Crowder Orders All Draft Age to Fight or Work in War Effort
Edward W. Pickard reports the CrowderSelective Service amendment forcing all men of draft age to choose between combat or useful labor. It expands conscription to gamblers, actors, waiters, clerks, domestics, and more, disregards dependents, and aims to boost labor for farms shipyards and munitions as US builds toward a million troops in France.
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Edward W. Pickard
France
Sneh
War Department
House of Representatives
Mr. Caldwell
House
Caldwell
America
Great Britain
Wilsen
Crowder
Selective Service
Washington
Gregory
Germany
Piain
Fight of Get Busy Is To Be In Effect July 1
Registrants ordered to report for useful employment as deferment base dates and roles like baseball players golfers clerks bartenders and others are affected by a new policy set to take effect on July 1.
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Abo
Finland
Bjorko
Gulf of Finland
Petrograd
Kiev
Ukraine
Storepadsky
Rads
Baku
Russia
Moscow
Copenhagen
Mannerhelm
White Guard
Karelia
Diagustiig
Fragmented OCR list of occupations and roles
A garbled OCR passage lists many occupations such as shop employees, race track attendants, professional golfers and baseball players, hotel doormen, club operators, theater attendants, domestic service workers, clerks, and other specialized exempt actors. The text is unclear and mixes several job groups.
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Idier
Garlets
Buck T Shop
Eley
Acto
Crowder Orders Work or Fight rule for major sports figures
General Crowder proposes a new draft amendment forcing draft-age men in useful work or immediate military service after July 1. The directive broadens to include athletes, gamblers, track attendants, and many service workers, with local boards empowered to reassign employment to prevent hardship for dependents.
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Washinton
Genrai Crowder
Selective Service
Genral
Crowder
Lay
United States
Focal Board
Chicago
Couwer
New York
Xiao
Fragmented musings on work dignity and human composition
The text muses on respect for labor revealing painters and embroiderers value careful beginnings and finished results. It also claims vast amounts of water accompany hay, and lists numerous chemical elements as components of man, using a scattered, speculative tone.
Stones Mark Mason and Dixon Line Bearing Penn and mote Family
Fragmentary OCR notes describe boundary stones along the Mason and Dixon Line bearing inscriptions related to the Penn and mote families. Text unclear on dates or locations, but references boundary markers and family names.
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Mason and Dixon
Penn and Mote
Woman Hits Husband With Poker in Irish Broadside
Bridget appeared before the magistrate on a charge of beating her husband with a poker. The injured man stood near the desk, head bound and surrounded by iodine fumes from hospital treatment. Bridget explained she used the poker because she could not reach the broomstick she usually uses.
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Bridget
Bar of Justice
Swamp-Root Kidney Remedy Ad
An advertisement extols Swamp-Root as a leading remedy for kidney liver and bladder ailments. It claims quick relief, calls it a mild vegetable compound, and urges starting treatment with bottles sold in drug stores or sending ten cents for a sample from Dr Elmer Co Binghamton NY noting the newspaper.
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Dr. Elmer & Co
Binghamton, N. Y
The Ways of Ladies and Neighbor Banter
A Kansas City Star quote spurs a humorous rural exchange. The tale recalls a neighbor who visited Tumlinville and narrowly avoided harm after cranking a Ford. A Ridgedale–styled remark attributes feminine caprice to all women.
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Tumlinville
Gap Johnson
Rumpus Ridge
Kansas City Star
Car mixup at Washington reception sparks humorous street slang
Report describes a colored official in Washington who oversees autos being instructed to fetch "the car of the Guatemalan minister" and replying with a joking mispronunciation that led to the nickname "watermelon minister."
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Washington
Cuticura Soap Ad Offers Free Samples and Ointment
Promote Cuticura Soap for clear skin with optional Cuticura Ointment. Free samples available by addressing Cuticura Dept. X Boston. Soap 25 cents Ointment 25 or 50 cents. Ady, An Alleviation. Cartoon caption jokes about a deaf character.
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Cuticura
Dept. X
Boston
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Boven
Aeet Ibers Bewileis i Viance
Rivetere
Kenenes
Englss
al- Wes
Rutgers College
Daniels
Enery
Wilson
Belgium
Tollando
Almertca
Netherlands
Norway
Austria
Berliner Tageblatt
Saxony
Foch
Vile sur-Ancre
Poilus
Lucre
Kemmel
Scherpenberg
Mont Rouge
Mont Natr
Toul
Gerechamp Wood
Wea
Raoul Lufbery
London
Paris
Unien
Gothas
Red Cross Arges
Italy
Vienna
Ireland
Sinn Fein
Professor de Valera
Aime
Sinn Fenners
Jeremiah O'Leary
McAdoo
Pullman Company
Rose Pantar Stokes
Roctaist
Kansas City
Proditeera
Bulletin
General Crowder
Washin
Baker
David Rabari
Bali
Cath
Falee
Mallte
Teen Bi Si
Bean Rae
Milwaukee
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