Victory and the fight to save liberty for all nations
The author argues America must join with France England and Italy to defeat Germany and preserve freedom. If Germany wins, a monarchist world order would rise while republics fall. The piece urges wartime unity and calls for mobilizing every American and dollar to secure victory.
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France
Republic
Germany
England
Russia
America
Italy
United States
Belgian
Japan
China
Hohenzollerns
Poland
Albania
German Empire
Lawrence County Insult Sparks Editor’s Retort
The Moulton Advertiser of Lawrence County objects to an Albany paper’s report on local illiteracy. It rejects the claim as an insult to its citizens and argues education levels are not worse here than in many other counties.
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Moulton Advertiser
Moulton
Lawrence County
Albany
Gets-It corn remover praised in old ads and wartime notices
An assortment of vintage items include an ad touting Gets-It as a magic corn remedy and a discussion on wartime preparedness. It notes Decatur merchants selling the product and surveys views on Congress and national mobilization during the war era with mentions of Roumania and Carranza.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BE. Lawrence & Co
Chicago
Ill
Carranza
Old Mexico
New Mexico
State Department
Coahuila
Germany
How to Woo Sleep
Charles Phelps Cushing compares a restless mind to counting sheep and a doctor suggests a mental pi to clear thoughts. The remedy is to blank the mind and refuse consecutive thinking, then let higher brain cells subside.
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Charles Phelps Cushing
Cure a Cold in One Day with LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine
An advertisement promises a one day cure for colds with LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine. It claims to stop cough and headache and offers a money back guarantee if it fails. Each box bears E W GROVE'S signature and costs 25 cents.
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E. W. Grove
Gift Sure To Please Her
Seth Low of Broad Brook farm and Mount Kisco estate recently died. He spent his later years seeking harmony between railroads and workers. At a luncheon he quipped that Exe caused a quarrel by treating a wife’s birthday gift as trivial. The tale ends with a husband gifting pipe-cleaners, much to his wife’s dismay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seth Low
Broad Brook Farm
Mount Kisco
Mr. Low
Exe
Man Acknowledges Self in Fortune and Rooms
A Philadelphia Record aphorism notes a man shapes his fortune yet cannot command sunlight into every room, reflecting on limits of personal control over circumstances.
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Philadelphia Record
Suffrage War Service Gains Ground in Agriculture
Across the nation suffrage groups mobilize for farm work as a war service. States in the vanguard include Michigan Maryland Connecticut New Jersey Iowa Nebraska Texas and New York with projects from farming schools to potato culture and practical farming costumes for women.
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Carrie Chapman Catt
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Atlantic
Pacific
Michigan
Maryland
Connecticut
New Jersey
Iowa
Nebraska
Texas
New York
Greenwich
Ryan
Runtz-Rees
Lairfield
Henry Wade Rogers
Ruth Litt
New York State
Bankers and Brokers Show Fine Patriotism
Bankers and brokers urge United States Liberty Bonds with no personal commission, working at their own expense. The piece lauds their patriotism and public duty in promoting bond sales and urges readers to order bonds through their bankers or brokers today.
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United States
Is Your Boy In the War Ad Urges Support
A wartime appeal urges citizens to support soldiers by providing food clothing arms and ammunition. The message warns war is serious and emphasizes the need for national effort to sustain troops. It frames service as essential to liberty and American defense.
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America
Liberty Bonds Drive Victory at Home Front
Government appeals for Liberty Bond purchases to fund the war effort. Bonds available in 50 100 500 and 1000 dollar denominations. They bear interest tax free and redeem principal in full, with buyers urged to buy as many as possible to protect soldiers and hasten victory.
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The
Decatur Weekly News
Alabama
Decatur
Morgan County
Decaturs
Will W. Nelson
Ala
Ywells
Bank Street
Underwood & Underwood
Owl Drug Co
Decatur Drug Co
Roumania
Grant
Sherman
George L. Kilmer
Congress
American Review of Reviews
Albert Shaw
Washington
Leslie’s
Great Britain
War Savings Committee
London
Hotel
Echois
Louis F. Gelbke
Decatur, Ala
Hubby
Lintless
John Wicker
Forest
Miss
Wicker
Buckeye Cotton Oil Co
Atlanta
Birmingham
Greenwood
Little Rock
Memphis
Augusta
Charlotte
Jackson
Macon
Selma
Woman’s Democracy
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