Italians Stand Against Austrian Drive Across Piave Front
Allied and Italian forces hold the Piave front as Austrian reinforcements press from Asiago toward the Venetian plains. Italy reports over 3,000 enemies captured and ongoing efforts to push invaders back across the Piave with heavier casualties for the Austrians. A separate note asks readers to knit socks and sweaters for soldiers, with wool and sock drive updates.
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Asiago
Piave River
Adriatic Sea
Roumania
Galicia
Piave
Brenta
Monte Grappa
Victor Emmanuel
Vienna War Office
Sette Communi
Children May Work This Summer With Permits
State work rules allow children under 14 to take up gainful jobs during summer if they obtain permits from the State labor commissioner or his county representatives. Occupations require approval and fitness. A War Savings Stamp campaign meeting at the courthouse outlined duties, with R L Blakely presiding and plans to meet Nevada county quota.
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War Savings Stamp Campaign Committees
Court House
R. L. Blakely
Nevada County
Germans Repulsed At Xivray In Fierce June 16 Action
American forces in France repelled a German raid on Xivray with heavy shelling and close combat. Nine Germans lay dead, six captured, two officers among them, while elsewhere in Alsace American machine gunners beat back another assault. The piece urges thrift and War Savings Stamps to support the war effort.
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France
Xivray
Xixray
Xigray
Alsace
Sam
Must Back the Government With All Our Strength
A wartime editorial urges unwavering public support for the government amid a brutal enemy conflict. It cites a British officer exchanged from German prisons describing extreme deprivation, starvation and injuries while enduring forced labor and battlefield wounds.
Fourth Liberty Loan to float about $6 billion
Washington reports the next Liberty Loan plan dates to raise around six billion dollars with certificates of indebtedness at 4.5 percent. Issuances begin June 25 in blocks of 750 million every two weeks, with four month maturities. Tax certificates may total two billion for summer use. Banks are urged to subscribe five percent of gross resources monthly. Treasury estimates July 1 to January 1 outlays near 12 billion.
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Washington
MccAdoo
National Bank and Trust Company
Treasury
Merchants Penalized In Sugar Regulation Violation
Jonesboro June 14 George Lamb manager Bono Mercantile Company and Breshears another local merchant were tried before Gordon Matthews food administrator and executive committee for selling more sugar than allowed by the national food administrator An order closed each store for two days The penalties were light as the violations appeared unintentional and the committee aims to prevent defiance of regulations W S S THRIVE by thrift and a notice seeking an invalids chair follow the report.
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Jonesboro
George Lamb
Bono Mercantile Company
Breshears
Gordon Matthews
Food Administration
National Food Administrator
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