The Changing City and Its Moving Residents
The city’s moving month brings many changes as owners sell high priced homes and old houses are renovated. Neighbors part, new faces arrive, and blocks lose their familiar landmarks. Renovations reshape four room cottages on pricey land, altering the city youth memories. The change mirrors two decades of growth restrained by national conditions.
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Joneses
Mrs. Jones
Mr. Jones the Jones
Mr. Jones
New municipal slavery in Akron and the housing squeeze
The piece contrasts Akron’s prewar housing boom driven by rubber plants with a taxi backed scramble for rental homes, noting that newspaper offices became race courses to grab advertised rentals. It argues for rapid home building now to relieve scarcity, citing war-driven construction slowdowns and urging immediate action.
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Akron
Ohio
Capital
Quincy
Cay Se
Legislative Investigating Committee
Argonne-Meuse casualties vs Civil War battles compared
Fred Haskin's Daily Quiz explains casualties at the Argonne Meuse were 183 percent of those engaged, while Gettysburg 20 percent, Murphysboro 23 percent, Shiloh 24 percent, and Chicamauga 25 percent. It also notes American voting records on war measures, Ace pilots, global use of the Metric System, forest ranger duties, Walt Whitman’s life, and a Negro assistant to the secretary of war.
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Argonne-Meuse
R.W. HH
Argonne- Meuse
Gettysburg
Murphysboro
Shiloh
Chicamauga
England
United States
China
France
Germany Rejects Peace Terms In Speech To Assembly
Herr Scheidemann denounces Allied demands as a jail for Germany, arguing treaties would strip Germany of mines, tariffs, cables, and colonies while forcing forced labor and fixed prices. He urges continued negotiations, condemns perpetual hatred, and appeals for unity with the world to preserve humanity.
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Germany
Wilson
Herr Scheidemann
Entente
Lorraine
Upper Silesian
Sarre Valley
Posen
West Prussia
Clemenceau
Italy
Great Britain
France
National Assembly
Jenny Wren's Sharp Tongue and Homeward Song
Jenny Wren chides Peter Rabbit about hunger and home but admits the comfort of returning to Old Orchard. Peter taunts her tongue while gadding about, and Mr Wren’s forceful singing underlines the lively spring, as Jenny defends their homeland and shared life. Next story previews Jenny Wren's Ideas About Dress.
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Jenny Wren
Eter Rabbit
Peter
Jenny
Mr. Wren
Baker Favors Guard Built On Old Lines
Secretary Baker indicated informal approval of reorganizing the national guard along prewar lines. The War Department would support rebuilding to allow states to supply the same units that formed the 16 divisions in France, with changes from wartime experience and a hope to preserve 1917 insignia and unit designations.
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Washington
National Guard
Baker
War Department
France
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Russia
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Daily Quiz
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Poe
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Whitman
Indian Bureau
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Interior
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Washington, D. C
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Emanuel
Portugal
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Philadelphia
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New
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Hea
Chas. H. Fletcher
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Lexington
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J. A. Gaines
Ripley, Tenn
J. G. Parman
Nashville, Tenn
A. J. Johnson
Stevens Point
Wis
Castoria
the Cantaur Company
York City
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