Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-27
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 The new prohibition law in Texas mas gone into effect.
 A total of 27,716 enemy alien women registered in New York.
 Fire losses in the United States dur ing 1917 were upward of $250,000, 900.
 An official order placed Paris in the army zone. Public life will not be changed.
 Homing or racing pigeons are in great demand by the signal corps of the army.
 Leading business men in Norway are organizing mail and freight airplane service between important cities.
 The Forest Service reported that the lumber cut in the United States for 1917 amounted to 35.O0O, 900, 900 feet.
 Alexander Reynolds, 1o2 years old, died at his home in Catskill, N. Y. He was the oldest tax payer in New York state.
 A British steamer arriving reported that the ship was only 20 miles away from the Dwinsk when the latter was sunk
 The part American schools must play in the war is being discussed by 5000 teachers and educators gathered at Pittsburgh.
 Capt. Edmunsen and 73 members of the crew of the torpedoed Argonaut arrived at an Atlantic port on a Brit ish steamship.
 The third national war er1erqency food survey will be taken July 1. of stocks of food in hands of dealers and l manufacturers.
 Foreign Minister kuchImann de- clared in the Reichstag that Germany ! cannot bind herself to any pledges re- | garding Belgium.
 Alfred Moves, the English poet, now i at Princeton, was awarded the medal | Commander of the British Empire | given by King George.
 Members of the Federal Reserve Board confirm the report that Frederic i A. Delano would resign and take a commission in the army i
 pr. James Douglas, president of the Phelps Dodge Corporation and recent ly chairman of it's board of directors, died at Kingsbridge, N. Y.
 President Wilson sent to the Senate the name of Charles E. Strecker for confirmation as assistant treasurer in charge of the sub treasury in Boston.
 A car of dynamite exploded in the railway yards at Montreal Much damage to property was reported and some lives are believed to have been lost
 Specification changes in clothing and shoes for men of the American expedi- | tionary forces will soon be instituted with a view of greater comfort and wear.
 Chairman Taft ruled that inability ] of public service corporations to pay 1 a living wage will not be accepted as an excuse for the refusal to raise wages.
 Propaganda is being distributed i throughout Germany preparing people l for the defeat of the German forces and saying next year will find them weaker
 |. To insure equitable distribution of the available sugar supply, G. A. Za- briskie. of Minneapolis, was appointed distributor under the ration plan to be announced tomorrow
 A resolution asking Secretary Baker for a detailed report on the making
 and sale of official war pictures was
 introduced by Representative Tread
 way of Massachusetts. l The Moreantown 6 Kingwood Rail-
 way running 4S miles between Morgan
 town and Rowlsburg, w. Va. will
 suspend operations July l, because of
 deficiencies in earnings.
 A school, for $50 young commission
 ed officers, for sniping has been open
 ed at Camp Perry, Ohio. The officers
 are intructed so that they will be able
 to train American soldiers. } The Senate adopted an amendment
 to the army bill providing that Central
 and South American countries or any ! other nation fighting Germany, may train troops in the United States. l German airpIanes are dropping many l comic papers with pictures of U-boats . raiding cities on the Atlantic coast ol the United States and airplanes drop ping bombs on cities as far west as ) St. Louis.
 l The death of Major Edward B. Cole : of the marine corps. recently reported
 wounded in France, was announced l yesterday in a cablegrame to hi ) mother, Mrs. Charles H. Cole, of Brook g line, Mass.
 g The State Department has asket s that Germany agree to a prisoner of
 war conference at Berne on Aug.
 Switzerland has agreed to permit thu
 internment of invalid American prison
 CTS of war.
 Directors of the Pennsylvania Com - pany, which controls the lines of tn
 Pennsylvania Railroad west of Pitts
 burgh, declared a dividend of three pc - frSt 01-