Canada Votes to Endorse War Policy and Conscription
The article argues Canada's election confirms a pro war stance and universal military service, crediting Borden's wing for staving off pacifism and boosting conscription. It suggests the victory signals stronger allied support and predicts American voters will mirror this patriotism, aligning against Prussian threat.
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Canada
Causa
Borden Wing
Laurier
Borden
Dominion
America
United States
ASLUEY AT THE SWITCHE INERTIA AT ORDANCE BUREAU REVEALED
Testimony at the ordnance inquiry criticizes the War Department bureau for lethargy amid looming war. Gun manufacturers warned of danger while officials turned a deaf ear and failed to mobilize readiness. The piece condemns inaction as other bureaus prepared for a great army.
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Ordnance Inquiry
War Department
Ordnance
Ordnance’ Bureau
Weak officers blamed in war department probes cited
The congressional inquiry highlights deficiencies across war department branches with claims that mediocrity hampers wartime tasks. It urges rapid removal of weak officers, replacing them with proven performers to improve efficiency. General Gothals’ selection as Quartermaster General is praised as a step to ensure adequate equipment.
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Congressional
War Department
Washington
Ornance Bureau
Gothals
Tightening Quarter: Thrift Stamps Aid Soldiers in War Effort
The Burlington Gazette urges small savers to invest every quarter in thrift stamps. It argues the routine bank savings suit large sums while thrift stamps empower individuals with twenty five cents to support soldiers, framing weekly contributions as essential to arming and equipping fighting men in the war against the Kaiser.
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Savings Bank
Uncle Sam
Burlington Gazette
Christmas Eve Diary From the Yankee House
A Christmas tale from the past unfolds in a first person diary written by a great great granddaughter. A white Christmas, family kin, and a wartime mood mingle with memories of dance, a miniature betrothal, and a haunting jealousy as the narrator recalls love fled and a heart aching for harmony.
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McClure
Charles
Fleso
Charlies
Mammy
Papa
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Offered With Reward
Readers are informed a cure exists for catarrh through constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Medicine is taken internally and claims to act through the blood to the mucous surfaces. The ad offers $100 reward for any failure to cure and invites testimonials from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio, with distribution through druggists.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Ohio
All Drugaist
Reminiscences of Long Ago and Salary Debate
Sixty years ago the city council faced a salary dispute. The city attorney Hoeb said the recent ordinance has no retrospective effect, so some council members who already drew the higher pay may have to disgorge. The measure’s timing was criticized and postponed until the next board. FATY YEARS AGO the Congregational church ladies planned a New Year dinner for friends, with the new rooms over Old’s store ready for a warm social.
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Hoeb
Congregational Church
Old's
Forty Years Ago God Templars Festival Ends
In the evening two hundred attendees enjoyed a successful God Templars Festival with a plentiful refreshment spread and a lively program. Massrs Knox Boydston Beard and Smith performed two quartet songs and a farce Do Troubles Begin At Nine featuring Horace Candee and Charles Smith.
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Massrs
Knox
Boydston
Beard
Smith
Horace Candee
Charles Smith
Elegant invitations issued for Muscatine Rifles party
Elegant invitations have been issued for the annual holiday party of the Muscatine Rifles at Armory hall on Friday evening. The event promises to be the most delightful of the season.
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Muscatine Rifles
Armory Hall
Carles Price
Muscatine
Muscatine Business College
First U. S. Casualty Comes Home Smiling
Aubrey McLeod the first American casualty in France is on his way home. He lost both legs above the knees after an air raid damaged a base hospital. McLeod, a Purdue alumnus from Boston, recalls the explosion and his escape as he hopes to find work again for the U.S. government.
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Blesse
U. & Soldier
Paris
Aubrey Melieod
Howard Kahn
National War Wars Council of the Y. M
MclLeod
McLeod
Purdue University
Boston
Indiana
Base Hospital No
Fitzsimmons
Medical Corps
Aubrey McLeod
aMy
Someody
U.S
Camouflage Pumpkin Pie Delights Navy Troops
A Washington area dispatch reports camouflage pumpkin pie becoming a hit with 500 Navy men under Secretary Daniels. Mrs. G. M. King of East Orange New Jersey sends a gingerless molassesless eggless milkless gingerbread recipe as a conservation aid, forwarded to the National Emergency Food Garden Commission and then nationwide. The letter from Paul R Willace of the President Grant details a request for camouflage recipes to feed sailors during hard times.
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District of Columbia
Dec
Atlantic
Daniels
Arts
G. MM. King
William Street
East Orange
N. J
Mrs. King
Navy
Paul IR
Wallace
Grant
Baker
The
Igec
Sohiewhare
G. M. King
U.S. Navy
Uncle Sam
Elam
Mair
Phi
Ray Eaton
Jatan
Paul R. Willace
Pia
National Emergency Food Garden Commission
Maryland
Abe Martin Palace Toll Bridge Adds Four Towers
Abe Martin notes the Palace has installed four new toller towers with a 5000 mile guarantee. Mrs Tipton Bud’s brother, visiting, says roads are rough but you can drive faster than a walk over MelXee’s creek bridge for five dollars.
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Palace Iuttet
Tipton
Bud
MelXee's Creek Bridge
Toy shops in Halifax empty U S aid urged
Halifax faces a Christmas crisis as toy shops run dry after the explosion and fire. A committee of local women seeks United States shipments within days to clothe hundreds of blind and crippled children in hospitals and bring holiday cheer to affected families.
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Associated P'ress
Halifax
Santa Claus
Llalifax
United States
Uble
Homemade Pinex Cough Remedy Promises Quick Relief
A forwarded home remedy instructs mixing 214 ounces of Pinex with sugar syrup to create a pint cough syrup claimed to loosen phlegm soothe throat and ease breathing. Marketed as a fast acting treatment for severe coughs chest colds and croup like symptoms, it urges buyers to demand the exact Pinex mix and warns against imitations.
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Thy Pinex Co
Warne
Dad
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