Plan for World Freedom and Wilsons Fourteenth Address
Excerpts from President Wilsons Fourth of July address urging universal liberty and a final settlement in World War I. It emphasizes destroying arbitrary power, a decisive victory, and creating a peace organization to check invasions of rights, with commitment of American lives and resources. The text questions the fate of Field Marshal Von Hinden and notes many German soldiers ready to take command.
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Wilson
America
Organization of Peace
Freena
von Hinden
Welcome to Seattle Schwab by a shipbuilding boom
The message greets Mr. Schwab highlighting Seattle’s rapid shipbuilding growth and its wartime conversion. It notes local achievements in worker rights and needs, praising Seattle’s scale and dispatch in building ships. The city welcomes him as a US government representative and as a man of humble origins rising to one of the world’s largest corporations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Mr. Schwab
Seattle ships built with ease this day Mr Piez
Orcode of the shipbuilding board notes progress as Seattle develops quicker ship production. He emphasizes streamlined methods and local factory output meeting ongoing demand.
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Seattle
Piez
Orcode
The
Shipbuilding Board
Penalties for food law violators spark nationwide action
The piece notes over 800 penalties for food law violations in the United States with 150 punished by the Food Administration. It argues most dealers comply and urges stronger enforcement. Dr. Caroline Croasdale in Seattle advocates better hygiene and cooking education.
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Caroline Croasdale
Seattle
Muny Market Sells Fish at Low Prices to Help Community
City buys several tons of fish and will sell to consumers at reduced prices. The Muny market exists to serve the community and patronage supports its continued operation. Newcomb Carlton remains out of prison and attacks the U S government.
War taxes and funds critique by New York paper
The article laments that some French deputies sacrificed lives in war while Americas legislators avoid war costs. It notes a smoke fund at 31,986 dollars supporting 127,944 soldiers for a week, implying U S leaders fail to risk or fund war efforts.
In Court With Unclean Hands and War-Time Provocations
An opinionated column rails at U S Supreme Court actions restoring industrial slavery of children and derides the Senate for denying political rights to war mothers widows and nurses It mocks various wartime claims and hints at science and propaganda while mentioning a Victory Girls Carnival with cars.
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U. S. Supreme Court
U. S. Senate
U S Builds 118 Ships in Five Months for Pershing
The United States has launched 118 steel ships totaling 805000 deadweight tons in the first five months of the year, with 244000 tons completed in May. Shipyards at Hog Island and two other yards are expected to exceed England’s output in a single year, with a launch every other day once Hog Island is finished.
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Kaiser
U.S
Washington
Atlantic
Pershing
Charles Bohwab
Lesuet
Iog Island
England
Shipping Board
United States
Grin Into the Fight Echoes in Military Stage
A fragment from a World War II era page features a humorous exchange between an infantry unit and a passerby. The dialogue highlights casual bravado and recognition dynamics amid military life, reflecting morale and daily interplay within the 331st Infantry.
Dream of Laddie Across the Sea Song Fragment
A 1918 verse fragment expresses longing for a distant partner. The speaker wakes with dreams of work and play while yearning across the miles. Kisses cross the sea and phonetic siblings echo love as they sing of days to come.
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Laddie
Acros
Kieces
Donna Chad Mollie in Box at Tennis Match
Margie narrates a society note about Donna, Mollie, Chad, and Jim Edle at a tennis tournament. Bar clay Sill’s sulky reaction and Donna’s teasing mark a day of social tensions, egomania jokes, and unspoken feelings as Margie reflects on Jim and Dick.
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Pat
Donna
Jim
Barclay Sill
Mollie
Chad
Hatton
Mr. Sill
Margie
Melle
Jim Edle
Italian uses Austrian prisoners for temple site dig near Isola Farnese
Italian authorities have employed Austrian prisoners of war in an excavation at Vell near the Isola Farnese castle. The dig targets the site of a sixth century B C temple and has been ongoing for some time.
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Vell
Alte
Isola Farnese
Woman and War Chorus Satirizes Beauty Ideals
A collage of verses critiques women's beauty norms and male gender roles, contrasting ornate vanity with hardship. It mentions Gertrude Maul and Ima Swan in Dallas, and notes marriages and local figures such as Uncle Joe Cannon. The piece ends with a wartime call to action urging civilians to swat flies in anti-German sentiment.
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Gertrude Maul
St. Louis
Ima Swan
Dallas
Tex
Srma
A Bird
Wm. L. McNutt
Gertrude McNutt
Nutley
Nova Scotia
Editor's Mail U 8 Ireland's Best Friend
Reader letters praise Mr Gallagher's view that Sinn Feiners do not represent Ireland and defend the United States as Ireland's best ally in the war. Messages recount Irish generosity and contrast with Sinn Fein, include a Seattle Liberty Bond booster letter from W H Pope praising his son in the navy and describing a U Boat action near France and captured prisoners.
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C. J. Gallagher
Mr. Gallagher
England
Ireland
United States
County Clare
Gallagher
Sinn
W. H. Pope
First Ave
Seattle
Red Cross
J. F
Navy
Why I Have Never Married Delusions and Realities of Love
Mrs Grey shares letters from readers outlining why they never wed, mixing romantic dreams with harsh life lessons. The first letter recalls a series of suitors who failed to prove worthy, while the second describes a capable woman who avoided marriage to avoid future obligation and heartbreak, ending with a cautious reflection on missed chances and blessings in disguise.
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Ashe
Larn
Heldom
Cynthia Grey
Mins Grey
Alaska
Miss Grey
Altho
Sho
Nix
Deserters surrender as troops surround hideout in Arkansas hills
Four members of an alleged draft resister band in Clybourne County surrendered today after U S troops with machine guns moved into the hills. Authorities said other members planned to follow, awed by the armed presence.
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Little Rock
Ark
Clybourne County
Physicians Warn Against Substitutes for Nuxated Iron
Dr. James Francis Sullivan formerly of Bellevue Hospital and Westchester County Hospital and Dr. C Jaques of St Elizabeths New York City state that ordinary metallic tonics or preparations cannot provide the same benefit as Nuxated Iron. They urge the public not to rely on substitutes for this remedy.
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James Francia Sullivan
Nellevug Hospital
New Y York
Westchester County Hospital
A. J. Newman
Deller
Chicas l
Ferdinand King
New Yer
James Francis Sullivan
Bellevue Hospital
Outdor
New York
N. Y
Ferdinand
Wm. R. Kerr
Chicago
Kerr
Jefferson Park Hospital
Coetos
Schuy
Sur Hospital
Owl Co
Bartell Drug Stores
R C. Jaques
St. Elizabeth’s
York City
Dr. Schuyler
Jaques
St. Elizabeth's Hospital
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Seattle Star
Seventh Ave
Union St
Sctuits
Northwest League OF Newsforms
Telegraph News Service of the
United Preas Association
Beattie, Wack
Star Publishing Co
Plan For World Freedom
Schwab
Food Administration
Hoover
Legis
Hintze
Kuehlmann
Kultur
Reams
Edmund Vance Cooke
Ede
Richard Waverly
Pomer
Uncle Joe Cannon
Congress
Uncle Joe
Nert Moore
Fleetwood
Ore
Telegraph Herald
Sthine
Editor's Mail
Star
Papa
France
Preat
J. F. Pope
Union Street
U. S
J. A. J. Newman
City of Chicago
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