Tradesmen Needed in Signal Corps for War Service
The committee announces openings for signal corps trades such as drivers telegraph line workers switchboard operators telephone repairmen and radio technicians. Inductees join the Port Leavenworth training path and may serve as line crews photographers clerks and core specialists in France and at embarkation points.
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Washington
Moen
Tamd
Signal Corps
Oae
Duta
France
Nine Additional Holidays Decreed In War Review
A weekly news review details nine added holidays, protests, and evolving wartime issues. It highlights the Marine Corps preparedness under Maj. Gen. George H. Herrnett, naval bureau praise, and ongoing scrutiny of Secretary Baker. It summarizes European fronts, Bolshevik actions, and Allied diplomacy with focus on Russia, Romania, and Italy.
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Baker
Marine Corps
War Department
House
George Hirnett
Anmeerien
France
Cailiaux
Lansing
Calliaux
Count von Luxburg
Argentina
Foreign Office
Berlin
Isis
Italy
Garfield’s drastic five day fuel order shocks nation
Fuel Administrator Garfield announces five workless days east of the Mississippi to conserve coal. The plan, backed by President Wilson, faces massive protests, withheld wages, and swift congressional scrutiny as winter conditions strain industry and labor nationwide.
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Garfield
Mississippi
Louishina
Minnesota
Washington
Wilson
Congress
Senate Committee On Manufacturers
Senate
House
Doctor Garfield
America
United States
Germany Rejects All Peace Offers Says Chancellor
Chancellor von Hertling and Austria-Hungary's Czernin delivered replies to allied and American peace terms. They rejected core points of Wilson and Lloyd George, insisting Alsace-Lorraine remain non negotiable, and that Poland Balkans and Italian frontier fate rest with Austria-Hungary. Russia evacuation to be handled by Russia and central powers.
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von Ludendorff
von Kuehlmann
Trotzky
Lloyd George
Wilson
Stoffman
Lenine
Russia
Turkey
London
Turkestan
Petrograd
Poland
Balkans
Italy
Austria-Hungary
Germany
Count von Hertling
Count Czernin
United States
David Lloyd-George
Seriatim
Congress
von Hertling
France
Alsace-Lorraine
Austria
Dardanelles
Czernin
Interesting disclosures regarding the Army
Washington reports reveal confidential senate military committee testimony on U S army affairs at home and abroad. Representative McCormick said allied officials were concerned about war management coordination and Lloyd George suggested Leonard Wood as American military representative abroad. High generals urged Crozier and Sharpe be superseded.
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Washington
Senate Military Committee
Crozier
Ordnance
Congress
McCormick
Illnois
Lloyd George
Leonard Wood
Pershing
Sharpe
Forty Armed Mexicans Cross the Rio Grande in El Paso
In Paso Texas forty armed Mexicans crossed the Rio Grande in the southern part of El Paso. Soldiers and policemen armed with rifles rushed to the scene. Fifteen minutes after the initial clash firing continued. Private Linn on outpost duty was wounded. The Mexicans fired several hundred shots and then retreated across the river.
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Paso
Texas
Rio Grande
el Paso
Linn
In Doubt What Do You Think of the New Minister
A reader questions the new minister’s suitability. The dialogue notes uncertainty if his sermons will meet the writer’s expectations or align with the type they want to hear.
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Hether
Dormer-Why birthday candy safety joke from Cornell Widow
Dormer asks why storing birthday candy matters while Dormee notes it avoids galloping consumption. The item preserves a dated dormitory joke from Cornell Widow.
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Sanitary Engineering
Dormer
Cornell
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American Library Association
Uni
Anni
Pyre
Tonavenworth
Ivar
Artillery
Quartermasters
Engineers
Adjutant General's Clerk
Home Guards
Aviation Branch
United States Army
Spain
Navy
Porto Rico
Committee On Public Information
Bremer Buerger-Zeitung
Wald- Kirch
Freiburg
Breslau
Clara Ganter
Waaldkirch
Nee Gudl
Andy TV
Army
Ministry of Industry. Com
Tyeree
Tabor
Standarrd
Combat Shoe
Rome
Manu. Peenvinig
Hias
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Department of Labor
Ecainp
Cunha
Col
Theodore Roosevelt
Chester
West Front
Nation
Canada
England
Daniel Willard
Willard
War Industries Board
Can Woobe
Europe
Irkusk
Siberia
Orenburg
Tobolsk
British Labor Party
Middle East
Africa
India
Central Europe
von Hindenburg
Karlsruhe
Monte Asolone
Yarmouth
Geneva
Kiel
Edward W. Pickard
Wood
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