Open minded executives for wartime production
An assessment of F John D. Ryan and Charles M. Schwab as wartime leaders in aircraft and shipbuilding, noting Ryans copper industry background and open minded approach. It contrasts their expertise, warns against preconceptions, and stresses the need for capable assistants to achieve mass airplane production. The piece also questions wartime German propaganda from Wolff News Bureau.
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John D. Ryan
Charles M. Schwab
Mr. Ryan
America
Ryan
Schwab
War Industries
Berlin
Germany
Wolff
State pride and patriotism during wartime centennial
The centennial of Illinois statehood faced questions about celebrating while a war loomed. Gov Lowden pushed to keep the event as a revival of national patriotism through state pride, arguing Americans first and Illinoisans second. The draft army size drew agreement on a force large enough to defeat Germany.
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Illinois
Mexico
Lowden
Germany
Creel questioned for head of government publicity bureau
Congress doubts Creel as fit for the government information post though his critics include Hopewell Rogers. Creel asks the American Newspaper Publishers Association to thoroughly investigate the bureau’s work, arguing that wartime publicity may benefit from the press group’s judgment.
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Eorge Creel
Government Information Bureau
Congress
Creel
Washington
American Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Hopewell Rogers
Association
Why Do Movie Plots Fail Says Reader at Opera
A reader vents fury at a film for its weak story while praising visuals and performances. The critic questions why billionaires hire top talent and yet rely on cheap storytelling, contrasting Mary Pickford's pay with writers' meager rates and recounts a Southern Illinois barber anecdote about a presidential speech.
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Chopin
D. Desmond
J. P. Morgan
Mary Pickford
Billy Mason
Southern
Illinois
Yaasir
Publicizing U S Casualty Lists Faces Debate
New York Evening Post Hereafter will publish both names and addresses of Americans listed as casualties in France. The move marks a victory for critics of wartime secrecy and reconciles Pershing's strict orders with American public need. The War Department and George Creel argued, while Secretary Baker and President Wilson weighed broader access to casualty details.
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New York Evening Post
France
General Pershing
Atlantic
America
Pershing
War Department
George Creel
Committee On Public Information
Baker
Wilson
Allied Airmen Busy With German Depots
Amsterdam dispatch reports Allied airmen harassing German supply routes. Les Nouvellers cites sinking of 23 Belgian boats near the front in Picardy, plus damage to the Namur Luxemburg bridge and a munitions train at Hannut with many Germans killed or wounded. German losses total about one million marks in shells.
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Amsterdam
Les Nouvellers
Hague
Picardy
Luxenberg
Namur
Hannut
Belgium
Killig
Private Danny’s War Book Chapter 30 Confirms Private Rank
The narrator reflects on misperceptions of rank in a military memoir style entry. He realizes the corporal title was temporary and jokes about the futility of ambition, preferring life as a cheerful private drawing a modest 30 bucks. He vows to avoid kitchen police and night guard duties while avoiding reduction in rank.
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Danny
Jake Wart
Wart
Submarine project by local boys ends with leaks in creek
IN OUR SCHOOL SATURDAY. NDY ANDERSON and friends built a make shift submarine from packing cases and stove pipe in Bilaney's crick. They filled it with rocks to sink it and tested it in the water, aiming to reach deep water or ocean depths. They planned to vanish and reappear in Berlin near the Kaiser. NOTES: Torp Stebbins' father came home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ndy Anderson
Ex Brigham
Steve Hardy
Torp Stebbins
Bilaney
Crick
Andy
Cathher
Berlin
Kiser
Piper the Hyla Explains Frog and Toad Identity
Peter Rabbit learns Piper the Hyla is a Frog, not a Toad, and that Hyla belong to the Frog family as the Fryla branch. Piper, grown yet wary of being large, explains differences in appearance and jumping, while noting public mislabeling of frogs and toads.
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Peter Rabbit
Smiling Pool
Piper
Hyla
Peter
Piper the Hyla
Sticky-toes
Tam
Mr. Toad
Grandfather Frog
Hylas
Fryla
Weill
Youngster Flivver Work Leads To Bath Night Worries
Early in the day the boyish crew worked on a flivver lent by a rich aunt as gas prices rose. Mister Stebbins nearly got it moving with a push. Torp jokes of adding shafts to hitch a horse, while Phil Wigglesworth hopes his mother stays in Byville overnight to skip tub night.
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Stebbins
Torp
Phil Wigglesworth
Byville
Phil
Frost proof cabbage plants for early garden mise
Early cabbage planting tips advise buying frost proof plants started and hardened for immediate setting. Split orders between Jersey Wakefield and Copenhagen Market varieties, but beware cabbage space. Sow seed outside or in a cold frame to ensure a late season supply.
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Jersey Wakefield
Copenhagen
Hydroplane accident kills Ensign Alden near Fire Island
Ensign Spencer T. Alden of Fort Wayne Indiana was killed and student aviator Philip P. Mooser of Boston was seriously injured when a naval hydroplane they operated side clipped at 500 feet and crashed into Great South Bay near Fire Island inlet Saturday. The message ends with a remark about exemplifying duty over explanation.
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Babylon
Spencer T. Alden
Fort Wayne
Ind
Philip P. Mooser
Boston
Great South Bay
Fire Island Inlet
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