Great Battle Looms On Marne As Allies Brace For Clash
Analyzed is a looming Marne battle with Allied reserves readied and German pressure pressing toward Paris. The piece argues the war’s turning point may come here but notes Paris’s potential evacuation could shift to a Loire defense with American forces arriving.
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Marne
France
Joffre
Foch
Paris
Italy
United States
Loire
Atlantic Ocean
Sturperior
Express merger promise sparks debate on benefits
A press dispatch predicts that merging large express companies will yield savings of millions and improved service to millions. Critics question whether the prediction comes from originators or outsiders and note rising rates under government rail control, arguing government merging may not prove monetary benefits.
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Buc
Literature’s epochal shift in war era fiction
The piece argues war conditions are creating a new literary epoch beyond past classification. Fiction cannot yet capture the battlefield vitality, and great epic writers, painters, or sculptors cannot convey the scale of modern warfare. Future fiction may surge beyond current styles as truth emerges and history is recorded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milton
After the War the News Will Hold Factual Tales
The piece argues that postwar reporting will favor bald facts over fiction while officials and historians craft authentic accounts from official documents. It contemplates whether a new Golden Age or a Renaissance will emerge from the great events now unfolding.
Wright and Fentiman Fire and Police Commissioner Debate
The piece argues John Fentiman is not an anti-machine candidate. Wright is favored for fire and police commissioner, while a small faction backs Fentiman. Beethoven Hall crowd shows strong Wright support. election seen as Wright’s if supporters vote. Also notes wartime tax talk and editor bravado amid broader political and war climate.
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John Fentiman
Fentiman
Machine
Fire
Phil Wright
Beethoven Hall
Jim Stevens
Stevens
Mr. Wright
Wright
McAdoo denies newspaper lobby in tax law push
Secretary McAdoo rejects claims that a newspaper lobby influenced the push for revenue legislation. In a letter from White Sulphur Springs, he asserts no one near him or the treasury staff was pressured by any lobby and defends the need for revenue measures amid rising war expenditures.
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Washington, D. C
McAdoo
Representative Kitchin
North Carolina
House
Kitchin
White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Congress
the Treasury
Internal Revenue
Treasury
Russians Need Aid Says Italian Consul In Harbin
Italian consul Slenor Decuadra in Harbin says Russia in Siberia is helpless and intervention by Japan or allied forces may save the country. He notes Bolsheviks have armed German and Austrian prisoners and cites a possible American show of concern. Prices of rubles have risen as Chinese anticipate a Japanese Siberian expedition.
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Associated Press
Toko
Slenor Decuandra
Harbin
Siberia
Irkutsk
Slenor Decuadra
Seemenoff
New York
Letters to The Light Signatures required for letters
A civic notice explains that letters to The Light must be signed by the writer and that typed signatures or stamps are considered anonymous. It notes the paper may publish incomplete letters and that publication does not imply endorsement by the publishers. A civilian draft-age writer asks for civilian drill groups to train before enlistment and suggests local officers or businessmen organize one. The writer signs as T M Smith.
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Ign
Army Bill Passed Expanding U.S. War Mobilization
The House approved the largest annual army appropriation totaling 12 041 882 000 and authorized calling into service all trainable men. The measure, aimed at a 3 000 000 strong army for the coming year, funds the Quartermaster Corps, ordnance, engineers, aviation, and the Medical Corps.
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Washington, D. C
House
Senate
France
Quartermaster Corps
Engineers
Medical
Draft objectors to be put to work on farms as soldiers
Drafted men claiming conscientious objection to military service will be segregated at Fort Leavenworth Kansas to undergo a final test of sincerity. If found sincere by a special board they may be furloughed to work on farming labor for private pay, with funds above pay going to the Red Cross. The board includes Judge Mack Dean Stone and Major Stoddard.
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Washington, D
Wilson
Fort Leavenworth
Kans
Oerder
Baker
Mack
Chicago
Dean Stone
Columbia Law School
Stoddard
Judge Advocate General's Office
Triends Reconstruction Unit
France
Red Cross
Tagging for Serbia Drives Street Acknowledgment
Dozens of women and girls in San Antonio gathered on downtown street corners Saturday morning to tag pedestrians for Serbian relief. They cited Mrs. Paul Yeftich’s talk on wartime suffering, collected donations for a national relief fund, and planned to send funds to New York. Local organizers included Mrs. W. B. McMillan and other volunteers in drug stores and shops.
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Serbia
Paul Yeftich
Texas
Groos National Bays
New York
National
W. B. McMillan
George Saunders
Garrettson's
E. M. Burleson
Sumner’s
Amos Graves
Fischer's Drug Store
Iaaura Girard
Burns’ Drug Store
Ralph Hugo
Gunter Slater
B. L. Naylor
Noah Allen
Wolfson
Dry Gods
Daisy Coltrane
Miss Cole
Navarre and
Commerce Streets
Nat B. Lorio
Banford
Wolff & Marx
Fragmented Texas paper excerpts lampoon war and local life
A collage of column snippets from multiple Texas papers mocks World War I figures and German strategy while noting local concerns. It cites editorials from Greenville Banner, Grandview Tribune, Waco News-Tribune, El Paso Herald, Dallas News, Houston Post, Galveston News, and others on topics from diplomacy and the war to lynching, Cuba, Mexico, and rising local costs. The piece also wades into civic matters in Tyler and Fort Worth, including well water access and school construction, blended with humorous quips about agriculture and revival of old technologies.
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Waco News-Tribune
el Paso Herald
Paris
Dallas News
Teutons
Bailey
The
Houston Post
McAdoo
Cuba
Mexico
Galeveston News
Clarksville Times
Saxony
Navasota Examiner
Kaiser
Aa Lewie
Wills Point
Bonham News
McWinney Herald
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Wright and Fentiman
Ohio
Sherman
Germany
London Morning Post
Venice
Oll San Marco's Square
Peil
Arthur Lewis Tubbs
Boston Transcript
Cyclops
Boston
Naronic
M’adoo
LAW
Canee An
Carrie
Johnny
Mathe
Tolan
Galveston
T. M. Smith
Hylan
Washington
Pullman Company
Greenville Banner
Old Hindenburg
Mir
Hohenzollern
Grandview Tribune
Bardwell Herald
Beaumont Tribune
Squire
Morning Tribune
Tyler Tri Lune
Tribune
Tyler
Techs
Ant
SEW Club
Burs Tt
By Briggs
Tribune Asaoc
New York ‘Tribune
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