Colby Pleads For Beer In Prohibition Debate
Commissioner Bainbridge Colby of the United States shipping board urged Congress against immediate total prohibition arguing that shipyard work would fall at least 25 percent if workers lost beer. He left Washington for the Pacific coast to inspect shipyards and speak in San Francisco on July 4. Colby, a lawyer with broad public service background, joined the board in 1917 after declining other offices. His utility lies in applying legal training to absorb new facts and shape policy.
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Bainbridge Colby
United States Shipping Board
Colby
Washington
Pacific Coast
San Francisco
Joint Legislative Committee
New York
Public Service Commission
Public
United States
Newsprint Paper Trust
Shipping Board
Coley
Youngest Brigadier General Johnson Acknowledged
Hugh S. Johnson, a thirty five year old army officer, won promotion to brigadier general after pushing the draft law’s passage. He headed a bureau coordinating war department purchases and aided by Provost Marshal General Crowder in devising the registration and mobilization plans.
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Hugh S. Johnson
General Crowder
Uncle Sam
General
Sara Teasdale Wins First American Poetry Prize
Sara Teasdale wins the first Poetry Society prize for an American book of poems published in 1917. Her book Love Songs earned a $500 award from Columbia University with three eminent critics judging. Teasdale, editor of The Answering Voice, is praised for lyrical poetry popular in England and Canada as well as the United States.
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Sara Teasdale
America
Miss Teasdale
Columbia University
Poetry Society
E. B. Pilsinger
England
Canada
the Answering Voice
Foulois Named Commander of First Army Air Service
Brig. Gen. Benjamin D. Foulois, head of the aviation service for the American expeditionary forces, is appointed commander of the air service of the First Army. He is noted as an early aviation pioneer and wing pilot who flew with Orville Wright as a passenger in a 1919 test flight.
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Benjamin D. Foulois
First Army
General Foulois
Army
Orville Wright
General Fouloig
Connecticut
Porto Rico
TSGS
Philippines
Infanatry and Cavalry School
Army Sigma School
Foulois
Washington
Orville
Wilbur Wright
Jas
War Department
Y M C A Hangout Free Hospitality Wins Sailors
Thirty American sailors in Paris ride nine miles to a Y M C A club. They find a hot, lively, welcoming place with cheap food, no fuss entry, and a staffer who ensures transport back to quarters, making the Y a dependable haven in wartime.
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Paris
United States
Seattle Woman Plans Nationwide Pragmatic German Goods Boycott
Mrs. E. A. Strout of Seattle urges a generation-long boycott of German-made goods if prisoners are mistreated or cruelty continues. She mobilizes women in Washington to spread the campaign and pressure for adherence to recognized wartime usages.
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Seattle
Wash
America
E. A. Strout
Elsie Janis Inspires Yanks With Western Front Tour
Paris dispatch notes Elsie Janis, a Columbus Ohio performer, touring the AEF as morale booster. She greets troops from a locomotive stage, eliciting loud cheers and renewed spirit as American engineers bring the P RR touch to France. Her barnstorming tour includes huts, improvised venues, and tireless performances for doughboys.
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Elsie Janis
Uke
Elsie
Columbus
Ohio
M. Cc. A
France
Come Contagion Barracks
Keeping Hens for Cheap Eggs in City Back Yards
The United States Department of Agriculture promotes urban hen keeping to supply family eggs during the war. A four hen minimum is recommended for a small city family, with coop space about 26 square feet, five feet per hen, and no rooster needed if eggs are the sole goal. Larger flocks use shared space, about four square feet per bird for 10 to 15 hens.
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United States’ Department of Agriculture
Baltimore Shipyard Slashes Ship Build Time in Half
Baltimore Dry Dock and Shipbuilding cuts present average for 12 contract steel ships to about 180 days from 360. The 10 fastest ships list shows Tuckahoe at 87 days and West Lianga 78 days among vessels built by Skinner & Eddy and others in Seattle and Chicago. Regional times: Pacific coast about 100 days, Great Lakes ~124 days, Atlantic ~209 days.
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Washington
Baltimore Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company
Shipping Board
Tuckahoe
New York Shipbuilding Company
West Lianga
Skinner & Eddy Corporation
Seattle
West Alsek
Ossineke
West Durfee
Canoga
Westgrove
Columbia River
S. B. Co
Western Queen
Lake Huron
American S. B. Co
Chicago
Lake Forest
American
Pacific Coast
Great Lakes
Atlantic Coast
Virginia draftee brings daughter to Camp Lee
A. W. Carpenter arrived at Camp Lee Virginia with his three and a half year old daughter claiming he is the sole supporter. He said he brought her to camp hoping to keep her with him. Nurses at the base hospital would adopt the child if the father consents legally.
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Camp Lee
A. W. Carpenter
Eagle Attacks Woman Near Franklin West Virginia
A bald eagle repeatedly roaming the area attacked Mrs. Anna Simmons as she walked home in Franklin. The bird gouged three deep facial wounds. bystander's Will Halterman was also assaulted and forced to seek shelter.
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Franklin
W. Va
Anna Simmons
Will Halterman
Shipping Eggs in Car Loads
The USDA reports egg losses in car-load shipments have dropped from 3 to 9 percent to under 1 percent over two years of tests averaging 1,200 miles per trip. Proper packing with new cases, cottonwood, three-pound fillers, excelsior cushions, and solid unit loads reduces damage. straw buffing lowers refrigeration efficiency, and self bracing outperforms nailed braces.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Selected Breeding Fowls and Profit Implication
Selected breeding fowls chosen for superior vigor and vitality yield higher profits than larger flocks of inferior birds. Stronger stock can improve returns despite smaller numbers across farming operations.
Normal Eggs Favored in Chicken Laying Outcomes
A historical note suggests normal eggs more likely yield chickens that lay normal eggs, while the reverse is also claimed. The text emphasizes a presumed link between egg type and future laying patterns without providing robust evidence or dates.
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By Clarence Budington Kelland
Ryenrnvexes
IRS OF
Western Front
Alexander Woollcott
Painter
Logan
Baltimore Shipbuilding Company
Virginia
Cantonment
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