Tribune Demands War Aims Backed by Action
The Chicago Tribune critiques President Wilsons wartime pledge to mobilize every power and resource. It highlights shipbuilding delays coal shortages and labor strikes, calls for a unified war council and leadership replacing Baker, and urges decisive executive action to win the war.
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Farmers Mutual Telephone Company Annual Meeting Notice
The annual meeting of the Farmers Mutual Telephone Company will be held in the courthouse on January 19 at 1 30 p.m. for electing officers and transacting other business.
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Farmers’ Mutual Telephone Company
Gentlemen of Dinant and Louvain Massacres Report
Whitlock’s Sept 12 1917 report details German massacre policy in Belgium. Summary executions at Dinant killed mayor Defoin and others. women and children witnessed executions. At Louvain August 26 residents forced to watch bodies. Tamines and Rochers Bayard scenes described with hundreds dead including infants. survivor counts and burial ruins noted.
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German Atrocities Reported In Belgium And War Gear List
Excerpts from a 1917 legation journal describe German troops clearing civilians from Louvain, mass shootings, and torching as pastors defend the policy. Separate notes itemize a infantryman’s French service gear including bedsack, blankets, coats, hats, drawers, gloves, boots, shelter items, food, and fighting equipment such as rifle and gas mask.
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Trial Man Slaps Lawyer In Courtroom Showdown
In a Cleveland Plain Dealer report a husky defendant on trial for assault redefines “how hard” by slapping, kicking, and lifting the prosecutor and tossing him across a table. He calmly explains the force was only about one tenth of that.
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Emerson Laughs At Family Joke In Interview With Conwell
Horace Greeley sent Young Conwell to interview Ralph Waldo Emerson at his Concord home. The philosopher, famed for no humor, denies laughing though his family claims otherwise. Emerson warns he will cut the interview if the man “puts in paper” any jokes from their talk.
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Kansas City Star
Mr. Emerson
Government wartime aid totals reach 46 billion dollars
The article lists U S wartime aid to allies with totals: Britain 3 045 090 000, France 1 308 006 000, Italy 866 000 000, Russia 325 000 000, Belgium 77 400 000, Serbia 4 000 000. It also promotes the St Louis Globe Democrat subscription offer and the money saving proposition for Rural Free Delivery readers.
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Doan’s Kidney Pills Endorsed by 50000 Readers
A long testimonial extols Doan’s Kidney Pills as a leading remedy with widespread newspaper endorsements. The Marshall case of Mrs. Fred Wallis at 106 Main St. is cited as proof, claiming relief from backache after one box and urging others to avoid experiments.
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