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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1917
Page
5
Editorial notes fear of war era impacting profits may be unfounded. Congress approves a 7 billion war credit to be spent domestically on food clothing munitions and supplies. Per capita money in circulation nears 70 dollars, with total national prosperity expected to rise. taxes to curb inflation and wasteful spending.
The secretary of the treasury works with promptness and foresight in apportioning loans to allies. His decisive action is praised as more impactful than a single army, backed by American wealth and national resolve.
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo after talks with 70 New York bankers declared there will be no difficulty financing the government's war needs and no disruption to business. He called the bankers’ view an encouraging sign and said New York financiers understand the nation’s finances.
A national call to action urges every American from youth to old age to recognize a great moment of change. Citizens from housewives to the president are asked to realize their place in the task and eagerly take part in shaping the future.
An editorial across many newspapers declares the United States possesses the will to win the war. It states democracy is not timid and demands victory with no alibis, urging Germany to supply the excuses instead.
The article lauds President Wilson and his patient approach as sound leadership. It credits his watchful waiting with saving lives and money for the nation and suggests the policy could have preserved the country itself.
The article praises naming the war loan the Liberty Loan and credits McAdoo. It urges every American who can to subscribe promptly, noting strong national spirit and prosperity as motivation for an urgent, sizable response.
Maj. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and several Roosevelts, including Kermit and J. A. Roosevelt, are in training at the Plattsburg Officers Reserve corps camp. The Roosevelts are among the notable attendees.
In a school exam on war vocabulary pupils give humorous definitions for franc tireur as a free lance and for cake as a cakewalk. A student redefines an appendix as a useless body part while another mistakes octopus for an eight sided figure and a girl votes synonym as the word you use when you can’t spell the other.
Paul, six, and Alice, four, discuss family ties. Paul says dad married mother and she married him, but Alice disagrees. She declares dad said the minister married them, revealing a child’s puzzled take on how families form.
The Cleveland club produced eight 300 hitters after Nap Lajoie arrival including Lajoie Fisck Clarke Bemis Rossman Bay Bradley and Turner. Joe Jackson followed and hit .408 in his first year then .2805 after moving to Chicago. Tris Speaker then arrived and surpassed Cobb’s production, keeping Cobb’s main rivals as Cleveland players.
Ty Cobb will devote his energy to baseball this season and leave golf aside until autumn. Cobb believes golf does not seriously affect a ball player’s work but may dull batting edge, and that a season already provides ample exercise without trampling golf courses.
The piece argues Casey Stengel draws fans with his vivid personality and sharp repartee, surpassing even Jake Daubert in stage presence. It notes crowds in Cincinnati and Boston enjoy ribbing him, while Daubert impresses with feats but lacks Stengel’s spectacle. Charles D. has long been known for witty retorts.
The piece surveys early season notes on pitchers like Love and Johnson, hitters such as Wagner and Wald, and managers like Bresnahan. It mentions ex-Feds on big league payrolls, Cubs recruit Aldridge as Blossom, and bets on pennants, with comments on Newark Bears and early league expectations.
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