War Board details functions and wartime controls
A wartime War Board briefing outlines its powers over exports imports and financial controls. It notes licensing for coin bullion and transfers, high level handling of securities, and the role of War Savings Stamps with weekly receipts near 11 million dollars. It also mentions national efforts to assess athletic fitness in military camps and the use of nine tests for recruits.
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War Board
Ita
War Department
E. A. Security
Itia
United States
Treasury Department
Trade Board
Treasury
War Time Public Notes On Hospitals and Home Front Efforts
Reports describe base hospital visits in Camp Meade reinforcing confidence in military medical care. Mentions fortress Monroe chaplain training and a growing chaplain corps. Highlights Liberty Loan cartoon drive, shoe manufacture priorities in England, and a War Cyclopedia handbook from the Committee on Public Information.
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Committee On Public Information
The Girl in The Dark and Wild Women at Double Feature
Advertisement announces double feature days with The Girl in The Dark and Wild Women starring Harry Carey. Two first run features at usual prices run Friday and Saturday with Humanity's Message The Freedom of the World 7 parts on Wadocoday and Thursday.
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Econ
Gasseclies
Harry Carey
Montauk Passaic Screenings Promote Dramatic Topics
The Montauk program in Passaic features Lest We Forget with Ma pre sie mae, recalling the Lusitania disaster. A five part film titled Her American Husband follows, then Victim of swiftly moving vengeance. Victim of the past questions light the marriage choice with Mrs. Vernon. The Gun Woman closes the week.
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Montauk Pamale
Ma Presie Mae Ia
Vernon
Playhouse Passaic Vaudeville Week Lineup
Playhouse Passaic presents seven shows next week with Monday to Tuesday offerings and three last- day performances. The program opens with A Soul in Trust featuring Janey Sherry and Belle Bennett in a seven part life and politics drama. Wednesday shows Hidden Hand tenth episode. The week ends with Little Red Decides starring Barbara Connolly and others with light comedy about a poker proposal and questions of motherhood.
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Passaic Ane
Vaudele Presen
Playhouse
Passaic
Next
Janey Sherry
Belle Bennett
Little Red
Barbara Connolly
Keith Vaudevilli
J. Barney Sherry
Vitagraph
Hidden Hand
All Star Cast in Lord and Lady Algy at Broad Newark
The Broad Street Theatre in Newark presents an all star revival of Carton Comedy Lord and Lady Algy starring William Faversham Maxine Elliott Irene Fenwick and Maclyn Arbuckle for one week with matinees Monday and Saturday The York critics hail Elliott as more beautiful than ever Fenwick is praised for a Lily role Arbuckle delivers strong comic turns in this Shaw era spoof event.
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Carton
Sparklin
Maxine Elliott
New York
Lady Algy
Irene Fenwick
Lily
Lady al
Lady al She Has A Role Quite Different From Any She Has Onn Maclyn Arbuckle
Bernard Shaw
Lord and Lady Algy
Hus
Seven Eclipses and an Ancient Romance
The piece reflects on seven solar and lunar eclipses in a year and their imagined impact on ancient warfare and superstition, noting people of the time would not have known their celestial omens. It treats eclipses as symbolic portents shaping legendary conflicts and beliefs.
Tunisian Products and Population in Agricultural Life
Tunisian center Tunis relies on agricultural output with southern regions farming fivestock and palm date crops. The native population sustains itself through date palms and fruit trees in the south.
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Tunis
South
State officers to enforce order in public places during war
Trenton reports national state officials of military officers in public places will not only show the state's interest in the war but help observance of law and order as the nation engages in the conflict.
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England
Trenton
Atlonal State
Reader asks city water bureau questions for 1918 town budget
A letter to The Sun from a taxpayer requests the Mayor provide detailed figures on engineering staff, salaries for 1916 and 1917, town plumber pay and work, payments to others for town work, meter reading wages, clerical costs, and read times, to clarify water controversy spending.
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The
Sun
Ensat
Engineering Bureau
Water Department
Saccharine's safety debated for diabetics and patients
The article notes saccharine is not blood absorbed and can substitute sugar for diabetics. It faces accusations of harming digestion and causing cancer, but medical opinion largely clears it. In France saccharine requires a doctor's prescription for children the elderly and the ill.
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France
Suit Against Town Is Thrown Out
The suit of McEligot and Chenoweth along with Fesatenesate and the Bank of Nutley against the town was dismissed on grounds of insufficient financing for payments.
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McEligot & Chenoweth
Fesatenesate
Bank of Nutley
Events In Small Territory
Débause explains maps used by children to study the Bible. The note recalls how a compact area yielded vast biblical events and famed figures, drawing a parallel to a scholar visiting Greece astonished by its small size supporting many great deeds.
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Greece
Wisdom From a Dean on Clear Speech
Déctor Eaton, former president of Madison University, was beloved by students. A debating student asked his view on effort. He replied slowly, Edward, if you pluck a few feathers from your imagination and stick them in the fall of your judgment, you would make better speeches.
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Déctor Eaton
Madison University
Edward
Christian Register
Havana Far More Club Active Than London
The article argues Havana surpasses London as the world’s greatest club city with far larger and more powerful clubs. It claims about 125000 club members from an 850000 population, and that nearly everyone in Havana belongs to a club, far outpacing London's club scene.
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London
Havana
Cuba
How to Secure Curtains and Portieres for Night Drafts
Instructions describe attaching small snaps to the bottom of bedroom curtains and reaching higher to place snap eyes. Nightly, hook the curtain bottoms to prevent blowing when windows are opened. Repeat the same process with portieres during sweeping or dusting.
Differences In Trees At Arnold Arboretum Harvard
The text discusses how studying a large collection of growing trees at the Arnold Arboretum reveals how different species have distinct preferences for growth methods and care. It notes that amateurs can learn from observing the attention and conditions trees require to thrive.
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Hornsby
Cantonmental
Camp Meade
Arnold Arboretum of
Harvard
Nature
Unconscious Lying and Truth Stretching Discussed
The text argues that many lies are unconscious and the mind can stretch the truth while still appearing truthful. It distinguishes prevarication obfuscation and misrepresentation as common patterns in everyday speech and judgment.
Name From Collar Marks in Dogs Noted
An account describes how a broad white collar mark around a dog’s neck is common in many breeds and helps identify the animal. The report notes variations and references historical observations of such markings across breeds.
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Edith Storey
Ben Wilson
Carmel Myers
Charles H. Pool, JR
ART Publication Society
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Amianle Sink
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Keith
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