U S Takes Over All Railroads In War Measure
President Wilson plans government control of the entire U S railroad system, with William G McAdoo as secretary of the treasury directing operation. Rail facilities including 20 000 miles of track valued at 17 000 000 and all rail labor, telegraph and telephone lines will come under United States control. The move aims to guarantee earnings, resolve labor disputes, and enable unified wartime transportation and procurement of supplies. Military drafting potentially expands to support railway needs.
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Wiehington
Witwer Tins
As & War
William G. McAdoo
Cramwury
Mtr
MicAuben
Eallways
Paki
Witewn
United States
Rondy Wader
McAdoo
Newton DC
Baker
Gettie
weGon
Rode
McAdoon
Wnet
Kawe
Mtr Meadhin Hae
Thorsich
Rellney
Liberta
Franklin K. Lane
Bureau of Mines
Congress
America
President Tells Why He Was Forced to Take Over the Railroads
President Wilson explains the need to place railroads under federal control to mobilize resources for the war effort. He praises railroad executives but cites limitations of private management, outlining plans for direct government operation, guarantees to protect investors, and a coordinated board led by William G. McAdoo. The speech discusses securing efficiency, maintaining property, and securing loans, with Congress to be asked to authorize standards for operating income and maintenance.
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Woodrow Wilson
Congress
Crosses Potato With Dahlia by Korean Gardener
A. Mickinya, an obituary gardener of Koreka Cal, has succeeded at crossing the earth potato with the dahlia. The CHiN lon PivR is a potato species believed to be far new. The plants yield decorative blooms and sprouting potatoes, suited for dinner dishes.
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A. Mickinya
Koreka
Cal
New York
Canal Zone
Porto Rico
Value of sense of smell and co operative farming notes
The article discusses the sensitivity of odor detection and the relative importance of smell to danger perception. It also reports Avon New Jersey residents purchasing farm produce at below market prices, a borough buyback of crops to reduce living costs, and a small profit for the borough treasury. It ends with a quotation about narrow minds and shallow thinking.
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Avon
Monmouth County
No 1
Jia Bens
Fieaere
Mediterra- Divalve Mollusk and Sea Worm Misadventure
A fragment discusses sea worms and the Mediterranean bivalve nicknamed the silkworm of the sea, detailing its historic use in royal weaving and its lustrous fiber. It shifts to marriages in England, noting 200,000 marriages from Anger to June 1917 and a peak 1915 marriage rate of 194, per registrar Sir Bernard Mallet.
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Mediterranean
England
Sir Bernard Mallet
Trials of the Home Maker and Odd Notes
Aニュ assortment of essayish lines on the home maker’s burdens and social roles contrasts with a New Republic view on child training effects. A Boston Daily scene quote observes service ice cream in cones, while a Dennisville Courier line notes a beaver’s underwater endurance of up to 200 yards and five to ten minutes submerged.
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New Republic
Smileage books for soldiers and war theater plans
Wartime report explains sale of Smileage books to soldiers at army camps to fund theater and vaudeville shows. It notes each cantonment theater seating 3000, with 25 cent max admission and 20 or 100 coupon books for friends to give gifts, plus lists gas mask, mines, and public information efforts.
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Washington
War Department Commission
Marc Kiaw
Iaw & Erinoger
New York
Sergeant Major’s Quick Answer In A War Time Riddle
A young officer bets he can stump the sergeant major with a question during rounds. The major inspects a copper water container and explains the edge boils first due to breakfast routines, then quips that a good resolution stays firm under pressure.
Huns Impose Absurd Fines and Prince of Monaco Protest
A German highhanded tax campaign in occupied France and Belgium is exposed in internal German and French documents. Prince Albert of Monaco appeals to President Wilson, detailing sieges of Sissonne and Marchais and a 500 000 franc levy threatened against villages, with threats to destroy property if payment is not made. The report outlines deportations, forced labor, and wartime brutality condemned by U.S. officials and Belgian relief delegates.
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Stite de Partmert
Prince of
Gener von Buelow
Prince
Rels
von Buelow
Sissonne
Sissnne
von Byelow
Cateau
Berlin
France
Marchais
Setteril
Germany
Chateau de Marchais
Albert
Monica
Monaco
Sissenne
Marchias
William
Sistonue
Cathedral of
Reims
Sion
United States
Whitlock
Belgium
Brussels
Commission For Relief
Legation
Diverse wartime notes on crops, transport, and resources
The article surveys varied topics including Filipino information requests on barn construction, Formosan headhunters hindering camphor extraction, a stubborn Killarney rose blooming in freezing, and a vast chemically pure soda deposit near Victoria Nyanza. It covers shipboard pig showers, wartime maritime movement, Suez canal tonnage, Brazil's coffee crop prospects, Latin American plows, tobacco foundations, tea production in India, indigo output, mangrove timber on Mindoro, and forestry licenses.
Agriculture the mainstay of the mountain region
An advertisement extols Western Canada and its farming boom highlighting high crop yields, rising land values, and opportunities for farmers and tenant workers. It praises the region as a world leader in wheat and oats, notes profitable returns per acre, and urges inspection trips and relocation to pursue larger opportunities amid wartime conditions. It ends with a maxim about learning from mistakes.
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Canada
Western
Western Canada
America
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Sleeping Ears
Cer Mines
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WHI
Raiirouse’ War Board
War Board
United Lines
Nn All Fond
Tulloude
Niinons
Legislative Branch
Edwin F. Stosson
New York Independent
Mediterra
Louisville Courter-Journal
Max Imae
Dennisville Cowrier Journal
Lane
Department of the Interior
Army
Navy
War Camps
War and Navy Departments
Four Minute Men
Committee On Public Information
Lospitel
Hell
Newton D. Baker
National Army
Department of Agriculture
Alaska
Guam
Hawaii
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Quartermaster's Department
The
Food Administration
Camp Meade
Tet Administration
Committee On
Ufe Insurance Companies
Gould
State Department
Lissonne
Prince of Monaco
Montaigu
Montcornet
Filpinos
Formosa
Harrison L. Smith
Saco, Mo
Killarney
Victoria Nyanza
Western Railroad Company
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Trail-America
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Suez Canal
Alexandr
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Europe
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Suco
Cyrus King
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