Furloughs to Aid Farm Work and War Efforts
War department plans to grant short term furloughs to enlisted men for farm labor during the season. Furloughs target seeding and harvests and exclude higher ranks and those in transit. Applications handled by local draft boards with clear outcomes and pay adjustments.
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Washington
War Department
Oan
Iinet
Thea
Warrisk
Secretary of War
Secretary of Agriculture
Military
Naval Service
Navy
Committee On Classification of Personnel
Army
Department of Labor
Kaiser Seeks to Annihilate British Army in Great Battle
The article reports a major German push on the Western Front, with britain and allied forces under heavy pressure from Armentieres to Givenchy. American troops are arriving and fighting alongside British and French, while Lloyd George pushes a broad conscription bill including Ireland. The piece notes Allied resolve, supply strength, and planned intensified actions as the war rages.
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Kaiser
Lloyd George
Ireland
West Front
France
Belgium
Verdun
Amiens
Flanders
Armentieres
Givenchy
Messines Ridge
Bethune
Songish
England
America
Baker
Pershing
Toul
Wilson
Baltimore
Count Czernin
Clemenceau
Germany
von Hertling
von Kuehlmann
von Helfferich
Russia
Kharkov
Lgoyv
Kursk
Finland
White Guard
Finnish
Vladivostok
Siberia
American
Great Britain
Harbin
Bessarabia
Thussian
Roumania
Ukraine
Treland
California Syrup of Figs Ad Urges Child Laxative Use
An old advertisement promotes California Syrup of Figs as a universal remedy for a sick child. It urges mothers to check the tongue for signs of constipation and claims the fruit laxative will cleanse the liver and bowels without griping. It notes directions on each bottle and warns against counterfeit syrups.
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California
California Fig Syrup Company
Adv
The Last to Use Them
Vern confronts neighbors over garden tools in a tense exchange about TD time and waiting, highlighting a local dispute over shared items and etiquette.
Tobacco Tastes Better Toasted Suggested By Lucky Strike Ad
An American Tobacco Co. campaign proclaims tobacco tastes better toasted. The ad explains toasted Burley tobacco gives a mellow flavor and says Lucky Strike cigarettes taste like pipe tobacco.
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American Tobacco Co
Red hair fashion quotes spark memory of past rage
The fragment recalls a craze for red hair and a belief it was dyed, capturing a playful nod to fashion trends and public opinion. The remark hints at a lively debate over hair color and style within a historical context.
Free booklet promises cure for piles by Reed Distributing Co
Advertisement offers a free booklet on the cure of piles sent to any address from Reed Distributing Co. at 146 Godwin St Paterson NJ promoting Eagle Pile Remedy as a non surgical internal treatment. It notes a one dollar box suffices for a week and urges every sufferer to own a copy. A second line oddity comments on marriage as a blotter for the past.
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Reed Distributing Co
Godwin St. Paterson
N. J
Ady
Wright's Vegetable Pills and Pure Blood Tonic Ad
An old advertisement touts Wright's action Vegetable Pills for stomach ailments and a Pure Blood Tonic with iron and quinine. It claims quick relief, promotes trial boxes from 372 Pearl St New York, and adds a quip about divorce courts and the stage.
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Wright
Pearl St
New York
Ady
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Department of Agriculture
Oklahoma
County Councils of Defense
Committee On Public Information
Reichstag
Daimler Motor Works
Daimler Company
Berliner Tageblatt
Reichstat
Daimler
Vorwaerts
Raimler
Net of Congress
Law Department
Vision
United States Food Administration
Washington, D. C
Secretary of the Treasury
Bureau of Warrisk Insurance
United States
National Guard
National Army
Department of Agrculture
Maureh
The
Treasury
Market Square
Town Hall
Artts
General Pershing
Guy Empey
Liberty Loan
City Hall Square
Alten
Edward W. Pickard
Alyette
Coucy
Oise
Chauny
George Creel
Congress
Senate
Jeel
Congressimen
Underwood
Samuel Gompers
Phillips
Clyde, Mallory
Southern
Ines
McAdoo
Shipping Board
Allenby
Palestina
Jerusalem
Therlin
Ee Salt
Towa
Wow
Aooman
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