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Alexandria Pally
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Fifth Avenue
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Chicago
Little Building
Boston
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Detroit
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Washington Post Company
The Supreme Commander in World War One
The piece argues America grows in war influence with Gen. Foch directing allied troops and President Wilson holding final policy power. It stresses American steadfastness shapes outcomes, while warning against partisan critique and noting political, economic, and social factors influence the war beyond military plans.
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America
Joffre
Marne
England
Europe
Germany
Berlin
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Supreme Council
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Woodrow Wilson
German Railways at War Face Collapse Threat
The German railway system empowers army mobility and strategy, but wartime strain risks breakdown. With millions mobilized, staff shortages threaten track, signals, and rolling stock, risking delays that could cripple offensives. A stitch in time saves nine applies as deterioration accelerates.
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Railway system under strain from war damage
The text notes that minor repairs may become useless soon and that strategic needs force continuous high pressure use of one rail section. Allied air activity has damaged German railways, with the Rhine valley heavily bombed, destroying stations and bridges and risking a broader system collapse.
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Valley of the Rhine
The Roosevelt family loses Lieut Quentin Roosevelt in war
The note from a German aviator confirms Lieut Quentin Roosevelt has been killed in action after an air combat near Chateau Thierry. Col. and Mrs Roosevelt endure with pride as their four sons serve in combat roles while public attacks and rumors about commissions are debunked. Major Theodore Roosevelt is wounded and Captain Archie Roosevelt is hospitalized, with Captain Kermit Roosevelt serving in the British army before transferring to the American forces.
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Oklahoma
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Kermit Roosevelt
Mesopotamia
Old Lord Ruthven Came by Air To Deliver War Dispatches
Lord Ruthven, aged past eighty, flew from France to England with government dispatches for the war department and foreign office. The piece traces the Ruthven lineage from the medieval Ruthvens through the Gowrie conspiracy and later Cromwellian era claims, noting disputed titles and the fate of the family estates in Ireland and Scotland.
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England
War Department
Foreign Office
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Magdala
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Holyrood
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Gowrie
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Scotland
James I
Great Britain
Thomas Ruthven
Freelands
Oliver Cromwell
Charles I
Charles If
Edinburgh
Ruthveny
Rawford
Neo Marxism shifts to pan Germanism in Germany
London reports a rising section of German socialists abandoning Marx for pan Germanism led by Paul Lensch and the Glocke. Neue Zeit and Frankfurter Zeitung note the move, while Vorwaerts clings to internationalism, urging that economic forces alone drive world order and history, not peace or self determination.
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Frankfurter Zeitung
Karl Marx
New School
Glocke
Paul Lensch
Neue Zeit
Marx
Vorwaerts
Herr Renner
Renner
Lensch
Frankfurter
Pershing's Indian Scouts Apaches Sent to France
Indian scouts recruited from the White Mountain Apache reservation in eastern Arizona served with Gen. Pershing in Mexico and joined the expedition to France. The Arizonan unit rode ponies to Holbrook, trained in El Paso, and earned praise for elite reconnaissance and engagement of bandits. They were issued regulation army uniforms and wrist watches, with eagle insignia forged from Mexican dollars.
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Geronimo
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Mexico
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Villa
Columbus
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Santa Fe
Holbrook
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Robert Howzee
France
War on Freight Thieves Initiates Nationwide Hunt
New York reports freight theft losses in the United States last year exceed 38 million dollars. Federal authorities plan a government run theft crackdown starting tomorrow with thousands of agents to guard shipments near New York St Louis Chicago Memphis Kansas City Denver and San Francisco. Reports cite a Singin car theft of 119000 and wholesale looting with guards guarding valuable goods being murdered.
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United States
St Louis
Chicago
Memphis
Kansas City
Denver
San Franciscs
Publishers Saving Paper Amid War Board Conservation
The Federal Trade Commission reported marked improvements in newspaper paper conditions but little change in book paper use. The War Industries Board conservation order could reduce overall paper consumption by at least a percent. June saw lower returns and free copies for both newsprint and book paper, with stricter economies and ongoing waste in some major daily and Sunday papers. Monthis magazines also showed excessive returns, up to 44 percent, while two weeklies reached 20 percent. The commission warned some publishers have not curtailed waste as much as possible.
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War Industries Board
Commission
Japan's Heart With the U S in War Aid Remarks
Prince Yoshihisa Tokugawa told a luncheon in New York that the war effort would not be in vain if U S and Japan become closer friends. He heads the Japanese Red Cross Commission and praised America for Red Cross aid while stressing shared spirit of brotherhood beyond race or creed.
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New York
United States
Japan
Yoshihisa Tokugawa
No German Leather Shoes In The Hague June 20 Report
The Amsterdam Handelsblad correspondent says Berlin leather shoes are sold out and clothing is scarce. Many goods including handkerchiefs shirts socks and baby wear are unobtainable or rationed. Prices are higher and essentials like tobacco and fuel are severely limited while Berlin remains cleaner and better groomed. The piece notes material privations and the grief in homes for the fallen.
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Hague
Berlin
Amsterdam Handelsblad
Fleland
Mendine
Waterways hearing called on jeep canal project
A hearing before the United States Board of Engineers will be held Tuesday to discuss a plan for a jeep canal linking the Cape Cod waterway with Newport News. Representatives of leading shippers and Eastern Coast commercial bodies will attend to urge completion to ensure safe passage for ships of any draft.
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Newport News
United States
Camouflage on Western Front Described by British Officer
London dispatch reports a British officer’s claim that German camouflage reached artful extremes this spring. He notes miles of painted canvas to resemble roads, fake paper encampments, aerodromes, woods, villages and factories built to mislead observers and hide troop movements and guns.
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Aimen
Plan for Metals Control discussed by Senate mines panel
The Senate mines committee debated a plan to organize a corporation under President Wilsons control to buy and sell metals and minerals. The proposal reportedly has the backing of Chairman Baruch of the War Industries Board, with Henderson planning to push legislation as a substitute for the minerals control bill recently approved by the House.
Inquiry into Washington food profiteering data gathering
A joint committee of local and national Federation of Federal Employees groups spent yesterday in the Congressional Library reviewing daily papers from across the country. The aim is to compare national price data from the last 60 days with Washington prices to determine if profiteering exists and to assess why authorities have not acted.
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Theational Federation of Federal Employee
Washington
Congressional Library
Boys Overpaid Says Bishop in Woolwich Arsenals
London June 30 Some of the 6000 boys employed in war work at the Woolwich arsenal near London earn twice as much as the parishioners of the bishop of Woolwich Bishop W W Hough says in an address that a year ago some were street outcasts They are earning far too much money He warns they easily fall into bad company and many go to the devil as fast as they can
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London
Woolwich Arsenal
Woolwich
W. W. Hough
Coal Miners Set New Record Production Week
American coal miners produced 13,243,000 tons in the week ended July 13, fuel administration data show. The gain was 2,987,000 tons from the prior week and 1,031,000 tons above the 12,211,600 ton weekly average deemed necessary to sustain the wartime program.
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Fuel Administration
Schwab and Puiez Leave Seattle for East Tour
Director General Charles M. Schwab of the Emergency Fleet Corporation and Charles A. Puiez with the shipping board party have left Seattle after touring Pacific coast shipyards en route to the East.
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Seattle
Wash
Charles M. Schwab
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Charles A Puiez
Shipping Board
Haet
Pacific Coast
Timely Topics From Capital Visitors on World Food Struggles
A Swede abroad notes dire food shortages in densely populated parts of Sweden with Stockholm among the world’s priciest cities. He observes many visitors, including Americans and Germans, while Vienna’s lodging crisis worsens as government control reduces hotel options and prices rise.
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Stockholm
TD Apsium
Washington
Vienna
Austria
Whch
Leaders in War Time Faith and the Chilean Market
An American view argues the United States must avoid overreliance on any single leader and cites Campbell and Walser as examples. It discusses American resilience, democracy, and the imperative of broad national effort. Chile is praised for resources, will, and potential postwar power, suggesting American capital could dominate Chilean industry and trade after the war.
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South America
Cordillera
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Organize for Czecho-Slovak Relief
A New York committee formed the Czecho-Slovak Relief League to aid 1.5 million Czech and Slovak Americans and support allies in Siberia, France, and Italy. Members include Sir Charles T Biot Mrs William Astor Chanler Whigham Joury Wiley Gertrude Atherton John Moffatt Harrison Rhodes Mrs John Magee Charles Hanson Towne and Mrs Newbold Leroy Edgar.
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New York
United States
National Relief Committee
Charles T Biot
Willian Aster Chanler
Whigham J Oury Wiley
Gertrude Atherton
John Moffatt
Harrison Rhodes
Mra
John Magee
Charles Hanson Towne
Newbold Leroy Edgar
Not a Shining Mark in Caruthersseille Trade Notes
From Carutherseille Ma Desserrat there is significance as the French frame at 20 cents now tops the German mark at 25 cents yet the outcome shifts and the Kaiser trends toward 36 cents, signaling changing currency relations and market tone.
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Ma Desserrat
War garden warns against dog racing at Fairmount
From the Fairmount Ontario Sentinel a bold notice declares no room in the war garden for dog tracks and warns there is still space for several dog graves highlighting opposition to dog racing and wartime sacrifice.
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Ontario
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