War News Digest Summary From Public Information Committee
The digest provides concise wartime updates from the Committee on Public Information. It outlines Allied actions, enemy movements, and home-front guidance to sustain morale and support for the war effort.
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Committee On Public Information
American Merchants Take Over German Fur Interests
American merchants will assume control of German fur interests worth millions. The change shifts fur dressing and dyeing from Leipzig to American firms after wartime seizures. Once restructured, furs for Europe will be bought in the U S market with American dressers handling finishing and dyeing.
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al Hough Loman
London
America
Huseia
China
Leipzig
Germarny
New York
St. Louis
Georman
Americas
Am Dives Houses
Wien
United States
Leipzig Cabal
Oue S
Odson's Liver Tone Promises Relief from Bilious Symptoms
An advertisement touts Odson's Liver Tone as a superior alternative to calomel for quick relief from weak feeling, nausea, constipation, headaches, and coated tongue. It claims users wake up feeling great and promises money back if it fails to set better than the harsh calomel.
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Odson
Fendon
Dodson
Surplus Substitutes Afloat In Leipzig Fair Trade Talk
The article reports on substitutes for common items shown at the Leipzig fair including pepper substitutes, soaps, and various garden produce derived products. It notes the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s reception of these descriptions and mentions the Reichsche* market aims and consumer reactions amid wartime shortages.
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Leipzig Fair
Leipzig
United States
Chamber of Commitree
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Promises Cure and Reward
The ad claims a cure for catarrh through constitutional treatment with Hall's Catarrh Medicine. It states a $100 reward for any case the medicine fails to cure and invites readers to request testimonials, listing Fr. Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio as the sellers.
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Hall
Cheney & CO
Toledo, Ohio
Training Exercises at Camp Travis Spotlight Real Soldiering
A vivid report from Camp Travis describes boys on a field exercise emphasizing supply, mess routines, and open warfare drills. It notes soldiers experience edible constraints, barracks life, and the value of coordinated action, with emphasis on realism and unit cohesion.
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Fehl
Supy
German Iso firms produce soles for new footwear in wartime
Wartime article notes German manufacturers in leather and wood boot and shoe sectors, with 400 firms remaining and 23 at work. It details rationing favors, glove production, and labor shifts. Also mentions pie as daily fare and a rice polish substitute, plus war bread training in New Orleans. American troops rush to France as a massive mobilization unfolds.
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Iso
Germany
Proulpul
Berchwood
Aden
M Dona K. Armstrong
States Relation Service
U.S. Department of Agriulture
Miss Armstrong
New Orleans
Louisiana
Yee Fon
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