What Uncle Sam Does With Money
A 1918 era explainer shows total war expenditures in the Seventh Reserve district. It details the vast sums spent since April 1917 on troop shipping, ordnance, clothing, rations, and armaments, revealing how bond funds support a mobilized U.S. war effort and the costs of maintaining a modern army.
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Liberty Loan
Seventh Reserve District
War Department
Liberty Bond
Uncle Sam
United States
Adiiilion
Congress
Liberty bonds preached as proof of national duty amid war
A wartime appeal argues that every life justifies purchasing Liberty bonds, comparing the value of bonds to protecting loved ones. The narrator recalls a Four Minute Man anecdote of a London bombing, urging readers to invest in bonds as civic sacrifice and democracy’s defense.
How Farmers' Clubs Can Help
Meetings of the Grange and farmers' clubs in rural communities should be used to stir up enthusiasm for the Liberty Loan. The war being brought home to all through daily casualties will be the main topic, and discussions can easily turn to the duty of participating in war work by buying Liberty Loan bonds.
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Grange
Farmers’ Clubs
Liberty bonds offer quick assets and postwar value
Money invested in Liberty bonds not only insures quick assets when most needed with a good monetary return if held to maturity, but after the war the buying power will be greatly enhanced, making a double saving.
Fighting Priest Urges Homefront Effort in War Bond Call
Lieut George Sauvage a fighting priest of the French Army argues war may last two or three years more and urges Americans to share the burden. He warns against false optimism and asserts the front line and home front must both sacrifice to secure freedom and lasting peace.
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George Sauvage
Set pace for your neighbor in fighting loan appeal
The message urges readers to buy bonds to the utmost limit to set a pace for neighbors, stressing a quickly over subscribed loan boosts morale of allied nations and armies while signaling strength to Germany. It appeals to collective sacrifice and wartime support.
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Germany
United States
Yearly and short-term subscriptions listed for Indiana weekly
The notice lists subscription options: Year 1.50, Six Months 0.75, Three Months 0.40, Single Copies 0.05, various bundle rates. It shows display ads at 0.10 per inch and locals ads at 0.05 per line, with free short obituaries and extra length lines at 0.05. It mentions card of thanks and resolutions, and notes member advance with Commercial Club and Indiana Associated Weeklies.
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Advance Commercial Club
Whole Nation at War Fourth Liberty Loan Rally
A wartime message equates the nation to a sports team in a century long clash of Autocracy and Democracy. It urges full personal devotion and unselfish effort beyond soldiers, stressing every citizen’s duty to support the Fourth Liberty Loan and share in both front and back news.
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Ordnance Department
Wis
Artilery Automat
Pia
France
Lillian Gish
London
Tie
Oan
America
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Hustler
Indiana
Indiana Associated Weeklies
Walter Hunt
Mark Wall
O. A. Nelson P. FP. Scott
Veterinary “Surgeons
Aetna Insurance Co
J.r.sullivan Agt
J. W. Ross
Lora A. McClaine
O. K
C. H. Martin
U. S. Army
Grant, Allnois
Pommerk
Epperson
Indianapolis
Harry W. Reese
Reynold
Advance Lumber Co
Advance Grain Co
Advance Lodge
C.F
J. B. Graves
N. G. Lew Owens
Lecy
Nipmuck Tribe
C.R.M
Charles Canada
Sachem
Chas. E. McClaine
C of R
H.C. Epperson
Advance
K. P. Lodge
Ora.McDaniel
C.C
Bruce Burris
A. M
Fred Saunders
G. Caplinger
Secy
State Bank of Advance
Jamestown
Joseph
Jackson Township
Nipmuck Hayloft
Gale Lucas
C. H. Sumner Owens
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