Daniels Oats Nation Stands United For War
Secretary Daniels announces America can wage war efficiently with unity of spirit in a Naval Academy address. He cites voluntary service, selective draft, bond drive, Red Cross and taxing bills, stressing no hatred for foes, only autocracy. He notes rapid enlistment across Navy, Marine Corps, and Army.
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Naval Academy
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British lose 28 ships in week to mines and subs
London reports 21 British vessels over 1600 tons and seven under 1600 tons sunk by mines or submarines in the last week. Net losses fall by four from the prior week’s 32 and 27 respectively, while one Italian ship was sunk in the June 24 week.
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Cantonment at Louisville Began
Cantonments at Audubon Park near Louisville underway for the ninth division training 37 000 men in 1200 buildings. Project aims to be ready by September 1 with city and county authorities and utilities expanding facilities to meet War Department promises.
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Associated Press
Louisville
Audubon Park
Kentucky
Indiana
Jefferson County
War Department
Army cantonments planned on Louisville tract with rail access
A Louisville site to host cantonments spans about 2000 acres split by Southern Railway lines. It will feature three brigade plateaus for buildings, metal roads, artillery ranges, rifle ranges, and hills to support maneuvers. Local firms plan power, water, gas mains, sewers, and transport with minimal government cost.
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Southern Railway
Louisville
James B. Wilson
Louisville Water,Company
Harlan P. Kelsey
Salem
Mass
Louisville Railway Company
Cantonments
Louisville Gas and Electric Company
Statue Unveiled of Irish Patriot Robert Emmett
A bronze statue of Robert Emmett, Irish martyr patriot, was unveiled today in the rotunda of the national museum in Washington D C. American citizens of Irish descent presented the memorial to the government, with President Wilson invited to attend and speak. Judge Victor J Dowling of New York made the presentation speech and Chief Justice White accepted the statue for the government.
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Washington, D. C
Robert Emmett
National Museum
Wilson
Victor J. Dowling
New York
White
Supreme Court
Shop crafts workers at Missouri Pacific Iron Mountain gain wage raises
Fifteen thousand members of the five shop crafts on the Missouri Pacific Iron Mountain system will receive wage increases from five and one half to eleven cents an hour. The increases follow an agreement signed in St. Louis and announced from Little Rock. The accord ends the possibility of a strike that union men had voted on weeks earlier.
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Ark
St. Louis
System Federation of Shop Crafts
Charters Filed In Texas Coast Region June 28
Texas charter news lists several new corporations with capital stocks from 6 000 to 30 00000 including Bartell Warehouse Co Houston Bland Oil Co Orange and D S Cage Co Houston with varied incorporators. Charter amendments include Smith Hall HardwareCo and Western Motor Supply Co. permits to do business granted to Buick Empire Gasoline Swift & Co and others with Texas headquarters in Dallas Austin San Antonio Fort Worth. Dissolutions filed include Jarvis Townsite Co and Security Mortgage & S Co in Austin and O Byrne Oil Co Beaumont.
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el Paso
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Sholars Drug Co
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Texas
Buick Motor Co
Flint
Mich
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Empire Gasoline Co
Dover
Del
Austin
Empire Petroleum Co
Couch Sees Horror of Electric Chair in Cocchi Case
Alfredo Cocchi, charged with slaying Ruth Cruger, declares he is guilty and ready to pay the penalty. He fears a death sentence by the American electric chair, prompting supporters and relatives to raise funds to fight extradition proceedings.
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Alfredo Cocchi
Ruth Cruger
Cocchi
France Creates Touring Bureau
Paris June 17 Americans visiting battlefields and the country after the war will have better lodgings and touring facilities under a decree creating a national office of touring. The office, attached to the minister of public works, will centralize and provide information on touring and develop tourism by improving transportation and tourist entertainment.
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France
Official Today
Death of Frau von Kuhlmann in Basel Typhus Claims Ambassador's Wife
Basel reports from Constantinople confirm Frau von Kuhlmann the German ambassador to Turkey's wife has died of typhus. Dr von Kuhlmann previously served at the German embassy in Washington. In New York Percy Grainger the pianist has joined the army and will play oboe in a coast artillery band at Fort Totten. He has earned over 1000 dollars from concerts and now serves as a third class musician earning thirty dollars monthly. Born in Australia he has begun naturalization proceedings in the United States.
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Granger
Australia
Wireless Hero Joins Flying Corps in New York
John Robinson Binns known for sending aid calls during the 1909 disaster aboard the White Star liner joined the British Royal Flying Corps. He reported to the recruiting station in New York and departed for a Canadian training camp.
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New York
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Jack) Binns
Republic
British
Royal Flying Corps
Motono outlines Japan’s South Sea rights policy
Viscount Ichiro Motono, Japan's foreign minister, told the diet on Tuesday that government measures to protect rights in the South Sea Islands and Shantung are yielding fruitful results, shaping a firm foreign policy stance.
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South Sea
Tokio
Ichiro Motono
Diet
South Sea Islands
Shantung
War Department plans convert Forts McPherson Oglethorpe into base hospitals
Plan calls for Fort McPherson and possibly Fort Oglethorpe to be converted into large base hospitals while not affecting officers training camps. Seventeenth Infantry likely to depart. War Department instructions urge readiness by a set completion date.
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Fort McPherson
Fort Oglethorpe
War Department
Seventeenth Infantry
Arrests and deaths noted in Texas brief squibs
The Cantonment at Silver Lake opens September 1. Sid Johnson was jailed in Graham by Sheriff Wallice for failing to register by June 5. Mrs. Ryan, 63, of Beeville died Wednesday. funeral at Beeville Catholic Church. Her son Ja Ryan lives in Beeville.
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Tex
Sid Johnson
Graham
Wallace
Young County
Ryan
BeeviLle
P. Ryan
Skidmore
Ja Ryan
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