Food bill would grant president broad power over wheat and control prices
The food administration asked Congress to authorize a $1.25 billion fund to buy 1918 and 1919 wheat at guaranteed prices and to export, store, and manage grain markets. It would empower the president to control prices, trade margins, and exchanges, with authority to borrow and use agencies as needed.
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Food Administration
Congress
Gore
Senate Committee On Agriculture
Lever
House Committee
House
United States
Scense
Irony in London as Wilson sails into Bossing Irony
A London correspondent recalls a statue of the German king with the Stars and Stripes, noting the irony of George Washington named ship and the voyage of President Wilson to the peace conference aboard the George Washington, built with German funds and later used to carry Yankee troops and a US president, amid propaganada and provocation.
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London
Carlton Hotel
Wilson
Guildhall
George Hit
England
Boston
British Isles
Lloyd
Hohenzollern
Terre Haute Daily Star Raises Annual Subscriptions
On February 1 Terre Haute Daily Star increased its yearly price to four dollars. The Herald notes it cannot secure a combined subscription deal, offering both papers for four dollars and fifty cents for one year, a notably low rate amid rising costs.
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Terre Haute
Herald
Terre Haute Daily Star
Paris Area American Cemetery Quietly Bides Beside Seine
The Stars and Stripes notes the American cemetery at Suresnes near Paris, with 700 graves of soldiers who died en route home or in hospitals. White crosses line sloped grounds beneath Mount Valerien as the Bois de Boulogne lies nearby and war remnants linger in the tranquil landscape.
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Seine
America
National Cemetery
Arlington
Gettysburg
Paris
Eiffel Tower
Suresnes
Bois de Boulogne
Mount Valerien
France
War Demand for Platinum and Sulphuric Acid
The article notes platinum and sulphuric acid as pivotal wartime materials. It explains platinum’s scarcity due to Russian turmoil and its necessity for making sulfuric acid, which drives explosives production. It also warns against owning platinum jewelry and hints that much so called platinum jewelry may contain cheaper metals.
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Ural Mountains
Russia
Popular Mechanics Magazine
Substitute for Tea From Arabian Cathaedulis Leaves
The article describes Cathaedulis, known as Arabian tea, grown along the East African coast from Abyssinia to Natal, in the Nile valley and Arabia. The leaves called kat are boiled to make a stimulant liquor used before long marches. It is praised for aroma and claimed to ease neuralgia and protect against plague.
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Niebuher
East African
Abyssinia
Natal
Nile Valley
Arabia
All He Had Left Conjuring Trick Ends With Honest Change
A conjuror at a sleight of hand act makes a marked dollar disappear and claims it will appear in a gentleman's vest pocket. Sam Lansing steps forward and returns the dollar saying he kept it as change after two beers and a cigar.
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Sam Lansing
Sam
Mangin Teases Peace Ambassadors Amid Verdun War Turmoil
In 1916 General Mangin of France mockingly eyed his troops and quipped about being the kind of peace ambassadors to the republic the Kaiser’s men sacrificed at Verdun. Germany then launched a peace offensive as autumn approached.
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Mnangin
Verdun
Germany
Pathe Brothers Pathephone Promises Living Voice Reproduction
Describes the Pathe Freres Pathephone system and Pathe Discs praised for faithful sound reproduction. Highlights the Pathe Sapphire Ball stylus, tone control, and cabinet components as superior to other discs, with references to Scientific American endorsements and the quality of Pathe sound craftsmanship.
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Dever
Pathe Brothers
France
Pathe Discs
Pathe Freres
Pathephone
Pathe Isr
Pathe
Scientific American
John B. Taylor
Schenectady
N. Y
Taylor
Europe
United States
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Fletcher
ASTOR
Liberty
J. R. Burnett
E. M. Duncan
the Dulaney. National Bank
Harry B. Dulaney
Bert Bryan
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Bubeck & Gallagher, Marshall
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