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Drought cripples New England crops amid fires and price surge
The Massachusetts Board of Agriculture warns New England faces up to 70 million dollars in losses as drought grips hay cereals vegetables and livestock across states from Maine to Vermont farmers report record high hay prices and vast forest fires on Cape Cod and elsewhere. In New York a chaotic Brooklyn Bridge crowd disrupts trains with thousands rushing onto platforms and tickets unpaid. Chicago reports reshuffling of press leadership and a high paying cartoonist hire while labor tensions prompt calls for civil law to avert war. London anticipates broad support for an Irish land purchase bill with government help for tenants.
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