Austria Faces Grave Internal Difficulty Amid Food Riots
Vienna and surrounding districts see massive strikes at the Vulcan arsenal and Warsch alowski airplane works as bread ration reductions spark riots in Favoriten Margarethen Ottakring and Brigittenau. Reports say martial law may follow amid widespread unrest over meat and bread supply.
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London
Vulcan
Warschalowski
Vienna
Zurich
Exchange Telegraph
Favoriten
Margerethen
Ottakring
Brigittenau
Prescott Hardware Receives New Hearse and Ambulance
The Prescott Hardware Company undertaker department, managed by J. D. Cornish, has received a motor funeral car and ambulance built on a Moon Six chassis with 146 inch wheel base and sixty horsepower. Exterior French gray, interior dark mahogany, tailored upholstery. Officials tout Prescott growth and civic pride with this service asset.
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Prescott Hardware Company
J. D. Cornish
Prescott
Western Union Proh Amendment Messages on Trains
Postal inspectors arrest traveling Western Union agents on trains between Boston and Washington and seize suitcases of messages for telegraph transmission. The practice violates postal law and will be explained to grand juries. penalties include up to $500 fine or six months in jail. Also, Senate Agricultural Committee postpones action on the Jones amendment to the emergency agricultural appropriation bill as President Wilson declines to oppose it for now, signaling uncertain passage prospects.
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Washington
Western Union Telegraph Company
Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Telegraph Company
Senate Agricultural Committee
Wilson
Senate
Agricultural Committee
Smith
South Carolina
Business Men Aid Farmers Cooperation Plan
Stuttgart reports a meeting of business men and farmers endorsing cooperation as the community watchword. May Hammans chaired with Paul W. Daniels as secretary, a committee was appointed to draft by laws for a permanent organization to be finalized next Monday. Several firms will allow workers time off to help on farms.
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Stuttgart
May Hammans
Paul W. Daniels
Americans Take Cantigny Trench and Gun Nests in France
American forces stormed German trenches and machine gun nests near Cantigny in the Montdidier sector at dawn. Many Germans were killed or captured as the attack overwhelmed fortifications with heavy artillery support and bayonet charges.
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France
Cantigny
Montdidier
Toul
Leideprey
Woevre
Dry Weather Impacts Crop in Earle June 20
The report from Earle notes dry weather injuring the corn crop while cotton remains fine and gardens suffer. It asks readers to consider lending money to finance the war, urging that even a small part by individuals and their children supports Uncle Sam.
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Earle
Sam
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Lewes
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Sur
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Bank of Prescott
Kacane
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Ozan Mercantile Co
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