Addo Announces Railroad Budget Under McAdoo Control
June 12 report details a massive railroad budget under Director McAdoo totaling 946,293,828 with major allocations for emotive and freight cars, passenger cars, equipment, and expansions. The plan covers extension construction, new lines, trestles, yards, shop buildings, water tanks, material, track severances, and grade crossing eliminations, aiming to boost wartime rail capacity.
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Santa Fe
Baltimore & Io
Great Northern
Ohio
Paul
Gulf, Mobile
Ithern
Lehigh
New Hand
Louisville
Ohville
Nashville
Chalsea
St. Louis
New Fk
Chicago
Ansylvania Lines
Vivania Lines
Thern Pacific
Texas
Ledo
Union
Pad
Roosevelt in 1920 rally sparks renewed push
In Ipolis Indiana on June 12 Roosevelt supporters urge a return to his presidency while critics quote his stance on war strength and national unity. A separate dispatch from London notes Bolshevik plans to indict the ex czar amid rumors of royal restoration and shifting European alliances.
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Ipolis
Ind
Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
London
Russia
Petrograd
Daily Express
Moscow
Poincaref
France
Potax
Eng
Riga
Steps to Combat with U Boats Here
Washington says practical methods to deter German submarines are being put into effect along the Atlantic coast to protect harbors and coastwise shipping. Officials expect the menace to persist until after the war but believe precautions will minimize losses. No confirmed V. A. losses aboard the British transport Ansonia. forty lives likely lost.
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Washington
Great Britain
France
Navy Department
Atlantic
Virginia
War Department
Ansonia
Non-Combatants Wounded Near Chateau Thierry
Paris reports numerous American non-combatants, mainly stretcher bearers, wounded or shell shocked in the Chateau Thierry fighting on the Marne front. Reverend John Clifford, 55, previously of Tuc son Ariz, a YMCA worker, crawled under fire to rescue a wounded Marine colonel. Clifford’s pack saved his life when a shell fragment hit. Arthur J. Phillips, ex Boston Transcript editor, a stretcher bearer, was wounded in the arm. Charles Sayres of Lancaster Pa and George R. Douglas of Georgia, YMCA workers and stretcher bearers, also shell shocked.
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Chateau Thierry
Marne
John Clifford
First Presbyterian Church
Tucson
Ariz
Clifford
Arthur J. Phillips
Boston Transcript
Charles Sayres
Lancaster
George.r. Douglas
Georgia
Austrians Lose Many Planes In Five Months
Rome reports a high wartime loss with an estimate that Austrians have sacrificed 500 aeroplanes over the past five months in ongoing air clashes. The figure came from a brief today as Allied and Axis air operations continued.
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Rome
Italians Sink Two Austrian Warships
Rome reports a daring Italian naval raid off the Dalmatian coast on Monday. Two Viribus Unitis type Austrian battleships, the largest in the fleet, were torpedoed by Italian torpedo boats after slipping past ten Austrian cruisers. An Austrian destroyer pursuing the Italians was damaged.
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Dalmatian
War Manufacturers Convene In Atlantic City Plan War Aid
A six state war convention of manufacturers gathered in Atlantic City New Jersey to plan direct cooperation with the government in producing essential war material. Represented states included New Jersey New York Pennsylvania Connecticut Massachusetts and Delaware. Warren C King president of the Manufacturers Council of New Jersey opened with a plea to support the president and the war industries board, urging producers to focus on production to aid victory.
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Manufacturers Council of
New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Delaware
Warren C. King
Manufacturers ‘Council of New Jersey
War Industries Board
Frederick H Wright Missing After Mercury Poisoning Attempt
Essex June 12 Frederick H Wright 45 son of Llewellyn Wright of Deep River street has been missing since Saturday afternoon after swallowing four bi chloride of mercury tablets and fleeing into the woods. A 50 man search failed overnight and continued today. Wright a dealer in auto and bicycle supplies had been despondent.
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Essex
Frederick H. Wright
Llewellyn Wright
Deep River Street
Wright
George Mondzeski Dies of Peritonitis in France
The casualty list reports George Mondzeski, 24, died of peritonitis in a French hospital on June 12. He enlisted May 18, 1917 in Company I, 102nd Infantry. A shipping clerk at Russell & Erwin, he is survived by his parents Ludwig Mondzeski of 401 Church Street, four sisters, and a brother.
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George Mondzeski
Ludwig Mondzeski
Church Street
102Nd Regiment
United States Infantry
Russell & Erwin Manufacturing Company
Fighting on Siberian Border Report From Vladivostok
Vladivostok reports bitter clashes on the Siberian frontier between released Czecho Slovak prisoners and the Bolshevik international revolutionary army, largely made up of Austrian POWs, according to a Tokio dispatch carried by the Express.
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London
Vladivostok
Bolshevik International Revolutionary Army
Tokio
Express
Happenings in this vicinity twenty five years ago
Weather was excessively hot as the city sued the Railroad Co for 500 dollars over a stone crusher fire on North Pearl street blamed on an Air Line engine. The mass temperance meeting at the Baptist church drew a crowd and a switch engine injury at Cromwell quarry.
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the Baptist Church
Water shortage shuts White House fountains in Washington
June 12 Washington report says a national water shortage prompted President Wilson to order the White House fountains turned off. The move underscores ongoing concerns about supply affecting government operations in the capital.
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Washington
National Capital
Wilson
White House
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