War plans and conscription drive reported by Edward W Pickard
A weekly news review outlines anticipated three to five years of war for the United States, plans for a massive supply commission, and a June 5 draft registration. It notes Russia’s upheaval, Italian advances toward Trieste, and Allied air superiority, with domestic labor organization and emergency measures amid tornado devastations.
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Edward W. Pickard
United States
America
France
England
Armans
Italy
Trieste
Trentino
Wilson
Bernard Baruch
Great Britain
Texas
West Virginia
Chicago
New York
Roosevelt
Mexico
Canada
Cuba
Uestly
Russia
Kerensky
Germany
Finance
Shingaroff
Boris Bakhmetieff
Tokyo
Siberia
Belgium
Maxim Gorky
D. Rizow
Berlin
Rizow
Socialist Party of France
Stockholm
Teutons
Austria
Julius Andrassy
Hungary
Tisza
San Giovanni
Adriatic
Goritz
West Front
Admiralty
Spain
Norway
Brazilian Chamber of Deputies
Senate
Brazil
Denmark fisher saves ax with rope and rock tale
A Danish fisherman drops his ax through a deep ice hole and, using a rock, a fish, and a 16 foot line, retrieves the ax along with the rock and fish by morning. Jacobsen’s wooden ship fame ends when it is cut up for fuel after a historic 1872 storm at Stettin.
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Shekkersten
Jacobsen
Stettin
Soren Jacobsen
Perdition
Norway Plows Vacant City Lots to Grow Potatoes
Norway embraces wartime farming by allotting 225 square yards per person on 40 acres at Thorshaug 45 acres at Frogner and 18 acres at Ekeberg manor with 150 acres for the poor. expected yield about 180 bushels per acre totaling 27 000 bushels as a city uplift while neutrality strains amid German submarine actions. The piece notes rising prices for farmers and a push to cultivate land as U S entry into the war changes prospects.
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Christiania
Thorshaug
Frogner
Ekeberg
Berg Estate
Etterstad
Kaoiser Wilhelm
Europe
Norway
United States
America
Germany
Sweden Mourns Sinkings of Vesterland Aspen and Viken
News from Stockholm reports German submarines sank the Swedish steamers Vesterland Aspen and Viken with grain shipments from England. Eight crew members of the Viken and two aboard the Vesterland were lost. Press reaction across major papers branded the act a deliberate crime and condemned Germany.
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Vesterland
Aspen
Viken
England
Stockholm
Stockholm Tidningen
Stockholm Dagblad
Germany
Sweden
Svenska Dagbladet
Dagbladet
Finland Presses for Self Government and National Identity
Finnish clerk Jan Jansen describes Finland seeking self government in all affairs that affect the nation. He notes aims include Finnish schools with a Finnish flag, language, literature and history, and preserving Finnish nationality amid past Russian rule and taxes totaling about 80 million marks annually.
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Jan Jansen
Finland
Russia
Jansen
van Seyn
Four weeks in hospital and a remedy testimonial
Cleveland Ohio woman recounts four weeks in hospital with severe pelvic pain and fainting. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with relief, urging others to try it before returning home. An accompanying London Tit-Bits anecdote describes a coal porter's violent threat to a German waiter over high prices.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia E
Pinkham
W. C. Browne
12Th St
Tyneside
London
About the Thing What does a press censor do pop
A wry note from the Baltimore American on press censorship stating that a censor simply stirs up anger among people. The quip suggests censorship provokes strong reactions rather than quieting discourse.
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Pop
Baltimore American
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