Far East Athletics Bridge Nations and Cultures
The article notes growing athletic exchange across China, Japan, the Philippines, Siam, Java and Malaysia with baseball, football, volleyball and track. It highlights a rising participation rate in the Philippines, calls for a trained physical education director, and praises athletics as a unifying, nation forming force in the Far East. It cites Japan’s backing and the Far Eastern Athletic Association with contests in 1915 and 1917.
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Far East
China
Japan
Philippines
Siam
Java
Malaysia
United States
Islands
University of Tienten
Far Eastern Athletic Association
No Alarm in U Boat Raid Changes in German Tactics
Navy Department reports five German submarines operated off the Atlantic coast with a haul under ten vessels including one large steamer. Despite widespread convoys and troop movements to France, none of the ships were attacked. U boats avoided lifeboats and survivors, signaling a possible shift toward restrained tactics.
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Navy Department
Atlantic
France
North Atlantic
America
Women as Soldiers Question the Notion of Female War Roles
Fragmentary discussion cites opposition to women in combat calling them undisciplined and unfit. It notes contrasting examples such as Mme atpanners and the Rus a battalion of death, then asks whether Amazons and leading feminists can prove the stereotype wrong.
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Mme
Atpanners
Rus@a
Femin
Botehkarova
Biuyat
Support for the Railroads in War Time Policy Shift
The piece notes a government approved 25 percent freight rise and universal 3 cent passenger fares as a wartime concession. It cites Director General McAdoo detailing wage and fuel cost increases totaling hundreds of millions and argues these measures strengthen railroads for postwar prosperity. It also mentions Alabama figure B B Comer’s shifting stance on government operation of railroads.
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McAdoo
B. B. Comer
Birmingham
Alabama
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Tom” Kilby
New York Cotton Exchange
Hon. Comer
Don't Worry About Lad Morals Says Gordon Highlanders Chaplain
The Gordon Highlanders chaplain Rev. Lauchlan MacLean Watt urges families not to fear for sons going to war. He praises steadfast manhood in trench life, noting wounds of duty and devotion despite discomfort and distance from home. HeBelieves such courage aligns with Christian ideals and heavenly reward.
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Lauchlan MacLean Watt
Gordon Highlanders
Christ
Up and Down Broadway in New York Diary Snippets
A June column sketches a bustling day in New York with sightings of the Dolly sisters and Hoover, wartime mood, idlers in Fifth Avenue, and oddball sales of junked cars and carriages. It notes Francis M. Hugo’s optimistic talk and a parade of curious street scenes and humor.
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New York
Samuel Pepys
Monte Carlo
Times Square
George Dorsey
London
Dolly Sisters
Brooklyn
Sheepshead Bay
Tappen’s
Fifth Avenue
Francis M. Hugo
Letter urging cinema attendance to boost war taxes in Mobile
A Mobile reader argues theaters support the war effort by paying growing war taxes and urges citizens to attend films to increase revenue. The writer cites campaigns elsewhere showing attendance can rise, boosting government taxes while providing recreation, and signs Mobile will follow suit. The letter is dated June 3, 1918.
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Moving Picture Theatres
Moving Picture Management
Mobile
United States
Mobilians
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