President's note to Russia shown as powerful war message
The president's brief war note to Russia asserts no indemnity seeks no territorial gains and champions justice and liberty as the United States stance. It warns Germany must be curbed and Russia must align or become an outlaw while democracy leads the world. Harrisburg oversubscribes Liberty Loan through local coordination.
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Russia
Wilson
United States
Petrograd
America
Pershing
London
France
Germany
Europe
Conserving Food Supply Becomes National Focus
The text notes rising concern over food conservation as Congress debates new food regulation. It cites implications of wartime supply lines with allies needing large grain imports from India and Australia, while Russian and Balkan shipments are unavailable, and Argentina is affected.
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Congress
Atlantic
India
Australia
Russia
Balkans
Argen
National food control urged by Harrisburg groups
The executive committee of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States warns that uncertainties in the food supply require national distribution controls. Harrisburg bodies prepare public opinion for wartime food regulations, pledging to crush food speculation and ensure orderly handling and provision.
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Tina
North America
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Harrisburg
Chamber of Commerce
Committee On Public Safety
Mitchel likely to be renominated on Fusion ticket in NYC
Indications from New York City suggest Mayor Mitchel will be renominated on the Fusion ticket for the fall municipal campaign. Once New York customs collector, he left that post to run for mayor with strong Republican backing. The piece notes union and Republican dynamics against Tammany and adds a provocative line about Springfield kidnappers missing a chance with the Kaiser.
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Tammany
New York City
Mitchel
Mr. Wilson
New York
Greater New York
American engineers again sent to Russia to rebuild rail system
The piece notes an American tradition of sending engineers abroad dating to George Whistler’s 19th century railroad in Russia. It says Americans previously built foreign railways and now contribute to allies’ war economies by supplying engineering and construction forces to restore transportation and manufacturing capacities.
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Russia
George Whistler
Muscovy
St. Petersburg
Moscow
Goethals and Denman Clash Over Ship Building Plans
A Washington debate over naval expansion ends with a compromise: eight hundred steel ships and the rest wooden, reflecting Goethals strength in large projects and Denman’s legal bent. The quarrel highlights differing visions for the merchant fleet and national capacity. A dispatch questions Secretary Root’s fate for a Siberia remark.
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Goethals
Denman
Shipping Board
Penama
Denmans
Washington
Tighten pursestrings on war spending and Republican cautions
The Senate debates reducing revenue while Senator Weeks argues administration war expense estimates are inflated. He warns that Democratic majorities in Congress have funded lavish appropriations and that Southern House leaders may push higher outlays. Even with prudence, war costs will be huge and further appropriations will follow.
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Senate
Weeks
McAdoo
Congress
Pennsylvania politics linger as legislature nears midsummer
Reports from Capitol Hill and the Philadelphia Public Ledger predict the General Assembly may sit into July with a contentious push to close the session. Leaders clash over a single chamber council, mine cave legislation, and gubernatorial bids among Chester and Delaware counties.
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Capitol Hill
Philadelphia Public Ledger Today
General Assembly
the Ledger
Sesson
Shields of God: the shields of sin repulsion and holiness
The article discusses moral shields: a healthy repulsion toward sin and a love for holiness. It quotes Cardinal Newman and Job to illustrate how discernment and delight in grace armor the soul on the righteous path. Barnabas’ gladness at grace is cited as another protective shield.
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Cardinal Newman
Job
Barnabas
God
J. H. Jowett
The
Christian Herald
After U-boat Situation Improves, Jackies Noted Shift
The Macon Telegraph notes a marked improvement in the U-boat situation soon after American sailors took the field. The brief reference ties military progress to a moment in a game.
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Jackies
Macon Telegraph
How to Make the Garden Pay manual praised for wartime readers
The piece reviews How to Make the Garden Pay by Edward Morrison and Charles Thomas Brueg as a practical guide for intensive home gardening aimed at beginners and suburban plots. It highlights the authors and notes Brueg’s Harvard entomology background. Alexander Powell discusses Brothers in Arms in anticipation of its June 15 release, asserting France’s postwar character remains grounded in its sober, industrious people.
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Edward Morrison
Charles Thomas Brueg
Harvard
France
Alexander Powell
Brothers In Arms
Houghton Mifflin Company
Organization For Home Defense
Harrisburg Reserves
Massachusetts
New York
New Jersey
Maryland
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Seaboard States
Germantown
Minute Men
Ard- More
Philadelphia
War and Religion in Trench Life
Two army chaplains T W Pym and Geoffrey Gordon report in Papers From Picardy that religion has gained new significance for front line troops. They say war experience has deepened spiritual comfort for many soldiers who previously showed little faith and foresee lasting religious impact after the conflict.
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Picardy
Houghton Mifflin Company
T. W. Pym
Geoffrey Gordon
Duino and Timavo Gorge Guided by War Geography Bulletin
The National Geographic Society war geography bulletin outlines Duino in the Bay of Panzano near Trieste. It notes the 500 inhabitants, ruined castle, Duino Sistiana rail halt, and Timavo river source known from Virgil. It mentions historic Counts of Duino and changing allegiance under Italian occupation.
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Austria
Adriatic
Trieste
National Geographic Society
Duino
Bay of Panzano
Gulf of Trieste
Venice
Touriat de Trains
Duino-Sistiana
Sistiana
Fiume
Pola
San Giovanni
Reka
Santa Fanzian
Timavo
Hohenlohe
Alexander
Thurn
Axis
Forgetful Farmers Face God’s Lessons In Droughts
The Christian Herald notes farmers depend on divine providence for crops and rains. It warns neglecting God and church brings droughts and famines to awaken worldly living, urging rural piety and attention to worship alongside modern farming.
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The
Christian Herald
Poetic Invocation of Spring in Memoriam Esthetic
A lyric quatrain echoing Tennyson's longing for spring. The speaker pleads for nature to hasten the season, naming flowers and symbols of renewal to melt a frozen heart and unlock a fresher song. The tone is elegiac and nature driven.
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Tennyson
Scientific Showdown Reveals Allied War Devices
The French and British scientific mission presented a vast collection to American scientists, including field wireless gear, improved telephones, gas masks, submarine destroyers, and war planes. A standout device locates enemy heavy guns by recording tremors from explosions.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Our First War Scandal: Coal Price Profiteering Exposed
The Chicago Tribune condemns a 300 percent coal price spike as unwarranted and dishonest. It claims mine owners boosted prices by 65 cents and then 1.20 dollars, exploiting wartime demand to profit while the government needs coal for rifles.
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Chicago Tribune
How to Shorten the War
The essay urges the United States to strike with overwhelming force early to end the war. It argues that halting the German submarine campaign, protecting ocean lanes, and deploying millions of troops to France will compel Germany to recognize the U.S. entry. Efficient, massive, early preparations are seen as the best safeguard against a prolonged conflict.
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Kansas City Star
United States
France
Germany
Municipal loot hunt shadows defense era politics
In a defense driven national frame, machine politics remain a lurking influence as corruption probes seek municipal loot. The Chicago Herald notes ongoing tensions between public funding needs and entrenched political factions.
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Chicago Herald
Women Lead Labor Shifts Across Nations in War Time
Reports cite women driving changes in transportation and industry. Brantford molders press nine hour workday with ten hours pay, while Scotland sees declining linen of American linoleum exports as war pushes shifts. In Ireland distilleries shut and Pennsylvania Railroads replace roles with women, with unions raising wages and hours in multiple trades.
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Brantford
Can
Stimulation of Industry and War Finance Debate
Washington discusses raising more than 1.5 billion dollars by direct taxation and a further two billion via liberty loan subscriptions. It notes the need for industrial expansion and rail extensions while criticizing policy gaps and cross purposes among Congress, departments, and the Council of National Defense.
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Washington Post
Liberty Loan
Congress
Council of National Defense
Editorial Quips on War Leaders and War Aims
A compilation of satirical lines from multiple papers during World War I. The pieces poke at German leadership and strategy, U.S. figures, and allied responses with witty contrasts and pithy insights, including mock references to poison ivy and dental crowns.
Harrisburg Reserves Rally In Home Defense Movement
The Harrisburg Reserves and similar groups across Pennsylvania form to train for emergency readiness. Leaders like Major Alonzo M. Porter and Major Frank E. Zeigler praise disciplined drills, with Paxtang and West End units using local landmarks for practice, while observers note the distinction from volunteer police and aim for patriotic preparedness.
Notable Figures In War Effort And Local Governance
Bishop McCort presided at a Doylestown church dedication in the latest such ceremony this year. Pittsburgh Mayor Armstrong leads recruits to concentration points, while New Castle Mayor Newell vows not to arrest war garden workers on Sundays. Lawrence County official James A. Gardner predicts 33 third class cities soon. Beaver College president LeRoy Weller resigns after eleven years. Joseph Wayne Jr. urges banks to subscribe ten percent of assets to war bonds as Girard National Bank Philadelphia president.
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McCort
Doylestown
Armstrong
Pittsburgh
Newell
New Castle
James A. Gardner
Lawrence County
LeRoy Weller
Beaver College
Joseph Wayne, Jr
Girard National
Philadelphia
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Brooks & Finley
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People's Gas
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Belgium
Siberia
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Delaware
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Lock Haven
Harry Alvan Hall
Clinton County
the Inquirer
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Loree
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Philadelphia Public Ledger
Kaiser
New York Herald
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Etening Chat
Liberty
Paxtang Home Defense Organization
Paxtang Parkway
Derry Street
Reservoir Park
Paxtang
Old Paxton Church
West
West End
Camp Curtin
Dauphin County
Alonzo M. Porter
Tenth
Pennsylvania Regiment
Philippines
Porter
Department of Public Grounds and Buildings
Frank E. Zeigler
Eighth Infantry
One Defense
Ing Center For Automobile Trade
Pennsylvania Canal
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