Junior Red Cross Membership Push for School Children
The Red Cross outlines a Junior Membership program aimed at school age boys and girls across public, private, and parochial schools. It emphasizes teacher guidance, Wilson’s call to patriotic service, and school fund requirements to support youth Red Cross activities and materials.
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National Security League to Convene War Congress in Chicago
The National Security League plans a February convention in Chicago styled A Congress of National Service. About ten thousand delegates are expected to discuss war program outlined by the League with invitations signed by leaders including Thomas R. Marshall Theodore Roosevelt William Howard Taft James Cardinal Gibbons Samuel Gompers and others. The La Salle Hotel will host main meetings with an outdoor gathering likely at Medina Gumpe on Washingtons Birthday.
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Chicago
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Congress of National Service
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Thomas R. Marshall
United States
Theodore Roosevelt
Wiliam Howard Taft
James Cardinal Gibbons
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Jacob M. Dickinson
Judeon Harmon
John Grier Hibben
Princeton University
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Medinagumpe
Washington
What Victory Means by Agnes Repplier
An essay urged American resolve in World War I, denying pacifist myths. It warned that the nation must mobilize fully to prevent humiliation, economic ruin, and invasion by Germany, labeling treasonous critics and promising harsh consequences for traitors at home.
Higher Rates for 1917 Army of Investors Pleads For Railroads
Testimony before the Interstate Commerce Commission by John Muir, president of the Railway Investors League, argues for aid to railroads from small investors. He reviews historical rate practices, cites damage from rate cuts, warns against government ownership, and urges policy to attract capital from tens of thousands of small, thrifty American investors to strengthen railroad credit and financing during the war era.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
John Muir
Railway Investors’ League
Railway Investors* League
Weas
Pennsylvania
Atcleon
St. Paul
Great Northern
Balttimore & Ohio
Southern Pacific
United States
Fiber gears prove stronger than steel in Cotton age
Gears crafted from ordinary cotton reportedly outperform finest steel by resisting wear. Popular Science Monthly notes metal gear teeth scrape and groan from contact, while compressed cotton teeth wear less and become indestructible when compacted into a cylinder.
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Popular Science Monthly
Cold Comfort in a Parlor Exchange
A clipped dialogue shows a man clashing over politics and a remark about a mysterious adviser. The exchange hints at satire and miscommunication, capturing a tense social moment with dry humor.
Trade bodies commend war administration
National Security League reports widespread support from trade associations and chambers of commerce for government war efforts. A circular urges Congress to praise senators and representatives and the President Cabinet and Council of National Defense for wartime actions. Ends with requests to public bodies to adopt similar resolutions.
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Special War Congress
Council of National Defense
Chambers of Commerce
United States
The
Security League
Texas
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Montana
Illinois Grain Desters’ Association
National Leather Association
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Birth of American Thrift and the Liberty Loan
John Muir argues thrift as modern American virtue tied to war finance. He notes nations shifted savings into the war chest, praises instalment funding under the Partha Payment Plan, and contrasts it with European hoarding. The piece links thrift to national security and long term wealth building.
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Enghind
United States
John Muir
Unusual Weather Remarks Echo Past Descriptions
A fragment reflects on weather reporting and memory. The speaker questions how forecasts describe conditions as remarkable and notes recalling only a few months of past weather without such remarks, suggesting a shift in tone or emphasis in climate storytelling.
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