also appointed Harry A. Garfield as fuel administrator with power to implement broader government regulation of the coal industry.
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Garfield
Washington
Wilson
Harry A. Garfield
Fewer Food Animals Drive Record Hog Prices in Markets
A World War I food report shows a large drop in global meat animals, with U S hogs rising while world supply falls. American exports to allies surged to over 1.3 billion pounds in the year to June 30, 1917, signaling sustained high meat prices. On Chicago markets hogs topped near 20 dollars per hundredweight, with local bids nudging toward 20.50 as owners held hogs awaiting higher offers.
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Chicago
Union News Service
Washington
Food Administration
United States
Pittsburgh
St. Louis
Omaha
Wilson To Formulate Plan Reply To Pope May Suggest Way
Secretary of State Lansing said the United States informally exchanges views with Entente nations on Pope Benedicts peace proposals. No immediate reply or formal conference with belligerents will occur before replying. Riots in Spain cause 382 deaths. Official counts: 37 at Barcelona, 12 at Madrid, 28 at Bilbao, 4 at Nerja, 1 elsewhere.
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Wilson
Congress
Washington
Pope Benedict
Pope
Lansing
Ters
Spain
Paris
Hayes Agency
Madrid
Barcelona
Bilbao
Nerva
San Francisco
Calif
San Francisco Examiner
Viscounte Y. Kawai
M. Okuchi
Japan
Rome
Benedict XV
United States
British Ship Losses Rise Slightly in Week
London officials report a small rise in British merchantmen sunk by submarines in the past week. Fifteen ships over 1,600 tons were lost, plus three under-1,600 ton vessels, and two fishing boats, compared with fourteen large ships, two small vessels, and three fishing craft the prior week.
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London
Allies Win In West And Other War Fronts
A far reaching dispatch from the Western Front reports incendiary bombs by two German aviators killed ten hospital workers and wounded many others at Verdun. Allied offensives across the front push gains in Belgium and Italy while Russian advances falter. Also noted are prisoner captures at Isonzo and the sinking of the Leyland liner Devonian. In the U.S. news brief, two men die in a Cheyenne automobile crash near Beottabluff after departing Denver. a turtle-turned-car incident marks the light local note.
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Union News Service
Verdun
Red Cross
Germany Calle Girls for Harvesting
Berne reports numerous German girls employed in Switzerland as nurses and servants have received an official call to return home for harvest work. The notice underscores wartime labor mobilization and cross border workforce movement.
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Germany
Berne
Switzerland
Hides and Pelts Prices and Listings
Dry hides at Flint butcher shop priced per io. Flint hides and pelts indicate various lot figures and prices. Salt hides listed with weight and price fractions, reflecting market terms and adjustments for green hides.
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Lesa
Soaeeannan
Horne
Miscellaneous Markets and Commodities Report From New York
In New York trading the market reports lead spot copper at 11 cents with nearby and future quotations, tin and bar silver values around 4.60 and 95.60 per ounce, with various grain and livestock quotes. The bulletin lists butter, poultry, potatoes, sugar, and cotton price directions, noting New York cotton futures and other commodity movements across markets.
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Colorado
F.C.H. Denver
Beres
Denver
Colo
Ple
Cts
New York
Louis—Speter
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Col F. S. Breen
Miss Tessie Tag
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Cal
Ray Lyman Wilbur
Mies Tag
Teuton Air Men
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Entente
Cheyenne
Wyo
R. C. Kanode
Gering
Neb
J. C. Clark
Beottsbluff
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