U S Moves to Lead World Trade After War
President Wilson urges gallant help to rebuild shattered nations as the United States orchestrates a global trade drive. The plan includes foreign reserve banks, Commerce Department attaches, a merchant fleet program, and a tariff board to shield the home market while expanding American exports.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Europe
Wilson
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States of America
Federal Reserve Banks
England
Department of Commerce
Congress
Seven Seas
Urges Use of Water Power for NationWide Development
Washington March 4 report notes a senate recommendation to enable 42 million water horsepower, surpassing Europe’s total. US holds about 61 million, with 44 million in western public-lands states, underutilized. Proponents call waste and urge legislation to boost irrigation, rail electrification, and electrochemical industries.
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Washington, D. C
Europe
Senate
Public Land Committee
United States
United States Geological Survey
West
Myers
Montana
Wounded French Officer Escapes From Foel
Paris reports a French captain from an African regiment who escaped captivity in Germany after a chest wound. He fled via Belgium to Holland and England, passing as a Belgian citizen. Back in France he supplied valuable information and earned the Croix de Guerre after earlier earning the Legion of Honor.
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Paris
Germany
Charleroi
Red Cross
France
Belgium
Holland
England
Foot Size Deception Sparks Repeated Shoe Store Swap
A woman visits a shop to buy shoes and a clerk jokes that one foot is larger. She storms out and goes to another store where a clerk notes one foot is smaller. She buys a pair there and has returned ever since, leaving readers to wonder why.
Doctor and cat insomnia remedy joke
A man complains to a doctor that noise keeps him awake at night. The physician prescribes a powder and explains its use by giving instructions to administer it to a cat rather than the patient.
Americans in Germany condemn Ambassador Gerard over passport abuses
Berlin March 4 Americans in Germany criticise Ambassador James G Gerard for anti German stance and passport confiscations. A letter from John T Adams cites cases in Dresden Stuttgart Berlin and mentions a war correspondent whose mail and telegrams were blocked for supporting Germany.
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Berlin
James G. Gerard
Germany
United States
Continental Times
John T. Adams
Stuttgart
State Department
Dresden
Wilson
Gerard Ironeally
Austria
Lansing
Hindenburg Acts as Godfather for German Pastor’s Son
The Rev. Gotfried Cross, pastor of Stras burg in Western Prussia, announced his tenth son. He telegrammed Field Marshal von Hindenburg asking him to be godfather, and Hindenburg sent a staff officer to represent him at the christening.
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Hindenburg
Berlin
Gotfried Cross
Strasburg
Prussia
von Hindenburg
Zeppelins Test New Bombs Near Lake Constance
In Zurich on March 4 reports say two weeks of terrible explosions have rocked the Lake Constance area. Zeppelin tests interrupted travel between Friedrichshafen and the Swiss ports Romanshorn and Roschach, halting navigation for days.
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Lake Constance
Friedrichshafen
Romanshorn
Roschach
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