Trade with Japan shows notable gains for United States
A National City Bank compilation highlights rising U S exports to Japan and Japanese China for the ten months ending October 1918. Total U S trade with Japan and its Chinese territories climbs to about 250 million dollars, with imports also increasing, led by raw silk and iron goods. The report urges prosperity for Japan as beneficial to American trade.
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National City Bank Bulletin
United States
Japan
National City Bank of New York
United
Aganet
Bo Ching
China
Aearner Tee
International currency debate eyes a global gold standard
United States Senator Robert Owen discusses European and American price levels after talks in Paris and London. He warns that paper currency expansion and nonconvertible notes erode purchasing power and urges an international gold currency and a U S reserve bank modeled on the existing system to boost American commerce.
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United States
Robert [. Owen
Oklahoma
Paris
London
Europe
America
Owen
Great Britain
France
Russia
The Year Ahead from the Badte Review
The piece outlines global and U S economic plans for wartime and postwar periods. It notes France’s nearly 400 000 dollar peace work and a 350 million plan, with England following, and urges prompt American appropriations. It discusses consumer demand, production, wages, and calls for railroad investment, while warning on cost trends and higher necessities. It also recounts Mary Frith, alias Moll Cutpurse, as a pioneering smoker and thief in early modern England, noting her life and will.
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France
England
United States
Railroad
Lin
Gagette
Mary Frith
Givdo
Ife
Nicotine
Pity the Plight of Gold in War Tax Debate
A New York World report cites a government committee on mining and geology noting Secretary of the Interior warns of reduced gold and tin output. The piece urges action while cautioning against war tax exemptions that could harm production and the national economy.
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New York
Asparta
Interior
Gal
Tim
Elon
War End, Postwar Thrift Reconsidered In Market Frenzy
The author reflects on wartime thrift giving way to postwar impulse to spend as labor and commodity prices rise. He notes miners and workers face hard times despite high costs, and laments the urge to deplete wartime savings to buy goods abroad as others likewise rush to spend. He recalls lessons of thrift fading after the war and the return to merchant shopping.
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Washington
Ofuntelworth
Jazeelf
Singer In No Man's Land memory from World War I front
The reminiscence recalls Crystal Waters singing in No Man's Land during a brutal push to cross into enemy-held territory. The narrator describes shelling, mud, and a single narrow road crowded with supplies as American troops advance. Soldiers, many surprised by a lone woman, pass by the singer amid destroyed villages and barbed wire.
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Singer
No Man's Land
Crystal Waters
Save Food and Manpower Strains Hit German Empire
A wartime report notes millions of men cannot be pulled from production for four years without a drop in yield. Fields, tarme, and herds will take years to recuperate as German authorities tighten food saving rules affecting nine nations and allied regions.
Songs of War Echoes Across Time in Music History
The piece surveys WWI songs and contrasts them with Civil War tunes, noting George M. Cohan Irving Berlin and others shaping wartime mood. It cites favorites like Over There Keep the Home Fires Burning and Pack Up Your Troubles, with reflections on how songs captured national sentiment and humor.
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Kira
John Brown
George M. Coban
Cohan
George F. Root
Father Abraham
Irving Berlin
France
Ivor Novello
Zo. Elliott
Central
No Man’s Land
America
Geoffrey O'lara
Food for Winter Diet Avoids Beriberi and Scurvy
Dietary guidance warns that strict meat and bread regimens risk beriberi and scurvy, listing anti beriberi foods such as yeast eggs milk beef and fish. It notes that drying vegetables at low temperatures preserves anti scurbutic properties and stresses including fresh produce milk and oranges. Also discusses deserter classifications and draft board corrections under Crowder.
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Fitch
Baker's Yeast
Jean
MacCallum
Desrriere Cleared from Rocky Mountain News Note
Thousands of young men on ro menut records in Washington state may gain relief if it can be shown they served in the reserve or military service during a period of duty under the salllitsey. The note outlines potential eligibility and review steps by authorities.
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Prevent Marshal's Office
Ge | Crowder
New Sangite Explosive From South Africa Mining firm
A Safe Mining Explosive reports the manufacture of sangite to replace nitroglycerine in South Africa mining. The gun cotton based explosive, developed by Kynoch Ltd at Amboulawonl Natal, is said to be highly insensitive to shop tools and unlikely to explode when drilled into unfired holes. The name derived from initials and parts of words linked to substitutes and dynamite.
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Mocky Mountain
South’ Afrika
Tula
Kynoch, Ltd
Amboulawonl
Natal
Rare Land's End fish sighting captivates coast
A lone unusual specimen, described as a rare landward fish, was captured near Land's End and noted as a very rare visitor to the coast. The record references only one prior similar specimen in the area.
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Land's
Hadia
Comb and fin features reveal a tropical reef fish
The text notes a reef fish known since 1827 that belongs to a large tropical family. It describes the first dorsal fin with small projections like a file and mentions a gunlock spine once used in early safety rifle locks.
Homeward longings of a returning sailor in Collier's Weekly
The poem quotes Capt. Pranklin P. Adama imagining life back in the Land of Joy on shore. He recalls Broadway shows Turkish baths and a Pullman berth while dreaming of coffee and cigars, yet admits he would spend most time wishing to be home in the Western Hemisphere.
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Honitsick Yank
Land of Joy Voltaye
Ard Gometaing
Duntless
Capt. Pranklin P. Adama
Collier's Weekly
Man of Few Words Dictates with Two Words
From the Derelt News, Marshal Foch speaks little yet orders with a sharp gesture and a decisive two word principle. His gruff manner, punctual habits, and worn face reflect heavy responsibilities and limited private strength.
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Derelt
Marshal Foch
Diplomatia
Test of a Man and the Call to Use Knowledge
A speech by K. Lane, Secretary of Interior, outlines the test of peace versus war. It urges individuals to prove usefulness by applying knowledge, working with what they have, and tying labor to learning in schools to elevate Americanism and develop resources.
War Tank Designs Revealed At London Dinner
At a dinner by the designs branch of the mechanical warfare department in London a briefing illustrated with films and souvenir cards covered tanks munition factories submarines and airships Major Buddicomb chaired. The Q A session named designers leaders and wartime projects with no firm final design.
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Mechanical Warfare
Oddenio
Buddicomb
Cooking Vegetables and Nutrient Losses
The article argues for lower heat and shorter cooking times to preserve minerals vitamins and texture. It discusses saving cooking water, analyzes starch leaching for diabetics, and notes Misa Wardall's experiments at the University of Town proposing soaking vegetables at 140 degrees to minimize flavor and color changes while avoiding prolonged boiling.
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Misa Wardall
Universty
Town
The Unfortunates Roast Of German Dignity And Hunger
A satirical verse mocks Germans for hunger and filching food while Americans claim priority in feeding the world. It depicts German shortages and German characters as envious, contrasted with a harsh pledge to feed friends first and to deny rivals until they have eaten.
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Walere
Frits
Heinle
War Ended Two Peerages
The New York Sun notes only two British peerages were extinguished by war deaths, the third Lord Kesteven and the second Lord Liangattock, while others perished in service. It cites Irish titles among those fallen and mentions Kitchener’s Irish birth.
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New York Sun
Lord Kesteven
Lord Liangattock
William , Baronet
Earl of Rosse
Earl Poulett
France
Margulis Conyngham
Conyngham
Annesley
Langford
Shannon
Hawarden
Newborough
Roberts, Congleton and DeFreyne
Lord Kitchener
Bern
Ireland
Who Will Pay Cost of War A Barton Hepburn Notes
The piece argues that war costs must be paid now in goods, with future tax bonds, describing a shift of Civil War debt and noting public belief in postwar payment. A parable of a drink and crackers illustrates the view that debts are settled by present value and readjustment.
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A. Barton Hepburn
Scribner
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W. Tritton
Mr. Wineton Churchill
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