Daylight Saving Time Gains Measurable Wealth and Health
United States clocks set back at 2 a m on October 27, returning March 31’s hour with vast added benefits. About 5,000,000 soldiers gain 311,644 years in total, coal saved estimated at 1 to 1.5 million tons, and national health and wealth markedly enhanced. The plan, enacted by Congress in 1918, follows Britain and other nations adopting daylight saving to conserve resources.
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United States
Congress
Great Britain
France
Italy
Germany
Austria
Holland
Denmark
Sweden
Norway
Portugal
Australia
Iceland
Liberty Bonds and War Effort Call to Action
In a patriotic appeal by Juliet Wilbur Tompkin readers are urged to join the Liberty Loan drive and support the war effort by giving until it hurts. The piece contrasts consumer purchases with wartime sacrifice and emphasizes readiness to comply with Uncle Sam's needs. A brief classified notice adds tobacco sticks for sale from McCormick Lumber Co in Mt Sterling Kentucky.
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Uncle Sam
Mary Pickford in Liberty Loan Film Drive
The article notes EB movies will headline the Fourth Liberty Loan campaign with each theater showing a different Treasury planned picture nightly. Stars like Pickford Fairbanks Chaplin and Hart will appear, and Mary Pickford jokes she would have begged for a chance if not asked to participate.
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United States
Treasury Department
Pickford
Soldiers meal ticket liberty bond explanation
A wartime notice explains the Liberty Bond soldiers meal ticket by listing the food quantities needed to feed one United States soldier for a year. It specifies beef or bacon, flour, potatoes, beans, prunes, coffee, sugar, syrup, condensed milk, butter, lard, vinegar, salt and notes these bonds support war funding.
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United States
Ten Little Slackers: A War Time Rhyme Card
A compact verse recounts ten slackers in a line each reduced by wartime choices or actions. One joins the Army, another shifts diet or beliefs, and others enlist or contribute through wartime efforts until none remain. The piece blends humor with recruitment era imagery.
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Heaven
Navy
When Johnnie Comes Marching Home Bond Message
A World War era piece contrasts the sacrifices of soldiers with a sharp sales pitch urging bond purchases. It warns that failure to buy bonds risks business ruin and frames Liberty Bonds as essential to national and personal prosperity.
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