The Cost of War in Blood and Treasure Explored
A columnist visualizes the war’s price in money and lives. He compares $221 billion in global war spending to the labors of Methuselah and cameras the dead of Britain France Russia and the United States along with lost industries and futures, detailing taxes loans and reconstruction needs.
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Methuselah
Hisstory
Glendon Allvine
New York Tribune
Britain
France
Fifth Avenue
Kaiser
Andre Tardieu
United States
America
Italy
Empire
Hungary
Petr
Man Chooses Death to Escape Life’s Routine
Robert P. Utter compares a suicide over routine with mythic and literary acts. He argues the act signals universal protest against monotony, linking the gesture to Gordian knot resolve and to wartime bravery. The piece weighs fate, freedom, and the allure of finality amid daily grind.
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Alexander
Laocoon
Alan Breck
Beau Brummel
Robert P. Utter
Harper's Magazine
Geological Survey a War Map Printer
The war period saw the United States Geological Survey printing and reissuing hydrographic and British Admiralty charts for the Navy, military maps for the War Department, motor and airplane route maps for the Army, and camouflage charts for naval use. Color printing dominated as geologic map work yielded to military needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geological Survey
United States Geological Survey
Department of the Interior
Topographic Engineers
Navy Department
War Department
Navy
Twin Terre Haute youths buy bonds with thrift stamps
Two twelve year old twins in seventh grade earn via paper routes to buy clothes and Thrift stamps. During a bond sale their teacher taught the song For your boy and my boy and all the boys out there. Clinton later presents a five dollar bill to fund a bond for Fred and nim so they can keep up their efforts.
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Terre Haute
U.S. A
Clinton
Fred
Nim
Indianapolis News
Industrious Youth in Palo Alto Grows War Garden
A retired eighty three year old reverend Rev BE Gillespie in Palo Alto built a wartime garden about 700 feet square. He planted diverse garden truck, cared for it all summer, and sold produce earning about $100. He invested the proceeds in Liberty bonds and War Savings stamps and stored squash and other vegetables for winter.
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Palo Alto
Cal
BE. J. Gillespie
He Changed the Subject Miss Wombat Quote
A Louisville Courier Journal humor snippet features Miss Wombat asked if two can live cheaply as one. She responds she has not considered it and that she married to make theory, reflecting a playful take on marriage economics.
Kielg Berlin unrest as spartacans grip capital outskirts
Amid uncertain reports from Copenhagen and Berlin, government forces solidify control of central Berlin while spartacans hold outer districts. Food shortages spread as hunger and arson threaten supply lines. Volunteers clash with local troops in Westphalia as mediation fails and loyal troops reinforce the government.
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Berlin
Philipp Scheidemann
Ebert
Germany
Hagen
Westphalia
Allies Refuse Extension as Armistice Ends Jan 17
Basle telegraph reports Marshal Ferdinand Foch stated the Entente would not extend the armistice beyond January 17. He said German plenipotentiaries will meet January 14 or 15 at Treves to discuss terms.
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Basle
Switzerland
Deutsche Allegeine Zeitung
Ferdinand Foch
Western Front
Foch
Treves
President Wilson asks War Labor Board to resume NY Marine Workers strike
President Wilson cabled the War Labor Board to reopen the Marine Workers strike case in New York and to proceed to a finding. He said the war and navy departments, the Shipping Board and the Railroad Administration would use full power to enforce the finding and that private boat owners would be urged by patriotism to accept the board's recommendations.
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Washington
Wilson
War Labor Board
Marine Workers
New York
War and Navy Departments
Shipping Board
Railroad Administration
Fire Marshals group backs probe into I W W and Bolshevik activity
A conference of the Fire Marshals' Association of America and the National Board of Fire Underwriters adopted resolutions urging a systematic investigation of I W W and Bolshevik organizations whose fires are blamed on them. The resolutions warn that public safety is menaced by their propaganda.
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New York
Fire Marshals’ Association of America
National Board of Fire Underwriters
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Congress
Great Britain
Russia
Belgium
Berbia
Roumania
Austria-Hungary
Copenhagen
Liebknecht
London
Karl Liebknecht
Exchange Telegraph Company
Associated Press
Wilson Cables War Board
New York Harbor
L.W. W
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