No Vacant Hous es Used For War Effort In Jersey Shore
Atlantic City and South Jersey property owners prompt patriotic use of idle homes during wartime. Owners with extra houses could offer them to government, convert mansions into hospitals or barracks, or rent at nominal rates to military families. Special trains planned to shuttle munition workers from shore resorts to plants. The piece commends self denial and economy as part of the win the war spirit.
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Atlantic City
South Jersey
Pacific Coast
Army
Navy
Protecting Our Trade After the War
The piece argues Germany cannot revive world trade soon after the war due to universal detestation of its crimes. It notes Germany’s right to attempt restoration but emphasizes other nations’ right to refuse any commercial or social dealings with Germany.
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Germany
Lessons From Germany On Foreign Trade and America
The speaker warns that postwar Europe will force nations to protect foreign trade. America lags in building overseas business and must learn from Germany's past tactics in Latin America, where inferior American-looking goods damaged trust. The war ends German trade, offering a chance to prevent Germany from employing those methods again.
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America
Germany
United States
South America
Motor Truck Freight Expansion Seen For Postwar Era
The article argues motor truck freight will rapidly grow as rail capacity strains. Private truck companies form in major hubs like Chicago and New York. Uniform highway laws, public highway ownership, and road improvements will drive interstate routes yet sparking capital. Opportunities in truck transportation rival America’s past transport peaks.
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Chicago
New York
America
Foundations of fortunes in motor truck transport
The article notes that some future great fortunes will be built now in the motor truck transportation business, highlighting the sector as a key source of wealth and enterprise.
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Edly
Allies may prosecute German war criminals after the war
A British statement links submarine commanders to atrocities such as the Lusitania sinking and the Belgian sailors murder. It argues allied pursuit will seize those responsible and bring them to court after peace, naming the Potsdam gang including the Kaiser and others as likely targets. It also notes the coming treaty would force Germany to surrender criminals to justice.
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Belgium
France
Germany
Gerard
Potsdam
Kaiser
Crown Prince
von Tirpitz
von Falkenhayn
von Bethmann-Hellweg
Our Sentiments and Voices of War Unity
A fragment shows verse with talking birds and workers and soldiers stressing mutual support. A sailor voice and workman pledge to stand together as ships sail for freedom. The piece ends with credits to the Employpo' Office in Norfolk Virginia.
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Iast
Vollines
Puramlees
Employpo
Norfolk
Central Supply Warehouses For American Army In France
An Associated Press report describes the vast depot at Gievres in central France, a massive supply hub for the American Army in transit to the front. The 80 warehouses hold food, clothing, ammunition, and ordnance with miles of yards of coal and hay, a giant refrigerating plant with 16 million pounds of beef, and extensive medical and gas defense stocks. German prisoners aid the operation while thousands of workers, including experts from Chicago packing houses, maintain the system feeding and equipping a million soldiers as they move toward the front.
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Gievres
France
America
Chicago
American Library Association
Pennsylvania
Associated Press
Signal Service
Army
Van
Fireside Reverie and vaudeville at Majestic theater
The Majestic Theater offers A Fireside Reverie headlining with Jack Princeton a striking clever stage piece. Eleanor Cochran Brie Zardo Muriel Hudson and Dave Jones perform in On the Bridal Path From Virginia A Hawaiian Night Enchantment plus Jennie Middleton and Svengali. Moore and Rose headline at the Royal with Retiring and Retired. Peacock Aley headline a tabloid drama with Alexandria James TP Donnovan Marie Tee and Alexander Brothers Evelyn. Francis X Bushman Beverly Bayne star in A Pair of Cupids. Woolfolk's Six Little Wives at Princess with William Morvis Wallie Brooks and William Hough lead a lively musical comedy.
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Majestic Theater
Jack Princeton
The
Eleanor Cochran
Brie Zardo
Muriel Hudson
Dave Jones
Alexander O'Neill
Sexton
Virginia
Princess Kalama
Jennie Middleton
Svengali
Moore
Rose
the Royal
Royal Theater
Peacock
Aley
Alexandria
James TP
Donnovan
Marie Tee
Alexander Brothers
Evelyn
Francis X. Bushman
Beverly Bayne
Woolfolk
Princess
Boyle Woolfolk
Princess Theater
William Morvis
Wallie Brooks
William Hough
New York
Kaiser Picture at Grand Dominates Film Week
Grand continues to draw large audiences with To Hell With the Kaiser as the feature for the remainder of the week. The film shows a dramatic arc and lower region scenes, while The Great Love by D W Griffith is slated for next week. The Jewel offers Mary Pickford in A Romance of the Redwoods and Kitty Gordon in Tinsel today and tomorrow.
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Grand
Ilegally
D. W. Griffith
Mary Pickford
The
Jewel
Kitty Gordon
Howeve
Nlso
Sermon Fire Misfire In Rural Parish
A pastor recalls seminary fame and worries that parishioners resist his sermons. A candid layman suggests the issue is not lack of fire but lack of fire in the sermons. The exchange unfolds with blunt honesty about oratory and faith.
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Tat
Rory
Ims Poupla
Atréal
Pat
Fragmented wartime tidbits and poetry from a 1917 city page
A collage of stray lines on war, economy, and daily life includes remarks on Santa Claus conservation, celery and poison fears, the notion of poets, Chicago hotels crowded after a fair, proposals to use African elephants in war zones, and local verse about planting turnips. Also snippets about Portland cement production and regional notes from 1917.
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Chicago
Trotsky
Trotsk
Nurious
Ingwinter
Portland Cement Staten
United States
Indiana
California
Ksinsas
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