Untold Stories From Draft Board Experience During War
Across nearly five thousand draft boards in the United States, the wartime records reveal slacking, courage, examinations, personal economics, tragedy, and humor. Boards saw bribes refused, brave refusals to aid bribery, and rulings enforcing enlistment. The human fabric of 25 million registrants, with boards staffed by dedicated professionals, yielded lessons for the war and the future.
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United States
America
France
Clinse
Crowt der
Supreme Court
Form Jewish Bureau To Fight Turk Rabbi
The Jewish correspondence bureau at The Hague warns against Turkish Grand Rabbi Shaim Nahum and deputy Nissin Nazirah arriving from Constantinople en route to America and Paris. The bureau says they seek to stir sentiment favorable to Turkey and pit entente powers against each other in the East. Shaim opposes Jewish national and Zionist aims. Jews see liberation under British protection as path to an independent state.
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Amsterdam
Hague
Shaim Nahum
Nissin Nazirah
Constantinople
America
Paris
Turkey
Shaim
Kaiser Wilhelm II Emperors Fame as Flattery Beacon
The article portrays Kaiser Wilhelm II as self confident and amused by flattery. Courtiers and media praised him while noting his faults and illusions. Quotes show his view of himself as German emperor and king of Prussia, with contemporaries describing him as a near mythic figure. His brother Heinrich fames the gospel of Wilhelm II before a Far East voyage.
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Wilhelm II
Prussia
Nero
Caligula
Kaiser Wilhelm 11
Eulenberg
Heinrich
Far East
Wilhelm
Women in Chinese Armed Forces Histories Revealed
The Tao Ping rebellion saw 1850 women and men serving in the ranks. In Nan king in 1858, an army of 500 900 women were recruited and organized into brigades of 13 000 each under women officers.
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China
Russia
Nanking
Knocks Perambulator Into Bits Baby Unhurt
Evansville Indiana report: Mrs Anna Brown crossing with a baby carriage was struck by a car. The carriage wrecked and the child was tossed several feet but landed on a lawn uninjured. A New York man has invented a resilient pass for road strike signs.
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Evansville
Ind
Anna Brown
New York
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