Wilson bridges peace aims to workingmen and soldiers
Dispatches indicate President Wilson plans speeches aimed at workingmen and soldiers in industrial centers of England and France, arguing real peace must be backed by the people. He aims to transcend old treaties by appealing to the public, urging a binding, people’s verdict over pundits and editors. Carranza’s memory about Uncle Sam’s friendship may be jogged.
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Leus
Versailles
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England
France
Lincoln
League of Notions
High Court
Carranza
Uncle Sam
Lessons in Respect Across Races After War Effort
A speech urges Americans to treat all citizens as equals after wartime unity. It condemns racial and ethnic slurs, notes foreign born and Black workers helped win the war, and calls Boy Scouts to drop nicknames like nigger greaser wop. It foresees adults cleaning their language for future generations.
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United States Bureau of Education
Boy Scouts
Legislature urged action against rent brokers in Seattle
Legislators are urged to regulate or end rent brokers known as rent hogs. The piece argues taxes and building costs must fall for tenants, warns against excessive rents, and claims tenants suffer from brokers more than investors. It cites Howard Cosgrove and calls Seattle to curb concienceless leasing practices. Bolshevik reference noted.
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Howard Cosgrove
United States Fair Rents Commission
Seattle
Nature Roots and Pills Pill Story
A satirical piece discusses mysterious pills claimed by various healers and notes a woman discovering the so called extraordinary pill labeled to tire a man of his wife. It argues pills are not cures and roots lie in nature, not in medicine.
Small town sketches and mischiefs from a busy issue
A collage of humorous notes and local snippets. A barber in Beattie touts children as a specialty while Sir Thomas Lipton’s challenge is declined for ad exposure. Letters from Warren, Hindenburg jokes, a Kentucky stranger tale, and Beaver Dam musings mix with harmless wordplay and village curiosities.
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Beattie
Figures Show Rail Control a Success
Milton Bronner reviews government rail control data, noting higher revenue ton miles and more passengers carried despite fewer train, locomotive, and car miles. He cites increases in passenger miles and overall work equivalent to 325.46 miles per person, arguing efficiency gains and wear savings under control.
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Washington
Railroad Control Board
United States
At &Round
All's Well With the Giff Pinchots
Gifford Pinchot reports his three year old son, the child's nurse, and the chauffeur disappeared while driving from New York to Philadelphia. The party arrived in Philadelphia Tuesday night. Wilson studying Russian problem. Heaven help him.
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Philadelphia
Gifford Pinchot
New York
Wilson
Pape's Cold Compound Promises Quick Relief
A wartime style advertisement claims Pape's Cold Compound cures cold misery by two hour doses totaling three. It purports to open nasal passages, stop discharge, relieve headache and feverishness, and ease throat soreness and sneezing. The product is touted as inexpensive, pleasant tasting, and noninconvenient.
A Baggage Smasher and The Labor Question
The writer rails at baggage handlers roughing up luggage on the platform and mocks slow progress in rail safety. He extends the critique to the labor question, arguing many people view labor issues through personal experiences with local workers and dismiss broader movements. He ridicules antiunion sentiment as narrow and parochial.
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Baggage Department
Sux Jaliem
Co op Union of Siberia Tales Told by Ivanoff
Special to The Star by N. B.A. Tokyo January 2 The Zakoopabit is described as a vast cooperative network in Siberia with 5 unions and more than 500 societies. It exports butter flax leather wool and furs while importing manufactured goods and funding scientific inquiries and democracy training. Ivanoff publicizes future American replication and massive worker organization.
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Tokyo
Husa
Miberia
Urals
Tolaheviki
Nicholas N. Ivanoff
Zakoopabit
Japan
United States
Riberia
Holsheviks
Ivanoff
Vladivostok
Siberia
Russia
New England
America
Kansas and Argentina Pretty Close After All
A Kansas private helps a dark tile man from Argentina find aid at the Paris YMCA. Through a language mix up the helper learns the man is an American from Argentina and realizes they are on the same side across the ocean.
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Kansas
Argentina
Paris
Paria
Monsieur
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