East St. Louis Riots Erupt in Violent Turmoil
Report outlines a city in chaos with martial law after a night of terror. Militia and police battle mobs, with at least 100 blacks dead and many wounded while fires devastate 16 blocks and the death toll rises as authorities struggle to count victims.
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United Preee
Washington
War Department
Gen. Barry
Central Department
East St. Louis
Barry
United Fresh
ST. Louis
Sergt. Coppedge
William Keyser
Altho
United Press
Rioting in East St Louis Leaves City in Darkness
Adjutant General Dickson recalls the mob chaos as fire consumes Broadway opera house and Southern freight house amid a wave of arson. More than 200 black residences burn while bridges to Illinois close and militiamen police hundreds.
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Frank S. Dickson
Ilinois
L. M. Bundy
Adjutant Generals
Bundy
Missouri
Broadway
Illinois
War tax plan hits incomes and goods hosts a heavy burden
The Senate finance bill projects 1.67 billion dollars in revenue with 1.447 billion from income and excess profits taxes. It targets rich earners yet sparsely spares the average household, with levies on tea, coffee, sugar, cosmetics, and travel costs. The measure faces opposition for overburdening the poor while expecting profits on war funding.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Nion
la Follette
Wisconsin
Thomas
Colorado
Gore
Oklahoma
Advertising Manager's Daily Talk
A preview of today ads guides readers to excursions to Tacoma races the Navy Yard and other rail excursions plus strong theatre bills. The Star promotes local ads as the fastest growing paper in the Northwest with listings to help plan the day.
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Star
Tacoma
Navy Yard
Speak Up Mister Tax Protests War Profits Tax Plan
A call to citizens to protest Senate Finance Committee voices on taxes. It urges taxing excess profits and favors broader war tax on wealth, not just essentials like coffee sugar and tea. Citizens urged to write Congressmen and demand conscription of wealth.
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Washington, D. C
England
Senate
House
Congress
United States
Booze Prices Rise At Prohibition-Era Joints
Bootlegging dens raised the price of whiskey from 15 to 25 cents after the Reed bone dry amendment took effect Sunday.
Fourth of July markets open late and barbers extend hours
Public markets will sell Fourth of July eats until 9 P M on Tuesday. Barbers will stay open until 10 P M and close at 1 P M on Wednesday.
Song of the Sammy Becomes Favorite Among Expedition Forces
Dispatches from a French port report the song now favorite with the American expedition. It hails a French welcome and mocks German aggression. Written by Clarence Gridley, son of Captain Gridley of Manila Bay, with words by a transport employee.
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France
Pershing
Clarence Gridley
Dewey
Captain Gridley
Manila Bay
6 300 More Teutons Snatched by Slavs War Situation Today
Petrograd reports Russia's second day offensive capturing 6 300 more prisoners across the Strypa and near Presovce Zborov and Korolshidny on a broad push toward Lemberg. Brusiloff leads in trench battles and Kerensky praised as hero. German attempts south of Bretany and Meuse region faced strong resistance with heavy losses. Paris notes two major offensives faltering at Chemin des Dames and Verdun as artillery pummels trench lines.
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New Russia
Haig
WM. G. Shepherd
United Press
Petrograd
Russia
Strypa
Galicia
War Office
Presovce
Zborov
Korolshidny
Teutons
Brusiloff
A. F. Kerensky
Germany
Kerensky
Russky
Lemberg
Berlin
London
Bretany
Strupa
Paris
Chemin Des Dames
Laon
Verdun
Ailles
Paissy
Meuse
Hill 304
Avecourt Wood
Settlement of Naval Wives Club Near Washington
Five hundred women and a lone bathtub form a settlement near Washington created by naval officers wives and sweethearts seeking proximity to their men. Chief Smith ordered green painted wrappers for burlesque posters. Townsfolk in Mt Vernon set steel traps to defend war gardens from threats. In Mallquan a storm uprooted a flagpole four blocks away. In New York a brick strike halted a man approaching an auto after a failed warning attempt.
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Washington
Naval
MT. Vernon
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Teuton
Lowden
Adjt
Dickson
Don Hickey
Hickey
Mollman
Shelbyville
Effingham
Cahokia Creek
Collinsville
Schaumlefier
Adjutant General Dickson
The
New York
William English Walling
Wilson
Walling
America
South America
China
Maneses
Gen. Pershing
Associated Press
Mister
Buy
Joan of Arc
Chicago
Allied
Mith
Mallqun
Ibl
Deal
Auto
Companion
U.S
Musgands
Waterbury
Conn
E. A. Shinsky
Chicago, NL
Richard Coeur de Leon
Luna
R. J. P. Mathis
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