Death of Alexis Romanov Said Caused by Exposure
A Moscow dispatch to the Berlin Lokal Anzeiger reports Alexis Romanov, heir to the Russian throne, died from exposure days after his father the former emperor was executed. The Czarevitch’s life was shadowed by a rumored curse and a mysterious illness that followed an 1912 attack by nihilists aboard the Standart.
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Alexis Romanoff
Moscow
Berlin
Associated Press
Amsterdam
Lokal Anfeiger
Nicholas II
Vpeterhof
Russia
Czar
Russie
Czarevitch
Admiral Chugin
National program to build barges aids canal traffic
Washington July 24 A national barge program to support rail transport was set in motion by the War Industries Board and other agencies with War Shipping Board chairman Hurley. An expert will set barge material priorities, with the Emergency Fleet Corp to organize tug and barge production. Standard designs were approved to speed manufacture. Existing canal barge orders stay as is. Steel will be released for Mississippi River barges while additional sea going and inland waterway barges are planned after stock checks.
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Washington, D. C
War Industries Board
Tiurley
Shipping Board
The
Hurley
Selwah
Emergency Fleet Corporation
War and Navy Departments
Railroad Administration
Hhairman Wurley
Mexico
Fix Rice Prices Outlined For 1918 Crop Distribution
Washington July 24 announces foot administration says retailers will not pay more than 10 to 12 cents per pound for rough rice from the 1918 crop. Millers will set definite prices to growers and may not sell cleaned rice above contract figures 75 to 92 cents. Also an ad notes The Travelers' Cigar Shop on Ave. 1t offers cigars.
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Washington, D.C
Foot Administration
Coal Miners Agree to Settle Disputes Under Joint Bureau
Washington D C July 24 The Fuel Administration and United Mine Workers announce creation of a joint bureau to settle wartime labor disputes between coal miners and operators. John White and Kem Brandt Peale named co heads. Principles require no strikes pending review, recognition limited, and no dismissal due to union activity. Maryland upper Potomac settlement terms to guide all cases. Also notes cotton and melon reports from Texas.
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Washington, D.C
Bureau of Labor
Wilich
Buel
Garfiel
John
White
Gaited Mine Workers of America
Kem
Brandi
Peale
Pennsylvania
Burea
The
Fuel Administration
United Mine Workers
Tabor Wilson
Garfield
Balding Man Discovers Free Hair Growth Recipe
An almost bald man finds an old Indian remedy said to restore hair. Readers are told to write for it free, in a period tone. The ad claims wonderful results reported by numerous women and men who have tried it.
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Brittain
New York
Democrats Endorse War Policies At New York Convention
Saratoga Springs July 24 Democratic state convention adopts platform endorsing Wilson war policies and calls for women suffrage referendum while avoiding formal gubernatorial candidate choices. Judge Samuel Seabury presents a resolution pledging wholehearted support for the President and condemning treasonous acts and anti allied sentiment. The resolution is adopted unanimously amid enthusiasm.
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Saratoga Springs
N. Y
George T. Lunn
Schenectady
Wilson
United States Senate
Samuel Seabury
William Randolph Hearst
New York
United States
Belgium
Tasitania
Training wounded men at Fort McPherson hospital
Seventy five convalescent soldiers from France arrive at Fort McPherson in Atlanta for convalescent care. Plan to expand vocational training includes a printing plant and a photography school as the number of recovering troops rises. A. P. Barrest announces his candidacy for the congressional nomination in the upcoming primary. Tackhart Sailor Home for Visit. Lockhart Texas July 24 Norefleet Davis son of Miami Mrs R J Davis of Lockhart returns after a year aboard the battleship Jianei and the Louisiana as one of the transport protectors.
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Atlanta
France
Fort McPherson Hospital
Tackhart
Lockhart
Tex
Norefleet Davis
Myami
R. J. Davis
Louisiana
Banker ends life in Kansas City hotel
A man identified as Truman Elmore of Tar River Oklahoma was found dead with a bullet wound in a Kansas City hotel. A long suicide note addressed to his son and others mentions his parents wife and a bank examiner and to President Wilson urging action to stop gambling in grain futures.
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Kansas City
Truman Elmore
Tar River
Ottawa County
Oklahoma
Elmore
Bank Examiner of
Wilson
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Slayden
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Germany
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