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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1917
Page
2
Three day window to subscribe with noon Friday receipt at Federal Reserve bank. Pay later via installments from two and a half months, starting with 2 percent down and two fifths in the first month and a half. Easier plans exist down to 2 dollars weekly on a 100 dollar bond. Encourage saving as the first war lesson.
The Unionist Council in Belfast plans to join the Irish convention, a move set against the Sinn Fein boycott and broader Irish republican momentum. Sinn Fein shows growing strength in recent elections, while Carson and Redmond are viewed as imperialists by republicans. Uncertainty remains about the depth of support for separation and the balance of forces among Ulster and nationalist elements. The Easter rising’s roots are linked to syndicalist activity and Jim Larkin’s labor influence.
Experts condemn a dangerous political measure while Unionists clash over praise and policy. A New York art sale sparks debate as Huntington sues dealers over a Romney misattribution priced at £500,000, with critics and painters divided on connoisseurship and fame.
The piece argues that continued exodus from the Socialist party highlights a conflict between true internationalist ideals and party machine control. It labels the party machinery as dangerous, likening it to German influence, and contrasts expulsion of Russell and Spargo with a call for genuine oath of office and independence from autocratic dictates.
The piece mocks a government bulletin proposing dogfish as a cheap substitute for beef and whale meat, noting no markets have seen dogfish fins or whale meat in the East while Pacific markets reportedly carry whale meat. It ends by saying fish literature may be edifying but not filling for a hungry nation.
The governor signed a bill relaxing three family tenement restrictions claiming health safeguards and congestion relief. Health and Tenement House Commissioners oppose it as dangerous to tenants and city welfare, with Buffalo officials exempted, raising constitutional questions and legislative responsibility.
A 19th century West Virginia statute requires all able bodied residents ages sixteen to sixty to engage in regular employment or face fines of up to 100 dollars or up to sixty days of public road work. It also punishes idleness among the rich by denying defense on lack of income anyway.
A poem by Edward Fuller laments leaving dry shore for the sea. It evokes longing for wind and surf along a rolling deck, the spectral voyage, and a fatal leap into night as Death would come.
The letter urges Red Cross authorities to curb misuse of the emblem and uniforms. It cites actors at a fair selling cosmetics in Red Cross attire and young women wearing headgear resembling the cross. The writer asks for respect and reverence for the emblem amid ongoing wartime Red Cross work.
Hiram Kelly Moderwell of New York reacts to Adachi Kinnosuke's piece debunking the claim Japan will invade Russia over Allied demands. He urges avoiding threats that could push Russia toward Germany, noting liberal backlash to London diplomacy and calling for treating Russia as a member of the nations family. Dated June 7, 1917.
A 1917 letter from Amelia Wohlearth, president of the Association of Women High School Teachers, praises an editorial on equal opportunities for women and cites repeated discrimination in school leadership roles at Erasmus Hall High and Julia Richman High. A second reader asks socialists to unite labor and Allied nations to oppose German actions postwar. A third writer urges humane, lawful wartime news channels for family communications with Germany.
A clipped wartime note from June 7, 1917, reports efforts to locate Bryan's Million Volunteers using camera telescope and microscope but finds no trace. Community members are urged to share sightings or clues.
A reader from York argues that Carranza and the Mexican Constitutionalist leadership ruin Mexico by pursuing neutrality in World War I. The author contends neutrality invites German plots, harms finances, and blocks needed American aid and investment. He urges Mexico to join the United States, accept loans, and rebuild with allied partnership rather than isolation.
CESARE A. GUGLIELMETTI represents Professor Volpi in New York in a June 9, 1917 letter disputing a Tribune Magazine feature. The piece questions forgeries of two portraits at a Volpi sale purchased by Warwick House Ltd. and cites art expert Martin Hofer, while warning of reputational harm to Volpi and vowing legal action.
A letter from Ausable Valley Grange master W W Schermerhorn reports the Pomons Grange of Essex County unanimously voted to subscribe to the Liberty Loan to the extent of its resources. A separate reader asks why consumer milk prices rise while claims of promises for lower prices go unmet, criticizing officials and merchants for profiteering during wartime.
Letters from CW Reiser in Brooklyn and B F Affleck in Chicago protest wartime mindset and media control. Reiser urges plain English to rally unity against internal enemies and to compel support for war efforts. Affleck denounces periodical publishers subsidy and their influence on public sentiment as an evil in the press.
A New York president argues against misrepresentation by Frederic N. Watriss and others asserting exclusive rights to the term Junior Plattsburg. He cites camp origins on Lake Champlain and Plum Island, details 1917 wartime training aims, and a War Department letter supporting the Junior Plattsburg Inc. mission and separation from Plum Island plans.
A reader in New York cites Lafayette and Roosevelt, arguing Americans should honor foreign actions and support decisive leadership. The letter urges decisive policy against a looming threat, praising Roosevelt's potential future steps as crucial for civilization.
A dated 1917 letter from Jerome Walker, M. D., criticizes federal registration and an inquisition as wasteful, while urging New York relief veterans to volunteer for the United States Sanitary Commission. He offers his Brooklyn address for veterans to send names and addresses to assist the Cross and other relief efforts during the war.
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