Bread ration unrest shakes Austro Hungary riots in Vienna
An Amsterdam Vienna report states bread ration cuts spark immense unrest across Austria Hungary with riots in Vienna. Cavalry and possible martial law are referenced as authorities move to restore order after bakeries are stormed and the premier’s residence attacked.
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Amsterdam-Vienna
Austro- Hungary
Germany
London
Vienna
Amsterdam
Hofburg
Stockholm
Berlin
Hamburg
Cologne
Morning Post
Divers Report Sightings of German Sub Off South Carolina
Gulf Port reports a Wise passenger steamship encountered a German submarine last Saturday off the South Carolina coast. The vessel arrived yesterday and relayed the encounter details to authorities.
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Gulf Port
Gierman
South Carolina
American steamer reports sighting northern U boat near Sandy Hook
An American steamer arriving from a Central American port sighted a submarine yesterday afternoon about 180 miles off Sandy Hook and pursued it. It is the first report of a U boat this far north.
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Atlantic
Sandy Hook
Airplane Plant Workers Strike Demands Eight Hour Day
Buffalo June 20 strike begins at Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor plant with 700 machinists laying down tools. Union leader says demand is eight hour day and pay scale matching navy yards.
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Buffalo
Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corporation
Navy Yards
British steamer sunk after U boat attack adrift in sea
London reports a German submarine torpedoed and shelled a British steamer without warning. Survivors say officers were taken prisoner, prize crew rifled the ship, then sank it. Twenty eight crewmen started in one boat. five survived. Another rafted group was picked up in critical condition on day five by an American vessel.
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London
Keep the Pace Warns Banock County on War Savings Drive
The notice urges every citizen to sign a pledge to save for the War Savings campaign reaching the first of next year. It highlights monthly pledges of five dollars, potential returns, and the need for widespread participation to meet quotas. It cites examples from unions and local groups and calls for signing at War Savings headquarters by June 28 with immediate enrollment.
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Bannock County
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War Savings
War Savings Society
Bricklayers’ Union
Ly Menu
Pocatello Ems
Limit Club Leagneration
Aeen
America
War Savings Headquarters
AERO CLUB AWARDS GOLD MEDAL TO LT JEAN CHAPUT
Paris reports Lt Jean Chaput, a top French ace with sixteen victories including a Drassen balloon, was killed in action. The Foreign Service Committee of the Aero Club of America awarded him the gold medal and sent it to his family.
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Paris
Aero Club of America
Jean Chaput
French Flying Corps
Chauput
Drassen
Gausage
Balidon
Foreign Service Committee
Idaho Fights 25 Percent Rail Rate Increase
Idaho’s Federal Fuel Administrator F R Gooding leads a protest against a proposed 25 percent freight rate rise by McAdoo. Idaho seeks Idaho Public Utilities Commission intervention, arguing rates are high and unfair, with Oregon Short Line earning surpluses while Idaho growers and shippers would pay millions more.
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Frank Gooding
Northwest
McAdoo
Idaho
Utah
Wyoming
United States
Oregon
Idaho Unities Commission
F. R. Gooding
Railroads of
Western Utilities Commissions
Salt Lake
Public Utilities Commission
State Council of Defense
Frank R. Gooding
Idaho Commission
John W. Graham
Council
Interstate Commerce Commission
Gooding
State Council
Oregon Short Line Railroad
Interstate Commission
Sugar rule limits all canners to twenty five pounds
The Bannock County food administrator announces sugar restrictions for home canning. Purchases are capped at 25 pounds per person, with household sales limited to two pounds in town and five pounds in rural areas. Manufacturers not filing statements lose any further allotment this year.
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D. W. Standaod
Bannock County
Wade
Idaho
Food Administration
Short declares treason case likely ready for trial
London June 20 Edward Short chief secretary of Ireland said the evidence against Younes penly sip for treason is substantial but warrants no further action beyond already collected materials. He stated the case to the hemne of of sompinens.
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London
Edward Short
Ireland
Sompinens
Younes
Licensing crackdown affects all stockyards nationwide
Washington reports all United States stockyards issued licenses by presidential proclamation. Licensing extends to commission men traders and livestock speculators tied to stockyards, marking a broad federal control measure across the industry.
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Washington
United States
Yanks Make a Little Raid
Washington June 20 The casualties today are 73. Seventeen were killed in action 19 died of wounds disease and accident 32 were severely wounded 4 to a degree undetermined and one is missing in action. With American forces on the Marne. American troops in this sector attacked the German dunes northwest of Chateau Thierry during the night and made an advance of five eighths of a mile driving the Germans back from a small pocket on the northern side of Belleau Wood and occupied German positions after the Germans withdrew when a short artillery bombardment signaled an infantry attack would follow.
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Paris
Rheims
Havas
Ceres
Montdidier
Oise
Marne
Associated Press
Chateau Thierry
Bellew Wood
Whale caught in the Thames near Parliament is noted
London reports a real whale eighteen feet long and weighing half a ton trapped on the foreshore near Battersea bridge. It was killed with a boat hook and raised by crane to a wharf for measurement and weighing as authorities consider royal perquisites for the tail and head.
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London
Thames
Parliament Buildings
Battersea Bridge
Mary
George
Railroads to push freight rate fight backed by state council
Commissioner Graham said the railroads will press the freight rate increase and expect later government handover. The state council backed the commission in the dispute, pledging support and sharing expenses among commissions at a joint conference with Intermountain stores.
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Graham
Commission
State Council
Balt Lake For Utilities Commission
Intermountain
Austria Uses Spoils From Italy to Rally Soldiers
A report describes Austrian officials citing orders and prisoner lists to prove a Dutch taunt of a campaign against Italy. Commanders from Field Marshal Conrad von Hofmann to regimental leaders urge troops with memories of Italian spoils. The Archduke Charles regiment cites souvenirs of sheep cows and goods taken from Italy as motivation.
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Austria
Italy
Conrad von Floetzendorft
Archduke Charles
Italian and Austrian forces clash along Piave line
Desperate Italian resistance intensifies after a failed Austrian offensive on the Piave with heavy fighting on Montello and near Sandona di Piave. Prisoners report Austrian hunger and outages as Piave floods destroy pontoon bridges and shift positions along the river.
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Associated Press
Piave Line
Piave
Montello Plateau
Sandona di Piave
Montello
Testadura Sandonadi
London
Harvard 1918 Commencement Holds Mass Degree Ceremony
Cambridge Mass June 20 The class of 1918 many in national service received degrees at Harvard University annual commencement. Governors presidents fellows overseers faculties invited guests alumni and candidates for degrees gathered in Sanders theatre for learned addresses degree conferral and alumni meeting as the class observes its twenty fifth anniversary with the 1893 cohort honored.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harvard University
Sanders Theatre
Alumni Association
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