President Wilson vetoes agricultural bill amid wheat price dispute
President Wilson vetoed the annual agricultural appropriation bill, arguing against a fixed $2.40 per bushel price for No. 2 Northern spring wheat. He cites higher costs to consumers, a $387 million impact on the 1918 wheat crop, and criticizes rigid price levels while praising flexible administration.
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Washington
Wilson
Department of Agriculture
United States
Germany
Brewers to appeal to Fuel Administrator over coal cuts
The United States Brewers Association plans to appeal to Fuel Administrator Garfield to rescind or modify his order that sharply limits coal for brewing. President Christian W. Feigenspan says the Board of Trustees will meet in Washington to draft the petition. Garfield warned brewers they may not count on coal beyond that needed to process their materials.
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Newark
N. J
United States Brewers’ Association
Garfield
Christian W. Feigenspan
Association
Washington
Austria on verge of crumble say Italian observers
Italian political and military observers in Rome believe Austria is about to crumble after Allied reports from Albania and the Balkans show the Entente extending a single front from the Adriatic to Salonika on the Aegean Sea, a distance around 200 miles.
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Rome
Austria
Albania
Balkans
Adriatic Sea
Saloniki
Aegean Sea
Appeals Rejected in Bonnet Rouge Case by Paris Court
Paris court rejects appeals of several men convicted by court martial for aiding enemy propaganda through the suppressed newspaper Bornet Rouge. Chief figure M. Duvall, director of the newspaper, is sentenced to death for treason.
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Paris
Bonnet Rouge
Bornet Rouge
M. Duvall
Allied Gains Expand Front as Forces Drive in Picardy and Albania
French troops took Castel and Anchin Farm advancing three miles on a front of about three miles and captured 500 prisoners. British raiders struck near Merris Meteren Hammel and Gavrelle with prisoners taken. Allies claim a 200 mile line from the Adriatic to the Aegean with aid from Greek forces, while Serbs Montenegrins in Albania show eagerness to rejoin the struggle.
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London
Picardy
Albania
Adriatic
Aegean Sea
Castel
Mailly-Raineval
Paris War Office
Anchin
Flanders
Merris
Meteren
War Office
Kemmel
Hammel
Somme
Gavrelle
Arras
Austria
Socialist deputy condemns war policy in Prussian Landtag
Washington dispatch reports Deputy Strobel harshly attacking the German government for seeking peace by force. He urges Germans to oust their warlike leaders while warning that America’s millions of soldiers stand ready as a decisive force.
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Washington
Switzerland
Strobel
Landtag
Themelves
America
Accident Report Links Belt Failure to Pilot Death in Louisiana
War Department file cites Major John Purroy Mitchel death at Gerstner field Louisiana from failure to buckle seat belt and abrupt plane nosedive during glide. Official inquiry ties fatal incident to safety device and aircraft attitude.
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Washington, D. C
John Purroy Mitchel
Gerstner Field
Louisiana
War Department
Crew of 19 Flees to Boats After Submarine Attack
A German submarine, 300 miles off Cape Race on July 6, halted the Norwegian bark Manx King and ordered its 19 crewmen into boats, as reported from an Atlantic port.
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Atlantic
Cape Race
Ireland summons逃 soldiers for medical review
Men who fled from England Scotland and Wales to Ireland to dodge military service must report for medical examination within a week. Authorities seek to assess fitness for possible incorporation into the army.
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London
Ireland
England
Scotland
Wales
Appeals Rejected in Bonnet Rouge Germanophile Case
Paris court denies appeals of men convicted in the Bonnet Rouge Germanophile newspaper case. Court of Cessation upholds penalties amid ongoing dispute over wartime press.
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Paris
Bonnet Rouge
Von Hindenburg Dead After Stormy Spa Interview
Amsterdam reports Field Marshal von Hindenburg aged 70 is dead after a disputed interview with the German emperor at Spa. The French paper Les Nouvelles claims a brain congestion and stroke followed the May 16 meeting, with sources in occupied Belgium cited.
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Amsterdam
von Hindenburg
Les Novelles
Spa
Les Nouvelles
The
Hague
William
Belgium
Strength of HM Fleet Confounds Allied Naval Officials
Washington insiders report Allied and American naval leaders cannot estimate Germanys present fleet strength. Conflicting reports on German ships and the status of the Russian Black Sea and Baltic fleets hinder any precise figure. Officials focus on dreadnoughts and battle cruisers Germany may have seized from Russia.
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Washington, D. C
Benson
Germany
Black
Baltic
Seizure of Three Grand Dukes Sparks Moscow Report
Berne citing Paris and Russian sources says propaganda against the Soviets has begun. A Moscow dispatch reports three Grand Dukes Nicholas George and Dimitri have been arrested. Berlin reports Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovitch arrived in Kiev as Regent after the 1917 overthrow.
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Berne
Paris
Moscow
Nicholas
George
Dimitri
Michael Alexandrovitch
Berlin
Exchange Telegraph Company
Copenhagen
Kiev
Michael
Russia
Meat Scarcity Reported in Vienna Daily Ration
A Berlin Tageblatt Vienna dispatch describes severe food shortages with daily rations around three ounces of bread substitutes, an ounce of meat, a quarter ounce of fat, two and a half ounces of potatoes, three quarters of an ounce of jam and a quarter ounce of war coffee totaling seven point seven five ounces per person daily.
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Amsterdam
Vienna
Berlin Tageblatt
Sugar Equalization Board Formed To Stabilize Prices
President Wilson creates the Sugar Equalization Board with a 5 million dollar capital from a special war fund and authority to acquire beet sugar production. Hoover chairs, George Rolph named Sugar Director, with Taussig Wooley Zabriskie Whitmarsh Glasgow as directors. Board aims to stabilize consumer price and improve distribution, coordinating with allies and freight rates.
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Special War Fund—Authority
Washington
Wilson
Sugar Equalization Board
Hoover
Special War Fund
George Rolph
The
Food Administration
F. W. Taussig
Tariff Commission
Clarence Wooley
War Trade Board
George Zabriskie
Theodore Whitmarsh
William T. Glasgow
Dangerous Enemy Aliens Arrested in New York Bank Case
Julius Pirnitzer former president of the Transatlantic Trust Company and three other officers were arrested as dangerous enemy aliens. The bank had been taken over weeks earlier and reorganized by A Mitchell Palmer alien property custodian. Other arrestees include Andrew Gomary Pirnitzers private secretary Guidio Von Steer once Austro-Hungarian undersecretary and Dr Isidor Szekely advertising manager.
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New York
Julius Pirnitzer
Transatlantic Trust Company
A. Mitchell Palmer
Andrew Gomary
Pirnitzer
Guidio von Steer
Isidor Szekely
Autoist Is Held in Man Slaughter Case
Ravenna: W H Cox held to Portage County Grand Jury by Justice A L Peisler on a man slaughter charge after his auto collided with a buggy carrying Mrs Nickens, who died. Cox released on $500 bonds.
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Ravenna
W. H. Cox
Portage County
A. L. Peisler
Luther W. Nickens
Cleveland Road
Penalty bill targets impersonators wearing allied uniforms
President Wilson signed a measure imposing a 300 dollar fine and six months imprisonment for unauthorized wearing of a friendly nation's uniform. Congress enacted the bill to curb impostors posing as allied representatives seeking funds.
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Washington
Wilson
Congress
Psuedo
Belgium May Be Province of Germany
Amsterdam reports General Baron Fried rich von Falkenhausen, the German General of Belgium, plans turning Belgium into a federal state modeled on Austria, according to Hamburger Nachrichten.
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Belgium
Germany
Amsterdam
Baron Friedrich von Falkenhausen
Hamburger Nachrichen
Austria
Aviator Dies In Training Flight Crash At Great South Bay
Chief Quartermaster William Fraser Beham, a naval aviator, died after his hydroplane plunged 600 feet into Great South Bay during a final training flight for a commission in Babylon New York.
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Bay
Babylon
N. Y
William Fraser Beham
Great South Bay
Mercantile Trade Weathered by War Conditions
The piece notes strong mercantile performance overall with growth in some manufacturing centers while civilian supply remains tight due to war orders and labor shortages. It warns that easing weather may cut production, that price controls on cotton fabrics may push down garment prices, and that tax proposals on higher priced goods could spur pre-purchase or suppress buying. Transportation limits and fuel shortages last winter worsened congestion, signaling cautious, piece by piece buying ahead.
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Union News Service
New York
Washington
Tricolors of Heroic France Honored
Washington celebrates Bastile Day with France thanks and praise. The four minute corps of the Committee on Public Information spoke to millions about France’s aiding the United States toward liberty. Churches and public gatherings echoed affection for France and its role in the nation’s history.
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Washington
United States
France
Committee On Public Information
Senate approves empowerment to seize war communications
Washington. The Senate backed a House resolution granting the President authority to take over telegraph, telephone, radio and cable systems for the war period by 46 to 16. The measure, passed by the House on July 5 by 221 to 4, will be signed by presiding officers and sent to the President on Monday.
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Washington
House
Senate
Preacher Hess Sentenced to Ten Years in Federal Prison
Goshen Indiana reverend Charles W Hess known as General Hess was court martialed at Camp Zachary Taylor Louisville and sentenced to ten years at Ft Leavenworth Federal Prison for refusing to obey military orders. Hess a conscientious objector led sensational sermons and headed a street army that held religious services in parks.
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Goshen
Ind
Charles W. Hess
Hess
Camp Zachary Taylor
Louisville
Ft. Leavenworth
Kan
Finns Seek 100 Million Mark German Loan
Helsingfors government requests a loan of 100,000,000 marks from Germany to relieve distress in Finland. Central News dispatch from Stockholm notes the Finnish government seeks the funds for economic relief amid wartime strain.
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Germany
London
Helsingfors
Finland
Stockholm
British Forces Occupy Kem on White Sea Coast
A Rotterdam dispatch to the Daily Telegraph quotes the Frankfurter Zeitung stating British forces have occupied the port of Kem on the White Sea after landing on the Murman coast.
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London
Murman
Kem
White Sea
Frankfurter Zeitung
Rotterdam
Daily Telegraph
Lift Off Corns with Freezone Instant Relief
Advertises Freezone to cure a corn with a painless drop that stops pain instantly and allows the corn to be lifted out. Claims as magic and free from humbug.
The Worm Turned
A Richmond man drove to a resort where his wife and baby stayed. He helped prepare breakfast for his son but struggled with opening a can. His wife mocked him, saying she wished she had married a man, while he grumbled he would have preferred a wife to avoid artificial breakfast foods.
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Richmond
Vermifuge claimed to banish worms entirely
The ad asserts that Worms or tapeworms can be completely removed using Dead Shot Dr. Peery's Vermifuge and urges action.
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Dr. Peery
Killed on English Railroads
The article lists annual train miles run by 11 major English railways for workers killed by movement of trains or vehicles outside accidents or shunting. Midland leads with 3,069,000 miles, followed by Great Western 2,278,000 and London & Northwestern 2,227,000, with totals for Northeastern, Great Northern, and others all in the low to mid two millions.
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Midland
Great Western
London & Northwestern
Great Northern
Southeastern & Chatham
Northeastern
Great Central
London, Brighton & South Coast
Great Eastern
Lancashire & Yorkshire
London & Southwestern
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