Coal Price Cut Cuts Millions in Savings for Nation
Immediate mine price reductions of 1 to 1.50 per ton for bituminous coal are approved by operators with cost under study and government involvement. The move, expected to lower consumer prices and tighten wartime supply, is slated to take effect July 1 with further reductions likely after cost investigations. Iowa Mayor Freeman resigns after $400 liquor import violation fine.
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Washington
Secretary of the Interior
Federal Trade Commission
Committee On Coal Production
National Defense Council
Lane
F. S. Peabody
Chicago
Conference Committee
Defense Council Committee On
Iowa
McGregor
George Freeman
Quentin Roosevelt: Colonel’s Son With General Pershing
The text notes Quentin Roosevelt, son of a colonel, serving under General Pershing. It highlights his role and status in the military.
Brazil Enters War After Revoking Neutrality
Rio de Janeiro reports Brazil has ended its neutrality in the war between the Allies and Germany by revoking the previous decree.
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Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Germany
Lodge Opposes Dry Amendment to Food Bill War Sentiment Drives Debate
Senate open debate on prohibition amendments to the food control bill with Senator Henry Cabot Lodge urging moderation and warning against dividing public opinion during wartime. Senator Hardwick proposes returning the measure to committee while supporting Lodge’s stance to avoid broad discontent over beer. Hiram Johnson endorses centralized authority for war needs.
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Washington
Senate
Henry Cabot Lodge
Lodge
Hardwick
Georgia
Massachusetts
Senate Finance Committee
Hiram Johnson
California
Johnson
Senator Lodge
Senator Johnson
Spy Suspect Taken at Fort Sheridan
A suspected German spy was arrested near the powder magazine at Fort Sheridan carrying a bomb, dynamite sticks, gun cotton and fuses. Secret service agents had been tracking a plot for a month, with about a dozen others believed implicated. The plan would have endangered 5,000 training camp students at the Illinois post.
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Ft. Sheridan, Jr
Fort Sheridan
Ohio Engineers
Secret Service
I'Inton
Powder Marine
Illinois
Thriller Not in Movies
Evansville Indiana June 29 Robert Kraft eleven year old slept through a window sill hang by fingertips found by his mother Mrs Henry Kraft at breakfast she learned of the incident only then It was a real life frightful moment not a film scene
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Evansville
Ind
Robert Kraft
Henry Kraft
Roosevelt Considered for Red Cross Mission to Russia
A movement seeks to send Colonel Theodore Roosevelt to Russia as an ex officio Red Cross member with several thousand Americans to counter German propaganda. Diplomats report Roosevelt shows enthusiasm but wants a definite invitation. H P Davison and Red Cross leaders back the idea, though Wilson has not commented.
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New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Russia
Red Cross
New Republic
Roosevelt
H. P. Davison
War Council of the Red Cross
Wilson
Deny Mails to Tom Watson Attacking Draft
Federal authorities halted deliveries of Thomas F. Watson's weekly paper in Savannah under the espionage act. The Georgia editor, known for clashes with federal authorities, publishes material criticizing the army draft and awaits a post office decision.
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Savannah
Thomas F. Watson
Post Office Department
Watson
Georgia
Elliott Wins Indiana Sixth, Defeats Gray in Plurality Victory
Richmond Ind June 29 Richard N Elliott Republican is elected to congress to succeed Daniel W Comstock Republican deceased in Indiana Sixth district by a plurality about 2800. In 1916 Comstock defeated Gray by a plurality of 976.
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Comstock
Richmond
Ind
Richard N. Elliott
Congress
Finly H. Gray
Daniel W. Comstock
Indiana
Gray
Seek Spy in Mines Report in Trinidad Coal Camps
The sheriff investigates a report that a German spy operates in Trinidad Colorado coal mining camps organizing Austrian miners to resist conscription.
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Trinidad
Col
James A Reed Missouri Senator Who Fights the Food Bill
Missouri Senator James A Reed campaigns against a food bill, arguing for farm support and consumer protections. He critiques proposed limits and urges constituents to contact lawmakers. Reed cites impacts on rural communities and local markets.
William Hale Thompson Faces Impeachment Action
Chicago Mayor William Hale Thompson stands at the center of an impeachment-related dispute as officials move to pursue potential removal from office. Details on charges or timeline remain unclear.
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Chicago
Allied War Commission
Liberty Loan
Unveiling of Robert Emmet Statue Opens With Pageantry
President Wilson attended the National Museum ceremony for the Robert Emmet statue when a policewoman escorted two suffragists Iris Calderhead of Wichita Kansas and Elizabeth Stuyvesant of New York from the auditorium with a folded banner. They were turned over to police, banners confiscated, and later released to await charges. The President made no speech.
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Washington
Wilson
National Museum
Robert Emmet
Ireland
Iris Calderhead
Wichita
Kan
Elizabeth Stuyvesant
New York
Gregon Dam Breaks Floods Rock Creek Town
Baker Oregon June 29 Reports from Haines say Rock Creek town was swept away when a fifty foot dam at Killamacue lake gave way fifteen miles west of Haines. Residents flee for high ground as nearly every building is destroyed and communication is cut. Ranches flooded and losses run into thousands of dollars.
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Baker
Ore
Haines
Rock Creek
Killamacue Lake
Canadians Drive Forward Toward Lens Front
Canadian troops stormed the German front near Avion Lens advancing within about a mile of Lens center. Forces of British Columbia Manitoba Ontario and Nova Scotia attacked along two miles meeting resistance from Prussian guards at Leauvette and dugouts east of the railway. Canadian aircraft reported few Germans at daybreak while cratered crossroads hindered enemy counterattacks.
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Paris
Avion
Lens
British Columbia
Manitoba
Ontario
Nova Scotia
Nova
Prussian Guards Corps
Fifth Guard Grenadiers
Grenadiers
London
Cereul River
War Office
Trace freight car for boy near Superior pier
Wisconsin police and railroad crews trace car No 590099 of the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul line seeking clues to the disappearance of five year old William McLean last Friday. The flaxseed meal car was being loaded for Bensonville Indiana at the pier where the boy was last seen. Tracers cover nearby line points as the search enters a new phase.
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Superior
Wis
Chicago- Milwaukee & St
Greene County jury charges attorney in lobbying case
Under Ant Springfeld Missouri June 3 Joseph Crites a Lula attorney gave bond in a criminal cause to answer to indictment returned by a Greene County grand jury charging him with having solicited the state ant lobbying law in connection with the optometry bill before the legislature.
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Feld
Ant Springfeld
Hughes in Court in Chicago Press Association Antitrust Appeal
Former U S Supreme Court Justice and Republican presidential candidate Charles Evang Hughes argued before the United States circuit court of appeals in Chicago on behalf of the American Press Association and the Western Newspaper Union. He urged judges to modify Judge Landis antitrust decree, with many federal lawyers present as witnesses.
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Chicago
Charles Evang 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
Tragic Self-inflicted Revolver Death in Terre Haute
Twelve year old Lafe Smith, in Terre Haute Indiana, died after using a revolver he intended to use to celebrate the Fourth of July. He was handling the weapon when it discharged fatally wounding himself.
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Self
Terre Haute
Ind
Lafe Smith
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