Coal Price Cut Transfers Huge Savings to Nation
Immediate general reduction of 1 to 1.50 dollars a ton in mine coal was agreed by operators and officials. The move, affecting mainly bituminous coal, aims to cut prices now and later based on cost studies with government approval. Secretary Lane praised the industry for sacrificing for war effort.
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Washington
Secretary of the Interior
Federal Trade Commission
Committee On Coal Production
National Defense Council
Lane
F. S. Peabody
Chicago
Fort
Conference
Defense Council Committee On Coal Production
Iowa Mayor Freeman Resigns After $400 Fine
Mayor George Freeman of McGregor resigns after paying a $400 fine for violating the liquor import statute. State officers smashed bottles near town, leaving a big heap of broken glass as evidence. sixty five automobiles were laden with beer and liquor.
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Iowa
McGregor
George Freeman
Johnson Favors War Bill Amid Prohibition Debate
Quent in Roosevelt Coronel's son with General Pershing fears liquor amendments may be dropped from the bill. Senate finance committee backs cutting prohibitions from food control and war revenue, arguing loss would be clearer. Johnson supports the bill and praises centralized wartime authority as necessary. Lodge and Johnson speeches draw attention.
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Senate Finance Committee
Johnson
Roosevelt
Quentin
Kermit
General Pershing
Spy Suspect Taken at Fort Sheridan
A suspected German spy was arrested near Fort Sheridan’s powder magazine after a sentry found a suitcase with a bomb dynamite gun cotton and fuses. The arrest uncovered a spy plot led by Fin ton G Clabaughs office with nearly a dozen others believed implicated and a plan to destroy the fort endangering about 5 000 trainees.
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Ft. Sheridan
Fort Sheridan
Ohio Engineers
Secret Service
Finton G. Clabaugh
Powder Marine
Illinois
Boy Survives Night Hanging From Window Sill
Evansville Indiana June 29 A remarkable rescue story emerges as eleven year old Robert Kraft slept through the moment his fingers clung to a window sill until his mother Mrs Henry Kraft woke him at breakfast, unaware of the danger he had faced overnight.
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Evansville
Ind
Robert Kraft
Henry Kraft
Brazil Ends Neutrality Declares War on Germany
Rio de Janeiro reports Brazil has revoked its neutrality decree and declared war on Germany, aligning with the Allies in the ongoing conflict.
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Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
Germany
Lodge Opposes Dry Amendment in War Time Debate
Washington June 29 Senator Henry Cabot Lodge urged caution on prohibition amendments to the food control bill arguing sentiment will decide the war effort. He opposed extending bans beyond beer while stressing unity and avoiding public division. Senator Hardwick backed Lodge despite initial opposition, warning against discontent during wartime. The dry cause faces a fierce Senate battle as prohibitionists fear backlash.
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Washington
Senate
Henry Cabot Lodge
Lodge
Hardwick
Georgia
Massachusetts
Roosevelt May Head Red Cross Mission to Russia
A movement seeks Colonel Theodore Roosevelt as an ex officio Red Cross member to Russia with several thousand Americans to counter German influence. A diplomat said Roosevelt was approached but unspecific about an invitation while Red Cross officials welcomed the idea as inspirational. President Wilson has not commented.
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New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Russia
Red Cross
New Republic
Rooswvelt
H. P. Davison
War Council of the Red Cross
Wilson
Deny Mails To Tom Watson In Draft Attack Publication
Federal authorities stop deliveries of Thomas F. Watsons weekly newspaper in Savannah Georgia under the espionage act pending Post Office Department decision. Watson, a Georgia editor, has clashed with federal authorities over his publications.
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Savannah
Thomas F. Watson
Post Office Department
Watson
Georgia
Elliott Wins Indiana Sixth District Congress Seat
Richmond Ind June 29 Richard N Elliott Republican elected to Congress in Indiana Sixth district to succeed the late Daniel W Comstock Republican by about 2800 votes over Finly H Gray Democrat Comstock had defeated Gray by 976 in 1916 a century ago.
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Comstock
Richmond
Ind
Richard N. Elliott
Finly H. Gray
Daniel W. Comstock
Indiana
Gray
Spy hunt in Colorado coal camps reported
Trinidad June 29 The sheriff investigates a report that a German spy operates in local mining camps organizing Austrian miners to resist conscription.
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Trinidad
Col
James A. Reed Missouri Senator Who Fights the Food Bill
Senator James A. Reed from Missouri takes a stance against the food bill drawing opposition from supporters. He campaigns on preservation of local authority and consumer protections amid broader national debate.
Statue to Emmet Unveiled as Wilson Attends Ceremony
President Wilson attended the National Museum unveiling of the statue of Robert Emmet. A policewoman escorted two suffragists Iris Calderhead of Wichita and Elizabeth Stuyvesant of New York from the auditorium. The women were taken to police headquarters, banners confiscated, and later released to be informed of charges. The President did not speak.
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Washington
Wilson
National Museum
Robert Emmet
Ireland
Iris Calderhead
Wichita
Kan
Elizabeth Stuyvesant
New York
Rock Creek Dam Breach Destroys Baker Area Towns
Reports from Haines say Rock Creek flooded after a fifty foot dam at Killamacue Lake failed. The town of Rock Creek was swept away fifteen miles west of Haines with nearly every building destroyed. Residents flee for high ground as communication breaks and ranches are inundated. Losses run into thousands of dollars.
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Baker
Ore
Haines
Rock Creek
Killamacue Lake
TRACE FREIGHT CAR FOR BOY
Wisconsin lad William McLean vanishes after last seen near a rail car at a flaxseed meal pier in Superior. Locating Chicago Milwaukee St Paul car No 590099 may solve the mystery. Tracers are sent along the line as the boy’s father Captain W S McLean holds hope of finding him in the car.
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Superior
Wis
Chicago- Milwaukee & St
Springfield man bonds in Greene County charge over lobbying law
Joseph Crites, an attorney from Kaila, Missouri, posted bond in a Greene County court after a grand jury charged him with conspiring to violate the state's lobbying law linked to the optometry bill before the legislature.
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Art
Springfield
Jioseph Crites
Kaila
Greene Coun ‘ S
I ‘Lee
Canadians Take Avion Outer Lens Front in Major Advance
Canadian troops attacked along a two mile front near Avion, a Lens suburb, driving into the German front line and nearing Lens center. Nova Scotians seized Leauvette while guardsmen in dugouts were bombed east of the railway. British and Canadian heavies repelled German counterfire as Luftwaffe activity increased.
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Paris
Avion
Lens
British Columbia
Manitoba
Ontario
Nova Scotia
Nova
Leauvette
Fifth Guard Grenadiers
Grenadiers
London
Cojeul River
War Office
Boy 12 Succumbs to Revolver Accident in Terre Haute
Terre Haute Indiana June 29 A twelve year old boy named Smith died after fatally wounding himself with a revolver he was handling to celebrate the Fourth of July. The tragedy occurred while the weapon was in his possession at home. local authorities investigated the incident as an accidental self inflicted shooting.
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Charles Evans Hughes
United States Supreme Court
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
American Press Association
Western Newspaper Union
Hughes
Court of Appeals
Landis
Press Association
Newspaper Union
Self
Terre Haute
Ind
Smith
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Reed
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