German Propagandists WEEDED OUT IN SOUTH
German propaganda is gradually being weeded out in the south where sympathizers are less numerous. Arrests of alien enemies have risen in cities like Jacksonville Blytheville Atlanta Chattanooga Memphis New Orleans Mobile Oklahoma City Dallas and Fort Worth as camps fill and jails hold Kaiser admirers. Public sentiment is pushing for stronger government measures while many Germans and sympathizers still vilify Wilson and the American government only in private.
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Blymioghim
Atlanta
Chattanooga
Memphis
New Orleans
Mobile
Oklahoma City
Dallas
Fort Worth
Kaiser
Austria
Germany
Wilson
Aged Franco-Prussian Veteran Enlists in U S Cavalry
Veteran of the Franco Prussian War Guillob Stoyn aged seventy eight, proprietor of a Reynolus farm, entered a recruiting office in Tomaque Vit and enlisted in the United States cavalry. Though his report to Harrisburg for exam may be denied due to age, he claims to be the eldest soldier in the U S army and desires to return to France to face the Kaiser.
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Guillob Stoyn
Reynolus
Tomaque
Vit
United States Cavalry
Harrisburg
Broya
Germany
Hanover
France
Steyn
United States
Dines on $53.28 abeur in 1917 diet report
D. D. Dickey, an engineer at Barberton, spent 68.28 for food in 1917, about 15 cents daily. He worked 12 hours a day, six days a week, and gained two pounds that year. His menu lacked regular meat and milk, relying on fruit and baked goods instead. Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother.
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D. D. Dickey
Barberton
Dickel
Dickey
Prices for Farm Goods and Meat Products Listing
A garbled price list shows per hundredweight and per dozen rates for farm staples including potatoes, butter, eggs, beef live weight, pork dressed, veal live weight and dressed, shoes weight, calf hides, beef hides, and chickens. Many values are unreadable or distorted in the OCR. The fragment suggests regional commodity pricing and dairy items with typical early 20th century notation.
Ordnance Department Spends Huge Sums for War Material
The army ordnance department reports about 12 000 contracts since entering the war totaling roughly 175 million dollars of available funds for the current year. Additional contracts approved by congress bring total pending authorizations to 1.67 billion dollars. April 1918 disbursements reached 256.9 million, with a single check for 18.75 million and a requisition of 169.0 million noted as the largest by a U S disbursing officer. Washington arsenals excluded. District offices later expedited payments to contractors to ease Washington strain.
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Department
Congress
Anamount
Ordnance Department
Ordnance Office
Washington
Ordnance
Treasury
United States
Gas Masks for Horses Being Sent to France
The Gas Defense Service is producing about 5,000 horse gas masks daily for the American Expeditionary Forces in France. A fully equipped factory operates with rapid setup, replacing sewing with riveting to prevent chafing. Masks are designed without metal or chemically impregnated parts to protect horses’ faces.
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Gas Defense Service
France
Puzzling Puzzle Promises Surprising Result
A puzzled riddle claims a math sequence reveals counts of lying brothers living sisters and deaths. It begins with doubling living brothers, adding three, multiplying by five, adding living sisters, then multiplying by ten, subtracting deaths, and finally subtracting fifteen. A quip about judging frames by pictures and avoiding cut rate barbers ends the note.
War Meaning and Citizenship Oath by Elihu Root
Honorary National Security League president Elihu Root argues the war is a defense of independence and liberty requiring sacrifice. He scolds naturalized citizens who oppose U S war aims, insisting oath of allegiance binds them to support Constitution and defend the nation, urging timely action to avert danger.
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Elihu Root
The
National Security League
United States
Why We Fight by Clarence Seep War Committee
This piece argues that German aims extend beyond diplomacy, alleging German influence within U S schools churches editors and politics to erode American unity. It cites Delbruck law German overseas groups and Pan German leagues as evidence of internal subversion and calls for total defeat of Germany to secure peace.
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Germany
Dewey
Manila Bay
Spain
United States
Europe
Tonsn
Delbruck
Verein Fur Das Deutschtum Im
New York
San Francisco
Alldeutsche Blatter
America
Belgium
Russia
Serbia
Bulgaria
Turkey
India
Orient
Kamerad
Urgent need for specialized clerks in war effort
Washington on June 10 reports a surge in civilian government staffing for World War I. The Civil Service Commission seeks stenographers, typists, bookkeepers, cost and statistical clerks, and related roles open to men and women. Demand far exceeds applicants.
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Washington, D.C
Washington
United States Civil Service Commission
Civil Service
Civil Service Commission Post Office Information Program
The Civil Service Commission at post offices in all cities offers definite information and application blanks. Eligible applicants can obtain details on examinations, openings, and required qualifications through local offices and official notices.
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