Canada urged to lead farm production for allies
Hon. T. H. Johnson outlined a plan from the Manitoba conference urging provinces to form war production committees to boost wheat oats barley and rye while expanding cattle hogs and vegetables. Steps include seed distribution farm equipment, teen volunteers, school exemptions, public addresses, clergy participation, and newspaper campaigns to mobilize labor and accelerate farmland use.
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T. H. Johnson
Manitoba
Ilawa
Johnson
Scli
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Canada Food Board
Ottawa
Canada
Boards of Trade
Dominion Labor Exchange
Japan's Limited War Role as Expounded by Iyenaga
T Iyenaga argues in the Outlook that Japan did not seek a European expeditionary role. He notes allied and Japanese plans confined Japan to the Orient and Eastern Pacific, with naval actions extending to the Mediterranean while land forces remained focused on Asia and the Far East.
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Europe
Japan
Orient
Pacific
Far East
Mediterranean
T. Iyenaga
Casualty odds for Canadian troops in World War I
A Canadian military hospitals commission in Quebec reports wartime outcomes for Canadian soldiers. They show a front line recruit has twenty nine chances to come home for every one chance of death, ninety eight to recover from wounds versus two that die from wounds, and only one in five hundred to lose an arm or leg. Only ten percent of disabled men are unfit for former work, with disease deaths far lower than in other wars.
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France
Quebec
Canada
Fourth Bridge Joke Circulates in British Grand Fleet
A playful tale from the British grand fleet claims an American squadron led by the U S S Delaware New York and Wyoming were ordered to anchor west of the Forth bridge. The ships passed under the bridge and the British signaled again asking why they did not stop. The Americans replied they have only passed one bridge so far.
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Jack Tar
U.S.S. Delaware
New York
Wyoming
Firth
Forth Bridge
Amerae
The Ram's Horn Shape for Best Sound Reproduction
A note asserts that the ram's horn shape is technically correct for optimal sound reproduction. It argues this form improves acoustic resonance and reduces distortion.
Germany and U S Embargo Debate War Tide
Julius Chambers in Brooklyn Eagle argues for harsh retaliation against Germany as submarine warfare escalates. He praises embargo extensions on neutrals, urges extra per ton duties at U S ports, and proposes export taxes on cotton coal and cereals to fund postwar needs. He faults German methods and advocates strong measures to protect American shipping.
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Kaiser
Falhon
Europe
Germany
Civl
Holland
Mark
Sweden
Norway
United States
England
France
Austria
Brooklyn
Congress
Julius Chambers
Brooklyn Eagle
Next Months Will Mean Tight Food Supplies Across Allies
The article urges mass conservation across North America to stretch scarce cereals and meats until harvest. It notes depleted stocks, warns against diverting supplies from armies, and cites Britain and France tightening belts as Canada must also curb consumption and use substitutes for wheat, beef, and pork to save lives of women and children abroad.
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Europe
North America
Great Britain
France
Italy
Charles Beresford
London
Prisoner Sees Judge Over Daughter Singing Lessons
A courtroom exchange recalls a past where the prisoner gave the judge’s daughter voice lessons. The judge sentences the prisoner to fourteen years in prison.
Word quiz from school confuses Ernestine
A humorous note from Youths Companion recounts Ernestine learning the word rat at school and misidentifying the suffix at as a part of a rat. The teacher clarifies by pointing to the word at, prompting a playful misunderstand.
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Ernestine
Iit
Defeat of Germany's government and people urged as war aim
The piece argues the German state and the German people share responsibility for aggression. It calls for destroying the entire German philosophy rooted in Nietszche Treitschke and Bernhardt, and the Hohenzollerns to ensure lasting peace. A battlefield victory is required to prevent a future, greater conflict.
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Belgium
Lusitania
Germany
Nietszche
Treitschke
Bernhardt
Empire
Scheidemann
Europe
Munich
Wilhelmstrasse
B. W. Gardiner
Kaiser Mirrors Napoleon In Eastward Empire Drive
Springfield Republican notes Adolf Wilhelm II aims to carve eastern Europe into vassal states starting with Ukraine. The piece argues Napoleon’s empire failed despite initial success, warn against repeating the overextended conquest and the peril of imperial ambitions on a vast scale.
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Napoleon
Europe
Ukraine
Kaiser
Germany
Frederick the Great
Wilhelm II
Springfield Republican
Piccadilly Again at Pozieres Propitiatory Cigar Parade
An officer with a bombers party along a trench encounters a line of figures with raised hands led by a man carrying a large cigar box overhead. The box contains only cigars and the man jokes this is a propitiatory offering. He adds Piccadilly again soon, sir.
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Pozieres
S—s
Piccadilly
The Significance of Sea Power in the Present World Crisis
The article recounts a British sailor’s ordeal after a ship was torpedoed and notes that sea power will decide the war. It argues a strengthened admiralty under Lloyd George and Geddes marks a turning point, stressing civilians’ stake in naval victory and US entry.
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United States
Wilsoun
von Tirpita
America
Germany
Russia
Admiralty
Mr. Lloyd George
Eric Geddes
Arthur Pollen
Escape From Arabs After Shipwreck Nine Day Desert Trek
Sergt. J. Harte of the Inland Water Transport recounts a voyage from Aden to Muscat that ended in a shipwreck after a hurricane. Looted by 300 armed Arabs, Harte and companions crawled into the desert, endured nine days with scant food or water, then reached safety aboard a 250 ton scow and finally a warship.
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Sergt
J. Harte
Inland Water Transport
Daily Chronicle
Sergt. Harte
Aden
Muscat
Harte
Not That Kind of a Bird Pilgrim Lesson Turns to Rooster Question
A teacher assigns Plymouth Rock drawings after a Pilgrims lesson. One student, Willie, raises a humorous misinterpretation asking if the assignment is to draw a chicken. The moment captures a light classroom misread during a lesson on the Landing of the Pilgrims.
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Plymouth Rock
Lonce
Willie
Origin of Blizzard Traced to English Village Tale
The Blizzard surname ties to Amersham churchyard and Chalfont St Giles with a Blizzard who joined William Penn to America. A fabled unsociable character supposedly inspired the weather term Blizzard from a northwest snowstorm in the United States.
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Blizzard
Amersham
Chalfont St. Giles
William Penn
New World
Northwest
Prescription Clerk Confesses Difficulty Filling Chinese Laundry Check
A dialog shows a customer leaving a check and a prescription clerk complaining about a confounded form. The judge comments on the clerk’s struggle to fill the item all morning.
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