Registration Card Instructions for Questions and Answers
A detailed guide outlines how to complete a registration card. It covers name, age, home address, birth date, citizenship status, birthplace, present occupation, dependents, marital and race status, military service, and draft exemption. The rules emphasize accuracy, legibility, and using official terms for each field.
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Main Street
Chicago
Cook County
Illinois
Columbus
Ohio
Vienna
Austria
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France
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War Department
Kaiser Plan for World Empire Revealed in North Sea to Mediterranean
Western Newspaper Union News Services reports Germany aims to create an impregnable unit from the North Sea to the Mediterranean to split Europe, control the Dardanelles Aegean and Baltic, and form a Prussian world empire, signaling aggressive long term goals beyond current territorial losses. President Wilson’s stance on possible US involvement remains referenced.
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Union News Services
Washington
Germany
North Sea
Mediterranean
Europe
Dardanelles
Aegean
Baltic
Bismarck
France
Belgium
Russia
Wilson
America
Four Killed in Youngstown Power Plant Explosion
A mysterious explosion at Republic Iron and Steel Co. power plant in Youngstown killed four men and seriously injured several others. About ten thousand people gathered as machinery was hurled a quarter mile, sparking rumors of mass casualties and an immediate investigation was launched.
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Youngstown
Republic Iron and Steel Co
Famine Panic Denied by Bartlett-Frasier Statistician
Chicago reports B W Snow of Bartlett Frasier Company rebuts the famine panic sweeping the nation. He asserts there is no famine now or anticipated while the current producer consumer relations hold.
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Chicago
B. W. Snow
Bartlett-Frasier Company
Roosevelt orders volunteers to disband for France
Col. Theodore Roosevelt urged the men of his personal division to disband at once. He advised them to report to the front as quickly as possible or, if unable to serve overseas, to redirect their efforts to supporting the nation at home.
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New York
Theodore Roosevelt
France
Loss of the Colbert Sinks Fifty-One on Mediterranean Run
The French steamship Colbert carrying military passengers was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean on April 30 by German submarines. Fifty-one persons died, including the ship's commander, the French Admiralty announced.
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Paris
Colbert
Mediterranean
Teuton
Norwegian Steamers Torpedoed by German Submarines
London reports Norwegian vessels Laly Najaden C Sundt and Garant torpedoed by German submarines in the North Sea. Crew members of all four ships are reported dead.
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London
Berlin
Copenhagen
Exchange Telegraph Co
Laly
Najaden
C. Sundt
Garant
Bucks Against the Style and Other Snippets
A collection of short items including a quip about nonconformists and fashion. A note on India restricting adult work to 12 hours and children to six. Exchange about China joining the war. A magnet device suspends a cord for lifting items from floors.
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India
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Alaska
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Naturalization Court
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W. L. Douglas
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Otillcome
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Heisman Motor Car Company
Cincinnati, Ohio
Canada
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W. B. Nethery
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