Germans Face Severe Scarcity and High Prices in Wartime
The McCannes describe Germany's food crisis as food rationed and costly. Soldiers prioritized in distributions, scarce coffee and cake substitutes, and limited bread made from rye flour. They observed strict police reporting, travel limits, and teachers diverted to government service. The family plans to move to Philadelphia.
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Schoenberg
Germany
Rentere
Ger
Detroit
McCanne
Denmark
Misa Beatrice McCann
Philadelphia
Chicago
Frank
Frances
Pauline
Elizabeth
Hamburg
Mies Pauline
Holland
Switzerland
Beatrice
Berlin Published Scientific Magazines Sought by U S
The United States promotes import of German technical journals as trading with the enemy while libraries lag in updates. The Library of Congress is over a year behind German periodical records and a large shipment sits in Rotterdam awaiting shipment. Dr M L Rainey travels in Switzerland with state department sanction to move the material.
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Washington, D. C
Mar
Uncle Sam
Germany
Library of Congress
Rotterdam
M. L. Rainey
Switzerland
State Department
Browns Puzzling Browns Open Season Outlook in 1917
Purman surveys the St Louis Browns roster amid winter trades and training camp notes in Shreveport. He praises pitching potential from Anban Shocker and Lowdermilk while flagging weaknesses at second base and at the stick, with Austin and Sisler shaping the infield and Hendrix Williams Smith in the outfield as Jones mulls lineups. Tomorrow Purman previews the New York Giants training at Marlin Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paull Purman
St. Louia Browns
Browns
Fielder Jones
Jones
Shreveport
Jerkely Jones
Anban Shocker
Allen Sother
Lowdermilk
Joe Tinker
Columbus
Doubefal
Nick Dullop
Allen Sotheron
Davenje
Shocker
Yankees
Tay
Cabining
Leslie Jones
Jimmie Austin
Austin
George Sisler
Pete Johns
Walter Gerber
Tim Hendrix
Eth Williams
Earl Smith
Demmitt
Purman
New York Giants
Marlin
Texas
St. Louis Browns
Fritz Maisel
Joe Gedeon
Grover Lowdermilk
Maisel
Gedeon
Noted Woman 10 Work on Farm
Mary Lincoln Beckwith great granddaughter of Abraham Lincoln returns from Cuba to Vermont to farm part of the family land as war work. She plans to tractor plow a 900 acre farm using a vehicle mounted tractor and to take an agricultural course at Cornell. She hopes to organize a unit of young women to aid farmers lacking male labor in the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Mary Lincoln Beckwith
Abraham Lincoln
Cuba
Vermont
Miss Beckwith
Quba
Manchester
Mina Beckwith
Maeve
Abraham
Allies in the paddle boat far from shore with relief rationing
Fragmentary report notes allied figures aboard a small boat at sea, far from land, with rationing managed under a commander named Uncle Sem. The terse lines imply a relief operation underway amid uncertain conditions.
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Uncle Semie
Jewish Welfare Board to Provide Books for Soldiers
The Jewish Welfare Board plans to supply Jewish reading material to Jewish soldiers and sailors and asks Jewish and non Jewish publishers and organizations to donate new and used books in English and Yiddish. Selections aim to form a standard Jewish library with works on religion history economics and nationalism and include Jewish encyclopedia and Graetzs history of the Jews.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jewish Welfare Board
American Library Association
Samaimnesti
Graets
Jewish Publication Society
Ortry
Welferm
Reot
New York City
Seem
Aeree
Harry Ls Dobsevage
A. G. Ke
Ardent Lover Fails Draft Break in Army Romance
A 45 year old sheep rancher, already in U S Army uniform, used a younger age to enlist and train as a soldier. When a new schoolteacher arrived, he claimed 25, sent proof to a county courthouse where birth records were missing, and was denied discharge after the exemption board reviewed his case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp Lewis
Tacoma
Wash
United States Army
PREE-HOOVER DAYS IN ENGLAND The Pasting Show
Verses mock consumer excess urging frugality by recalling historical famines and sieges. The speaker scorns sugar and potatoes as luxuries, cites Bannockburn Flodden Hastings Thermopylae and One, 0, dou ble wix to imply restraint and self denial.
Count Luxburg Refuses Departure from Argentina Hospital
Buenos Aires reports indicate Karl von Luxburg, former German minister, remains in a Buenos Aires hospital amid calls for his expulsion. Officials cite violent turns and nervous illness, while the public and press press for a government statement on policy toward the lingering envoy.
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Buenos Aires
Karl von Luxburg
von Luxburg
Nefares
Luxburg
Foreign Office
Buen Rea
Represen Aed
Berlin
Navy adopts universal soldier numbers in war records
All American soldiers will carry assigned numbers from divisions to individual units. The system links field records to Washington archives, creating an alphabetized index of names and numbers. Each veteran wears an aluminum tag bearing name, regiment, and affixed fingerprint for identification even if finger tips are damaged.
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Washington, D. C
Pershing
Washington
Washington T Po
Precious metals donated in Red Crow campaign drive
Old metals were contributed to the Red Crow during a treasure campaign. Much silver and gold were donated, along with various coins and fragments. Present condition is torn and scattered, with coins and silver pieces among the offerings.
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Spokans
Eilver
Gokd
Shelliott Agrupiva
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U.S
Seal Brown
Directura I
Trotter
Cheyenne, Ole
F. Gilgen
Eaton
Colo
Louisiana
Ritz Maisel
Ernie Johnson
Timmper Imanagere
President Lincoln
Dus
Charles E. Block
England
Agincourt
Bannockburn
Hastings
Thermopylae
Count Luxburg
Argentina
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