Peace drives study of Russia supply routes for Austria and Germany
Le Figaro analyzes how peasant grain stocks, ruined railways, and scarce rolling stock affect German and Austrian hopes to obtain Russian grain and war materials. It notes peasants refuse to sell for depreciating paper money, transport bottlenecks, and limited potential for German gains in copper zinc nickel manganese and platinum from Russia.
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Austria
Germany
Ukraine
Anc
Russia
le Figaro
Paris
Caucasus
Roumania
Petrograd
Manesaake
Commandeer, Ag
Ural Mountains
Transcaucasia
Tiflise
Batoum
Black Sea
Constantinople
Canada in Wartime Sacrifice and Home Front Will
The piece lauds Canadian sacrifice on the western front including Ypres and notes Canada’s parallel home front effort. It highlights industrial, financial, and morale work done in Canada and the positive impact on communities and individuals as war supplies and morale improve.
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Ypres
Canada
France
United States
New York Evening Sur
Crediting the Wrong Men During a Military Church Service
In a World War I era church service British recruits hear a chaplain quote about Moses and the Egyptians. A recruit whispers that it was Kitchener who swiped the Egyptians, revealing a wartime joke about leadership and history.
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Moses
Bill
Paris Life and War Weather Through a Postwar Lens
The piece contrasts Paris living conditions and culture with New York during wartime, noting dining cheaply in small cafes, price contrasts on eggs and sugar, and abundant opera and theater. It describes Battisti is as a premier tenor, soldiers from American, British, Australian forces, romance in streets, and resilient Parisian mood despite winter hardships.
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Rest Sivns
New York
France
Paria
Paris
Battistini
Opera Comique
Russia
Intolerable Thing Emerges From German Intrigue
Fragmentary text cites a menacing German conspiracy and its leaders, described as an ugly force behind a covenanted plan. The piece frames the threat as a unified, covert menace led by German strategists, warning readers of impending aggression.
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Germany
Allied numerical and morale advantage in World War I
An analysis from the Scientific American argues that since the Marne the Allied forces have surged in size from France 1.5 million and Britain 100 thousand to 3 million and 2.5 million respectively, while German forces shrink in morale and youth. The piece notes American potential aid by 1914 turning into hundreds of thousands, and emphasizes Allied artillery superiority and better supply, with German manpower aged and weakened.
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Marne
France
England
United States
Germany
Endieso
North Sea
Scientific American
May Raise Torpedoed Ships Off Ireland After War
Lusitania may carry American troops to France and a salvage effort roils to raise ships from 300 feet off the Old Head of Kinsale. Experts aim to recover treasure from upper decks while considering beaching the wreck. Companies plan large scale salvage, valuing cargoes and metals, with past successes in divers’ recoveries cited.
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Lusitania
France
Ivage
Kinsale
Great Britain
Atlantic
Ireland
R. H. Davis
Skyro
Cape Finisterre
Independent English Family Powers Self Sufficiency in Diet
A family in England claims fourteen years of eating only raw vegetable salads and fruit, plus toast and porridge, without tea or coffee, has kept them strong. They grow their own vegetables and disdain queues for food, declaring themselves the most independent family in England.
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England
Lord Rhondda
Reece
London
New York World
Chew. Your Bit Victory Bread Claims No Wheat
A quirky fragment discusses a bread product called Victory bread made without wheat. It hints at bold marketing and daring tasting stunts as part of a promotional push by Roy x Moulton.
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Roy x Moulton
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West forecasts record year for larger prairie production
The Western provinces report larger 1917 crops with seeding prep in 1918. Saskatchewan aims for over two million more acres in crop, while Manitoba and Alberta bolster new breaking and fall plowing. Wheat value tops 100 million in Alberta and Manitoba, with Saskatchewan farm shipments near 230 million.
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Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Alberta
Thornhill
Prairie
West
Choise
St Boniface
Zoronte Globe
Britain population grows despite war drain
The article notes that despite manpower losses, Great Britain’s population rose by over 900,000 from the start of WWI to mid 1917. It contrasts German and Austrian declines, and mentions 200,000 marriages in England and Wales during August 1914 to June 1917 versus lower marriage rates in Germany and Austria.
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Great Britain
Germany
Austria
England
Wales
Playwright Predicts Praise After Death In Dialog
A playwright frets that his works will be praised posthumously while an actor consoles him. The exchange shifts to a pupil reciting a panther definition. a teacher prompts Dorothy who lispily defines a panther as a man who makes panth. A humorous line notes that cutting one’s own hair is shear nonsense.
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Dorothy
Chicago News
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