Bohemians Revolt Strains Hapsburg Rule In Prague
Revolt sweeps Bohemia as soldiers desert to Italy and join anti Austrian cause. Prague shows support for Wilson and independence while armies of France and Russia fight on. Emperor Charles faces pressure as unrest grows, Germany braces for Paris bombardment, and the Kaiser vows action to curb horrors.
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Hapsburg
Prague
Wilson
Independence
France
Russia
Bohemia
Hohenzollerns
Austria
Czernin
Charles
Germany
Paris
No Ordinary Profiteering Report Flares in Public Debate
The article reports that Wilson’s private investigator Borglum accuses an American Junkers group in aircraft production of a contract scheme designed to absorb the entire appropriation while delivering no usable planes. He claims a piratical scheme could bleed the government of over half a billion dollars. Hog Island compares as a wasted but productive contrast. Governor Gardner seeks a strong patriot to oppose Senator Reed.
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Wilson
Gutzon Borglum
Borglum
War Spirit Declining Says Current Opinion Writer
W Beach Thomas argues in Current Opinion that Germany’s war spirit and morale are in decline based on battlefront insights and talks with leaders. He notes Lusitania crisis united 100 million against Germany and predicts American military aid will grow by 1919, shifting the war’s balance as Austria faces internal strife and blamed pressure on the northern bully.
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Ermany
W. Beach Thomas
Tirpitz
Council
Hollweg
Lusitania
Germany
Make It Yourself in Music and Social Leisure
A reflective critique argues Americans are poor at making music for themselves preferring to hire professionals. The piece urges widespread participatory singing and playing over passive listening, citing cultural loss and calls for youth music education and public choral life as national renewal. It references Mendelssohn and the value of personal musical training for soul enrichment.
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Metropolitan Opera
Caruso
Farrar
Plato
Mendelssohn
Chicago’s Quota for Third Liberty Loan Is Praised
The Chicago Tribune lauds Southern Illinois for reaching its quota and praises farmers for a full 100 percent Americanism in the third Liberty loan. It urges Chicagoans to overcome disappointments, boost subscriptions, and join other cities in meeting the target before the deadline.
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Chicago Tribune
Chicago
Iown
Federal Reserve
Southern Illinois
The
Tribune
Ile
War Garden Tips For A Year Round Harvest
A wartime garden note urges staggered planting rather than one big sowing. Plant beets fifteen feet every ten days along a hundred foot row to yield fresh produce from spring to fall. Carrots turnips and kohlrabi follow the same rhythm, with a larger June planting to ensure winter roots.
Women Workers For Aurora Interurban
The Aurora Elgin and Chicago Railway company advertises for women to work in car shops and to serve as conductors on trains. Officials say men in the district are being drafted to the army so rapidly that employing women to fill vacancies is a necessity.
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Aurora
Book Drive Sparks Town Hall Big Box Pact
In a school town hall event, a Book Drive aimed to send a million books to soldiers and sailors. Sellers donated home books, filling large boxes before they were shipped out on an early milk train.
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Town Hall
Brigham’s
Bull Hickey
Phil Wigglesworth
Balch
Mr. Brigham
Milliken
Stuffy Belch
Blinky Hammond
Miss Palmer
Steve Hardy
Nail
Blinky
George McLaughlin
Miss Palmers
Phosphated Iron touted as nerve and blood tonic
Doctors praise Phosphated Iron as a nerve and blood builder that supplies phosphates and iron for nervous tissue and anaemic patients. The ad urges buyers to insist on the capsule form and to avoid substituted pills, naming Owl Drug Store and other druggists as sources.
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Owl Drug Store
Adv
Peter Succeeds At Last in Burgess Animal Tale
Peter Rabbit finally finds Piper the Hyla after a daydreaming misstep by the Smiling Pool. The shy search leads to the Hyla popping from a twig music bag, proving Peter can succeed where many have failed.
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Peter
Thornton W. Burgess
Piper the
Hyla
Piper
Son
Dei Piper
Resume Practice Of Giving Home Adk
Washington May 3 The department will resume the practice of giving home addresses to American soldiers named as casualties sent from France. The decision was made by Wilson with Secretary Baker after the secretary's return from France.
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Washington
Wilson
Baker
France
Ely's Balm for catarrh promises quick relief
A vintage advertisement claims Ely's Balm clears nasal passages in a minute, stops hawking and sneezing, and relieves headaches and dryness by soothing inflamed mucous membranes. It urges readers to buy a small bottle from their druggist and apply a fragrant cream in the nostrils for instant action.
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Ely
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Aurora Interurban
Paul West
House of Kappenhels
Brier
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Redtail the Hawk
Redtail
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