Decent Treatment of Soldiers Amid War Time Public Scrutiny
A veteran essay argues for protecting soldiers from demeaning public signs while praising disciplined conduct. It recalls Roosevelt’s wartime stance and Kipling’s Tommy Atkins, notes civilian salutes, and highlights a rail dining car gesture to soldiers. A Petrograd report alleges German efforts to fraternize with Russians, linking to broader wartime tensions.
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Europe
America
Roosevelt
Kipling
Tommy Atkins
Petrograd
Jutland
Berlin
Kerensky
Farmers and the Liberty Loan campaign and taxation notes
The piece argues farmers will bear the war’s burden through Liberty Loan bonds, noting crop shortfalls versus 1917 estimates, wartime export demand, and anti tax exemptions for farmers. It warns that if farmers fail to subscribe, the government will enforce taxation or wealth conscription, referencing Adams County and political figures of the era.
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Adams County
The Teacher as Honorable Occupation and Path to Growth
The article extolls teaching as the most honorable and self-respecting profession. It argues teachers shape character, inspire love of learning, and influence reform from childhood, noting teaching offers intellectual growth despite modest pay and hard work. It lauds teachers as rare, virtuous, and essential to society.
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United States
Kings
Crare
Football and mischief among the Jennior Home Guards
In Our School Saturday describes the Jennior Home Guards forming a football club between soldiers and civilians, with a playful war analogy as Harvard and Yale. It notes a failed Mary Pickford visit and Lilac Grimes’s attempt to influence acting chances, plus Phil Wigglesworth’s strange fear of water after a mad dog bite anecdote.
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Jennior
Brigham
Andy
Harvard
Yale
Lilac
Mary
Lile & Gen
Phil Wigglesworth
Phil Sas
Chatterer the Red Squirrel In The Beech Nut Chase
In Thornton Burgess animal tale Chatterer the Red Squirrel is a greedy noisy rival to Buster Bear over beech nuts. Chatterer’s scolding and scheming drive others away, but his own greed leaves him empty while neighbors enjoy their share amid the Green Forest.
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Chatterer
Thornton W. Burgess
Buster
Buster Bear
Lightfoot
Red Squirrel
Green Forest
Whitefoot
Wood Mouse
Happy Jack Squirrel
Sammy Jay
Politicians in Washington gamble with the nation's safety
The piece denounces Democratic leaders for partisan war politics that favor the south, argue against northern regiments being split, and warn that disorganizing state units harms the National Army and national welfare amid World War tensions. It calls for a firm line against disbanding northern regiments and warns of the political gamble.
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Springfield Journal
Washington
North
Democratic Party
Fifth regiment kept intact urged by Adams county
A submitted letter to the editor from Adams county asks that the Fifth regiment remain part of the local community and requests a telegram with the charges. Kaiser reaches Sofia reports the German emperor arriving in Sofia with Prince August Wilhelm and Foreign Secretary Von Kuehlmann. The Lords library holds about 60,000 volumes.
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Whig
Adams County
Fifth
Kaiser
Sofia
Amsterdam
Prince August Wilhelm
von Kuehlmann
The
House of Lords
Southern Corn Bread Traditions And A Century Old Batter Bread Recipe
Southern cooks favor corn bread meals twice daily, with diverse forms like batter bread and spoon bread. The piece contrasts Southern taste with Northern preferring yellow meal, and shares a 100 year old batter bread recipe using ground corn meal milk eggs rice butter and baking powder baked in a hot oven for thirty minutes.
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South
North
War Gardens Harvest Advice For Storing Horseradish
Readers are told to lift horseradish roots now to store for winter use. Cut tops, set roots in a cool cellar in sand or covered with garden earth, then dig and grate as needed later. A separate report from Peoria, Illinois, notes 600 Leghorn chickens burned in a poultry plant fire caused by an overheated stove.
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Peoria
Ill
David Farrow
City Physicians Explain Why They Prescribe Nuxated Iron
New York doctors and others tout Nuxated Iron as a vital iron source. They claim it boosts red blood cells, strengthens nerves, and improves stamina, with testimonials from Dr. Ferdinand King and Dr. A J Newman. The ad urges readers to test their strength, then take five grain tablets twice daily and notes guarantees and local pharmacy availability.
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New York
N. Y
Ferdinand King
America
A. J. Newman
City of
Chicago
Jefferson Park Hospital
Schuyter C. Jaques
St. Elizabeth's Hospital
Sauer
Boston
Thi
Ron
Schuyler C. Jaques
Sur- Keen
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital
York City
Europe
Miller and Arthur Drug Co
Kiefer's Pharmacy
Brown and Marys Drug Co
J. B. Bernbrock
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Farmers and the Liberty Loan
von Cappelle
Junkers
Mr. Hohensollern
Mr. Hapsburg
East Front
Frank Crane
By Webster
Henry
H.T. Webster
Charley Chaplin
Mary Pickford
Lilac Grimes
Genevieve Hicks
Lile
Genevieve
Gen
Misa Pickford
W. E. Miller, M. D
Charities of Philosophia
Dr.feri
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