Worldwide War News from 1917 Echoes in Ore and Ocean
A wide transfer of labor as Erie Railroad signals replace clerks with women from New York to Chicago. Reports from Washington show recruiting lag in eastern states versus the West. Battles and submarine actions across Europe, Africa, and the Atlantic. Italian gains and Austrian losses in the Mediterranean. ships sunk and ports shelled. Parliament debates conscription and food controls. rail, steel, and finance measures unfold at home and abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Binghampton
N. Y
Erie Railroad
New York
Chicago
Washington
War Department
Union
Paris
Mediterranean
Saunders
Naval Consulting Board
Navy
France
French War Commission
Central West
Philadelphia
Congress
America
French Chamber of Deputies
Alsace-Lorraine
Wilson
Balfour
United States
War Revenue Bill and Global Fronts Steady Amid War Strain
The war revenue bill aims to raise 1.8 billion dollars with a 2 percent tax on higher incomes and broad levies on imports and daily goods. Congress also reconciles draft rules, sending nine regiments of engineers to France, while battles in northern France and Macedonia intensify as Britain and allies push to break German lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
France
Macedonia
Edward W. Pickard
House of Representatives
Ways and Means Committee
British Isles
Germany
von Bethmann-Hollweg
Prussia
Berlin
Wilhelm
House of Hohenzollern
Russia
Borgjerg
Petrograd
German Socialist Democratic Party
Russian
Poland
Belgium
Serbia
Roumania
Bulgaria
Adriatic
International Socialist Conference
Stockholm
Indiana Towns Report War Efforts and Local News
Indiana towns report Red Cross auxiliaries factories and farm loans. Illicit gambling crackdown actions such as lottery prosecutions. Local events include flag raisings church dedications and commemorations across Indianapolis Fort Wayne and Bloomington with mentions of schools, unions, and civic projects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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
Rhutton
Lake Cicott
Eli Byers
Paul Good
Indianapolis
Goodrich
Indiana
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
Community Association
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. Edson
F. M. Brown
Lake Helena
Fla
Sharpsville
N. L. Hutto
Peru
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
Also Mentioned on This Page
U.S
Teutonic War News
Liberia
Ireland
Wilhelmshaven
Amsterdam
Korniloff
Mongolia
Atlantic
Zeebugge
Rotterdam
Italy
Trieste
Rome
Reichstag
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
Milnois Grain Dealers’ Association
Springfield
National
Bank of
Wausau, Wis
Chicago Board of Trade
Peace River
Winnipeg
Man
Council of Soldiers and Workmen
Roosevelt
Senate
House
State Department
Elihu Root
Hugh L. Scott
James H. Glennon
Charles R. Crane
John R. Mott
Cyrus H. McCormick
Samuel R. Bertron
James Duncan
Charles Edward Russell
Gore
Adinistration
Crowder
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Roosevelt Expeditionary Force
National Guard
Great Britain
Morris Hillquit
Algernon Lee
Greece
Constantine
Baron Sonnino
Ass Milyoukov
Prince of
Udine
Marconi
Herbert C. Hoover
Council of National Defense
Department of Agriculture
Baron Devonport
Couties
Sweden
England
Gulf of Bothnia
Lens
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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