All U S Forces Hunt Slackers
Federal regulations announced by Provost Marshal General Crowder mobilize police and postal authorities nationwide to pursue draft evaders. Police, post office, and DOJ agents will trace missing registrants, issue warrants, and prosecute deserters, with a $50 reward for delivering a desert er to a military facility.
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Washington
Crowder
War Department
Army
Generaal Crowder
Department of Justice
United States
Federal Department of Justice
Foen
Draft eligibles must fight Washington policy shift
Secretary Baker issues an informal decree ruling against adding draft age men to war department rolls. Applications for commissions from ages twenty one to thirty will be rejected unless the candidate proves superior abilities in a special line of service compared to men exempt from the draft.
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Washington
Army
War Department
Baker
British Casualties Rise In November
London reports November casualties among British army forces were higher than in recent months. The compiled figures show Britain lost about 120,070 era and men in killed and wounded according to published casualty lists.
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London
Britain
What became of the gypsies in wartime France
An American reporter details French officials accounts of gypsy bands in 1912 law enforcement and wartime movement. Richs geared wagons and horses of the Gorgans Yankos and other tribes, their chiefs and a queen, and a 1912 law tracking families with numbered badges. They vanished at mobilization and scattered toward Spain as frontier guards traced their routes.
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France
America
Foreign Office
Police
M. Alfred Harduin
M. Harduin
Paris
Ministry of the Interior
Department of the Surete General
Sebille
Judicial Investigations
Roisel
Somme
Russia
Bohemia
Farmer Cardon
Kakarasca-Ikralovitch
Switzerland
Aris
Schernots
Kralovitch
Petit-Croix
Alsatian
Belfort
Suarce
Stl
Saintes-Maries
Europe
Syria
Danube
Germany
Italy
Spain
Judea
Jesus
Rene
Provence
Antioch
Mary Salome
Mary
James
Sarah
Sts. Maries
M. Sebille
Memphis
Thebes
Top Hat Likely to Endure Despite Abolition Efforts
The piece argues top hats remain a state occasion uniform and will persist among the well to do. It notes doctors no longer must wear hats and cites the bike and motorcar era as weakening the toppers while the silk hat stays anchored. An aside mentions a French automobile alarm using bellows and a propeller.
American Guardsmen Arrive in France to Join Training Troops
National Guardsmen from every state have landed in France and joined the American expeditionary force in training. They are housed in billets and wooden barracks, welcomed by French civilians, and undergoing echeloned instruction to ensure a unified American army before front service. Units are kept unnamed for security, but their arrival and preparation are praised by French instructors.
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France
Union
United States
National Guard
National Army
Korniloff Still a Prisoner in Russia
Russian General Kor akoff remains imprisoned according to a Petrograd Telegraph dispatch. The message notes Russia held general elections quietly. Swedish officials protest red guard outrages against Swedish citizens. Finnish diet elects a non socialist senate but socialists refuse to recognize it.
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Stockholm
Korakoff
Petrograd Telegraph Agency
Russia
Swedish Foreign Office
Helsingfors
Petrograd
Red Guard
Hapuranda
U Boats Active in West Indies Reported by British Steamer
An Atlantic port report says German U boats Nave reached the West Indies. A British steamer captain arriving from the river Platte warned of a foreign submarine near St Lucia and followed a circuitous course to leave the area.
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St. Lucia
Atlantic
Nave
West Indies
River Platte
St. Tuela
British West Indies
Four Killed Two Hurt in Trenton Explosion
In Trenton Ontario a British Chemical Company building was destroyed by a blast and fire. Four men were killed and two were injured in the incident.
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Trenton
Ont
Dee le
British Chemical Company
NEW EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN IN WORLD WAR WAR EFFORT
The text discusses expanding women’s work replacing men during wartime. It cites Britain’s Woolwich Arsenal where women rose from 125 of 10,866 workers in 1914 to 25,000 of 73,500, with women constituting over 60 percent of the design and inspection staff. It notes patriotism and economics drive private employers to hire women, even where less profitable than men, under wartime conditions.
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New Republic
Woolwich Arsental
Department of Design and Inspection
Does your wife break many dishes no more
Quotation fragment notes a speaker claiming changed behavior about catching a spouse's breaking of dishes. No clear event date person or organization is provided.
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Edward
Atill Prince of Wales
Pershing
Dean
Lydia Shuster
Margaret
Doan
F. W. Cassidy, JR
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Buffalo
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Korniloff
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