Global War News And Domestic Debates Stir Public Interest
A wide roundup reports on wartime changes and tensions from around the world. Erie railroad plans to replace clerks with women as a war measure while U S forces clash with German submarines and British shipping suffers mixed losses. Domestic actions include grain price controls, conscription battles, and food conservation measures.
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Binghampton
N. Y
Erie Railroad
New York
Chicago
Compromise Reached on Army Draft Bill Amid War News
The Ways and Means Committee sent the war revenue bill to the House proposing $1.8 billion in taxes to fund WWI, hitting nearly every household. Changes include 2 percent income surcharges, higher import duties, 2 cent tea tax, and 1 cent coffee tax. The draft age is set at 21 to 30, with exemptions and pay raises for enlisted men.
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Congress
Washington
House
Senate
United States
Edward W. Pickard
House of Representatives
Ways and Means Committee
British Isles
Roosevelt Expeditionary Force
National Guard
Germany
Great Britain
Indiana State News Roundup of Postwar Civic Efforts
Indiana towns report Red Cross activity in Decatur and Fort Wayne, farm loan group formed in Bloomington, seed potatoes offered by Associated Charities in Rochester, and flag raising across multiple communities. Indiana University freshmen plan sending caps to Europe, counties organize pig clubs, and officials address storms, fishing, and railway timing. A broad mix of local actions includes church dedications, charity drives, and public works while authorities discuss lottery prosecutions and peace-time governance.
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Decatur
Red Cross
Ft. Wayne
Aliceville
Bloomington
Monroe County National Farm Loan Association
L. E. Butcher
Rochester
Associated Charities
Indiana University
Europe
Logansport
G. A. R. Brimfield
Lawrenceburg
Jeffersonville
Fort Wayne
James W. Sale
Bluffton
Lake Cicott
Eli Byers
Paul Good
Indianapolis
Goodrich
Indiana
Earl Ogden
Peru
First Christian Church
Newcastle
Henry County
Elrod
M. E. Church
Worthington
Baety
Glenn Valley
Ellis Hurt
Hence Orme
Marion County Horticulture Society
Crawfordsville
John C. Snyder
Tribe of Ben Hur
Evansville
New Albany
State Sunday School Association
Wilbur A. Kleiman
Richmond
Henley Roller Skate Company
Greensburg
Hartford City
Blackford County
The
W. C. Niece
Mary Bogdin
Preachers’ Aid Society
Aurora
Calla Kassebaum
Huntington
Isaac Higgins
Petersburg
L. O. Edsons
F. M. Brown
Lake Helena
Fla
Sharpsville
N. L. Hutto
John Conn
Miami County
Joseph H. Shirk
Anderson
Remy Co-Operative
Remy
Muncie
Madison
Solomon J. Bear
People’s Trust Company
Lebanon
Business Men's Association
Chili
Warsaw
Kosciusko County
Tipton
South Bend
J. M. Studebaker, Jr
Studebaker Company
M. L. Powell
Mount Vernon
German Evangelical Synod
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U.S
Teutonic War News
East
War Department
Union
Liberia
American Line
Ireland
Wilhelmshaven
Amsterdam
Korniloff
Petrograd
Mongolia
Atlantic
Zeebugge
Rotterdam
Italy
Trieste
Rome
Mediterranean
Reichstag
Berlin
Wagener
Buss
London
Saloniki
Lake Doiran
Fresnoy
Fresnoy Village
Des Moines
el Paso
Tex
United States Field Artillery
Secretary of Commerce
Redfield
Federal Bureau of Standards
Marshal Joffre
Military Academy
West Point
Rock Island
Jacob Livingston
Esther Howits
Benjomn Hochstadt
Grayson
Harrisburg
Claude Humphreys
Walter Easton
Walter Calhoun
Victor Lewein
Warrensburg
Illinois Grain Dealers’ Association
Springfield
National
Bank of
Wausau, Wis
Chicago Board of Trade
Peace River
Winnipeg
Council of Soldiers and Workmen's
Roosevelt
France
Wilson
State Department
Russia
Elihu Root
Hugh L. Scott
James H. Glennon
Charles R. Crane
John R. Mott
Cyrus B. McCormick
Samuel R. Bertron
James Duncan
Charles Edward Russell
Gore
Crowder
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Macedonia
Paris
Saunders
Naval Consulting Board
Navy
French War Commission
Central West
Philadelphia
America
French Chamber of Deputies
Alsace-Lorraine
Balfour
von Bethmann-Hollweg
Prussia
Wilhelm
House of Hohenzollern
Borgjerg
German Socialist Democratic Party
Russian
Poland
Belgium
Serbia
Roumania
Bulgaria
Adriatic
International Socialist Conference
Stockholm
Morris Hulquit
Algernon Lee
Greece
Constantine
Baron Sonnino
Milyoukov
Prince of
Udine
Marconi
Herbert C. Hoover
Council of National Defense
Department of Agriculture
Baron Devonport
Sweden
England
Gulf of Bothnia
Lens
Ruprecht
Bavaria
Wood
Drocourt-Queant
Japan
War Council
Henry P. Davison
J. P. Morgan & Co
Davison
Morgan
Indiana State News
Gare Montparnasse
Clarence R. Edwards
Department of the Northeast
N.S. Simpkins
Boston
Princess Maude of Fife
Prince of Wales
D. C. Bingham
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